September 21-22, 8pm
DeWitt Main Theatre
Please call the ticket office at #7890 for pricing.

The Theatre Department presents
The Belle of Amherst by Linda Kelsey
This is a one-women piece about
Emily Dickinson.

September 27, 5pm
Urban Institute for Comtemporary Arts
41 Sheldon SE
Grand Rapids, MI

Tickets: $30 or 2 for $50

Wine, Women & Chocolate

The evening will feature a wine tasting along with a silent auction and delicious chocolate.

Proceeds from the event will benefit Women's Resource Center, a nonprofit organization that connects women in great financial need with employment and education that can change their lives and the lives of their children.

Visit www.grwrc.org, call 616-458-5443 or email mtaliaferro@grwrc.org to reserve your tickets today!

I. Introduction: Pine Grove
Mary Hofert, Women's Issues Organization President
II. Nykerk Hall
Stephen Hemenway: English Department
III. Kollen Hall
Paulette Chaponniere: Nursing Department
IV. Martha Miller Center
Jeanne Petit: History Department
V. Lincoln Park
Anna Pizzimenti: Student
VI. Gilmore Hall
Trygve Johnson: Campus Ministries
VII. Voorhees Hall
Lesley Coghill: Center for Women in Transition
VIII. Van Zoren Circle
Ricky Rhodes: Greek Men Take a Stand
IX. Graves
Jen Young: English Department

October 4, 7pm
Fountian Street Church
24 Fountian St NE
Grand Rapids, MI

Bus leaving from Hope College at 5:30pm from the Science Center parking lot on 12th st.

Contact: Annie Dandavati, Director of Women's Studies to reserve your space -- dandavati@hope.edu

Elaine Pagels best-selling book, Adam, Even and the Serpent, examines the creation myth and its role in the develoment of sexual attitudes in the Christian West. In her book she examines the way that women have been viewed in Christian history.

October 5 & 6, 8pm
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A Production of The Nina Variations
presented in the Studio Theatre.

Mike Domitrz presents Can I Kiss You?

His message is humorous and important. It will help to teach our students about dating responsibility and communication as well as how to have healthy dating relationships.

For more information go to www.aplaceforwomen.org

October 17, 7:00pm
Maas Auditorium

Event is FREE with your
Hope ID!

Pre Pow-Wow presented by George Martin of the Saginaw Chippewa Society of Veterans and Warriers known as the Ogitchidaw.

For further questions, please contact
Chuck Green.

October 19, 3pm & 7pm

3pm Q&A Session in the Otte Room in Phelps Hall

7pm Reading of here book in the Knickerbocker Theatre

Admission is FREE.

More information is available on the website www.hope.edu/vws

Nahid Rachlin, who will read at 7pm Thursday night at the Knickerbocker, is a novelist and memoirist who was born in Iran in 1946 and grew up there during the reign of Shah. She immigrated alone to the U.S. in the 1960's and has lived here ever since. Rachlin is a well-known novelist, but her latest book, Persian Girls, is a memior.

Review from Publishers Weekly:
"This lyrical and disturbing memoir by the author of four novels (Foreigner, etc.) tells the story of an Iranian girl growing up in a culture where, despite the Westernizing reforms of the Shah, women had little power or autonomy...Exuding the melancholy of an outsider, this memoir gives American readers rare insight into Iranians' ambivalence toward the United States, the desire for American freedom clashing with resentment of American hegemony."

October 20
Holland Civic Center

Event is FREE with your
Hope ID!

3rd Annual Holland Pow-Wow. This event is presented by the Saginaw Chippewa Society of Veterans and Warriers known as the Ogitchidaw. The grand entries will occur at 1:00pm and at 6:00pm. A brief service of reconciliation will be held from 5:15-5:30pm.

For further questions, please contact
Chuck Green.

October 22

1pm, Wichers Auditorium
Lecture and Demonstration

7:30pm, Wichers Auditorium
Concert

Lecture and Performance of Japanese Music

Michael Chikuzen Gould, shakuhachi;
Chieko Iwazaki, koto and shamisen;
Kodi Iwazaki, shakuhachi

The shakuhachi is a five-holed, end-blown flute made of bamboo introduced into Japan from China in the 8th century. It was was used by Zen monks as part of their spiritual training. They played music that was derived mostly from sutras or nature-inspired.

The Koto, a 13-stringed zither, also came from China in the 7th century. The strings are plucked with picks and also hand-manipulated to bend the pitches and produce a variety of sounds.

The Shamisen is a 3-stringed, banjo-like instrument that is plucked with an ivory plectrum. The shamisen primarily accompanies the voice, which sings the songs about ½ a beat in front of the melody played by the shamisen.

From the late 1800s, the shakuhachi joined with the Koto and Shamisen instruments to form what is now the traditional Japanese ensemble known as Sankyoku music. In the 20th century new styles of playing
developed under the influence of Western music.The koto was often played by blind musicians, as was the shamisen. For centuries, women have been respected performers, teachers, and composers of music for these string instruments. The shakuhachi, however, remains even today
primarily the province of male musicians.

October 25, 8pm
Martha Miller room 159

The presentation is FREE and pizza and beverages will be served.

Sponsored by:
Sexuality Roundtable: A Forum for Gay & Straight Students

There will be a showing of Fire followed by a discussion led by Annie Dandavati.

"Banned in India, Fire is the first film to confront homosexuality in a culture adamantly denying such a love should ever exist."

November 1, 4pm
Martha Miller Center - 1st Floor Rotunda

Co-sponsored by the Fried International Center and the Department of Women's Studies.

The Hope College community is invited
to learn more about the
Trokosi Freedom Project
of the I.N. Network.

"In the Trokosi system (practiced in the Volta region of Ghana and in neighboring Benin and Togo), a virgin girl is sent to the village shrine to live, in order to appease the traditional gods. This girl is the sacrifice for crimes allegedly committed by her elder family members. She lives at the shrine for the rest of her life, suffering countless abuses at the hands of the fetish priest. She is molested and raped, beaten, and denied the basic necessities. She also must
raise and provide for children that are born as a result of the priest's sexual abuse."

I.N. Network is a Christian organization that partners with Christian nationals around the world. Their U.S. headquarters is located in
Zeeland, MI. I.N. Network/Ghana has worked for many years to bring Trokosi women out of the bondage of village priests. Through the efforts of I.N. Network, over 3,500 women and their children have been
freed. There are still an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 women and girls enslaved by the Trokosi system, along with their estimated 8,000 children. I.N. Network/Ghana works with the villages to release the Trokosi and provides counseling, medical care, schooling for children, and opportunities for the women to learn a new trade through a
Vocational Training School.

Join us on Thursday and meet Comfort Takyi, the head teacher (principal) of the I.N. Network Amrahia Elementary School and two of her students, Vincentia and Joshua . The Amrahia school is a successful example of the type of school envisioned for the formerly Trokosi practicing village of Kpogede. Come, listen, and learn more
about I.N. Networks' role in bringing freedom to Trokosi slaves.

November 8
Schaap Science Center
SCICTR 1000 and Atrium

5:30pm-Panel in SCICTR 1000
6:30pm - Networking event in Atrium

Women in the Workplace

Hear a panel of professional women discuss the American economy and the impact of women not being informed and not negotiating salary and other professional employment issues. Panelists will share tips for blending career and family, and for maintaining a competitive edge in the marketplace.

After the panel network with professional women from the local area and learn from their experience as well as meet career professionals working in areas related to your career or vocational interests.

Rachel Simmons will present on "Girl's Social Aggression and its Prevention". She is the author of numerous books including "Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls" and "Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write About Bullies, Cliques, Popularity and Jealousy".

This presentation is appropriate for persons of all ages. More information about Rachel Simmons can be located at www.rachelsimmons.com.

November 16-17, 28-30 and December 1st
DeWitt Main Theatre
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The Theatre Department presents
By the Bog of Cats by Marina Carr

All performances are at 8pm

January 14, 2008, 7pm
Maas Auditorium

Event is FREE

"Greek Women; Making the Ideal Real"

January 11, 2008 through February 1, 2008
DePree Art Gallery

Admission is FREE

A traveling exhibition: "Changing Identity," featuring work by contemporary Vietnamese women artists.

This is a first major exhibition of contemporary Vietnamese artists in the U.S. It features approximately 50 works by 10 artists who challenge the stereotypes and traditional roles of women in Vietnamese society. Each of the women has a particular way of shaping her work and of identifing herself that is both personal and universal. Through the use of various media, subject matters and aesthetic sensibilities, the artists explore gender and cultural identity and offer a diversified view of Vietnam itself.

"Changing Identity" is toured by International Arts & Artists (IA&A) of Washington, D.C., and is supported in part by the E. Rhodes and Leona Carpenter Foundation and the Henry Luce Foundation. The educational program is supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation, Hanoi. The IA&A prospectus continues, "Changing Identity" provides a chance to see Vietnam through the eyes of artists who have a particular perspective of their homeland and themselves. Not only does it bring to light a previously marginalized viewpoint of Vietnamese culture, it does so from the standpoint of the women themselves, providing a unique opportunity to experience the remarkable talent of these artists.

The gallery of the DePree Art Center is open Mondays through Fridays' from 10am to noon and 1pm to 5pm; Saturdays from 10am to 5pm; and Sundays from 1pm to 5pm.

February 15-16 and 20-23
DeWitt Main Theatre
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The Theatre Department presents
Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley

All performances are at 8pm

March 4, 2008
7pm

Grand Rapids Civic Theatre
30 N. Division Ave.

Admission is FREE

This lecture is sponsored by Kendell College of Art and Design.

Ghada Amer, feminist and painter extraordinaire is speaking at the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre.

Ghada Amer was born in Cairo in 1963; she now lives and works in New York. Viewing Amer's hand-embroidered paintings, with their delicate traceries of stray threads, involves a visual shift, as what appears to be a mass of abstract lines gradually comes into focus as highly erotic figures, displayed in a repetitive pattern. The work refuses to bow to the puritanical elements of both Western and Islamic culture, and what could be called institutionalized feminism," with its own persistent myth of feminine virtue.

While she describes herself as a painter and has won international recognition for her abstract canvases embroidered with erotic motifs, Ghada Amer is a multimedia artist whose entire body of work is infused with the same ideological and aesthetic concerns. The submission of women to the tyranny of domestic life, the celebration of female sexuality and pleasure, the incomprehensibility of love, the foolishness of war and violence, and an overall quest for formal beauty, constitute the territory that she explores and expresses in her art. In addition to the erotic paintings for which she is most famous, numerous works devoted to world politics are exhibited, including some of her more recent antiwar pieces.

March 6, 2008
7pm in Lubbers 222

An India party will happen on March 6, 2008 at 7pm in Lubbers 222 for interested in students and their friends. There will be henna painting, Indian snacks (either pakoras or jellabies) and pictures of India. Our summer programs are in the arts, music, and women's studies.

April 1, 2008

The Center for Women in Transition is sponsoring a fundraiser to help fund a prevention program that teaches about domestic/sexual violence in the community.

"Strike Out Sexual Violence" bowling tournament is being held on April 1, 2008. Those interested parties wanting to participate should register online at www.aplaceforwomen.org.

April 18-19, 23-26
DeWitt Main Theatre
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The Theatre Department presents
Much Ado About Nothing