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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Synthia Saint James

Kwanzaa Celebration Speaker: Synthia Saint James
Sunday, November 4, 2007, 6-8pm
Baker Center Ballroom
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
The featured Kwanzaa Karamu speaker is Synthia Saint James, international award-winning artist and designer of the first United States Postal Stamp for the Kwanzaa holiday.
A self-taught artist and author, Saint James has written or illustrated children’s picture books, poetry, and prose [...]