[opirgyork] International Women's day Conference (TOMORROW)

[opirg at yorku.ca]

IWD at YorkU
York University Student Centre
Mon, March 8, 2010
10 am to 6 pm
registration at 9:30 am; dinner at 6pm

Speakers, workshops, performers. cwtpyork at gmail.com to RSVP and for info.

FREE event. OPEN to all. ACCESSIBLE spaces. FOOD provided. TRANSIT and CHILDCARE
subsidies available.
International Women’s Day 2010.

With the intention to create a space for dialogue around access to education,
International Women’s Day is being celebrated at York University for 2010. How
do systems of power, such as racism, colonialism, poverty, etc. create barriers
to education? How can alternative learning through methods or content be healing
and a challenge to the mainstream? Accessible workshops, geared especially at
young women and girls, will be held throughout the day.

Join us at the York University Student Centre on Monday, March 8, 2010 for
speakers, amazing workshops, performances and free food!

ALL are welcome – community members, YorkU students, staff and faculty. We are
particularly excited about having high school girls from the North York
community attend the day’s events!
Workshop topics include: alternative media, Wen Do, Indigenous solidarity,
gender and race through the art of plays, anti-oppression, a men's discussion
group, popular theater, digital story telling and more! All workshops will be
focused on celebrating women and girls, and promise to be fun! Panel featuring
Jessica Yee, Carl James and No One Is Illegal!


9:30-10:00
Registrations (In front of the Underground)

10:00-10:15
Opening Remarks

10:20-11:50
Anti-Oppression Training
With D- Lishus

Gender and Race Through the Art of Plays
With Janice Goveas

Images of Freedom
With Nomanzland

12:00-1:30
Indigenous solidarity
With Shaista Patel and Kate Milley

Men’s Role in Preventing Sexual Assault
With Benjamin de Graaf

"Ignite and fight: Spark some Sass and Kick some Ass!"
Wen-Do Women's Self-Defence Workshop
with Denise Handlarski

1:30-2:30
Lunch (The Underground)

2:40-4:10
Digital Story Telling
With Laura Hartley

Alternative Media
With Sharmeen Khan

4:20-5:50
Building Bridges: Access to Education
With Carl James, Jessica Yee and Renée Nadeau (RM.430)

6:00-7:30
Dinner will be in the Grad Café, escorts available from the final panel in room
430

Organizers are the Centre for Women and Trans People (CWTP), the Ontario Public
Interest Research Group (OPIRG), the Graduate Student Association (GSA), the
Sexual Assault Survivor Support Line (SASSL), the South Asian Youth Advisory
Committee (SAYAC) and United South Asians at York (USAY).

Transit and childcare subsidies are available. Please get in touch.
PLEASE RSVP!!!

For more info and to RSVP please contact Katherine Bateman or Naz Yirgalem at
the Centre for Women and Trans People, York University, cwtpyork at gmail.com,
(416) 736-2100 ext: 33484