APRIL 2008 NEWSLETTER

ALBUQUERQUE PRESS WOMEN E-GRAM

*** Generational Interfaces: Reaching the Hip Hop Congress at Press Luncheon

Bryan Gimbel and Shane Montoya, co-Presidents of the Hip Hop Congress-UNM will talk with us on May 12, nine days after HHC's largest annual event, NM Hip-Hop Awareness Week, and will give us background on their often mischaracterized movement.

The group that identifies with the culture of rap music -- the Hip Hop movement -- is raising funds for political causes, as well as celebrating the sounds that hit their heyday from 1985 to 1992. Its members' ages are typically teens through the 30s. The speakers can address why it is important for mainstream media to interact with this group, how the group markets to themselves, and how others can reach them and their cohorts.

The APW luncheon will be held Monday, May 12 at 11:45 a.m. at the MCM Elegante, 2020 Menaul Blvd NE, just east of University Blvd. Lunch meetings are open to the public for the nonmember price of $21 or join APW at the door and pay the low member price of $15.

For reservations, call Janet Ford at 720-7821 by Wednesday, May 7.

Background to read on our speaker/content follow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_Hop_Congress "Hip-Hop Congress is a grassroots organization with chapters on campuses and in communities across the world. As the local New Mexico chapter, we promote Hip-Hop culture and all of its elements in a positive and peaceful way. We are committed to bringing the beauty and diversity of Hip-Hop culture to the UNM campus and the greater New Mexico community. We encourage Hip-Hop to be used as an educational tool and a vehicle for social change and greater civic involvement. We help artists by providing an international web of resources and contacts for members. We will be throwing events, teaching workshops and involving the local arts community on and off campus to promote creative forms of self-expression using all the elements of Hip-Hop." From:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=280787265

** Silent Auction at State Conference -- This was another successful fundraiser this year. At the annual meeting Saturday morning we voted to give an additional $100 to each recipient, so that the two got a total of $850 each. Thank you all for the donations and the purchases!

** 2008 meeting location. The luncheon meetings from now through June, 2008 will be held (same day & time but new location) at the MCM Elegante, the former Holiday Inn Midtown, 2020 Menaul Blvd NE, just east of University Blvd.

** June Luncheon -- Save the Date for our Luncheon speaker and Election of Officers: June 9 for the next Press Women luncheon.

** Members' News -- 2008 Dues are now over due. As of January's luncheon meeting, those not current with dues have been paying non-member prices. Dues are just $35 a year for ABQ-only membership, or $10 a year if you are also an NFPW and NMPW member! Join us for our luncheons to support the group and to network. Please feel free to invite friends and associates to attend! Prospective members, guests brought to luncheons by current members, may receive the $15 member price at the door.

** Members' Dues News--2008 Dues are overdue. As of January's luncheon meeting, those not current with dues have been paying nonmember prices. Dues are just $35 a year for ABQ-only membership, or $10 a year if you are also an NFPW and NMPW member! Join us for our luncheons to support the group and to network. Please feel free to invite friends and associates to attend! Prospective members that current members bring to the lunch may receive the $15 member price at the door.

** Fashionable Pens--We have really professional pens as gifts for our speakers. They carry our message: www.apqpw.org<http://www.apqpw.org/> in the new typeface and have a great balance and soft grip surface. They are available for sale at the sign-in table at meetings. For just $10, they are an appropriate gift for the writer in your life, and you help our chapter at the same time.

** Member perks--Check out our Web site (abqpw.org) and remember, members may link to their own Web sites, if they wish, at no charge.

** You have news for this EGRAM, you know you do, so please send it to Susan Walton, swalton@sandiaprep.org<mailto:swalton@sandiaprep.org> I'm doing my last one in May, so please feel free to deluge me with details, news, fun stuff, everything you like to see in copy!

*** Albuquerque Press Women supports professional men and women in print, web, and broadcast journalism; writing; publishing; public relations and marketing; graphic arts and photography; and teaching. Meeting monthly for a lunch and invited speaker, and annually for a state conference and communications contest, Albuquerque Press Women is a chapter of New Mexico Press Women<http://newmexicopresswomen.org/>, which is an affiliate of the National Federation of Press Women<http://www.nfpw.org/>.

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