EIGHT CHATS WITH A QUILT

UW RELEASE – 2010/041

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – WEDNESDAY, MARCH 03, 2010
WINNIPEG, MB – In honor of International Women’s Week 2010, The University of Winnipeg and the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies presents Eight Conversations and One Quilt on March 10 and 11, 2010 daily at 11:30 am - 3:30 pm in Convocation Hall, (515 Portage Ave). This two-day event is in partnership with FemRev Collective, the UWSA Women’s Centre, and UWinnipeg’s Aboriginal Governance program. Everyone is welcome.
     The event features collective quilting with opportunities for discussion on a variety of topics with eight different guest quilters. Joining the quilting table are Jennifer DeGroot (UN Platform for Action Committee Manitoba), Lorena Fontaine (Aboriginal Governance UWinnipeg), Fiona Green (Women’s Gender Studies, UWinnipeg), Andrea McCluskey (Aboriginal Student Services, UWinnipeg), Shelagh Pizey-Allen (Copwatch), Andrea Smith (author and activist, University of California) and more. Quilters will be chatting while quilting alongside participants. This “kitchen table” setting breaks down barriers as participants stitch a quilt top, and discuss a range of issues with feminists, scholars, and community members.
American author, feminist, and social activist bell hooks writes, “It would further feminist movement if new feminist thinking could be once again shared in small group contexts, integrating critical analysis with discussion of personal experience.” This event incorporates hooks’ concept.

The goal is to break down barriers between women working in our communities and to raise the critical consciousness of those attending, whether they self-identify as feminist or not.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION

Naniece Ibrahim, Communications Officer, The University of Winnipeg

P: 204.988.7130, E: n.ibrahim@uwinnipeg.ca