Last summer I visited Girls Rock! Chicago, a week long camp for girls teaching them how to be in a rock band and culminating in a concert at a local bar. Now comes Girls Rock: The Movie, focussed on a similiar camp located in Portland, Oregon, the first of its kind. The movie does a great job of showing how the camp gives girls an alternative to the standard skinny, quiet, withdrawn girl often promoted in the media, but most of all it's just great fun to see the kids figuring out who they are and how to translate that into performance. Can't wait to show it in my Women and Rock class next year!
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Girls Rock! Movie 26
Last summer I visited Girls Rock! Chicago, a week long camp for girls teaching them how to be in a rock band and culminating in a concert at a local bar. Now comes Girls Rock: The Movie, focussed on a similiar camp located in Portland, Oregon, the first of its kind. The movie does a great job of showing how the camp gives girls an alternative to the standard skinny, quiet, withdrawn girl often promoted in the media, but most of all it's just great fun to see the kids figuring out who they are and how to translate that into performance. Can't wait to show it in my Women and Rock class next year!
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