ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK's Yael Stone Set for 'GENERATION WOMEN' at CAVEAT

Generation Women: The Skin I'm In is set for Friday, November 17, at 7 p.m. at CAVEAT (21 A Clinton Street, Manhattan). Admission is $25.

Hosted by Georgia Clark, the evening will feature actress Yael Stone (Orange Is The New Black), model Jennie Runk, activist Barbara Collins Bowie, author Caroline Leavitt (Pictures of You), comedian Shalewa Sharpe (Stay Eating Cookies), and author Marina Budhos (Watched).

Generation Women is a cross-generational storytelling event that amplifies women's voices and creativity. This unique and intimate female symposium, held monthly at new downtown venue CAVEAT, features representative speakers in their twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, sixties and seventy-and-over presenting short original essays and experiences centered on a given topic.

Host and event co-founder Georgia Clark (author of The Regulars and the YA novels She's with the Band and Parched), was moved to create Generation Women following conversations with her mother, Jayne, about the sense that women disappear from public conversation as they get older. Clark was inspired to create a safe and welcoming space where women of all ages could join together to be celebrated, explore their experiences and learn from one another.

"We live in a society that simply doesn't value older women," says Clark. "With Generation Women, we've created an event where women can come together to tell their own stories and glean vital and vibrant cross-generational wisdom. Also, we can drink wine. Wine is very important."

Generation Women combines the vivacity of a literary salon with the importance of a community meeting where elders and youth exchange shared wisdom. In an aggressively dark political moment, this monthly event showcases the hearts and minds of strong women when we need them most. All are welcome to join and learn. The next edition of Generation Women is scheduled for Monday, December 4 at Caveat.

For this event, Caveat will be proudly serving Underwood Get It Girl, with 100% of the profits from sales of this special edition white wine going straight to Planned Parenthood.

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The theme for November's performance: The Skin I'm In.

Representing Team 20: Jennie Runk is an American model and LGBTQ advocate represented by JAG Models in New York. A plus-size model and proud member of the LGBTQ community, Jennie is passionate about inclusion and empowerment for all people, as exemplified by her modeling work in the H&M summer swimwear campaign, commentary as star of the Straight/Curve documentary, and role devising and performing in The Sex Myth.

Team 30: Yael Stone is an Australian actress. She has appeared in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, HBO's High Maintenance, the detective thriller Deep Water, and the upcoming Amazon series Picnic at Hanging Rock.

Team 40: Originally from Atlanta, Shalewa Sharpe's comedy has made such an impact in New York City that Time Out New York has labeled her a "local fixture." In 2016, her debut album, Stay Eating Cookies was released on Rotknee Presents Records; it can be found on iTunes & Spotify.

Team 50: Marina Budhos is a fiction and nonfiction author whose most recent books are Watched, Tell Us We're Home, Ask Me No Questions, and Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Gerda Taro & The Invention of Modern Photojournalism. A professor of English at William Paterson University, she was a 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Finalist and received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for Women Writers.

Team 60: Caroline Leavitt is the New York Times Bestselling author of Pictures of You, Is This Tomorrow, Cruel Beautiful World and eight other novels. A book critic for People and the San Francisco Chronicle, she is the recipient of a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and was a finalist in both the Nickelodeon Screenwriter Fellowship and the Sundance Screenwriters Lab.

Team 70: Barbara Collins Bowie was born in 1947 Jackson, Mississippi where she became involved with the Civil Rights movement at the age of 13. Barbara is a retired social worker/nurse, published poet-writer, and the founder of the Dr. Bowie Scholarship Foundation, which includes the "Arts In Focus" After School Program, where she has spent over 20 years helping youth realize their artistic abilities early in life and how to use the fine arts as an outlet and alternative to negative behavior.

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Upcoming Comedy at CAVEAT:

November 18: Literati: A Comedy Show About Books and the Idiots Who Write Them

November 19: World Toilet Day: Flush Screening

November 19: The Symposium: World Toilet Day Special Edition

November 20: Metropolis Ensemble: Memory Palace

November 21: Chasing Consciousness: Rethinking the Mind

November 21: The Story Collider: Consciousness

November 22: Your Love, Our Musical with Rebecca Vigil and Evan Kaufman

November 29: Big Questions, Little Answers: CAVEAT Trivia Night

December 2: Reasonably Sound

December 4: Generation Women

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CAVEAT is a downtown venue that puts on kick-ass, smart events. We're redefining the boundary between intellect and entertainment. When the thirst for knowledge hits, you don't have to sit at home watching TED Talks or binge-reading Wikipedia: this is a home for people who love learning, playing, and getting tipsy. Come for the oddball programming - stay for the beer, food and curious company.

Not been to Caveat yet? All press reps are encouraged to contact us to schedule a date to visit the venue and sample a show and a beer on us!

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