Events

Charis & Cliterati pair up to present an inviting and fierce open mic & reading series on the 3rd Thursday of every month. Hosted by the anarchic spoken wordteam of Karen G and Theresa Davis, members of the Art Amok Slam Team, this series cultivates the voices of authors, novices and an assortment of poets, songstresses and story tellers. “The Women of the World Poetry Slam is a tournament created for women, facilitated by women, honoring women,” said LaShaun Phoenix Moore, one of the founding organizers of the event. “

Participating women perform in preliminary poetry slams where competitors are scored on a scale of 1 to 10 on their poems, their presentation and their originality. Judges are chosen at random from the audience. From these events 12 poets ascend to the finals stage to determine a winner.

This year marks the third year for this competition. Previous winners include Andrea Gibson, who won the 2008 competition, and Rachel McKibbens, who won in 2009. Also in 2009, 7 of the 12 Finalists live and work in the Altanta area, one was Cliterati's own Theresa Davis.
On this night, Cliterati will feature Atlanta area poets going to this competition & may include: Karen G., Theresa Davis, Chauncey Beaty, April Smith, Spenecia Fleming & more!Atlanta is definitely Hotlanta when it comes to women & Poetry!

The Akoma Book Club (of Women Healing Women) meets at Charis Books & More on the third Saturday of each month. This book club is open to any woman seeking camaraderie with like-minded women for fun, self-empowerment and growth. Even if you haven't read the book, but are willing to talk about the principles in the book, you can join us for a lively
discussion. February's book pick is: The Five Things We Cannot Change and the Happiness we Find by Embracing Them by David Richo. In it Richo shows us that by dropping our deep-seated resistance to the
five "givens", we can find liberation and discover the true richness that life
has to offer.

This facilitated group is open to all writers of fiction and creative
non-fiction who want a serious group to provide constructive criticism,
motivational exercises, and interpersonal accountability to keep their
writing on track. We do monthly exercises and critiques with an eye
towards individual improvement and the eventual goal of publication.
Writers are encouraged to bring copies of their work to share for
critique. The group meets the second & fourth Monday of each month
from
6:30-8:30pm. Please direct inquiries to elizabeth@chariscircle.org.

This facilitated book group meets from 7:00-8:30pm the 4th Wednesday of each month at Charis
to discuss books which feature queer characters/ storylines as well as
a strong attention to literary craft and style. February's book, The Sweet In-Between by Sheri Reynold, is the story of butch/genderqueer Kenny Lugo who has grown up in a family that's not really her's. Now, as Kenny approaches her eighteenth birthday and the end of the
government checks looms, she is desperate to
prove that this house and these people really do belong to her. But
when a senseless murder occurs next door in their small coastal town,
Kenny can’t get it out of her mind. She has always been consumed by the
ways in which she is different–and inherently unworthy–so the unjust
death of a young woman with everything to live for becomes an
obsession.

Join us for this very special workshop with Adam Brush which is designed to help us all communicate better in our personal, professional, and activist lives. Adam will lead us in fun and practical exercises which will help us recognize violent communication patterns as they occur and help us be cognisant of the individual choices we have in responding to violent communication, be it interpersonally or in the world at large. The Nonviolent Communication practice that Adam will share with us is modeled after the methods in the book: Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg.

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Join us for a very special Faiths and Feminisms Program as we view For the Next 7 Generations, a film which documents
the momentous journey of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, as they travel
around the globe to promote world peace and share their indigenous ways
of healing.  Originating from all four corners, these 13 wise women
elders, shamans and medicine women, first came together in 2004 at a
historic gathering in Upstate New York.  Motivated by their concern
for our planet, they decided to form an alliance: The International
Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers. The film begins at their first
gathering follows them to the Amazon rainforest, the mountains of Mexico,
throughout North America, and to Dharamsala, India, for a private meeting
with the Dalai Lama.  Facing a world in crisis, the Grandmothers
share with us their visions of healing and a call for change now, before
it’s too late. Through their teachings, they are lighting a way to
a peaceful, sustainable planet.

*Please note there will be a $5 suggested donation at this event. Proceeds with go to the 13 Grandmothers*

As part of our ongoing Urban Sustainability Series Bob Burns and Isabel Crabtree co-founders of Central Georgia Permaculture Institute will join us to talk about permaculture: what it means, what you can do, and what's happening around Georgia. They will offer suggestions for further reading and offer practical tips for incorporating permaculture strategies into your world!

This facilitated group
is open to all writers of fiction and creative non-fiction who want a
serious group to provide constructive criticism, motivational
exercises, and interpersonal accountability to keep their writing on
track. We do monthly exercises and critiques with an eye towards
individual improvement and the eventual goal of publication. Writers
are encouraged to bring copies of their work to share for critique. The
group meets the second & fourth Monday of each month from
6:30-8:30pm. Please direct inquiries to elizabeth@chariscircle.org.

Join us for a very special evening with author Joe Gatins who chronicles his family's remarkable history, including his great-grandfather who built and operated Atlanta's famous Georgian Terrace Hotel and his French heiress grandmother, Egle Gatins, whose description of her own life between the wars in Paris gives the book its evocative title: "We Were Dancing On a Volcano." In honor of women's history month, Egle's story will be the focus of Joe's talk. Don't miss this compelling discussion of the cross-currents of history and its effects on one Atlanta family.  

Universally  recognized as a tireless, unapologetic advocate for women, Alix Dobkin has been  instrumental in developing global lesbian cultural networks.For the last 25 years as a professional folksinger, her songs, albums, concerts, lectures and presentations have focused on women in general & lesbians in particular, frequently inspiring the  thought-provoking controversy. Producer of the groundbreaking 1973 "Lavender Jane Loves Women," Alix has six additional albums and a songbook to her credit. Alix will join us to read from her memoir,  MY RED BLOOD: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement. You won't want to miss a moment of this rare and intimate evening with a living legend!