The BookWoman BookGroup will meet to discuss Oranges Aren’t the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson. Come join us!!!
Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour\, industrial North of England and finds herself embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age\, and comes to terms with her unorthodox sexuality\, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household dissolves. Jeanette's insistence on listening to the truths of her own heart and mind - and on reporting them with wit and passion - makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an eccentric\, moving passage into adulthood.
The BookWoman BookGroup usually meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month. We read a variety of genres and we welcome new members!
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Hope can be a good thing if we place it where it belongs--firmly in the hands of the people.
Cindy Sheehan\, “Peace Mom”\, revived the anti-war protest in 2005 when she went to Crawford to ask President Bush for what noble cause did her son die\, resulting in spontaneous demonstrations known as Camp Casey. Since then she travels the world as the face for the peace and justice movement.
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Please come a little early and join us for refreshments musical entertainment by ire'ne lara silva and Moises S. L. Lara before the reading begins.
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"\;Hallucination"\; is a story about unexpected occurrences and how they can stop your life and change it whether you are ready for change or not. This is a story of surviving some of life's unavoidable miseries and coming out on the other side\, a little wiser and a little closer to yourself. "\;hallucination"\; is a story of regular life\, sudden illness and irregular outcomes. "\;Hallucination"\; is NOT a story about being sick. It's a story of becoming well...inside and out.
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"\;Crystal Singing Bowls and Vocal Toning Workshop"\;
Enjoy the beatiful sounds of pure quartz crystal singing bowls.
Each bowl corresponds to the seven chakra (energy) systems of the human
body. When the crystal bowls are played\, your chakras will resonate with
the highest healing frequencies\, releasing stagnant energies and
renewing your whole being. Suggested love offering\: $12.00 (no one turned away)
The Muse of Music\: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word\: This wide-ranging\, ambitiously interdisciplinary study traces jazz's influence on African American poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary spoken word poetry. Examining established poets such as Langston Hughes\, Ntozake Shange\, and Nathaniel Mackey as well as a generation of up-and-coming contemporary writers and performers\, Meta DuEwa Jones highlights the intersections of race\, gender\, and sexuality within the jazz tradition and its representation in poetry. Applying prosodic analysis to emphasize the musicality of African American poetic performance\, she examines the gendered meanings evident in collaborative performances and in the criticism\, images\, and sounds circulating within jazz cultures.
Meta DuEwa Jones is Associate Professor in English and faculty affiliate in African and African Diaspora Studies at University of Texas\, Austin.
Enacting Others\: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin\, Nikki S. Lee\, Adrian Piper\, and Anna Deavere Smith\: The artists Adrian Piper\, Eleanor Antin\, Anna Deavere Smith\, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial\, ethnic\, gender\, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. She is attentive to how the artists manipulated clothing\, mannerisms\, voice\, and other signs to negotiate their assumed identities. Cherise Smith argues that by drawing on conventions such as passing\, blackface\, minstrelsy\, cross-dressing\, and drag\, they highlighted the constructedness and fluidity of identity and identifications. Enacting Others provides a provocative account of how race informs contemporary art and feminist performance practices.
Cherise Smith is Associate Professor of Art History and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas\, Austin.
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Meta DuEwa Jones is Associate Professor in English and faculty affiliate in African and African Diaspora Studies at University of Texas\, Austin.
Enacting Others\: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin\, Nikki S. Lee\, Adrian Piper\, and Anna Deavere Smith\: The artists Adrian Piper\, Eleanor Antin\, Anna Deavere Smith\, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial\, ethnic\, gender\, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. She is attentive to how the artists manipulated clothing\, mannerisms\, voice\, and other signs to negotiate their assumed identities. Cherise Smith argues that by drawing on conventions such as passing\, blackface\, minstrelsy\, cross-dressing\, and drag\, they highlighted the constructedness and fluidity of identity and identifications. Enacting Others provides a provocative account of how race informs contemporary art and feminist performance practices.
Cherise Smith is Associate Professor of Art History and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas\, Austin.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130520T143342Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120411T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120411T023000Z UID:http://www.ebookwoman.com/event/getting-know-goddess-series-inanna URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.ebookwoman.com/event/getting-know-goddess-series-inanna SUMMARY:Getting To Know The Goddess Series\: Inanna END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130520T143342Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120412T010000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120412T023000Z UID:http://www.ebookwoman.com/event/olga-trujillo-reading-signing-sum-my-parts URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.ebookwoman.com/event/olga-trujillo-reading-signing-sum-my-parts SUMMARY:Olga Trujillo Reading & Signing- The Sum of My Parts DESCRIPTION:he Sum of My Parts is the story of Ms. Trujillo's courageous struggle to
understand and overcome the psychological aftereffects of her abusive
childhood and an inspiring look into the remarkable power of the human
brain to protect itself at all costs. After years of rely...ing
on a complex network of fragmented memories in order to function and
survive\, Olga learns to integrate her parts through psychotherapy and
begins to see the whole picture of her life for the first time. This
memoir of triumph over the most devastating conditions will enlighten
and inspire anyone whose life has been affected by violence. abuse\, or
trauma. understanding of - and building effective responses to - violence against women and children. Olga’s memoir was released in October 2011. She writes a blog for Psychology Today
Marcelle Kasprowicz was born in France during WWII and has been an Austin resident since 1977. She writes in English and French. In 2001 she won first prize for her poem House of Bones in the Austin International Poetry Festival Anthology. Her poems have been published in poetry magazines (Borderlands\: Texas Poetry Review\, Rio Grande Review\, Iodine Journal\, Mobius\, Gival Press Anthology 2008 and others). Her first book\, Organza Skies\, was published in 2005.
Ralph Hausser received a bachelor's degree in English from California State University\, Northridge and was a graduate student in library science at the University of Texas\, Austin. His work has appeared in Texas Poetry Calendar\, Diverse City\, the Enigmatist\, Environmental Quality Magazine\, Big Land Big Sky Big Hair anthology of the Texas Poetry Calendar\, and the anthology of the Texas Poetry Society. He is currently the historian of APS and chair of the Katherine Anne Porter Poetry Award for undergraduate poets in Austin area colleges and universities.
Cindy Huyser is co-editor of the Texas Poetry Calendar. Her poetry can be found in The Comstock Review\, Borderlands\, and Wild Plum\, as well as numerous anthologies.
Every second Thursday. Bring some poems to share or just come and enjoy!
BookWoman is please to pleased to announce that Wishing Chair is returning for another incredible evening of music!
Wishing Chair is the award winning folk and roll duo of songwriter Kiya Heartwood and multi instrumentalist Miriam Davidson. Since 1995\, multi-instrumentalist Miriam Davidson and songwriter Kiya Heartwood have made an art of inspiring performances and award winning songs. A Wishing Chair concert is a passionate mix of intelligent lyrics\, spell-binding storytelling and breathtaking harmony over a full folk and roll sound.
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