Please read the Calendar instead

I’ve moved the event postings to Google Calendar, so please check there for all the cool Athens Ohio area women and LGBT events: http://herstorycelebration.org/calendar.html.

There is still some good info on past events here, along with links (on the right).

Also please check out these pages: Feminist Books for Children, photos from women marching together in the 2007 and 2008 Ohio University home coming parades, and the plea for more diversity in the plaques commemorating visitors to OU.

Thanks! Janet

THE AWAKENING latest issue now available

The latest issue of THE AWAKENING, the undergraduate student journal of the Ohio University Women’s Studies Program, is now available for download as a pdf from http://www.ohiou.edu/womenstudies/awakenin.html.

This issue (Volume 21, Issue 1, Fall 2007), is themed “Feminist Words” and features news, stories, poetry, and commentary.

We Are Dying

“We Are Dying”
by Up In Arms
Monday, November, 5, 2007, 6-10pm
Scripps Hall Amphitheater
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
Free; donations accepted

This Monday, Up in Arms invites you to attend “We Are Dying,” a nonpartisan interactive tribute to the U.S. Troops and Iraqi civilians affected by the war in Iraq.

Please join us for an evening of performance and reflection surrounding the war in Iraq. At 6pm, members of Up In Arms will be performing select e-mails, letters, and poetry from Operation Homecoming, an NEA initiative to help U.S. Troops and their families write about wartime experiences.

Take a minute to listen to the words of our Troops – our peers, friends, and family; to take in the names and faces of the 4,141 coalition casualties and their stories; to witness the toll the ongoing war takes on Iraqi children and their families

Join us in our letter writing campaign (stationary and postage provided), or help assemble care packages for Any Soldier’s adopt-a-battalion program. Donations will be collected for the UNICEF Iraqi Children’s fund.

Special thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts, the @Lab and Nathan Berger, OU ROTC, College Democrats, and the School of Theater.

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Maureen Hurd, clarinet

Maureen Hurd, clarinet
Sunday, November 4, 2007, 8pm
School of Music Recital Hall, Glidden Hall
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

Maureen Hurd is assistant professor of clarinet in the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She has appeared as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral clarinetist in concerts throughout Europe, Asia and North America, including a recent performance at the 2005 International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest in Tokyo, Japan. Hurd has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in Alice Tully Hall and earned praise from The New York Times for her performance at the 2004 Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in Connecticut. Her performances of contemporary chamber music include appearances at New York’s Merkin Hall, in a Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk radio broadcast of American music in Germany, and with the Prism Players.

She earned a doctorate of musical arts, master of musical arts, and master of music degrees from the Yale School of Music where she studied with David Shifrin and Charles Neidich. At Yale, she examined materials in the Benny Goodman Archive to produce award-winning research on Goodman’s classical commissions that was recognized by the International Clarinet Association in competition in 2001. She frequently presents masterclasses, recitals, lectures and clinics at clarinet festivals, universities and conferences. http://www.wyomingseminary.org/pai/faculty.htm

Contact: parkinsw@ohio.edu

Calliope Feminist Choir Open Rehearsals

Calliope Feminist Choir Open Rehearsals
Child care now available
Monday, November 5 & 12, 2007, 6-8 p.m.
Christ Lutheran Church
69 Mill St, Athens, Ohio

Calliope Feminist Choir is excited to announce the availability of childcare for singers during rehearsals. Two open rehearsals, Nov. 5 and 12, will allow interested women who need child care to come participate while their children are watched by students from the service fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega.

Calliope focuses on performing music written and arranged by women, honoring women, and promoting peace, justice, and equality. Formed in 1993, the choir now numbers approx. 35 women of diverse backgrounds and ages, from 17 to 70. Calliope performs at fundraisers and other community events, including the November third UCM 25th annual dinner celebration. The chorus rehearses Mondays 6-8 p.m. in the Christ Lutheran Church.

Women interested in attending please call 740-662-2022.