Events
Mark your calenders for Women's Center events for the 2008-2009 academic year!
Fall Events 2008
Choose-A-Palooza
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
1P-3P
Women's Center
Stop by the Women's Center on your Choose-A-Palooza run! Meet the staff, find out who we are, what services we provide and how to get connected throughout the year!
You choose where to visit, and you choose which prizes you want to win! Earn prize drawing tickets by visiting different campus offices. There are $800 worth of great prizes, including a Nintendo Wii, movies, games, and more! Bring your tickets to the prize station in the CSU (lower level in front of the fire place) by 3 PM for the prize drawing. You’ll find goodies, more prizes and give-aways at each stop. Pick up your Choose-A-Palooza guide at the Campus Hub, front desk of your on-campus community or from your CA.
Self Defense and Assertiveness Training
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
1P-2:30P
Location: CSU 253-255
Want to learn about self-defense and assertiveness? Join the Sexual Violence Education Coordinator on Saturday, August 23rd from 1:00-2:30 p.m. You’ll learn risk-reduction techniques as well as empowering ways to assert your boundaries. Please join us for this informative and exciting workshop! (This workshop is open only to female students.)
Festival MSU
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
11A-2P
I n the MSU Mall (Fountain) Area
(In case of rain- location moves to CSU Ballroom)
Come visit our table at Festival MSU! Meet Women's Center employees, sign up for our newsletter, learn about our events, get some free stuff and learn about our Women of Action Committee and Sexual Violence Education program!
Women of Action Committee WAC Meeting
Tuesday's at 4PM
Join us for the next Women's Center student involvement meeting, held every Thursday at 5 p.m. in Centennial Student Union 218. Come and learn more about the Women's Center, sign up for events like Vagina Monologue, Eating Disorders Awareness Week, and Women’s History Month and meet fellow Women's Center volunteers.
If you have an interest in women's issues, gender equity, social justice or you just want to meet a few new people, then the Women's Center is a great place to get involved!
Sexual Violence Education Program Presents
Jessica Weiner: “Navigating No’s”
Tuesday, September 16th 2008
7PM
CSU Ballroom
This engaging and provocative program will attempt to answer the following questions. What happens to us on the way to saying "NO"? Why do we chicken out? Why do we send mixed messages? Why do men feel threatened by this topic? Why are women afraid to speak out? Why are we not listening to each other? We will look beyond the statistics and misconceptions of date rape and sexual assault and invites audiences to consider using the proactive tools of personal responsibility, powerful language choices, and clearly established boundaries. Jessica breaks down this scary topic while providing a powerful message and a new look at an issue that has been polarizing campuses and communities for decades.
Domestic Violence Awareness Month Event: Clothesline Project and Candlelight Vigil
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Time: TBA
Location: TBA
The candle light vigil is to honor all survivors of violence and to remember their stories as we commemorate them on this day. The Candle Light Project (CLP) is a program started on Cape Cod, MA, in 1990 to address the issue of violence against women. It is a vehicle for women affected by violence to express their emotions by decorating a shirt. They then hang their shirt on a clothesline to be viewed by others as a testimony to the problem of violence against women.
Women of Action Committee (WAC) Retreat at Shalom Hills Farm
Friday October 10th- Sunday October 12th
Time of departure: TBA
Shalom Hills Farms (outside of Worthington MN)
Violence-Free Zone
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
1-3P
CSU 238 Nickerson Room
The Sexual Violence Education Program in the Women’s Center would like to formally invite you and all MSU, Mankato employees to the first installment of the Violence-Free Zone Workshop. This training, much like the Safe-Zone Training functions for LGBTA issues, will cover basic information about sexual violence, intimate partner violence, stalking, and sexual harassment. It will also provide tools for how to respond and refer when confronted with these issues. This activity-based workshop will certify you as an ally and someone who students can turn to when experiencing these issues.
Please join me, Lauren Pilnick the Sexual Violence Education Coordinator on Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 from 1:00-3:00pm in CSU 238, the Nickerson Room, for this informative training and refreshments at one of the first Sexual Assault Awareness Month activities.
Registration is required as space is limited.
Love Your Body Day Health and Wellness Fair
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
10AM-2PM
CSU Ballroom
The Women's Center, along with Student Health Services, The Counseling Center and Campus Rec will celebrate Love Your Body Day 2008 on October 21st, 2008 by hosting the 3rd Annual Health and Wellness Fair in the Centennial Student Union Ballroom from 10AM- 2PM. We have invited several campus and area exhibitors who will provide students,employees and community members with healthy living information, interactive demonstrations and an overall appreciation and love for your body!
Carol Ortman Perkins Lectureship Presents: Jessica Valenti
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Time: TBA
CSU Ballroom
Jessica Valenti is the founder and Executive Editor of Feministing.com and the author of Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters. She is also the blogger for BushvChoice.com, NARAL’s Pro-Choice America’s site. Jessica is the co-founder of The Real Hot 100, a national campaign aimed to bring attention to the work that young women activists are doing in the United States. She has a master’s degree in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University and has worked for organizations such as Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund), Planned Parenthood, the Women's Environment, and Development Organization (WEDO) and Ms. magazine. She has also volunteered at Mount Sinai's Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Program (SAVI) as an emergency room advocate and taught Women's Studies at SUNY Albany.
Feministing.com is a well-established site in the feminist and blog communities—particularly with younger women. Feministing’s irreverent voice and sarcastic tone combined with its ability to cover hard news stories makes the site stand out from its online peers. Feministing is the most popular feminist blog, and is quickly becoming the most popular feminist website—it’s ranked higher than feminist.com or feminist.org. The site’s audience is growing at an extremely fast rate. Feministing has gained approximately 10,000 new hits a month since last year; the site now has about 150,000 unique readers every month. Feministing has been covered in The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, The Dallas Morning News, The Ottowa Sun, and In These Times, and on Salon.com, Women’s eNews, and Slate.com. Jessica Valenti has been quoted extensively in print and has been featured on Air America Radio’s The Majority Report and in the popular podcast SexTalk. Jessica was also a recent speaker at the National Council for Research on Women’s annual Power Matters conference.
Spring Events 2009
Vagina Monologues
Thursday, February 12th & Friday February 13th, 2009
8P
Ostrander auditorium
Look for the call for directors and auditions for The Vagina Monologues in October and November!
Eating Disorders Awareness Week
February 2009
Events TBA
Women's HERstory Month Events
Lobby Day
Wednesday, March 4th 2009
Details TBA
Women of Courage and Vision
Tuesday, March 31st, 2008
Details TBA
Sexual Assault Awareness Month Events
Violence-Free Zone
Wednesday, April 1st 2009
Details TBA
The Sexual Violence Education Program in the Women’s Center would like to formally invite you and all MSU, Mankato employees to the first installment of the Violence-Free Zone Workshop. This training, much like the Safe-Zone Training functions for LGBTA issues, will cover basic information about sexual violence, intimate partner violence, stalking, and sexual harassment. It will also provide tools for how to respond and refer when confronted with these issues. This activity-based workshop will certify you as an ally and someone who students can turn to when experiencing these issues.
Please join me, Lauren Pilnick the Sexual Violence Education Coordinator on Wednesday, March 1st, 2009 for this informative training and refreshments at one of the first Sexual Assault Awareness Month activities.
Registration is required as space is limited.
Take Back The Night & Denim Day
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Details TBA
For MSU events: individuals with a disability, who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this event, are asked to contact the Office of Disabilities at 507-389-2825 (V/TTD), 800-627-3529 or 711 (MRS/TTD) at least five days prior to the event.
