Femme Conference 2010

I’m not part of the planning of the Femme Conference, but over the past few months I’ve gotten emails etc. from folks thinking I might have some information about what was going on with the conference for this summer. This week the collective revealed some info, it’s not going to be in Atlanta due to finances, but instead in Oakland. Below is the message the Femme Collective went public with for all interested folks.  As an east coast femme I was looking forward to going to Atlanta (secret: i’ve never been to the femme conference) but I fear that unless I book some gigs about the same time as the Femme Conference California just might be too far for me this year.  What about all of you? Will you be at Femme 2010?

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Dear Community Members,

Finances are tight for all of us these days, particularly for community-supported events requiring travel and lodging, like the Femme Conference.  After a great deal of effort and research, we have determined that it is not financially possible for us to hold the 2010 Femme Conference in Atlanta as we had hoped to do.  We are incredibly hopeful for our future as an organization, but we believe that Atlanta would be cost prohibitive to both the members of the Steering Committee and to the larger Femme Conference constituency.  We realize this is a disappointment for many of us.

However, we have decided that rather than skip a year, we have the resources to hold the Femme Conference in Oakland in 2010.  We are tremendously excited at the prospects of holding a conference in the city we had originally chosen for the very first Femme Conference (we ended up in San Francisco as a result of financial considerations, so this feels like a full-circle in some ways)!

We appreciate your understanding and your continued support.  All details about hotel, dates and calls for submission will be announced at the beginning of February.  We are excited and we hope you are too!

Femme Collective

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3 Comments

Ms.Hinterland

January 24th, 2010 at 5:31 pm    

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Thanks for posting an update of the status Sassafras. . .I know you copied their press stuff, so this is comment is more for the femme conference:

Hmm that “femme constituency” line needs a little work. Having the conference in Oakland is cost-prohibitive to any femme not living within driving distance. I understand that as the organizers that they prolly have to make decisions based on information that I don’t have etc. etc. etc. But, I’m really sick of having to feel as if I have to travel to find some femme community. It was exciting to have the conference slated for a Southern venue. Also, it would be nice, if the FC made this info more readily available. I’ve gradually become disenchanted as a femme with most of the femme community at large. Just another drop in the bucket, really.

missavarice

February 3rd, 2010 at 1:10 am    

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I’m sorta frustrated by the switcheroo to Oakland as well, because I could have driven the six hours to Atlanta for $60 rather than buying a roundtrip plane ticket for closer to $200. Southern femmes unite! Maybe we could plan a southern femmes meetup?

sassafras

February 3rd, 2010 at 6:36 pm    

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as an east coast femme i’m pretty unhappy with it as well, i was planning on ging to the conference (for the first time) but now that it’s on the west coast i just cant swing it this year.

i think that this switch is really going to limit the femmes who participate to the SF crowd especially since until now everyone was expecting atlanta

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