March is Women's Herstory Month there are plenty of activities and celebrations that we'll be showing up at.
Activities:
- Connecting Creative Communities: Tuesday March 10 - 11th, Biltmore Hotel, Providence, RI. $60 to register, still time!
- Wednesday, March 10th, it’s the one-year anniversary of Pecha Kucha in Providence! The theme, in honor of our summit is: Connecting Creative Communities. If you haven't yet heard of this global yet unpronounceable phenomenon, Pecha Kucha is a monthly format for sharing ideas, in which presenters are allotted 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide. Waterplace Restaurant; free. Doors open at 7:20, presentations start at 8:20, and shmoozing goes down throughout. Dance party to follow presentations.
- Women Helping Women, to benefit Women's Shelter at Crossroads RI also on March 10th from 5:30 - 7:30pm at Cafe Nuovo, tickets are $100, for more info, see here or go to to sign up online: http://www.crossroadsri.org/howtohelp/event/step1.aspx
- Wednesday, March 10th - 13th, Following a critically-acclaimed, sold-out run in Cambridge, MA, Harriet Jacobs, the astonishing new play from Lydia R. Diamond, now comes to Providence’s Perishable Theater in a chamber production presented by Cambridge’s Underground Railway Theater, in collaboration with the Providence Black Repertory Company. Tickets are $20 for adults and $15 for seniors, students, and members of the Armed Forces. All performances will be followed by talk back panels. Wednesday, March 10 till Saturday, March 13, 2010, 7:30 pm.
- Thursday, March 11th 7:00 pm, Naomi Shihab Nye will visit the Ocean State to present “Everything Comes Next-Daily Rebirth through Reading and Writing” on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 7:00 pm at Moses Brown School, 250 Lloyd Avenue, Providence, RI at ALUMNI HALL (for further information re: location call Sandi Seltzer at 401-831-7350, ext 112). This program is free and open to the public, and is co-sponsored by Moses Brown School and Cultural Connections, along with fiscal sponsor International Institute RI and made possible, in part, through a grant from the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, major funders of the RAISE YOUR VOICE project.
- Thursday March 18th: WCSWANS at McGovern's on the Water, Fall River, RI, Joanie Weinberg, "Single Again, Now what?" from 6:00 - 9:00pm.
Reports:
The Shriver Report A Woman's Nation Changes Everything
Even though California was disqualified from the Race to the Top federal funding, California's first lady is laying out a progressive roadmap for women. The report found plenty of plenty of good news. Women are more educated than ever before, now earning 60 percent of the college degrees awarded each year and fully half of the PhDs. Women are also running more businesses than ever before. Last year they were at the helm of ten million small businesses with combined sales of more than a trillion dollars.
But the whole truth is harsher. Women still don't have pay equity with men. Women still aren't equally represented in top leadership positions in business and government. Workplace policies haven't changed to meet the needs of women who are not only primary breadwinners, but often primary caregivers, too. In this day and age, so many women, many of them single parents, are struggling mightily.
Also, see read about the status of women in RI at the Women's Fund of RI, more to come.
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