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Upcoming events
Event: Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies presents: V-Day: Until the Violence Stops
Date: Friday, September 21
Time: 7:00-9:30 p.m.
Location: Keystone Church
Extraordinarily empowering and heartbreakingly funny, the Sundance favorite UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS chronicles how Eve Ensler's hit off-Broadway solo show The Vagina Monologues grew into V-Day, an international grassroots movement to stop violence against women and girls. The first of its kind, The Vagina Monologues has been widely recognized as "a celebration of women's sexuality and a condemnation of its violation" (The New York Times) and praised as "frank, humorous and moving" (Chicago Tribune).
In 2002, over eight hundred cities around the world have participated in V-Day by staging benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues. From locales as diverse as New York, the Philippines and Kenya, director Abby Epstein's UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS features emotionally charged interviews and readings by everyday and celebrity women (including Rosie Perez, Salma Hayek, Rosario Dawson, Jane Fonda and Lisa Gay Hamilton), all of whom courageously reveal their intimate experiences and bond together to break the silence that surrounds abuse. More than just a group testimonial, UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS is a moving celebration of community awareness that leaves us with the hope that change can happen.
CO-SPONSORED WITH SEATTLE NOW CHAPTER (www.nowseattle.org) IN CONJUNCTION WITH TAKE BACK THE NIGHT ORGANIZING. Facilitated discussion to follow.
(link)
Event: Queer Night at the Movies presents: Inlaws and Outlaws
Date: Wednesday, September 26
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Kane 220
Inlaws & Outlaws is a film about marriage that speaks from experience, rather than the pulpit. Whether loving inside or outside of marriage, struggling to get in or suing to get out, we follow the lives of ordinary folks as they figure out their own path to happily ever after - with more than a few surprises along the way.
There's the story of two Mormon women, secretly college sweethearts until one follows the path her parents have chosen for her and marries -- with her beloved serving as her bridesmaid. There's the ex-Marine who has no idea what a happy relationship looks like until he stumbles across his future partner one night at a bar. And there's the nice girl from Brooklyn who somehow always picks the guys who don't treat her right -- until she finds and marries a fellow almost too good to be true.
Neatly side-stepping the red/blue divide, director Drew Emery takes an innovative approach to story by putting everyone - regardless of sexuality - on the same level playing field and asking them everything they knew about marriage. Or thought they knew. When the film begins, you don't know who's gay or straight, and who's with whom. But by cleverly weaving the various threads into a collective narrative, by the end of the film, you may have it all figured out, but you no longer care who's gay or isn't - and, best of all, you're rooting for everyone.
Honest, irreverent and compelling, Inlaws & Outlaws takes one of our time's most divisive topics and turns it into the feel-good movie that's as charming as it is irresistible.
(link)
Event: Q Center and GBLTC Welcome Luncheon
Date: Friday, September 28
Time: 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Location: HUB 310
Lesbian? Gay? Straight ally? Trans? Two-Spirit? Questioning? No labels needed? Excited about starting school? Well, get on over to HUB, room 310 from 12pm - 1:30pm on Friday, September 28, to be welcomed and celebrated as the Q Center and the ASUW Gay, Bisexual, Lesbian, and Trans Student Commission kicks off the new year with a free luncheon. This year we bring you a very special speaker, UW Alum, former Rose Bowl captain, All-American, and the first professional athlete to come out, David Kopay. Everyone is welcome.
(link)
Event: Violence Prevention Resource Event
Date: Wednesday, October 10
Time: 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Location: MGH Commons
This event focuses on education and community awareness. Come for resources & information, and discover some of the ways you can help to create non-violent communities!
(link)
Event: The Epidemic of Violence Against Native Women: Its Evolution and Response
Date: Wednesday, October 10
Time: 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Location: MGH Commons
With Christina Entrekin from Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs.
(link)
Event: Dating Safety 101: Basic skills for setting boundaries with those we know and strangers
Date: Wednesday, October 10
Time: 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Location: MGH Commons
A workshop with Home Alive.
(link)
Event: Feminist Research and Activist Forum: The Masculinity Dilemma in Violence Prevention
Date: Thursday, October 11
Time: 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Location: Women's Center, Cunningham Hall
A discussion with the Men's Network Against Domestic Violence.
(link)
Event: 18th John R. Hogness Symposium on Health Care: Faye Wattleton
Date: Wednesday, October 31
Time: 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Location: Hogness Auditorium (A-420)
Faye Wattleton
President of the Center for the Advancement of Women, New York, NY
(Former head of Planned Parenthood)
While women have made signifigant gains, fair treatment is an unfinished agenda. Faye Wattleton addresses such issues as domestic violence, the erosion of reproductive rights, and shaping family planning and women's health policies around the world.
Date: Friday, September 21
Time: 7:00-9:30 p.m.
Location: Keystone Church
Extraordinarily empowering and heartbreakingly funny, the Sundance favorite UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS chronicles how Eve Ensler's hit off-Broadway solo show The Vagina Monologues grew into V-Day, an international grassroots movement to stop violence against women and girls. The first of its kind, The Vagina Monologues has been widely recognized as "a celebration of women's sexuality and a condemnation of its violation" (The New York Times) and praised as "frank, humorous and moving" (Chicago Tribune).
In 2002, over eight hundred cities around the world have participated in V-Day by staging benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues. From locales as diverse as New York, the Philippines and Kenya, director Abby Epstein's UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS features emotionally charged interviews and readings by everyday and celebrity women (including Rosie Perez, Salma Hayek, Rosario Dawson, Jane Fonda and Lisa Gay Hamilton), all of whom courageously reveal their intimate experiences and bond together to break the silence that surrounds abuse. More than just a group testimonial, UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS is a moving celebration of community awareness that leaves us with the hope that change can happen.
CO-SPONSORED WITH SEATTLE NOW CHAPTER (www.nowseattle.org) IN CONJUNCTION WITH TAKE BACK THE NIGHT ORGANIZING. Facilitated discussion to follow.
(link)
Event: Queer Night at the Movies presents: Inlaws and Outlaws
Date: Wednesday, September 26
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Kane 220
Inlaws & Outlaws is a film about marriage that speaks from experience, rather than the pulpit. Whether loving inside or outside of marriage, struggling to get in or suing to get out, we follow the lives of ordinary folks as they figure out their own path to happily ever after - with more than a few surprises along the way.
There's the story of two Mormon women, secretly college sweethearts until one follows the path her parents have chosen for her and marries -- with her beloved serving as her bridesmaid. There's the ex-Marine who has no idea what a happy relationship looks like until he stumbles across his future partner one night at a bar. And there's the nice girl from Brooklyn who somehow always picks the guys who don't treat her right -- until she finds and marries a fellow almost too good to be true.
Neatly side-stepping the red/blue divide, director Drew Emery takes an innovative approach to story by putting everyone - regardless of sexuality - on the same level playing field and asking them everything they knew about marriage. Or thought they knew. When the film begins, you don't know who's gay or straight, and who's with whom. But by cleverly weaving the various threads into a collective narrative, by the end of the film, you may have it all figured out, but you no longer care who's gay or isn't - and, best of all, you're rooting for everyone.
Honest, irreverent and compelling, Inlaws & Outlaws takes one of our time's most divisive topics and turns it into the feel-good movie that's as charming as it is irresistible.
(link)
Event: Q Center and GBLTC Welcome Luncheon
Date: Friday, September 28
Time: 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Location: HUB 310
Lesbian? Gay? Straight ally? Trans? Two-Spirit? Questioning? No labels needed? Excited about starting school? Well, get on over to HUB, room 310 from 12pm - 1:30pm on Friday, September 28, to be welcomed and celebrated as the Q Center and the ASUW Gay, Bisexual, Lesbian, and Trans Student Commission kicks off the new year with a free luncheon. This year we bring you a very special speaker, UW Alum, former Rose Bowl captain, All-American, and the first professional athlete to come out, David Kopay. Everyone is welcome.
(link)
Event: Violence Prevention Resource Event
Date: Wednesday, October 10
Time: 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Location: MGH Commons
This event focuses on education and community awareness. Come for resources & information, and discover some of the ways you can help to create non-violent communities!
(link)
Event: The Epidemic of Violence Against Native Women: Its Evolution and Response
Date: Wednesday, October 10
Time: 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Location: MGH Commons
With Christina Entrekin from Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs.
(link)
Event: Dating Safety 101: Basic skills for setting boundaries with those we know and strangers
Date: Wednesday, October 10
Time: 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Location: MGH Commons
A workshop with Home Alive.
(link)
Event: Feminist Research and Activist Forum: The Masculinity Dilemma in Violence Prevention
Date: Thursday, October 11
Time: 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Location: Women's Center, Cunningham Hall
A discussion with the Men's Network Against Domestic Violence.
(link)
Event: 18th John R. Hogness Symposium on Health Care: Faye Wattleton
Date: Wednesday, October 31
Time: 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Location: Hogness Auditorium (A-420)
Faye Wattleton
President of the Center for the Advancement of Women, New York, NY
(Former head of Planned Parenthood)
While women have made signifigant gains, fair treatment is an unfinished agenda. Faye Wattleton addresses such issues as domestic violence, the erosion of reproductive rights, and shaping family planning and women's health policies around the world.