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Three days of female awareness and empowerment
Posted Thursday, March 4, at 12:31 PM
Women on stage
Community members and students at Southeast Missouri State University will once again shed their inhibitions and take on the roles of women talking about mental, physical and sexual abuse, insecurity, oppression, love and other issues told unapologetically in the voice of their vaginas. "The Vagina Monologues" will be performed at 7 p.m. tonight and 4 p.m. Saturday in Academic Hall Auditorium. Eve Ensler wrote "The Vagina Monologues" after sitting through countless confessions and interviews with women about their body image, their feelings and fears, hopes and struggles. Being on stage takes courage anyway, but these girls have an extra challenge on their hands. They're on stage all alone, and they want to talk. They want to talk to you. The performance has become a yearly event on campus since 2002 to commemorate V-Day, a day in March to bring awareness to violence against women and girls.
Women in art The relationship between women and art has been an evolution from nonexistent to subjects of, to artists to successful role models. A panel discussion titled "Women in Art" at 3:30 p.m. Friday in Crisp Museum will discuss the female role in art using five women from the art department at Southeast Missouri State University. Each woman has had a different experience and will address a different aspect of the journey to where they, and women, are today. Emily Booth, one panelist, said she has had several strong female role models and will talk about her experiences growing up with the idea that women can run the show. She called them "Powerhouses" and relished the fact that she was always encouraged to follow her dreams. Other women on the panel, however, have a different story to tell, ones of adversity and overcoming obstacles. They will also address how women in general were treated in art through the years. The panelists, in no particular order: Louise Bodenheimer, Emily Booth, Kristin Nowlin Powers, Pat Reagan and Kathy E. Smith. The women will talk from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. tomorrow with a reception and mingling afterward, which will carry over to the First Friday Art Walks.
A blog catch all The Islamic Center in Cape will serve a dinner Sunday to benefit Earthquake victims in Haiti. The "Hearts for Haiti" dinner is $10 with Indian and Middle Eastern treats like tabbouleh salad, chicken tidda, kabobs, etc., from 3 to 6 Sunday. E-mail melkarmi@yahoo.com for more info...
Interactive First Friday For its February First Friday, the Garden Gallery will invite guests in to take part in the fun. The gallery, which has a pottery space on the lower level, will have two separate times for people to take a seat and make a bowl for the Empty Bowls Project...
A comic question Here's a question for you: Of the comics we run in the daily Southeast Missourian, which could you live without? To give you a quick glance, we currently run: Rose is Rose Baby Blues Sally Forth Peanuts Hi and Louis Dilbert...
Info to know I couldn't find a clever way to tie any of these bits together as the only thing they have in common is that they relate to Southeast Missouri. In order according to time: Voting for the next Victoria's Secret Angel will last until 7 p.m. today. Cape native Ali Turner, known to America as Allison Turner, went from thousands of hopeful angels to 10 and to the Top 5. You can view Ali and her competition in their second challenge in Angel Boot Camp at vsallaccess.com...
Another good doodle Yes, Google, the big, mean corporation that recognizes Michael Jackson and Sesame Street also puts effort into honoring our nation's veterans. Done in the way of Norman Rockwell, today's Google doodle is tender and sweet. Even before fully reading our own veterans stories in today's Southeast Missourian - one about the Stars and Stripes Museum and another about a decorated veteran living in Millersville - I heard about and looked up this story about four muggers in Milwaukee who took a man's wallet, keys, cash, cell phone and a power bar wrapper, only to return the man's things upon finding his military ID in his wallet. ...
Cookie Monster Today marks the 40th anniversary of the beloved childhood show "Sesame Street." The book I remember most from when I was learning to read is "Bert and the Missing Mop Mix-up" where the neat-freak Bert spills some milk and Ernie goes out for a mop, but brings back all sorts of stuff that sounds like it, but doesn't quite do the job. ...
On the search for thankful people The Southeast Missourian is continuing its yearly series highlighting the thankful people in Southeast Missouri. Last year we brought you the McCullough family, who after battling cancer and unemployment were thankful to be closer to health and fully employed. We told you about Charisse Parrish, who recovered from brain surgery and bounced back from an apartment fire, and about Neal E. Boyd who was grateful for the success brought to him after winning NBC's "America's Got Talent."...
Are you free this weekend? Looking for something to do? I've got three last minute ideas for Friday, Saturday and Sunday: It's Halloween season. The Cape Parks and Rec department has once again transformed the Arena building into a Hall of Horror which opens tonight. Several other organizations and farms have also planned activities...
All Rapped Up Part of my job can be summed up as such: I take information and present it to readers in a creative and interesting way so they are more likely to remember it for later use. It's when I find gems like this video that I laugh and am inspired to compete or at least keep up. Until I come up with a better, more interesting way to do (yet another) story on H1N1, here's a fun rap about swine flue:...
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Chris Harris manages the feature sections in the Southeast Missourian. Those colorful, fun pages toward the end of the A section? That's her and her team. She works on Health, Home and Garden, SE Live, neXt, Religion, the Sunday Good Times section and the daily comics pages. She deals with everything from the flu and fitness topics to house projects and kitchen tips to the latest plays and art exhibits in town. You know: conversation topics. She uses this space to talk about what's coming up, what you're interested in and what she found yesterday. You can sum it and her up in one word: Random.
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