Seeking opportunities for every woman and girl.
The Women’s Career Expo will be held on Wednesday, March 31st from 9 am to 1 pm at the Center for Innovation and Economic Development. Topics covered will include updating resumes, computer skills, mock interviews, re-connecting with networks, starting the job search process, and more. The Expo will be composed of booths from local community resources, workshops on resumes, computer literacy, and interview skills, and a panel discussion.
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Gainesville Area NOW’s feminist Friday Happy Hour is tomorrow, Friday 3/19, at Sisters Restaurant in Haile Village Center. 5212 SW 91st Terr.
Join us at 6:00 for good food, good friends, and good fun.
Please let us know if you are planning to attend so we can get a big enough table. Ask for the NOW table when you arrive.
See you then,
Lisa
Gainesville Area NOW
Dear Folks,
Please see the attached flyer from Peaceful Paths about their Economic Empowerment Series for women presentation on March 23, 6:30-8:30pm at LifeSouth at 1221 NW 13th Street. Mary Harker, Gainesville Parks and Recreation, will share information on Summer Camps, Childcare, Summer Scholarships, and other options for kids this summer.
Please pass this along to anyone who you feel may benefit.
Dear Folks,
Christy Finnegan, the new executive director at Arbor House, asked me to pass this information along to you all:
I am the new Executive Director of Arbor House. I look forward to meeting you! I wanted to let you know that Arbor House is currently taking applications and we have openings for pregnant women and single women with children under 6 years old. Please encourage women with housing needs to call Arbor House (352-371-2229) and we will do our best to accommodate them! Please help me get the word out! Thanks so much,
Christy Finnegan, Executive Director
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Two at a Time
Arbor House, Inc.
PO Box 12363
Gainesville, FL 32604
www.arborhouse. org
(352) 371-2229
(352) 371-4011 FX
“Activists Among Us: the Gainesville Women’s Movement Across Generations.”
A public history program sponsored by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida.
THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2010, 6:30 to 8:30
LOCATION: Matheson Museum, Gainesville, Florida
Co-sponsors and volunteers needed for this event. Please help us spread the word!
“Activists Among Us: the Gainesville Women’s Movement Across Generations” will take place on Thursday, April 8, 2010 from 6:30-8:30 pm at the Matheson Museum. Sponsored by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, the panel discussion will bring together local activists from the 1950s through the present to discuss the ongoing struggle for social justice, gender equality, and human rights. The panel will also serve as a springboard for the collection and preservation of historical materials on the history of women’s activism in Gainesville.
Moderated by Dr. Patricia Hilliard-Nunn, this event will include members from Gainesville Women for Equal Rights, an interracial organization of women whose active work for civil and human rights changed the course of history in Gainesville. It will also include Gainesville activists in the pivotal women’s liberation movement of the 1960s. Serving as one of the main centers of feminist activity nationwide, Gainesville feminists posed radical challenges to male authority, and ushered in a new era of social change and opportunity for women.
Welcome: The Mayor of the City of Gainesville, The Honorable Pegeen Hanrahan
Panelists: Vivian Filer, Kathie Sarachild, Jane Hiers, Rosa B. Williams, Sallie Ann Harrison and Corky Culver.
Co-sponsors include: the University of Florida Department of History, the UF Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research, George Smathers Libraries, UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Yavitz Fund), the Women’s Studies Graduate Student Association, the History Graduate Society, The Gainesville Women’s Commission, The Emily Dickinson Society, and the Civic Media Center.
For more information please call the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at 352-392-7168 or email portiz@ufl.edu