Tuesday, August 16, 2011

An Evening with Jane Fonda Wednesday, 17 August 2011 in Berkeley SOLD OUT!

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Jane Fonda

KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents

An Evening with JANE FONDA
Prime Time:   Making the Most of Your Life
Hosted by Kris Welch
Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 7:30 pm
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
2345 Channing at Dana, Berkeley
$15 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com :: 800-838-3006 or: Pegasus Books (3 locations), Mrs. Dalloway’s, Moe’s Books, Walden Pond, DIESEL, A Bookstore, ($18 door)
Information: www.kpfa.org/events

One of the most outstanding women of our times, Jane Fonda is an Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress and highly successful producer. For many decades she has also been an internationally renowned (and occasionally notorious) social activist. She famously opposed the Vietnam War and strongly protested the Iraq War. A longtime supporter of feminist causes, she worked with Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem to co-found the Women’s Media Center, on whose board she currently serves. She was involved from the beginning in Eve Ensler’s V-Day, a potent international movement to stop violence against women, inspired by the off-Broadway hit The Vagina Monologues, of which she is an honorary chairperson. She was present at their first summit in 2002, bringing together Eve Ensler, Afghan women oppressed by the Taliban, and a Kenyan activist campaigning to save girls from genital mutilation.
She revolutionized the fitness industry with the Jane Fonda Workout . Subsequently more than seventeen million copies of her fitness books, videos, and recordings have been sold. In 2001 she established the Jane Fonda Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health at Emery University.

In 2005 her New York Times’ bestselling memoir, My Life So Far, concerned the first half of her dramatic life, focusing on her family, such early films as Barbarella and Cat Ballou, the marriages to Roger Vadim and Ted Turner, the two Academy Awards, and much more. Her new book, Prime Time, covers the next portion of her life and movingly describes how to live a more insightful, healthy, and fully integrated life, one profoundly in touch with our bodies, minds, and spirits, and with our talents, friends, spirituality, and social communities.
She received a Tony nomination in 2009 for her role in 33 Variations.

Partial filmography, beginning in 1960:
Tall Story
Walk on the Wild Side
The Chapman Report
Period of Adjustment (nom: Golden Globe Award for Best Actress)
In the Cool of the Day
Sunday in New York
Les Felins (Joy House, The Love Cage)
La Ronde (Circle of Love)
Cat Ballou (nom: Golden Globe Award for Best Actress)
The Chase
La Curee (The Game Is Over)
Any Wednesday (nom: Golden Globe Award for Best Actress)
Hurry Sundown
Barefoot in the Park (nom: BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress)
Barbarella
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They (Academy Award + BAFTA Award for Best Actress)
Klute (Academy Award and many other awards for Best Actress)
Steelyard Blues
Julia (BAFTA Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award, nom; Academy Award)
Coming Home (Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress)
Comes a Horseman
The China Syndrome (Bafta Award: Best Actress, nom: Academy & Golden Globe Awards)
The Electric Horseman (Golden Globe Henrietta Award)
On Golden Pond (nom: Academy Award, BAFTA + Golden Globe Awards)
The Dollmaker (Emmy Award)
Agnes of God
The Morning After (nom: Academy Award: Best Actress)
Old Gringo
Stanley and Iris
Searching for Debra Winger
V-Day: Until the Violence Stops
Monster-in-Law

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It is impudent in the extreme for this man to go around Europe haranguing people on their duties to civilization when his own country presents one of the most lawless aspects of modern life the whole world affords.

Roger Casement
Irish Human Rights Champion

commenting on Teddy Roosevelt's 1910 Guildhall
speech telling Great Britain to either rule Egypt or get out.



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