The University of Illinois at Chicago Presents

1997 Women's Heritage Month
"Celebrate Our Missing Voices"

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Shortcuts to events scheduled for specific days: February: 26, 28 March 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28

Wednesday, February 26

Feature Film: "Set It Off" This intense film depicts the desperate measures that four women go to in order to escape poverty, oppression, and a bleak future. Featuring: Jada Pinkett, Queen Latifah, Viveca Fox, Kimberly Oldham, Blair Underwood, Clarence Williams III, and John C. McGinley. Director: F. Gary Gray, 1996. 12 noon, 2:30 p.m., 5:00 p.m., 7:30 p.m. Illinois Room, CCC

Friday, February 28

Awareness Booth
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
West Concourse, CCC
Discover UIC women's groups, services, activities, and the events of Women's Heritage Month

Monday, March 3

Awareness Booth
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
West Concourse, CCC
Discover UIC women's groups, services, activities, and the events of Women's Heritage Month.

"Fangs and Flying in Bornnean Frogs: The Evolution of Morphological Novelties" Sharon Emerson, lecturer, will present her research exploring the evolution of morphological novelties. She is a research professor at the University of Utah. Among her many honors is a 1995 MacArthur Fellowship. 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Room 213, CIU

Recovery Room Coffeehouse Series:
Multi-lingual, richly-talented, folk musician/songwriter, Linda Boyle is performing LIVE in the Recovery Room Coffee HouseHer songs include lesbian themes as part of women's heritage, and she has played coffee houses around the Chicago area. The event is free as part of The Coffee House Series. For more info, please call 312-413-5180.
Recovery Room, CIU
6:00 - 7:00 pm.

Tuesday, March 4

Opening Reception 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Jane Addams' Hull-House Museum 800 South Halsted Join us in the kick-off celebration for Women's Heritage Month. Everyone is welcome! Meet Jane Addams herself from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. as portrayed by Annette Baldwin Kolasinski.

Wednesday, March 5

University Hour Brown-Bag Music and Lecture Series
Featuring: Catherine Hall and Elaine Moore
12:15 p.m.
Cafeteria across from the Deli Lounge, CIU
The music of Ireland is performed with heartfelt ballads and high-energy instruments including guitar, penny whistle, and the traditional wooden flute. Bring your lunch. Free and open to the public. For more information, call 312-413-5180.

Feature Film:
"Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?"
1966, Directed: Mike Nichols. Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis starred in Ernest Lehman's Academy-Award nominated screenplay adaptation of Edward Albee's play. The story New biology instructor Nick and his wife Honey visit the campus home of burned-outhHistory professor George and his viperish wife Martha. Their exchange of late-night pleasantries turns into an ugly battle of words between George and Martha who use their guests to cut each other more and more deeply. The performances are powerful and the writing is especially strong.
4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Recovery Room, CIU

"We Are Your Sisters" 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Illinois Room, CCC Blue Heron Theater of New York City performs a drama about Black women enduring slavery. It is a powerful and memorable theatrical experience that sees the past to speak on contemporary issues of personal struggle, oppression, and the meaning of freedom.

Thursday, March 6

"Divided Sisters" 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Room 605, CCC Midge Wilson, Ph.D. and Kathy Russell, authors of Divided Sisters and Color Complex, will discuss the very taboo subject of Black-on-Black discrimination and the stereotyping of African-American women by their skin color.

"Rules of Thumb: Domestic Violence and The Law"
4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Room B102, BSB - Office of Social Science Research
Join Bruce Lester, Chicago attorney and former judge, and Jennifer Kuhn, Assistant States Attorney and Domestic Violence Coordinator for the First Municipal District, for an exciting, in- depth discussion about domestic violence--the offenders and the victims-- and what happens to those who break the rules.

Friday, March 7

World Music Festival Series: "Song Spun Stories"
7:30 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Agape House, 1046 W. Polk
Jennifer Armstrong, a third generation singer/songwriter, will be featured performing her show entitled "Song Spun Stories." She will perform on Scottish bagpipes, fiddle, banjo, and also share some of her poetry. Also performing on stage with Jennifer will be a very special music and dance group from Ireland, Drockety. Free admission and parking.

Monday, March 10

Double Feature Films

"How to Make An American Quilt" Set in a California rural community, this movie is a tale of a family's secrets and love, framed in scenes dating from 1860 to the present. It is a touching and often hilarious story of the loves lost and won of one family's women. Featuring: Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Capshaw. Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse, 1995. 12 noon and 5:00 p.m. Illinois Room

"The Color Purple" This film, based on the novel by Alice Walker, tells an intimate story of suffering, endurance, and triumph that is set in the early 20th century rural South. It is a distinctive and deeply moving film revolving around one African American family and their particular struggles. Featuring: Whoppi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Danny Glover. Director: Steven Spielberg, 1985. 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Illinois Room

"Seeing the World Through Women's Eyes"
March 10-April 11
Art Exhibit by Kathleen Karp
Artist Reception: Wednesday, March 12
3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
A. Montgomery Ward Gallery, CCC

"Meaning/Identity" March 10-April 11 Art Quilts by Bonnie Peterson-Tucker Artist Reception: Wednesday, March 12 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. CIU Art Lounge, CIU

Tuesday, March 11

Belaynesh Zevadia, Vice Consul for Academic Affairs & Community Relations, Consulate General of Israel.
"One Woman's Journey from Ethiopia": Ms. Zevadia grew up in Ethiopia and emigrated to Israel as a young adult. She received a BA from Hebrew University in International Relations, and an MA in African Studies.
12:00, Noon
Levine Hillel Center, 924 S. Morgan St.

Wednesday, March 12

"Chicago Women Loving Women: From the Hull House Network to the Censorship of April Sinclair's novel "Coffee Will Make You Black'" 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. Room 713, CCC Marie Kuda, noted Chicago historian, will present a slide show depicting 100 years of history and issues in local lesbian lives. Join us for a fascinating historical and political overview of Chicago women from the early 1900's to the present.

UIC Reading Series: featuring Lynne Tillman
12:00 noon
Rathskeller, SRC, 700 South Halsted
Lynne Tillman's fiction includes Cast in Doubt, The Madame Realism Complex, Motion Sickness, and Absence Makes the Heart. Her non-fiction works includes The Velvet Years and Andy Warhol and the Factory 1965-1967. Her films and screenplays include Committed, Earth Angel, and Under my Skin. Screenings of some of her films were featured in Princeton, the Berlin Film Festival, the Edinburgh Film Festival, and Channel Four in the UK. She is co-head of the Writing Program at Bard College. Free catered reception will be served. Everyone welcome!

Wednesday, March 12

Feature Film:
"How to Make An American Quilt" (see March 10 for information on the film)

4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Recovery Room, CIU

Thursday, March 13

Panel Discussion: "The Women's Studio: Perserverance of Women"

This panel discussion features the Honorable Cardiss Collins, Faculty Fellow of the UIC Great Cities Institute and former congresswoman; Aida L. Giachello, Ph,D., Director, Midwest Latino Health Research Training and Policy Center and associate professor, Jane Addams College of Social Work; Rita M. Hodge, Director of UIC Native American Support Program; Ellen Pimentel, assistant professor of sociology; and Sharon Collins, associate professor of sociology. A reception will follow. The event is sponsored by the Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Women. Reservations are requested by March 7 by calling 996-5046. If you prefer, you may register by faxing to 996-9298 or e-mailing to Loretta Jones your name, department, mail code, e-mail, phone number, and status of student, faculty, nonacademic staff, or acad emicprofessional.

Come prepared to dialog, pose questions, network and express your concern ont he following and other topics of your choice:

• Cultural compromises you have had to make to become successful
• Images of women/women of color as it relates to others in institutions/organizations or government
• Implicit and explicit rules for women/women of color that dictate career opportunities
• Perserverance: overcoming negative images
• Shifts/changes necessary to overcoming false images

2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Chicago Rooms B & C, CIU

Monday, March 24

Historical Fashion Show: "Notable Women of the Revolution Era, 1760's - 1815" Awards Ceremony for the Notable Women Essay Contest 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Illinois Room, CCC This historical fashion show features garments representing the past that appear to be beautiful, romantic, and place our ancestors in fairytale existence. The reality is that the clothes were extremely uncomfortable, inconvenient, a detriment to women's health, and in many cases murdered their wearers. Fashions presented by A. Riehle Originals. After the show, there will be an awards ceremony for the Notable Women Essay Contest sponsored by the Women's Heritage Planning Committee. Fourth grade classes from the Chicago Public Schools have been selected to participate. Join us in this celebration of our missing voices!

Double Feature Films

"Waiting to Exhale" This extraordinary film is about four women - close friends - who are waiting -- waiting for careers to take off, for divorces to be final, for children to grow up - bu,t most of all, waiting for the men who'll take their breath away. Featuring: Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, Lela Rochon, Gregory Hines. Director: Forest Whitaker, 1995. 12:00 noon and 5:30 p.m. Illinois Room, CCC

     

"If These Walls Could Talk" This film takes an intimate look into the lives of three women who must deal with unexpected pregnancies in different social and political climates from the 1950's to the present. Intense and intelligent, this trilogy of emotionally charged stories is a must-see! Written by Nancy Savoca (``True Love'') from stories by Savoca, Susan Nanus and Marlene King, the film goes inside one house to show how unexpected pregnancies affect different families living there from the 1950s to the present. Cher makes her directorial debut on one of the segments. Other stars in the cast include Eileen Brennan,Anne Heche, Lindsay Crouse, Shirley Knight, Joanna Gleason, Jason London, Craig T. Nelson, Jada Pinkett, CCH Pounder, Diana Scarwid and Rita Wilson. Directors: Nancy Savoca and Cher, 1996. A facilitated-discussion will follow each showing. 2:15 p.m., 3:45 p.m., 7:45 p.m. Illinois Room, CCC

"Celebrate Our Missing Voices": Third Annual Poetry Coffeehouse
6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Recovery Room, CIU
Experience the cool tantalizing verbiage of UIC faculty, staff, students, and other vibrant artists. Everyone is welcome to share original works or their favorite works by and about women! Free refreshments will be served. Part of the Entertainment West Coffeehouse Series. Want to participate? Sign up by March 3. Contact Vanessa Aubert at 312-413-1025.

Tuesday, March 25

Adrien Bledstein, Jewish Educator on "As Esther Commanded: A Feminist Perspective of Purim" 11:30AM-1:00PM
Levine Hillel Center, 924 S. Morgan St.

Wednesday, March 26

Feature Film: "If These Walls Could Talk" (see March 24 for information on the film).

4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Recovery Room, CIU

Thursday, March 27

Women's Resource Fair - CANCELLED

"Benaat Chicago: Growing Up Arab & Female in Chicago"
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Illinois Room, CCC
Join us for a video screening from the American Friends Service Committee. This documentary addresses the stereotypes and racism toward Arabs and Arab women. Arab-American teenaged women will discuss growing up on Chicago's southwest side. An interview with Arab-American women who are actively organizing their community for social change will illustrate the shaping of the future for Arab-Americans.

Friday, March 28

"Intimate Violence: Issues in Theory, Research and Practice"
Conference on Collaborative Research on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
Chicago Rooms, CIU
This Conference will bring together researchers on domestic violence to discuss research and policy needs in Illinois. The morning will be spent hearing about research needs on domestic violence and sexual assault, and hearing about the experience of two pairs of successful collaborators. The first part of the afternoon will be spent in discussion groups. At 3:15pm, we will hear an address by
Bonnie J. Campbell, Director, Violence Against Women Office, US Dept of
Justice, Washington, DC. The conference is free but registration is required. Call Women's Studies at (312) 996-2441 for more information.

Sponsored by: UIC Great Cities Program, Women's Studies Program, Dept. of Psychiatry's Program for Mental Health Services Research, and the Jane Addams College of Social Work. Co-sponsored by the Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network.

Committee Members

Vanessa Aubert

Teri Blain

Dave Barnett

Rebecca Gordon

Christine Grgurich

Sharlene Holly

Julie Koenigsberger

Michelle Macklin

Jennifer Mueller

Jill Rothamer

Gail Stern

Freda Vargas

Sponsors

• African American Cultural Center
• African American Studies
• Agape House
• Campus Programs
• Center for Research on Women and Gender
• Chancellors Committee on the Status of Latinos
• Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexuals
• Chancellors Committee on the Status of Women
• Entertainment West Committee
• Jane Addams' Hull-House Museum
• Levine Hillel Center at UIC
• Marshall Field's
• Mia Francesca on Taylor
• Office of the Associate Chancellor for Community Relations
• Office of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Concerns
• Office of Women's Affairs
• Out Spoken
• PHAT Entertainment Committee
• Planet Hollywood
• Rafael Cintron Ortiz Cultural Center
• Student Activities Funding Committee (SAFC)
• Student Development Services
• The Alley
• The Art Institute of Chicago
• The Hyatt at University Village
• Undergraduate Student Government
• Wellness Center
• Women's Studies Program
• Women's Workout World