| YOUR GRANDMOTHER IS A STAR AT OUR MUSEUM! |
THURSDAY, August 28, 4pm |
Bring your Grandmother to the opening Reception of ALL OUR GRANDMOTHERS: Building San Diego - The Untold Story
Every grandmother to receive a gift of acknowledgement and a chance to tell their "San Diego" story. RSVP to 619 233-7963. |
A SPECIAL EVENING OF THEATRE
SUNDAY, SEPT 7
"THE GOOD BODY" By Eve Ensler
Directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg
6pm - A PRIVATE RECEPTION with Special Guests for Museum Members
7pm - Curtain
Special Guest Presenter, Feminist Author, Louise Bernikow
Call the theatre Box office to reserve: 619-544-1000. Ask for the Women's Museum Event.
..about the playwrite and the play....
Eve Ensler could have coined the word "provocative." An irrepressible playwright and social activist, she changed the landscape of dialogue about women and their bodies with her Obie Award-winning The Vagina Monologues. Inspired by its worldwide success, she founded V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls.
As she built the movement, Ensler traveled to more than 40 countries interviewing women of all ages and classes - from surgical centers in Beverly Hills, to the beaches of Brazil, the gyms of Moscow, New York and Mumbai, and the beauty salons of Rome, Istanbul and South Africa. With few exceptions, Ensler discovered that each woman had one part of their body that they loathed and believed if they could make that part 'good,' everything would change for the better.
Ensler's response is her intimate tale The Good Body - told with her rare ability to deliver profoundly illuminating commentary with an unchained comic wit. At the center of the story is her own quest to stop trying to be anyone other than she truly is and to "move into herself," be bold and love the body that was never truly broken.
The Story
Traveling through and beyond Botox, treadmills, closet surgeries and fat farms, Ensler exposes the naked truths from women who share their deepest secrets, obsessions and hard won peace and celebration of themselves - a Puerto Rican street gal who is an expert on "the spread," a black teenager playing hooky from a fat farm, a too-eager-to-please wealthy Jewish housewife, an African mystic, underground Afghani entrepreneurs in Kabul, and many more.
Extraordinary and ordinary women told Eve their inspiring stories. The Good Body is their story woven through one woman's global journey from obsession to enlightenment - a personal wake-up call to love the "good bodies" we inhabit.
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Greetings!
Goodbye June, hello July, August is just around the corner. Summer is a great time to get caught up with odd jobs and new ideas. While many of our student volunteers have departed for the summer, the museum office is buzzing with the sounds of regular work as we plan and produce for the 2nd half of the year. It's a good time to drop by and say hello. Get out your calendars and mark down some of these events as "must dos". And catch us on TV - COX Channel 4 "San Diego Insider" with Jessica Chang this Sunday, July 20th at 6pm and 8pm.
Best regards, Ashley Gardner, Museum Director. |
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SUFFRAGE PARADE AND BALL!
WOMEN'S EQUALITY DAY
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JOIN THE PARADE
Saturday, August 23rd, 4pm - 9pm Balboa Park
Parade Grand Marshal, Judy "The Beauty" Forman with Activist, Gracia Molina de Pick and others cross the Laurel Street Bridge, 2007
SCHEDULE:
4pm Parade across the Laurel Street Bridge to the Recital Hall
5 pm Refreshments and PREMIER Screening of a documentary film "Engage Her: Getting minority women to lead and vote"
6 - 9 pm THE BALL
Buffet Dinner and Dancing with the Sue Palmer Orchestra.
Costume and Dance Contests
Cars and Cuisine from the 20's
Parade pariticipation is free! Come join us or just watch.
Suffrage Ball tickets and more information available on line at www.whmec.org or call us at 619 233-7963
Participants include:
The League of Women Voters,
NOW,
Commission on the Status of Women,
the Downtown YWCA,
the American Association of University Women,
the United Nations Women's Equality Council,
The Women's History Museum and Educational Center.
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DO NOT MISS AUTHOR, LOUISE BERNIKOW
SEPT 6 AT 2PM AT THE MUSEUM
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The Shoulders We Stand On:
Women as Agents of Change
Louise Bernikow survived the 1980's by writing for leading magazines, acquiring the dubious distinction of appearing simultaneously in MS. Magazine and PLAYBOY. A lapsed academic with degrees from Barnard and Columbia, studies at Oxford and the University of Madrid, she was a founder of Women's Studies programs, of the Columbia Seminar on Women and Society and the Women's Biography group at the CUNY Graduate Center. Louise has taught at several universities, but now has a small "practice" of private writing clients. With a re-invigorated passion for feminism, politics, and women's history, she writes the OURSTORY column for womensenews and consults for Biography.com. Devoted to reaching across generations, she is a popular guest lecturer on campuses and at conferences, touring as a virtual one-woman band with her lecture/slide show--THE SHOULDERS WE STAND ON: WOMEN AS AGENTS OF CHANGE--about American women's activist history. We are thrilled to have Louise bring her 100 image presentation to the museum.
MEET ONE OF THE ORIGINAL FEMINISTS FROM THE 60'S.
This is a DO NOT MISS event! CALL NOW TO RESERVE YOUR SPACE! 619 233-7963
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| We hope you will be able to join us for one of these events. As well, we invite you to drop by the museum during our hours of noon to 4pm, Tuesday through Saturday to see our latest exhibits and educational displays. We look forward to seeing you there.
Sincerely,
The staff and volunteers
Women's History Museum |
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