Wednesday September 24, 7 pm

Theater Night at the San Diego Rep, Horton Plaza

Eve Ensler’s The Good Body

Contact Linda Beail lbeail@pointloma.edufor group rate tickets

Eve Ensler could have coined the word "provocative." An irrepressible playwright and social activist, she changed the landscape of dialogue about women and their bodies with her Obie Award-winning The Vagina Monologues. Inspired by its worldwide success, she founded V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women and girls.  As she built the movement, Ensler traveled to more than 40 countries interviewing women of all ages and classes - from surgical centers in Beverly Hills, to the beaches of Brazil, the gyms of Moscow, New York and Mumbai, and the beauty salons of Rome, Istanbul and South Africa. With few exceptions, Ensler discovered that each woman had one part of their body that they loathed and believed if they could make that part 'good,' everything would change for the better.  Ensler's response is her intimate tale The Good Body -- told with her rare ability to deliver profoundly illuminating commentary with an unchained comic wit. At the center of the story is her own quest to stop trying to be anyone other than she truly is and to "move into herself," be bold and love the body that was never truly broken. 

Thursday October 2, 11:45 am – 1 pm

Lunch with Poet and Translator Carolyne Wright

“Majestic Nights:  Translating Bengali Women’s Lives”

Poetry has always been a mode of truth-telling for women--even more so now, given the conditions of political, social, and cultural extremity that prevail in this new millennium. How do the women of the cultures of South Asia imagine themselves; how does women's social, political, and cultural consciousness evolve under the pressures of contemporary life, and how are their lives revealed in their poetry? How can their work be effectively translated, and in translation faithfully represent their lives and concerns?   Award-winning poet Carolyne Wright will read from her translations of Bengali women poets, particularly from her new anthology, Majestic Nights: Love Poems of Bengali Women (White Pine Press, 2008), which serve to delineate contemporary women's experience of love and its wider social ramifications in West Bengal, Bangladesh, and greater South Asia

Thursday October 9, 3-4:30 pm, Colt Forum

Running in High Heels:  Women, Gender, and the Election of 2008

Did you help put those “18 million cracks in American’s highest glass ceiling” with Hillary Clinton? Or do you have Palin-mania?  Join us for a screening of the short, funny, and insightful documentary Running in High Heels, which follows the campaign of a 29-year-old woman running for office and asks the question, should women vote for women?  The film will be followed by a panel discussion of gender issues in this year’s election campaigns, with their historic gains for women.