Events
CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
We sponsor a variety of speakers, programs, cultural activities, workshops, leadership training opportunities, and conferences with a focus on women's issues and concerns. Each year, we sponsor a campus-wide celebration of Women's History Month in March and an Outstanding Women's Awards ceremony in May. Angela Davis, Leslie Feinberg, Wilma Mankiller, Ntozake Shange, Gerda Lerner, Dolores Huerta, Gloria Steinem, bell hooks, Ana Castillo, and Shirley Chisholm are among the leaders and scholars who have visited the campus to meet and speak with students. We distribute information on campus and community news, events, and services through a bulletin board and resource rack located outside of Central Classroom 212. Contact Joanna Snawder for additional information.
October 2009
Love, Sex and Lies: An Intimacy Checkup
This event will screen over 1,000 Auraria students, staff and faculty for abuse in their relationships and provide resources and advice.
It was scheduled to be held on Wednesday, October 28th & Thursday, October 29th, but has been postponed until further notice because of snow and campus closures.
Please watch out for this event sometime in the near future. For more information, contact Barb Paradiso at Barbara.Paradiso@ucdenver.edu.
November 2009
Dia De Los Muertos para Las Mujeres De Juarez
| Date: | Tuesday, November 2, 2009 |
| Time: | 10:00am - 10:00pm |
| Location: | Sigi's Cabaret, Tivoli Student Union, Auraria Campus |
Dia de Los Muertos Movie Day
Señorita Extraviada & La Oferenda will be playing all day
Light refreshments will be provided
| Date: | Wednesday, November 3, 2009 |
| Time: | 12:00pm - 8:00pm |
| Location: | St. Cajetan's |
This event will feature artistic performances throughout the day as well as altar displays, sugar skulls, face painting, traditional refreshments and more!
Campus Sustainability Fair
| Date: | Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
| Time: | 10:00am - 3:00pm |
| Location: | Auraria Campus |
The Campus Sustainability Fair is hosted by CoPIRG Student Chapters, in partnership with the Auraria Sustainable Campus Program, and the University of Colorado Denver Sustainability Degree Program. The event will host a panel on the vision of sustainability for Colorado and highlight businesses and organizations that work to educate and promote sustainable living among the student body. Some of these organizations will feature renewable technologies, energy efficiency, renewable fuels, alternative transportation, sustainable living, environmental volunteerism and advocacy, social advocacy, local and organic agriculture, and local art and culture.
Becoming Me: The Gender Within
Documentary Premiere
| Date: | Friday, November 13, 2009 |
| Time: | 1:00pm - 3:00pm |
| Location: | Multicultural Lounge, Tivoli Student Union, Auraria Campus |
You are Cordially Invited to the Premiere Showing of:
Becoming Me: The Gender Within
An award-winning film featuring five transgendered persons
Please note: Explicit surgical footage included
Q&A following the film with Matt Kailey & Denise Spencer
Producers:
Layton Seth Curl, Ph.D., MSCD Department of Psychology
Mary Ann Watson, Ph.D., MSCD Department of Psychology
Videographer/Director:
Scott Houck, MSCD Educational Technology Center
Transgender Day of Remembrance
| Date: | Thursday, November 19, 2009 |
| Time: | 10:00am - 5:00pm |
| Location: | Tivoli 444 |
The Transgender Day of Remembrance was set aside to memorialize those
who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. It raises
public awareness of hate crimes against transgender people, publicly
mourns and honors the lives of our brothers and sisters who might
otherwise be forgotten, reminds non-transgender people that we are
their sons, daughters, parents, friends and lovers, and gives allies a
chance to step forward and stand in vigil, memorializing those
who’ve died by anti-transgender violence.
TDOR will be recognized throughout the day and will include information
on Transgender Awareness as well as community sharing time. There will
be two Violence Response Workshops, one from 11:00am-12:00pm and the
second from 2:00pm-3:00pm with discussion groups to follow after each one. The
Workshops will address prevention strategies, by-stander intervention and overall safety.
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – Details TBA
| Date: | Wednesday, November 25, 2009 |
Scholarship Workshops
Need Money for Tuition?
Tired of going into debt?
Want a scholarship and don’t know where to start?
- Tuesday, November 3, 2009 10:00am-11:15am, Tivoli: 320 A
- Wednesday, November 4, 2009 2:30pm-3:45pm, Tivoli: 320 C
- Thursday, November 5, 2009 3:30pm-4:45pm, Tivoli: 440
- Monday, November 9, 2009 3:00pm-4:15pm, Tivoli: 440
- Tuesday, November 10,2009 8:30am-9:45am, Tivoli: Multicultural Lounge
- Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:00am-12:15pm, Tivoli: 444
- Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:00pm-1:15pm, Tivoli: 320 C
- Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:00am-10:15am, Tivoli 320 A
Sponsored by Metro State Institute for Women’s Studies and Services, Office of Financial Aid, Scholarship Center, & Feminist Alliance
For more information please call 303.556.8441
December 2009
World AIDS Day
| Date: | Tuesday, December 1, 2009 |
| Time: | 1:00pm-2:15pm |
| Location: | Tivoli 444 |
Living with HIV: We will be featuring a panel of individuals sharing diverse perspectives and experiences. The topics of health-care access, prevention, advocacy and activism will be highlighted.
Metro State Women’s Studies Alumni Night
| Date: | Thursday, December 2, 2009 |
| Time: | 5:30pm-7:30pm |
| Location: | Institute for Women's Studies and Services, 1033 Ninth Street Park |
Join us and meet fellow alumni for a special evening of food, fun and networking for you. Light appetizers & cocktails will be served. Guests are welcome. RSVP required by Monday, Nov. 30 at www.mscd.edu/alumni/events.
Sponsored by the Metro State Alumni Association, Women’s Studies Alumni Club and Institute for Women’s Studies and Services.