Artists, business owners and individuals: Please donate a piece of artwork, or a gift or gift certificate from your shop, by Wednesday, July 14, to be included in the 2010 Chick Issue shopping guide, which publishes July 21--three days before the 6th Annual JFP Chick Ball at Hal & Mal's. The amazing Chick Ball silent auction each year raises the bulk of the money to help fight domestic abuse. Please do what you can.
You can drop at the JFP offices during business hours, or arrange for pickup. ... read on »
The Jackson Free Press created the JFP Chick Ball in 2004 for two reasons: to raise education about and money to fight domestic abuse in Mississippi; and to showcase women musicians and artists to a diverse audience. The JFP Chick Ball is designed to be affordable so that anyone 18 or older can contribute to this very vital fundraiser. The cover charge is only $5, but we offer many fun ways to raise more money once guests are inside the event (from a game alley to a huge silent auction).
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And, no, it's not too late for you to get your name on this elite list -- for as little as $50! Write .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) read on »
After the success of our first Chick Jam in the summer, the Jackson Free Press is hosting Winter Chick Jam on Dec. 4 at 8 p.m. with performances by folk band Fedora Welty, punk rockers Party Dots and indie-rock band Law School.
Photography by Party Dots' bass player Daphne Nabors, wood-burning art and clothing by Chrissy Valentine, and paintings by InkSpot tattoo artist Erica Flannes will be on display.
All proceeds from the event go to support the Center for Violence Prevention. The CVP is ... read on »
 William Patrick Butler
See the JFP Chick Ball blog for info about events and the programs funded by your donations.
Visit the Chick Ball photo gallery by William Patrick Butler.
The money is (almost) counted for the 5th Annual Jackson Free Press Chick Ball weekend, and so far the effort has piled up close to $16,000 for the Center for Violence Prevention in Pearl. The money will help seed the Duluth Model, Jackson’s first batterer-intervention program, to help stop domestic abuse before it leads to more violent ... read on »
Friday night "Scutley Papers" play + singer/songwriters, $15 at Hal & Mal's door
Saturday night Chick Ball $5 cover, $5 for each door prize ticket
$25 Weekend Passes/Annual Membership Card (includes two door-prize tickets)
All checks to: Center for Violence Prevention; silent auction 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday
Click here to donate to the Center through Paypal
Call 601.362.6121 ext. 16 or e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) read on »
 Ronni Mott
by Donna Ladd
July 23, 2009
In a noon press conference today in the Mississippi Capitol, Sandy Middleton, executive director of the Center for Violence Prevention in Pearl, former Appeals Court Judge Mary Libby Payne, Madison County Justice Court Judge Carole Davis, Sheriff Malcolm McMillin, Assistant Attorney Heather Wagner and Hinds Justice Court Judge Frank Sutton announced a new resource to prevent domestic violence in the Jackson area: a batterer's intervention program based on the ... read on »
 Melissa Webster
by Ronni Mott
July 22, 2009
Domestic violence. It’s such a bland, vanilla euphemism for some of the most brutal and damaging pain that people inflict on one another. Brutal, of course, because people—mostly women and children—get their faces punched, their bones broken and sometimes die. Damaging, because the same people who profess love are those doing the punching and breaking, permanently scarring their victims, physically and psychologically. And for women, dying at the hands of an abuser ... read on »
by Sophie McNeil
July 22, 2009
When Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour suspended the sentence of convicted domestic murderer Michael Graham last summer, citizens of Pascagoula were outraged. In fact, most people in the town knew where they were when Graham pulled up next to his ex-wife at a red light and shot her point blank in the head. As shocked and furious as his community, freshman Rep. Brandon Jones, D-Pascagoula, knew something had to be done.
As we approach Chick Ball weekend—starting with a poignant one-woman show about a victim of domestic abuse and ending with a celebration of women and their art—I urge everyone to think back to September 2007 when Doris Shavers and Heather Spencer were brutally murdered by men who had supposedly loved them. The JFP did a detailed investigative narrative within days of those murders that showed that domestic abuse happens in all neighborhoods to all income levels, it a pattern that needs to be ... read on »
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