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Week of Events 2011

Bicyclettes Violettes by Julie Butler

Wednesday October 19

Community Dinner & Donor Reception

Too Many Men on the Ice:  What the World Would Look Like If Don Cherry Were a Woman

What if a woman who spoke about the courageous fights women have every day – for equal pay, a harassment-free workplace, for reproductive choice, good daycare, for an end to violence against women, for equal opportunities on the playing field as an athlete or as an executive − dressed up in brightly coloured clothes, was paid exorbitant amounts of money by the public broadcaster, and commanded the national airwaves?
 
What if opera, ballet, great concerts, or women’s soccer preempted the national news instead of hockey?
 
What would Canada look like?
 
What would the world look like?
 
Time: 5:30 p.m. Reception, 6:30 p.m. Dinner
Location:  G. Caboto Club, 2175 Parent Ave. (at Tecumseh Rd.)
Tickets:  $60 per individual (table of 10 = $600)
($15 per university/college student)

Tickets are still available at the door on October 19, 2011.

Table and ticket donors 2011

Donor Reception

Wednesday 19 October
Location:  G. Caboto Club, 2175 Parent Ave. (at Tecumseh Rd.)
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Tickets:  $250 (free for 250 for $250 members and major donors)
 

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Talks and Activities with Laura Robinson

Most are free and open to the public

Wednesday October 19

Live Right Now

Walk along the riverside with CBC TV news anchor Susan Pedler
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Open to the public

Thursday October 20

Striving — Or Not — To Be the Slender Amazon

Rethinking fit, fat, and thin.  What we believe about exercise matters to our health and our sense of self.
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.
Open to the public

The Embodied Self

Why women and girls need to take up more room in the world.
Time: 4:00 p.m. - 6:50 p.m.
Open to the public

 

Friday October 21

Finding Your Voice as a Journalist

Time: 10:20 p.m. - 11:35 a.m.
Location:  Vincent Massey Secondary School
Closed to Vincent Massey Secondary students.

Challenging Walmart in Your Home Town

The satisfactions and consequences of organizing to stop Walmart building in Saugeen Shores.
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Open to the public

Saturday October 22

Girlympics:  Learn from Local Athletes

Local star athletes will provide sport instruction or help accelerate your skill level.
Time: 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Location:  College Ave. Community Centre, 3325 College Ave.
Free and open to the public
 

Take Back the Night Rally and March

Time: 8:00 p.m.
All are welcome to the rally.  Women and children are invited to march.
 

Sunday October 23

Cycling Clinic

Riding tips and help with necessary repairs for women and girls who love to cycle.
Time: 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. with ride to follow
Location:  Ojibway Nature Centre, 5200 Matchette Rd., Prairie Room
Open to the public
 

Monday October 24

Women, Human Rights and the Olympics

Time:  10:00-11:20 a.m.
Location:  Catholic Central Secondary School
Closed to Catholic Central Secondary students.

Tuesday October 25

The Lingerie Football League — and Other Insults to Women Athletes

How women are challenging the trivialization, sexualization, and exclusion of women athletes.
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.
Open to the public

Sport as Social Justice

Skiing and scrapbooking with Nawash girls on the Cape Crocker Reserve.
Time: 2:30 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.
Open to the public

Thinking Outside the Box

Building a critique of sporting culture by listening to the voices of the excluded.
Time: 4:00 p.m. - 6:50 p.m.
open to the public
 
For more information, please contact us at 519-253-3000 ext. 3727 or wsvisitor@uwindsor.ca
 

Highlights from past Distinguished Visitor events:

"I enjoy the exposure to the Visitors and I feel very proud of the Women's Studies programme for living out its values in such a public fashion."
 
"Strong positive profile for the DV program and UW. presents an open, accessible, inclusive view of women's studies. networking, making connections, education, role models, community involvement."
 
"AN AWARENESS HIGH!!!"
 
"An empowering, diverse program which mixes community activism, the academy, and women's voices to promote Canadian women and the issues which directly impact their lives."
 
"A program that brings together women of diverse occupations and backgrounds ... women who are doers and thinkers and who are devoted to sharing, discussing, and critiquing their lives and experiences."
 
"It raises the profile of Canadian women leaders. It helps to make feminist perspectives more visible and legitimate, so that they become resources in public policy debates."
 
"It has a strong educational and consciousness‐raising component both on campus and in the community. I hope that it helps academics and women working in the community to see their commonalities."

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