[van-announce] Fw: International Women's Week events-March 12&13, 2004.

[Paul Browning]

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Subject: International Women's Week events-March 12&13, 2004.


> SFU Women's Centre presents:
> International Women's Week events - Everyone welcome!
>
> Fri MARCH 12th (6-9 pm) & Sat March 13th (9-4pm), 2004
> SFU HARBOUR CENTRE (515 W. Hastings)
>
> http://www.freewebs.com/sfuwomenscentre -
>
> Friday March 12th: Women's storytelling event (6 pm - 9 pm)
> to honour SFU Women's Centre Collective and Staff members.
>
> Saturday March 13th: Praxis: 5 panels of Women(9 am - 4 pm)
>
> Praxis features an amazing  range of women academics and
> community activists speaking about Health, Work, Writing,
> Research and other topics. Read on!
>
> Panel 1:  Researching Women:
> Featuring women who's work identify ways of challenging the lack of
> representation of women,Indigenous communities, and gays and lesbians in
> libraries and media. A must for anyone interested the politics of
visibility
>
> in print, information megasystems and media.
> Featuring: Dr. Hope Olson, Kim Lawson (UBCIC) and Aerlyn Weissman
> (Little Sister's documentary filmmaker)
>
> Panel 2: Women's Health and Women's Work:
> Featuring the struggle to maintain women's reproductive choices, birth
> practice, and access to find meaningful work in precarious times.
> Featuring: Joyce Arthur (Pro-Choice Network), Gloria Lemay (Midwifery
> activist),Benita Bunjun (VSW)
>
> Panel 3: Women Writers and Resistance:
> A panel on resistance to colonialism and queer resistance to censorship.
> A spectacular mix of academic, performing and community-minded women
> Featuring: Yvonne Brown,Janine Fuller(Little Sisters),Aiyyana Maracle and
> Lorena Gale.
>
> Panel 4: Women and Girls inside and outside the System:
> A discussion by activists on the issues for women in prison and girls who
> lives are touched or at risk of being touched by the Criminal Justice
> System. Get an update on the closure of the women's prison in Burnaby and
> the impact it will have on women in prison and their relations.
> Featuring:Dr. Karlene Faith, Gayle Horii (Strength in Sisterhood)and
Justice
>
> for Girls and Dorita Villanueve.
>
> Panel 5: Closing Keynote address- TO BE ANNOUNCED.... Check our website!
>
> The events are sliding scale of $0 - $150 - pay what you can
> afford, no one will be turned away. Childcare subsidies are also
> available to parents in the community that need them...
>
> Details on this and other IWD event information on the special website
> http://www.freewebs.com/sfuwomenscentre.
>
> The site lists other gatherings honouring IWD in Vancouver and
> we  will update the pages regularly over the next 2 weeks.
> Keep checking back!
>
> Please forward this information as far and wide as possible!
>
> SFU Women's Centre
> 604-291-3670
> womenctr at sfu.ca
>
>
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