BROAD: Girls Rock!Melbourne & Woman to the Moon
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BROADs Sonja Hammer, Monday October 24th 2016, is talking to Ruby Watson from Girls Rock!Melbourne who is helping to organise the very first Girls Rock Camp in Melbourne coming up in January 2017. To get there they have to raise much needed funds so there will be special gig night coming up Halloween Eve next Monday the 31st of Oct called Girls Rock! Camp Fundraiser,check it out here.
Bad Bitches of History is BACK with Maria Lewis! Maria talks about the story of Katherine Johnson the African American physicist who is an American physicist, space scientist, and mathematician. She made fundamental contributions to the United States’ aeronautics and space programs with the early application of digital electronic computers at NASA. Known for accuracy in computerized celestial navigation, her technical leadership work at NASA spanned decades where she calculated the trajectories, launch windows and emergency back-up return paths for many flights from Project Mercury including the early NASA missions of John Glenn, Alan Shepard, the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon and continued work through the Space Shuttle program and on early plans for the Mission to Mars.
Katherine Johnson will be depicted in an upcoming Hollywood movie called Hidden Figures.
What is Girls Rock!:
Girls Rock! Australia (GR!A) is a national network of Australian girls rock camps, inspired by programs that developed in the USA and have since become a worldwide movement. Our mission is to empower girls and women, building self-esteem and confidence by amplifying their voices through music education and performance. GR!A is built on principles of access and equity, social action, empowerment and community spirit. By providing a positive, female-lead environment that offers musical instruction as well as a variety of workshops and performances, this program creates leadership opportunities, cultivates a supportive community of peers and mentors, and encourages social change and the development of life skills.
And Sonja does a quick chat about a couple of the films showing at this years BBC First British Film Festival 2016, which includes a movie about 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson, and asks is it ok to erase her lesbian sexuality? The movie is called A Quiet Passion starring Cynthia Dickson.
The other movie Sonja discusses is Chanya Button called Burn Burn Burn which is also showing at BFF 2016 in Melbourne.
Music in this episode of BROAD is the following in order: FEMALE by Sampa The Great ( thanks to Still Nomads),DEADBEAT by Pillow Pro and Not Kings by Candy Says, and Kelela with The High.
This episode is dedicated to the forever wonderful and inspirational activist and author and speaker and feminist W.O.C Angela Davis who was in Melbourne this week.
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