Return-Path: <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i88C4qR04838; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 08:04:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 08:04:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <CCEC9D2E-018E-11D9-AB35-000393ABE4D2@litwomen.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "mev@litwomen.org" <mev@litwomen.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-povracelit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-POVRACELIT:1421] 2 events on women & literacy in Cambridge, MA X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 2707 Lines: 86 cross-posted / NIFL lists WE LEARN Women Expanding: Literacy Education Action Resource Network is proud to announce 2 upcoming events on Women & Literacy. October 2, 2004 Cambridge, MA (2 different locations) 1:00 - 5:00 / A Symposium on Women and Literacy: Moving to Power and Participation 5:30 - 8:30 / Celebration Party for The Change Agent Issue 19 on Women & Literacy ------------------------------- Women and Literacy: Moving to Power and Participation - A SYMPOSIUM Come meet the contributors to the recent edition of Women Studies Quarterly 32: 1-2 on women and literacy. Hear about their work. Share your ideas. Saturday, October 2 1:00 – 5:00 pm Gutman Conference Center, Gutman Library 6 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA Featuring… Guest Editor and Director of WE LEARN: Mev Miller - Opening Remarks Contributors: Najwa Adra: Literacy through Poetry with Women in Yemen Kelley Evans: The Place of Writing in an Urban Drug Treatment Center Jane Maher: Education at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women Lorna Rivera: Popular Education and Homeless Women Jenny Sandlin: Gender and Power in Welfare-to-Work Educational Programs This event is FREE and Open to the Public. Donations will be requested to support WE LEARN (www.litwomen.org/welearn.html). Copies of this WSQ issue will be available for purchase at the event. Sponsored by: WE LEARN, The Harvard Adult Learning and Development Group, UMass Boston, Applied Linguistics Program, NCSALL, Harvard Office of Student Affairs, The Center for New Words --------------------------------------------------------- A Celebratory Publication Party for Issue 19 of THE CHANGE AGENT on Women & Literacy This issue features 72 pages of writing by students and teachers in adult basic education on a wide variety of issues of interest to women in ABE. Saturday, October 2 5:30 – 8:30 PM Cambridge College 1000 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA Contributors to the issue are invited to read their work. • A light dinner will be available • Teachers, learners and friends are all welcome. This event is FREE and Open to the Public. We ask you to please REGISTER for this event (in order to arrange for food.) Please let us know how many people you expect to attend. Contributors, please indicate if you would like to read your work. Register with: Mev Miller, 401-383-4374, welearn@litwomen.org --------------------------------------------------------------- for more information on either of these events, contact: Mev Miller, Ed.D., Coordinator welearn@litwomen.org WE LEARN Women Expanding: Literacy Education Action Resource Network www.litwomen.org/welearn.html 182 Riverside Ave. Cranston, RI 02910 401-383-4374
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