The New Woman: Annie Londonderry Kopchovksy
<img width="88" height="120" align="left" src="http://www.baltimorespokes.org/images/articles/20070107175845417_1.gif" alt="">Did you know that the first woman to cycle around the world was a Jewish mother from Boston? 
... packing only a change of underwear and a pearl-handled revolver, Annie Londonderry About Annie "Londonderry" Kopchovksy:
<a href="http://www.annielondonderry.com/">http://www.annielondonderry.com/</a>;
About the documentary:
<a href="http://www.spokeswomanproductions.com/home.html">http://www.spokeswomanproductions.com/home.html</a>;
About the fund raiser:
WHAT: ~~The Bike Ball~
~An evening celebrating Wild Women A'Wheel!
~Catering provided by Whole Foods and Coppi's Organic Restaurant
~Live music by Mostly Monkee and a GW a cappella group
~Formal attire requested
WHY: To raise funds to offset the production costs of "The New Woman: Annie Londonderry Kopchovksy," a documentary film about a pioneering Jewish immigrant who, in 1895, became the first woman to cycle around the world. (<a href="http://www.spokeswomanproductions.com">www.spokeswomanproductions.com</a>;)
WHEN: February 3, 2007 @ 8 p.m.
WHERE: Proteus Bicycles, 9217 Baltimore Blvd, College Park, MD
WHO: Hosted by Spokewoman Productions and Proteus Bicycles
HOW: $35 in advance and $45 at the door.
The New Woman is fiscally sponsored by Film/Video Arts. The door fee is a tax-deductible donation that will be used to offset the production costs of The New Woman, a documentary film about Annie "Londonderry" Kopchovsky, the first woman to cycle around the world.
For advance tickets, please write a check for $35 to Film/Video Arts, with "The New Woman" in the memo line. The checks can sent to:
Gillian Klempner
Spokeswoman Productions
1651 Lamont Street, NW #3A Washington, DC, 20010.
For more information, contact Gillian Klempner
(gillian@spokeswomanproductions.com, 202-841-2574)
Flyer:
<a href="http://spokeswomanproductions.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/verions_four.jpg">http://spokeswomanproductions.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/verions_four.jpg</a>;
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