Exciting Events for April -- Please Note and Distribute

Mon Apr 23 22:17:32 UTC 2007

Greetings from the Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in Arts
and Media at Columbia College Chicago!

Hello, my name is Sheree Greer. As the graduate research assistant for
the Institute, I've been asked by our director, Jane Saks, to send this
Upcoming Events Announcement detailing several events we are
co-presenting in the coming weeks.

Please take note, save the date, and distribute this announcement among
your students, faculty, organizations, and communities.

Questions and comments can be sent via normal reply to this email
address and will be received by K. Suzanne Saulsberry, Assistant to the
Executive Director.

Thank you for your time and hope to see you at one or all of these
exciting events!

Sheree Greer

Graduate RA

Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in Arts and Media

Columbia College Chicago

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SHE SPEAKS VOLUMES, Panel Discussion

"Where Do We Draw the Line? Creative Expression vs. the Perpetuation of
a Rape Culture"

Date:               Thursday, April 26, 2007

Time:              Noon to 1:30pm

Location:        Conaway Center, 1104 S. Wabash, First Floor

Admission:      Free, RSVP required at www.ywcachicago.org
<http://www.ywcachicago.org/>  or 312.762.2743.

Description

Creative expression represents one's ideas, opinions and personal views
as illustrated through various art forms: music, poetry, writing, film,
etc.  For artists, having the right to express his/her self through
their artistry is what drives their passion.  However, some forms of
creative expression stimulate covert and overt messages of sexual
violence, which in turn can have an effect on the perpetuation of a rape
culture.  As part of the "Arts, Advocacy, and Activism" collaboration
between the Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and
Media, Columbia College Chicago, and YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, the two
organizations are co-presenting a panel discussion addressing the
question "where do we draw the line between creative expression and the
perpetuation of a rape culture?"  

Panelists

Spoken word trio Diva Diction (Bassey, Amalia Ortiz, and Ishle Park)

Hip-hop emcees Ang13 and Unmuvabo Vendetta

Moderated by Misty DeBerry

This program is co-presented by the Institute for the Study of Women and
Gender in the Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago, and YWCA
Metropolitan Chicago.  

RSVP at www.ywcachicago.org <http://www.ywcachicago.org/>  or
312.762.2743. 

For more information, call 312.344.8829 or visit
www.colum.edu/institutewomengender.

SHE SPEAKS VOLUMES, Poetry Slam with Diva Diction

Date:               Thursday, April 26, 2007

Time:              Doors open at 5:30, program 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Location:        Hothouse, 31 E. Balbo

Admission:      $15.00 general admission. RSVP at www.ywcachicago.org
<http://www.ywcachicago.org/>  or 312.762.2743.

Description

"She Speaks Volumes" is the cornerstone of the "Arts, Advocacy, and
Activism" collaboration between the Institute for the Study of Women and
Gender in the Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago, and YWCA
Metropolitan Chicago.  Held in recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness
Month, "She Speaks Volumes" aims to raise awareness about issues of
sexual violence, to engage students to speak out, and to show how art
and activism can impact social change.  Performing live will be Diva
Diction, a spoken word trio made up of poets Bassey, Amalia Ortiz, and
Ishle Park.  Diva Diction has appeared on HBO's Russell Simmons Presents
Def Poetry and is recognized as one of the most powerful poetry groups
on the page and on stage.  

This program is co-presented by the Institute for the Study of Women and
Gender in the Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago, and YWCA
Metropolitan Chicago.  

RSVP at www.ywcachicago.org <http://www.ywcachicago.org/>  or
312.762.2743. 

For more information, call 312.344.8829 or visit
www.colum.edu/institutewomengender.

GENDER AND HIP-HOP COMMUNITY DIALOGUE

"Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes" Film Screening and Discussion

Date:               Friday, April 27, 2007

Time:              6:00pm reception, 7:00pm screening with panel
discussion to follow

Location:        Doc Films, Ida Noyes Hall, Max Palevsky Theater, 1212
East 59th Street

Admission:      $5.00 at the door

Film Screening

In his 2006 documentary film "Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes,"
award-winning producer and director Byron Hurt exposes and explores the
structures of violence, hyper-aggression, and misogyny in much of
today's hip-hop, interviewing a number of prominent artists and
producers along the way, including Chuck D, Mos Def, Jadakiss, and
Russell Simmons.  In collaboration with the University of Chicago's
Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, the Institute for
the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media co-presents a public
screening of the film followed by a panel discussion with Director Byron
Hurt.  

Panelists

Byron Hurt (award-winning director, "Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes")

Natalie Hopkinson and Natalie Y. Moore (co-authors of "Deconstructing
Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation")

Stephanie Shonekan (Professor of Humanities and Cultural Studies;
Director, Black World Studies Program, Columbia College Chicago)

Moderated by Cathy Cohen (Professor of Political Science, University of
Chicago)

This program is co-presented by the Institute for the Study of Women and
Gender in the Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago, the Center for
the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago,
and Doc Films at the University of Chicago.  

For more information, call 312.344.8829.

GENDER AND HIP-HOP COMMUNITY DIALOGUE

"Does Hip-Hop Hate Women?" Panel & Community Roundtable

Date:               Saturday, April 28, 2007

Time:              1:00pm - 3:00pm, reception to follow

Location:        International House Assembly Hall, 1414 East 59th
Street

Admission:      Free and open to the public.

Panelists

Byron Hurt (award-winning director of "Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and
Rhymes")

Joan Morgan (author of "When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life as
a Hip-Hop Feminist")

Mark Anthony Neal (author of "New Black Man: Rethinking Black
Masculinity")

Tracy Sharpley-Whiting (author of "Pimp's Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold
on Young Black Women")

Moderated by Bakari Kitwana (author of "Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop")

This program is co-presented by the Institute for the Study of Women and
Gender in the Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago, Center for the
Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago, and
International House Global Voices Performing Arts Program.  

For more information, call 312.344.8829.

K. Suzanne Saulsberry

Assistant to the Executive Director

Institute for the Study of Women and Gender

in the Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago

33 East Congress Parkway, Suite 530

Chicago, IL  60605-1996

ph: 312.344.8829  f: 312.344.8433

Effective immediately, our new location is: 218 S. Wabash, 7th Floor

Chicago, IL  60604

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