Calendar
of Events
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Fall 2005 brochure!
Unless
otherwise noted, all events are free, wheelchair accessible,
open to everyone, and held at the
Center for New Words Reading Room
186 Hampshire Street, Cambridge.
Click here for directions.
Tickets are not required.
Need
more info? Give us a call at 617-876-5310.
See you there!
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September
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Tuesday, September 6 @ 7PM
BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL
72 Hour Hold
In this novel of family and redemption, a mother struggles to save
her eighteen-year-old daughter from the devastating consequences of
mental illness and the bureaucracy that refuses to help her. Drawing
on her own powerful emotions and African-American roots, this is some
of New York Times bestselling author Campbell’s most
electric writing yet - don’t miss her only Boston appearance!
(Co-sponsored by the Elizabeth
Stone House and the Cambridge
Family YMCA. At the Cambridge Family YMCA, 820
Mass. Ave., Cambridge.)
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Wednesday, September 7 @ 7PM
FEMINISM & DESSERT
Whose Wave Is It Anyway?
A Cross-Generational Conversation on Feminism
What could be better than smart talk, swell people and sweet food?
Join us for this monthly series of engagingly informal talks about
subjects that impact our daily lives. Feel free to bring your dinner,
but dessert's on us!
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Wednesday, September 14 @ 7PM
MARY FRANCES BERRY
My Face is Black is True
Born in to slavery in 1861, Callie House started the Ex-Slave Mutual
Relief, Bounty and Pension Association, which sought African American
pensions based on those offered Union soldiers -- a movement so powerful
it frightened the U.S. government, upset Jim Crow legislatures across
the South, and gave hope to hundreds of thousands of destitute former
slaves. Berry reclaims this magnificent heroine who -- though so long
forgotten that the site of her grave is unknown -- emerges as a pioneering
activist, a forerunner of both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Co-sponsored by the Museum of Afro American History. At the Old
West Church, 131
Cambridge Street, Boston.)
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Thursday, September 15 @ 8PM
JILL SOLOWAY
Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants
Join Jill Soloway (writer and Co-Executive Producer for Six Feet
Under), her sister Faith Soloway ("Jesus Has Two Mommies"),
and various sparkling personalities for an unpreditcable evening in
celebration of Jill's brand-new memoir about family, sex, "post-feminist"
politics, Monica Lewinksy, love, television, and In Touch
magazine. There'll be singing, reading, and only the Soloways know
what else...
(Co-sponsored by the Cambridge
Family YMCA. At the Cambridge Family YMCA, 820
Mass. Ave., Cambridge.)
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Friday, September 16 @ 7:30 PM
It's your turn at
NEW VOICES OPEN MIC
with this month's feature:
the 2005 Poetry Contest Winners
Our supportive literary open mic for women and their allies, held
the third Friday of every month. All genres welcome. 5 and 10 minute
slots available. Sign up at 7:15, and start at 7:30. $5 at the door.
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Wednesday, September 21 @ 5:00 PM
NEW WORDS: LIVE! on CCTV
Now you can connect with CNW in a whole new way! On the 3rd Wednesday
of every month this Fall, we'll take to the airwaves to introduce
you to a talented local woman writer, who'll read to us from her current
work and discuss the ins & outs of the writing life.
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Thursday, September 22 @ 7PM
LEORA SKOLKIN-SMITH
Edges: O Israel, O Palestine
In this powerful debut novel, narrator Liana Bialik is fourteen years
old when her American father’s suicide forces her family to
leave their New York suburb and return to her mother’s native
Jerusalem, where the beauty and turmoil are a startling backdrop to
her sexual and emotional discovery. With her young lover, she escapes
the stifling ties of her family and her mother's home to live in the
Palestinian world beyond Jerusalem’s border.
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Thursday, September 29 @ 7PM
SARAH SENTILLES
Taught by America
After graduating from Yale, Sarah Sentilles joined the Teach for America
program and began a two-year assignment as an elementary school teacher
in Compton, California. Far from the hallowed halls of academe and
the suburban streets where she grew up, in charge of thirty-six first
graders in a classroom without books, Sentilles learns about the true
meaning of poverty in America, and the strength children exhibit even
when they're struggling to survive.
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October
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Wednesday, October 5 @ 7PM
FEMINISM & DESSERT
Boobs and Tubes:
Women and the New TV Season
What could be better than smart talk, swell people and sweet food?
Join us for this monthly series of engagingly informal talks about
subjects that impact our daily lives. Feel free to bring your dinner,
but dessert's on us!
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Sunday, October 16 @ 7PM
IVAN E. COYOTE & ANNA CAMILLERI
Loose End/Red Light
Don’t miss the thrilling collisions when unparalleled genderqueer
storytelling meets ferocious third-wave theorizing. Anna Camilleri’s
(Brazen Femme) new anthology Red Light takes on
female icons from the Virgin Mary to Aileen Wuornos to Wonder Woman
and beyond, while Ivan E. Coyote’s (One Man’s Trash)
third short story collection, Loose End, mines one chaotic
urban neighborhood for every jewel of humor and humanity. Together,
they’ll upend all of your assumptions about gender - and
even make you like it that way.
(Co-sponsored by GenderCrash.
At Spontaneous Celebrations, 45
Danforth Street, Jamaica Plain.)
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Monday, October 17 @ 7PM
ZAINAB SALBI
Between Two Worlds
Zainab Salbi was eleven when her father was chosen to serve as Saddam
Hussein’s personal pilot. Her mother eventually sent Zainab
to America for an arranged marriage, to spare her from Saddam’s
growing affection, but the marriage turned out to be another world
of tyranny and abuse. Zainab started over. She forged a new identity
as a champion of female victims of war, dedicating her life to speaking
out on behalf of oppressed women around the world. In this intimate
autobiographical portrait, she reveals the tyrant through the eyes
of a child, a secretly rebellious teenager, an abused wife, and ultimately
a professional woman coming to terms with the horror of her family
story.
(Co-sponsored by Women
Waging Peace and the Simmons
Institute for Leadership and Change. At Simmons College, Linda
K. Paresky Conference Center, 300
The Fenway, Boston.)
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Tuesday, October 18 @ 7PM
DENISE BERGMAN
Seeing Annie Sullivan
Although Annie Sullivan is known for her methods of educating her
famous deaf and blind pupil, and for becoming Helen Keller’s
lifelong friend and companion, most portrayals of her life have been
overly simplified or relegated to the shadow of her remarkable student.
The poems in Seeing Annie Sullivan evoke a complex and tragic
childhood, and the random luck, stubborness, and obstinance that helped
her survive.
(Co-sponsored by the Cambridge
Public Library.)
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Wednesday, October 19 @ 5:00 PM
NEW WORDS: LIVE! on CCTV
Now you can connect with CNW in a whole new way! On the 3rd Wednesday
of every month this Fall, we'll take to the airwaves to introduce
you to a talented local woman writer, who'll read to us from her current
work and discuss the ins & outs of the writing life.
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Friday, October 21 @ 7:30 PM
It's your turn at
NEW VOICES OPEN MIC
Our supportive literary open mic for women and their allies, held
the third Friday of every month. All genres welcome. 5 and 10 minute
slots available. Sign up at 7:15, and start at 7:30. $5 at the door.
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Thursday, October 27 @ 7PM
ROBYN OCHS, ed.
Getting Bi
Join editor Ochs, co-editor Sarah Rowley, and contributors Bobbi Keppel,
Cathleen Finn, Carla Imperial, Marcia Deihl, and Julie Ebin for a
celebration of the release of this groundbreaking anthology of modern
bisexual voices from around the world!
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November
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Wednesday, November 2 @ 7PM
FEMINISM & DESSERT
Getting Even:
Why Women Don't Make as Much Money as Men
and What to Do About It
What could be better than smart talk, swell people and sweet food?
Join us for this monthly series of engagingly informal talks about
subjects that impact our daily lives. Feel free to bring your dinner,
but dessert's on us!
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Thursday, November 3 @ 7PM
GLORIA GERVITZ (with Mark Schafer, trans.)
Migrations/Migraciones
Migrations/Migraciones is the life’s work of one of
the most important Mexican poets of the post-Paz generation. At times
frankly and lushly erotic, it is a complex interweaving of personal
and family memory, Biblical reference, the mystical traditions of
the Judaism of her family and the folk Catholicism of her paternal
grandmother, who rises to the surface of the poem like a ghost of
the imagination. With its mixed parentage and its sense of displacement,
the journey is at once profoundly Mexican, and profoundly American,
the discovery of a new internal place where warring selves may be
brought together.
(Co-sponsored by the Simmons
Institute for Leadership and Change. At Simmons College Alumnae
Hall, 321
Brookline Ave., Boston.)
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Saturday & Sunday, November 5 & 6
SHACKLES AND SUGAR
Staged Reading of a New Play by Letta Neely
part of The Theater Offensive's Out
on the Edge Festival
A depiction of the love between two Black women, both field hands
on a plantation, as they live their lives branded as slaves. How far
will they go to get freedom - all kinds of it? Fast forward
to present day. How does the 150-year-old story of these women echo
in the life of a modern-day Black businesswoman?
(Presented in collaboration with The
Theater Offensive. At the Boston Center for the Arts, Hall A,
Calderwood Pavillion, 527
Tremont Street, Boston.)
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Saturday & Sunday, November 12 & 13
SURVIVING THE NIAN
Staged Reading of a New Musical by Melissa Li
part of The Theater Offensive's Out
on the Edge Festival
This new musical follows Kaylin Woo upon her return home to Hong Kong
for Chinese New Year - with her Black lover in tow. After dashing
her family’s expectations and betraying her lover’s trust,
Kaylin scrambles to salvage her relationships.
(Presented in collaboration with The
Theater Offensive. At the Boston Center for the Arts, Hall A,
Calderwood Pavillion, 527
Tremont Street, Boston.)
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Wednesday, November 16 @ 5:00 PM
NEW WORDS: LIVE! on CCTV
Now you can connect with CNW in a whole new way! On the 3rd Wednesday
of every month this Fall, we'll take to the airwaves to introduce
you to a talented local woman writer, who'll read to us from her current
work and discuss the ins & outs of the writing life.
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Friday, November 18 @ 7:30 PM
It's your turn at
NEW VOICES OPEN MIC
Our supportive literary open mic for women and their allies, held
the third Friday of every month. All genres welcome. 5 and 10 minute
slots available. Sign up at 7:15, and start at 7:30. $5 at the door.
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Tuesday, November 22 @ 7PM
ANDREA SMITH
Conquest
Cutting-edge scholar and cofounder of INCITE! Women of Color Against
Violence, Andrea Smith places Native American women at the center
of her analysis of sexual violence, expanding our conception of violence
to include the widespread appropriation of Indian cultural practices;
environmental racism; and population control. Conquest deftly
connects these and other examples of colonialism to the high rates
of violence against Native American women, and articulates an agenda
that is compelling to feminists, Native Americans, other people of
color, and everyone committed to creating viable alternatives to state-based
"solutions."
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December
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Thursday, December 15 @ 7PM
MARGE PIERCY
Sex Wars
Marge Piercy’s new novel, Sex Wars, hearkens back to
her epic Gone to Soldiers with a vivid portrait of the women -
from Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to a Russian immigrant
named Freydeh - who rebelled against the sexual politics of 19 th
century America.
(Co-sponsored with Brookline
Booksmith. At Brookline Booksmith, 279
Harvard Street, Brookline.)
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Friday, December 16 @ 7:30 PM
It's your turn at
NEW VOICES OPEN MIC
Our supportive literary open mic for women and their allies, held
the third Friday of every month. All genres welcome. 5 and 10 minute
slots available. Sign up at 7:15, and start at 7:30. $5 at the door.
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Wednesday, December 21 @ 5:00 PM
NEW WORDS: LIVE! on CCTV
Now you can connect with CNW in a whole new way! On the 3rd Wednesday
of every month this Fall, we'll take to the airwaves to introduce
you to a talented local woman writer, who'll read to us from her current
work and discuss the ins & outs of the writing life.
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