<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">Dear New York City Wikimedians, </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">I
am excited to announce that there are three <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism" target="_blank">Art +
Feminism Edit-a-thons</a> being organized in the New York City metropolitan
area for the weekend of International Womens Day: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/ArtAndFeminism_Brooklyn_2015" target="_blank">Brooklyn Museum</a> (March 7^th),
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/ArtAndFeminism/MoMA_2015" target="_blank">MoMA</a> (March 7^th), and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/ArtAndFeminism/Babycastles_2015" target="_blank">Babycastles Gallery </a> (where we held the December meeting), (March 8^th). <br></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">We
are working with multiple organizations to secure enough attending venue
volunteers for these events with a special focus on MoMA as this will be the
largest NY event (250 capacity) and have already confirmed a handful, including Wikipedians trained at our "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/ArtAndFeminism_Training_Feb2015">Train-the-Trainers</a>" events, held over the past few months.  </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">But
we can’t do this without New York City Wikipedians and we hope you will join us
to help work one-on-one with event attendees and offer other in-person
Wikipedia support. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">If
you are able to come to the events on March 7^th and/or 8^th
please email me back and RSVP as we are trying to get a count of volunteers
before the date. If you know which event you will attend, or could go wherever
needed, let us know that in your email as well. We are also looking for people
to Tweet about the event, so if social media is an interest of yours, you can
include this on the email as well. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">Thanks
again
 for your continue support. We are super excited about the events 
gearing
up for International Women’s Day weekend. After the event at MoMA, we 
will also be having a reception with cake and light fare to thank 
everyone for coming out. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">Let me know if you have any further questions. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">Best
wishes, </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(20,20,20)">Dorothy
Howard + Siân Evans + Michael Mandiberg + Richard Knipel </span></p><br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div></div>
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