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Workshops & Performances

Fall 2012

September
9/13 Open House with Special Guest Performance Poet Chavisa Woods

12:30-2:00 p.m.

227 New Ingersoll

Food, Fun, and Live Performance

October

Domestic Violence

Awareneness Month

10/23 Black Women Film Festival B(W)FF
 

No: The Rape Documentary w/ Discussion Led by Professor Lynda Day

12:30-2:00 p.m.

227 New Ingersoll

10/25

Reproductive Rights: Planned Parenthood

12:30-2:00 p.m.

State Lounge, Student Center

10/25

Partner Violence 101

12:30-2:00 p.m.

227 New Ingersoll

10/30

Women's Self-Defense Workshop

12:30-2:00 p.m.

Dance Studio, West Quad

November  
11/14

Women!! Can You Have It All? A Look At Workplace Flexibility As It Relates To You And Your Future Employment Led by Suzanne Grossmen w/special guest Grace Protos

5:00-6:30 p.m.

227 New Ingersoll

Light Refreshments

RSVP Required: SuzanneG@brooklyn.cuny.edu

11/20

Black Women Film Festival B(W)FF

Silent Choices w/discussion led by Professor Lynda Day

12:30-2:00 p.m.

227 New Ingersoll

11/27

Shirley Chisholm Day

Look for scheduled activities

December

12/6

Holiday Party

Join us for an

International Beauty Bazaar:

w/hennae, braiding, & beading. Join us for relaxation and fun. Refreshments.

12:30-2:00 pm

227 New Ingersoll

 

Workshops & Performances

SPRING 2012

FEBRUARY
2/16 Black Women Film Festival B(W)FF

Iron Ladies of Liberia

12:30-2:00 p.m.

227 New Ingersoll

w/discussion led by Prof. Lynda Day

2/23 Inequities of Love
  Discussion led by author, Dr. Averil Clarke
  12:30-2:00 p.m.
  227 New Ingersoll
MARCH WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH  LOOK FOR FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS AND EVENTS
 
3/8 Women Activist Roundtable and Luncheon

Guests include:

Debbie Almontaser

Beatriz Beckford

Zeinab Eyega

Yonette Fleming

Isabelle Jagninski

Etta Jackson

Biola Jeje

Betty Lugo

Carmen Pacheco

Nancy Romer

11:00-2:00 pm 

Location:  Alumni Lounge, Student Center

RSVP Required

3/13

Book Party to celebrate Lynda Day's Gender and Power:  The Women Chiefs of Sierra Leone, The Last Two Hundred Years

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Location: State Lounge,

Student Center

3/15

Narrative Medicine Night

5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Jennifer Sotsky, Jocelyn Jiao, Lisa Roth

227 New Ingersoll

The Vagina Monologues

3/22

& 23

Once again Brooklyn College's Women's Center and the V-Day Committee bring back their annual production of The Vagina Monologues.  Proceeds will go towards organizations working to fight against domestic violence.

6:30-8:30 pm

The Gold Room, Student Center

Please buy tickets in advance.  Info at: nrenek@brooklyn.cuny.edu

3/ 29 Shirley Chisholm Conference
 
APRIL
4/18

Women!  What's the Value of Your Education? (for Women Only)

Led by Zavi Baynes w/Guest Speaker Grace Protos   RSVP: zbaynes@brooklyn.cuny.edu
5:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
227 New Ingersoll
4/24 Black Women Film Festival B(W)FF

Standing on My Sisters' Shoulders

12:30-2:00 p.m.

227 New Ingersoll

4/26 Film Screening:  Deaf Jam w/ director, Judy Lieff
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
  Woody Tanger Auditorium

May

5/15

International Beauty Bazaar:

End of Year Celebration

w/hennae, braiding, eyebrow threading & beading.  Join us for relaxation and fun. Refreshments will be served.

12:30-2:00 pm

227 New Ingersoll

 

 

 

 

September

Fall 2011

9/22

Open House and Karaoke Party!

227 New Ingersoll  12:30-2:00 p.m.

 
October
 
10/13

Domestic Violence Awareness Day

12:30- 2:00 p.m.

Location: Gold Room, Student Center

 

Until the Violence Stops: An Interactive Public Forum  w/ Keith Labelle, Director, Violence Prevention & Advocacy Services Program University of Rhode Island

5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Location: Gold Room, Student Center

From Non-Action to Action: Gender Dialogue On Domestic Violence

Don Kao,

Director, Project Reach

Sau-fong Au,

Director, Women’s Center

10/25

Women!  What's The Value of Your College Major?

For Women Only.  Led by Zavi Baynes.  RSVP required 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.  227 New Ingersoll.  Lite Refreshments will be served.

10/27

Reading and Panel Discussion:  Men Undressed:  Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience

Four WritersNava Renek, Allison Amend, Elizabeth Searle, and Diane Williams will read their work from forthcoming anthology.  Hosted by WNYC's Amy Eddings  5:00 - 7:00 p.m.  Tanger Auditorium

 

November 

 

11/10

Women's Self Defense Workshop

led by Jonathan Chin, B.C. Tae Kwon Do Club

Location: Glenwood Lounge   Student Center

 12:30- 2:00 p.m. 

11/15

28 Days Film Screening:  The Line w/ discussion 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.  227 New Ingersoll

   

December

 
12/8

Holiday Party!

Women's Center's Got Talent:  Open Mic

Sign up for your 3 minutes of fame.

227 New Ingersoll  Share Food, Talent, and Fun!  12:30-2:00 p.m.

Workshops & Performances

Spring 2011

February

2/17

Gallery Opening: Shift

Images and Narratives of African Women in Movement

Maroon Room, Student Center 

3:00 - 7:00 p.m.

 
2/22
Doing It (Right)  Forming Healthy Intimate Relationships

227 New Ingersoll 

12:30-2:00 p.m.

March

Women's History Month
3/3

Film Screening:  The Syrian Bride

227 New Ingersoll

12:30-2:15 p.m.

Refreshments will be served.

   

3/18

Sex Toy Store Field Trip

(for women only)

Meet at the Women's Center

Time: To Be Announced

3/24 & 3/25

The Vagina Monologues

6:30-8:30 p.m.  Gold Room,

Student Center

 

Ticket Price:  TBA

April

 
4/7

Women's Self Defense Workshop

led by Jonathan Chin, B.C. Tae Kwon Do Club

Location: 240 West Quad Building

 12:30- 2:00 p.m. 

 

4/13

Finding the Right Career and Major Workshop

(for women only) Led by Zavi Baynes

227 New Ingersoll 

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. 

RSVP Required 

May
 

5/12

Express Yourself: Hands-on Art Project  RSVP required.

 

227 New Ingersoll 12:30-2:00 

10/21 

w/discussion led by Sau-Fong Au

 

12:30-2:00 p.m.

 

227 Ingersoll Hall Extension

 

 

NOVEMBER

11/4 

Financial Fitness

Brooklyn College alumna Denise Garrett helps students manage their money and plan for their futures.

12:30-2:00 p.m.

227 Ingersoll Hall Extension

11/18

28-Days Film Screening:

Arranged

(friendship has no religion)

 

w/discussion

12:30 p.m. -2:00 p.m.

227 Ingersoll Hall Extension

DECEMBER

12/9

Holiday Party!!!!

w/ Karaoke Hostess Dropsey Duzmen

 

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

227 Ingersoll Hall Extension

Workshops & Performances  Spring 2010

FEBRUARY

 

2/11/2010

Picking Up The Pieces: Taking Women Seriously in Tallying the True Costs of the Iraq War

 

w/Guest Speaker Cynthia Enloe 

 

11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. 

 

Jefferson Willams Lounge

 

Student Center

   

2/23/2010

Out Against Abuse: Domestic Violence Among Youth 

 

Discussion and Presentation

 

led by Sabrin Chowdhury and Anindita Chaterjee

 

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

 

227 Ingersoll Hall Extension

   

2/26/2010

Financial Fitness Workshop: Budgeting for Everyday Life

 

w/ Denise Garrett

 

3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

 

227 Ingersoll Hall Extension

   

MARCH

 IS WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

   

3/4/2010

Gender and Islam:  All Day Panels 

 

10:45 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

 

Click Women's Studies for more details

   

3/25/2010

The Vagina Monologues

 

12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

 

Location: TBA

   

3/26/2010

The Vagina Monologues

 

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

 

Location: TBA

   

APRIL

 
   

4/14/2010

Finding the Right Career and Major (for Women Only)

 

w/Zavi Baynes

 

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. 

 

227 Ingersoll Hall Extension

   

4/20/2010

Film Screening:  Afghan Star

 

12:30 p.m. -2:00 p.m.

 

Woody Tanger Auditorium

 

Room 150 Library

   

MAY

 
   

5/11/2010

End of Semester Celebration and Open Mic

 

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

 

227 Ingersoll Hall Extension

 

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