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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, Vandana Shiva, 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.
February 2010
Scholarship Workshops
Do you need help paying your tuition?
Tired of taking out student loans? Interest rates on those credit cards just too high?
Do you want a scholarship but just don't know where to start or who to ask?
Attend a FREE scholarship workshop!
- Monday, 2/8/10 - 10:00am-11:15am, Tivoli 320 C
- Tuesday, 2/9/10 - 3:30pm-4:45pm, Tivoli 442
- Wednesday, 2/10/10 - 8:30am-9:45am, Tivoli 320 C
- Tuesday, 2/16/10 - 12:00pm-1:15pm, Tivoli 442
- Wednesday, 2/17/10 - 2:30pm-3:45pm, Tivoli 320 C
- Thursday, 2/18/10 - 11:00am-12:15pm, Golda Meir House, 1146 9th St. Park
- Monday, 2/22/10 - 3:00pm-4:15pm, Tivoli 320 B
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.
27th Annual Black World Conference
Commemorating SNCC: Students Creating an Empowered Path for Change
| Date: | Wednesday & Thursday, February 24 & 25, 2010 |
| Time: | 8:30am-3:45 & 8:30am-6:00pm |
| Location: | Tivoli Turnhalle |
This year's keynote speaker is Judy Richardson, a Civil Rights Author and Documentary Filmmaker. She was a staff member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the early 1960s, working in the Atlanta headquarters, southwest Georgia, Greenwood, Miss., Lowndes County, Ala., and on Julian Bond’s successful first campaign for the Georgia House of Representatives. She went on to co-produce the award-winning documentary series “Eyes on the Prize” and is one of six women editing a collection of personal stories titled “Hands on the Freedom Plow: Women and SNCC.”
To view the full schedule of events for this conference, click here. For more information on this event, contact the Department for African and African American Studies at 303-556-3685.
March 2010
2010 Theme: Writing Women Back into History
30 Years of Women’s History Month
New this year at The Institute: “More Than Muses: Feminist Art Gallery”. With Deanne Pytlinski, faculty member in Art History, as our curator, The Institute has made use of every inch of space and created a gallery space for students to show their work. Student Annelié Robertson will be showing through March. The month of March will also be an extension of More Than Muses in the Tivoli Multicultural Lounge, where student work will be featured. Come by the Institute and see for yourself!
Women's History Presentation
By: Lisa Neale of the University of
Colorado-Denver
| Date: | Monday, March 1, 2010 |
| Time: | 11:30am |
| Location: | Central Classroom 203.1 |
What do artistic renditions of women throughout Western history say
about their treatment, their positional power, or their influence?
This presentation explores feminist interpretations of depictions of
women in art beginning in the Upper Paleolithic era to the Middle Ages
and explores ideas of sexuality, motherhood, and patriarchy. For more information, contact Dr. Laura McCall, Professor of History mccalll@mscd.edu.
Sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society.
Jane Addams and the Devil Baby
Presented by: Dr. Maurice Hamington
Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Time: 11:30am
Location: Tivoli Multicultural Lounge
Jane Addams (1860-1935) was a remarkable American hero. She was the first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize and she helped to found the A.C.L.U., and the N.A.A.C.P. Addams is regarded as one of the founding mothers of Sociology, Social Work, and Adult Education. At one point she was one of the most beloved women in America and then she became one of the most hated women in the country because of her opposition to World War I. Find out what made Jane Addams such an interesting figure and how she confronted the Devil Baby! This Women’s History Month Presentation will be made by Maurice Hamington, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and the Director of the Institute for Women’s Studies and Services at Metropolitan State College of Denver whose book The Social Philosophy of Jane Addams was just published by the University of Illinois Press.
Sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies & Services, Feminist Alliance & Metro State Student Activities.
Body Positive: Reshaping Body Image
Dates: Three Thursdays, March 4, 11 & 18, 2010
Time: 1:00pm-2:15pm
Location: The Institute for Women’s Studies and Services, 1033 Ninth Street Park
A three-part workshop (Thursdays in March) focused on developing a healthy body image as follows, Part 1: Positive Body Image & Common Challenges Part 2: Healthy Eating & Dieting Part 3: Developing the Healthy Body Image. Participants will be encouraged to engage in personal expression and experiential exercises exploring the significance of body image.
Sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies & Services, Feminist Alliance & Metro State Counseling Center.
14th Annual Women’s Leadership Conference
Date: Friday, March 5, 2010
Time: 8:00am-2:00pm
Location: Tivoli Turnhalle
Inspired by the 2010 Women’s History Month Theme, “Writing Women Back into History”, this annual conference will highlight speakers from a multitude of fields and perspectives. The afternoon key-note will feature Molly Murphy MacGregor, co-founder and Executive Director of The National Women's History Project (NWHP). The day will also include a variety of breakout sessions on centered on empowerment and leadership. Our conference will feature keynotes, workshops, and lots of opportunities to network and grow. The conference fee includes a continental breakfast and lunch as well as all materials and supplies.
Cost is $10 for students and $15 for all others (breakfast and lunch included with registration). Register on-line at: www.ucdenver.edu/studentlife.
Sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies & Services, Feminist Alliance, UCD Office of Student Life, Metro State Student Activities, CCD Office of Student Life, Phoenix Center at Auraria, & GLBTSS.
Discovering Your True Self Through Belly Dancing with Lia Ridley
Date: Saturday, March 6, 2010
Time: 10:00am-1:00pm
Location: PE Building Dance Studio Rm. 215
No registration necessary. Open and Free to the Auraria Campus and Denver Community. This dance form can be enjoyed by everyone. Belly dance positively impacts a woman’s daily life by increasing self esteem and confidence. Belly dancing encourages women to accept and enjoy their bodies as they are. Come join us and see how this dance can boost your energy level while allowing you to experience calm and joy. For more information, contact Program Director Linda Wilkins-Pierce at wilkinli@mscd.edu.
Sponsored by The Healthy Moves Program.
International Women’s Day
“Embody” by Brigid McAuliffe
Date: Monday, March 8, 2010
Time: TBD
Location: Tivoli Turnhalle
Embody, an exhibition/installation, which uses percussive dance as a vehicle to explore cultural identity, history, and empowerment in generations of women. The work, a dynamic mix of projected images and sound, features a multi-channel video/audio installation to showcase and integrate each woman's dance and dialogue.
McAuliffe interviewed female dancers who practice Spanish Flamenco, Mexican Folklorico, West African, American Jazz Tap and Native American dances (Northern Traditional, Jingle Dress, and Fancy Shawl). Although very distinct from one another, these dances have some major elements in common. They utilize the feet as a percussive element, share certain gender dimensions, and speak to cultural identity and empowerment, history, tradition, and change. Join is in celebration of International Women’s Day with live performances from the dancers!
Sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies & Services, Feminist Alliance, & Metro State Office of International Studies.
2010 Bridge Speaker: Sapphire
When Push Comes to Precious: The Novel, The Film, The Reality
Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Tivoli Turnhalle
Sapphire is the author of American Dreams, a collection of poetry, which was cited by Publisher's Weekly as, "One of the strongest debut collections of the nineties." Her novel, Push, won the Book-of-the-Month Club Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s First Novelist Award, and in Great Britain, the Mind Book of the Year Award. Push was named by The Village Voice as one of the top twenty-five books of 1996 and by TIMEOUT New York as one of the top ten books of 1996. Push was also nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction. About her last book of poetry, Poet's & Writer's Magazine wrote, "With her soul on the line in each verse, her latest collection, Black Wings & Blind Angels, retains Sapphire's incendiary power to win hearts and singe minds." Sapphire’s work has been translated into thirteen languages and has been adapted for stage in the United States and Europe. She has performed her work at the legendary Nuyorican Poet’s Café, Franklin Furnace, the Bowery Poetry Club, Literaturwerkstadt in Berlin, and Apples & Snakes in London. Sapphire’s poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in The Black Scholar, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Teacher’s Voice, The New Yorker, Spin, and Bomb.
In February of 2007 Arizona State University presented PUSHing Boundaries, PUSHing Art: A Symposium on the Works of Sapphire. Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire, the film adaption of Sapphire’s novel, Push, recently won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Awards in the U.S. dramatic competition at Sundance (2009). Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire is the only film ever to win both the Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals Audience Awards. It is a vibrant, honest, and resoundingly hopeful film about the human capacity to grow and overcome.
Sapphire has taught literature, fiction and poetry workshops at SUNY Purchase, Trinity College, and the Writer’s Voice in New York City. She has taught graduate writing workshops in MFA programs at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Brooklyn College, and at the New School University. In 1990 she received an Outstanding Achievement in Teaching Award from Joyce Dinkins, then First Lady of New York City, for her work with literacy students in Harlem and the Bronx.
Sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies and Services, Feminist Alliance, GISA, Metro State Black Student Alliance, Metro State Student Activities, UCD Office of Student Life, CCD Office of Student Life, UCD Women’s & Gender Studies, Metro State African & African American Studies, Phoenix Center at Auraria, & GLBTSS.
Lunch With Lawmaker [Series]
Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Time: 11:30am-1:00pm
Location: Tivoli Multicultural Lounge
Join the Office of Student Activities for a 60-minute forum featuring a member of the Colorado Legislature. Bring your tough questions and get real answers from the lawmakers themselves! Free Food will be provided.
Sponsored by Metro State Student Activities.
Working it OUT
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Time: 2:00pm-4:00pm
Location: Tivoli 640
Metro State Career Services, Community College of Denver Career Development Center and the Auraria Campus Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Student Services warmly invite you to the second annual Working it OUT panel. This program will focus on workplace issues as they relate to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people, and is open to everyone! For more information, contact Emily Frank at 303.556.2536.
Woman’s Health With Yoga And Ayurveda with Patricia Hansen and Hansa Knox
Date: Saturday, March 13, 2010
Time: 10:00am-1:00pm
Location: PE Building Dance Studio Rm. 215
No registration necessary. Open and Free to the Auraria Campus and Denver Community. This is a time to get to know you. Explore gentle yoga, mantra, and mudra for the honoring the goddess within. Learn about the phases of a woman's life from a physical, psychological and spiritual perspective and experience yoga and Ayurveda tools to live through them with grace. Spend time exploring sacred ritual and blessings as we honor the Divine within. Please bring your sisters and friends! For more information, contact Program Director Linda Wilkins-Pierce at wilkinli@mscd.edu.
Sponsored by the Healthy Moves Program.
Miriam Forman-Brunell: The Rise of the Teenage Girl and the Fall of Babysitting
Date: Monday, March 15, 2010
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Tivoli Multicultural Lounge
In horror movies, urban legends, and teen fiction, babysitters typically endanger children, damage property, or ruin marriages. Why is it that babysitters in the popular imagination are more likely to elicit dread than to earn distinction for their service? In this lecture Miriam Forman-Brunell, Professor of History and Girls' Studies Coordinator University of Missouri, Kansas City, argues that for nearly a century, the babysitter has served as a lightning rod for the expression of adults’ uncertainties about the benefits of female adolescent empowerment and the threat of girls’ independence. For more information, contact Marjorie Levine-Clark at 303.556.2896.
Sponsored by UCD Women’s and Gender Studies, GISA, Feminist Alliance, and the Institute for Women’s Studies and Services.
Women’s Spirituality and Wellness Festival: A Day Dedicated to Loving Your Mind, Body and Spirit
Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Time: 10:00am-2:00pm
Location: Tivoli Turnhalle
This gender inclusive and annual celebration of women’s spirituality and wellness will feature local businesses and individuals offering health and wellness information, tarot and psychic readings, aura cleansings, books, arts, crafts, and jewelry. There will be free chair massages available throughout the day on a first-come, first-served basis. A semi-private craft area upstairs will be available to make t-shirts for The Clothesline Project (see April). There will also be live musical and dance performances throughout the event, so come away with us!
Sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies and Services, Feminist Alliance, the Healthy Moves Program, GISA, & Phoenix Center at Auraria.
Golbarg Bashi: Women and Democratic Movements in Iran
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Tivoli 320C
Golbarg Bashi teaches Iranian and Middle East Studies at Rutgers University. She was born in Iran, raised in Sweden, and educated in Britain. She holds a First Class B.A. (Honors) in Middle Eastern Studies from Manchester University, a M.Sc. in Women's Studies from Bristol University and has recently completed her doctoral thesis on a feminist critique of the human rights discourse in Iran. Her research interests include the theories and practices of human rights in Iran, modern Iranian social and intellectual history, and women's rights movements in Iran and in a comparative context. For more information, contact Marjorie Levine-Clark at 303.556.2896.
Sponsored by UCD Women’s and Gender Studies, GISA, Feminist Alliance, and the Institute for Women’s Studies and Services.
Love, Sex and Lies: An Intimacy Check-up
Date: Wednesday & Thursday, March 17 & 18, 2010
Time: 10:00am-2:00pm
Location: Tivoli Multicultural & Roger Braun Lounges
When is it just a fight? When is it abuse? The Auraria community is invited to participate in our Annual Love, Sex and Lies: An Intimacy Check Up program. Participants complete a short survey on intimate partner abuse and participate in private counseling sessions. Community based domestic violence service organizations will be on-hand to discuss the survey results with participants. The goal of the event is to create an opportunity for people who might not typically seek help for, or be aware of the resources available to them regarding, abuse within their relationships to comfortably access information and assistance. The event is open and free to the community and pizza and chair massages are provided. Come on by to help yourself or help a friend.
Sponsored by the UCD Center on Domestic Violence, Phoenix Center at Auraria, Institute for Women’s Studies and Services, Metro State Counseling Center, UCD Counseling Center, Metro State Social Work Department, GLBTSS, CCD Office of Student Life, UCD Office of Student Life, & Metro State Student Activities.
Barbara Martinez Jitner
Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Tivoli Turnhalle
Barbara Martinez Jitner is the inspiration behind the 2008 Jennifer Lopez film Bordertown. The film is based on her research of the Mexican town of Juarez, which is notorious for the murders of over 400 women. Martinez Jitner posed as a factory worker on the U.S./Mexico border in order to uncover a dark world of grueling poverty and sexual abuse. Diversity speaker Barbara Martinez Jitner began her career as an award-winning director of commercials and documentaries, and produced the Showtime millennium documentary, An American Tapestry. Martinez Jitner was also a producer of the Emmy nominated American Family. Now President of El Norte Productions, Martinez Jitner is currently developing several feature films for Gregory Nava, including Zapata for Disney, and Tattooed Soldier for HBO.
Sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies and Services, Metro State Student Activities, CCD Office of Student Life, & UCD Office of Student Life.
Environmental Ethics Summit Featuring Carol J. Adams
Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Time: TBD
Location: Tivoli 320B
The work of scholar and activist Carol J. Adams connects feminism and vegetarianism by recognizing the need to eliminate all prejudice against others. There will be a vegan reception and book signing. The 20th Anniversary Edition of The Sexual Politics of Meat will be available for purchase. Carol J. Adams is kicking off Auraria's Environmental Ethics Conference which will examine sustainability practices that we can all participate in. For details please email Lisa at mscd-phiclub@mscd.edu, or visit http://philosophy-conference.webhop.org/home/.
Sponsored by the Metro State Philosophy Club, the Institute for Women’s Studies and Services & Feminist Alliance.
Latino Leadership Summit
Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Time: 9:00am-5:00pm
Location: St. Cajetan’s
A leadership summit in memory of Cesar Chavez. This event is opened to all three institutions. Details to follow. Please contact Metro State Student Activities for time and location: 303.556.2595 or http://www.mscd.edu/studentactivities.
Sponsored by Metro State Student Activities, CCD Office of Student Life & UCD Office of Student Life.
April 2010
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Theme: Prevent Sexual Violence...on our campuses
The Clothesline Project
Displayed ALL MONTH in the Tivoli
The Clothesline Project (CLP) is a program started on Cape Cod, MA, in 1990 by a group of women who were addressing the silence around sexual violence by literally, “airing out dirty laundry”. It is a powerful vehicle for all people affected by violence to bear witness to their experience by decorating a shirt. They then hang the shirt on a clothesline to be viewed by others as testimony to the global plight of gender-based violence. The following departments will have materials and times available to make a shirt in April: The Institute for Women’s Studies and Services 1033 Ninth Street Park, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Student Services @ Auraria in Tivoli 213 , The Phoenix Center at Auraria in Tivoli 259, Community College of Denver in Tivoli 309, & University of Colorado at Denver in Tivoli 303. More details to follow.
Annual Queer Symposium
Date: Friday, April 2, 2010
Time: 9:00am-4:00pm
Location: Tivoli 320’s
This program is designed to break down the "ivory tower," it puts theory to practice. It encourages students to utilize theories they have been taught in the classroom to critically examine real world issues. This year’s key-note and featured guest is Lisa Diamond, acclaimed author of “Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire” which examines women’s biological capacity for sexual fluidity. To hear her talk about her research, visit http://bigthink.com/lisadiamond.
Sponsored by GLBTSS, Institute for Women’s Studies and Services, Feminist Alliance, Auraria Gay Straight Alliance, UCD GLBTI Faculty Committee, Metro State Student Activities, UCD Office of Student Life, CCD Office of Student Life, Phoenix Center at Auraria & GISA.
The Vagina Monologues
Date: Thursday-Saturday, April 8-10, 2010
Time: TBD
Location: TBD
V-day is a Global movement to stop the violence against women and girls. This year in recognition of V-Day various student organizations from the Auraria campus will be performing the Vagina Monologues. Written by Eve Ensler in 1996, The Vagina Monologues are a collection of dialogues that celebrate and honor women’s autonomy. The proceeds from this event will benefit the Phoenix Center at Auraria, a tri-institutional resource center, providing support for those dealing with interpersonal violence.
Sponsored by Feminist Alliance, GISA, the Institute for Women’s Studies and Services, UCD Women’s and Gender Studies, GLBTSS & UCD Office of Student Life.
1800 Miles: Striving to End Sexual Violence
Josh Phillips
Date: Monday, April 12, 2010
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Tivoli 440/540
In the summer of 2008, Josh Phillips and two fellow women advocates created the group East Coast Walkers and successfully completed a 1,800 mile walk from Miami to Boston to raise awareness about sexual violence. The walk gave them the opportunity to speak at local shelters, churches and town hall meetings, while also raising funds for a women’s shelter in central Michigan. This program will recount some of the stories of their experience, as well as inspire engagement in everyday activism in an effort to create dialogue about sexual violence and social justice that affect us all.
Sponsored by Metro State Student Activities, Phoenix Center at Auraria, the Institute for Women’s Studies and Services, Feminist Alliance, CCD Office of Student Life & UCD Office of Student Life.
Rachel A. Griffin: Magical Enchantment and Whimsical Dreams: Illuminating the Pedagogical Politics of Disney
Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Tivoli Turnhalle
Come hear scholar Rachel Griffin discuss how Disney fuels oppression! Although masked as a place innocence “Where Dreams Come True”, her research has revealed how Disney reaffirms dominant, harmful ideologies concerning femininity, beauty, heterosexuality, people of color, etc. Whether you’re a fan of Disney or not, this is a talk worth listening to!
Sponsored by Metro State Student Activities, CCD Office of Student Life, UCD Office of Student Life, Phoenix Center at Auraria, the Institute for Women’s Studies and Services & Feminist Alliance.
Denim Day
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Location: Auraria Campus
In recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, wear your denim to protest the 1999 Italian Supreme Court decision against a rape victim. The court claimed that the female victim must have consented to sex because her jeans were so tight that she would have had to help the perpetrator remove them. Participate in Denim Day to show your support for victims of myth-based injustice. For more information, contact the Phoenix Center at Auraria at 303.556.6011 or the Institute for Women’s Studies and Services at 303.556.8441.
Panel - Women in the Military - Details TBD
May 2010
Outstanding Women's Awards - Details TBD
The purpose of the awards is to honor women at Metro State and support the Pamela McIntyre-Marcum Scholarship Fund. Faculty, classified staff, administrators, students and alumnae qualify.
Letters of nomination are required and must include background information about the nominee, evidence of leadership that enhances women’s education, year of graduation (if they are a student or alumnae), and details about the nominee’s achievements. Nominators must include their name, address and phone number.
For more information about the process and where nominations need to be sent, call 303-556-8441 or e-mail jsnawder@mscd.edu.