12^th Annual International Women's Day Celebration at the University of Vermont

Wednesday 7 March 2007

"Women's Spirituality, Women's Healing"

5:00 to 6:00 pm B-180 Living/Learning

A panel of women healers will explore the commonality of ways that the women of the world connect with their own innate spirit and knowing to heal themselves and others.

Panel Members: Aiyana BlackHawk, MA, Holistic Health Practitioner & Holistic Life Coach Holly Wilkinson-Ray, Facilitator of Soul Collage & Women's Circles

Jan Salzman, 4^th year Rabbinical Student with Aleph/Jewish Renewal

Kathleen Scacciaferro, RN, MSA, CHTP/I, Healing Touch & Energy Medicine Practitioner

Facilitators: Bonnie Campono and LuAnn Rolley

"Women's Empowerment"

6:30 to 7:30 pm B-180 Living/Learning

Bring a friend and join us for an evening on basic self-defense designed to empower women of all ages to walk with awareness and confidence.

Speaker: Sue E. Roberts, University Police Officer

Welcome - International Women's Day

Thursday 8 March 2007

Celebration with Music, Readings and our traditional International Breakfast

7:30 to 9:00 am

Waterman Building 3^rd floor foyer up to Waterman Manor

Morning song and Blessing by Jan Salzman

Energy raising ceremony led by Bonnie Campono

Readings in diverse languages by Community Members

Music by Kit Anderson and Maura Morse

Our Traditional International Breakfast with new and old selections

$3.00 donation requested to defer the cost of breakfast

Tour the Exhibition Ambreen Butt: I Need a Hero

9:30 to 10:30 am Robert Hull Fleming Museum

Artist Ambreen Butt's work brings together the traditions of Persian and Indian miniature painting with Western modernist abstraction. Born in Pakistan and trained in miniature painting at the National College of Art in Lahore, Butt has lived in the United States since the mid-1990's. Her work discards conventional, passive representations of women in romantic and heroic narratives, in favor of female protagonists dressed in modern Western clothing, whose actions pose questions about identity and sexual politics.

Presented by: Christina Fearon, Curator of Education and Public Programs, Fleming Museum

"Women Culture" Activism and Cultural Fair

11:30 to 1:30 pm Billings Student Center Great Hall, North Lounge & Apse

Student and Community Women's Activists

Cultural displays, dance performances starting at Noon

Food samplings from around the world, Art, Images and Music

IWD sponsors include:

Affirmative
Action/Equal Opportunity,
Asian Studies,
Biochemistry,
Center for Student Ethics and Standards,
Center for Cultural Pluralism,
CDAE,
Economics,
English,
Environmental Program,
German and Russian,
Global Village,
History,
Living/Learning Center,
Office of International Education,
Office of the President,
Office of the Provost,
Physical Plant,
Physics,
Print and Mail,
Residential Life,
Sociology,
Student Life,
Transportation and Parking,
UVM Dining Services,
UVM Hillel,
Women's Center,
and Women's and Gender Studies