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International Women's Day 2008 at UVM

Thursday, 6 March

Davis Center

 

Schedule of Events:

8:30 am to 10:00 am - International Women's Day Breakfast - Sugar Maple Ballroom

Celebrate at this outstanding international breakfast tradition.
Tastes from around the globe. $3.00 donation requested at the door.
A carnation for every woman attending!

8:30 am to 9:00 am Music in Celebration of Women
Harpists Katharine Anderson and Maura Morse

9:00 am Good Morning International Women's Day: In Celebration of Women

Opening Remarks: Roddy O'Neil Cleary

Minister at the Unitarian Universalist Society in Burlington, Roddy is a feminist theologian who teaches women's spirituality courses at the University of Vermont; she is a married woman, the mother of two sons, one of whom teaches music here at UVM; and, she is a former nun who lived and worked in a teaching order at Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York.

Poetry, readings, song and meditations in many languages.

Amy Corwin (Swedish)
Atreyi Ghatak (India)
Gabriela Garay-Romero (Honduras)
Jihei Chang (South Korea)
Mediha Jusufagic (German)
Parvin Pothiawala (Arabic)
Serifa Cicak (Bosnian)
Xiaolin Ren (China)

9:30 am to10:00 am Music in Celebration of Women continues

Harpists Katharine Anderson and Maura Morse

11:00 am to 2:00 pm - Women Culture and Activism Fair - Silver Maple Ballroom

Entertainment, international food, dance and women culture and activism displays

Musical arrangement by super cool "DJ Llu"

11:00 am Opening Remarks: IWD Planning Committee Member

Women's Activism and Women's Culture Participants:

Asha for Education: Gayathri Krishnamoorthy
Bosnian Community Members: Mediha Jusufagic, Serifa Cicak
Building Bridges Bosnian Women's Group: Anera Foco
Burlington Business and Professional Women: Jennifer Nachbur
Campus Girl Scouts Champs International: Jennifer Mignano and Chandelle Trahan
FeelGood
FMLA
Indian Culture: Parvin Pothiawala and Rani Jha
Indian Students Association
Jewish Women Culture: Nellie Krentzman
MAC (Men Advocating Change)
Open and Active Minds on Global Issues and NESEI (New Sudan Education Initiative): Sasha Fisher
Panhellenic Council
Paradigm Project
Planned Parenthood of New England
RU12?
Ruth Blauwiekel, DVM, PhD, University Veterinarian
Study Abroad Peer Advisors, Office of International Education
Urban Flava Step
Vermont Council on World Affairs: Anita Selec, Executive Director,
Vermont Women Newspaper
Vermont Women's Fund
Women's Rugby
Women Helping Battered Women: Anera Foco

Scheduled Entertainment:

11:45 am Fiddleheads - Fiddlers Hannah Crary, Maria Naumann and Mark Sustic

WHAT IS FIDDLEHEADS? Started in the early winter of 2003, Fiddleheads is a group of young people (as young as 5, as old as 19) interested in learning and performing traditional fiddle tunes associated in some way with northern Vermont. Fiddlers participate by learning a variety of fiddle tunes, played mostly in a group format. The tunes highlight the Yankee, French, Irish, Scottish and other cultural heritages, mostly associated with northern Vermont, New England and New York, as well as influences from outside the state. Participants learn to value the contributions of these cultures, to use traditional music to celebrate the contributions of different cultural groups, and when possible, to learn directly from representatives of those cultures.

12:15 pm Bosnian Lillies Dance Group and Instrumental Band

The Bosnian Lilies was established in April of 2001, as a folk-dance group for children from Bosnia and Herzegovina who now reside in Burlington area. The goal of the group is to bring all children and their parents to their cultural roots and tradition. The past three years the Bosnian Lilies have been supported by the Vermont Folklife Center's Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. Within the dancers an instrumental band was created with support of Mark Sustic. Some mothers joined the dancers. Mothers and the band will perform for the first time for the UVM International Women's Day.

12:45 pm The Catamount Dance Crew

http://www.uvm.edu/~catdance/CDC/Welcome.html

1:15 pm Habibi Belly Dancers

Habibi is an international belly dance troupe fusing many styles of dance and movement expressions to an ancient art of belly dancing. Anera and Yasmia, Habibi's founding members, have performed together for over five years for diverse groups and as diverse audiences. Their love for this ancient art form mesmerizes audiences and transcends cultural and linguistic boundaries. Anera and Yasmia transmit their love and knowledge of belly dance through performances and teaching. For more information about classes offered by Habibi please contact Anera Foco at 734-8009 or afoco@aol.com

11:00 am to 2:00 pm International Film Festival

Film Festival Poster

Film Shorts showing in the The Williams Family room adjacent to the Silver Maple Ballroom:

6:00 pm to 9:30 pm International Film Festival

Long films presented in the Livak Ballroom:

Tsunamika, a Living Symbol Auroville Tsunami Relief Work Livelihood Project

Due to the generosity of Living Routes, providing study abroad opportunities in Ecovillages: Tsunamika will be joining us for International Women's Day 2008. Stop by and learn how to participate in the effort!

Thanks to UVM Community Members:

Campus Planning Services
Career Services
Center for Cultural Pluralism
College of Engineering & Mathematics
Dean of Students
Department of Economics
Department of Sociology
Dining Services
Environmental Program
Extension
Fleming Museum
German and Russian Department
Global Village
Multicultural Affairs & Academic Initiatives
Office of International Education
Office of the President
Office of the Provost
Print and Mail
Residential Life
Ruth Blauwiekel, DVM, PhD, University Veterinarian
Student Life
Transportation & Parking Administration
Women's Center
Women's & Gender Studies
and numerous other departments and individuals in our community as well as the

IWD 2008 Planning Committee Members:

Amy Corwin, Office of International Education
Berta Geller, Family Medicine
Laura Semenow, HESA Graduate Student
Leslie Ferrer, Women's Center
Mediha Jusufagic, CESS/CDCI
Megan Tonelli, Sophomore Undergraduate Student
Nellie Krentzman, UVM Hillel
Mary Driscoll, Women's & Gender Studies
Pamela Elaine Gardner, Office of International Education
Parvin Pothiawala, CWPS
Rachel DeSimone, HESA Graduate Student
Rani Jha, Post-Doctoral Associate in Chemistry
Serifa Cicak, Physical Plant
Tamara Plummer, Student Life