March 2019 DLA Workshop
Date: 21-Mar-2019
Capacity: 100 (87% booked)
Details
March Synopsis
Visionary Women: Champions for Us All
Celebrating/Honoring National Women's Month
Tea with Alice and Me: A Solo Show Performed and Written by:
Zoe Nicholson
In honor of National Women’s History Month, the Diversity Leadership Alliance shared the amazing stories of visionary women who have been champions for us all throughout our history, er, herstory.
Starting off the program, educator and award-winning film-maker Marth Wheelock presented her documentary, Inez Milholland: Forward into Light. Milholland was an outspoken advocate for equality, pacifism, racial justice, labor, and women’s suffrage. She died tragically in 1916 at the age of 30, while campaigning for women’s right to vote.
The group was then transported back to Seneca Falls in 1848 to be part of the decades long march for women’s suffrage. Author and activist Zoe Nicholson in her original one-woman performance, Tea with Alice and Me, took us to parlors and tearooms, bookstores and marches, Springfield, IL to Washington, DC; through the course of the women’s non-violent revolution to gain the vote. Through the eyes of the young Alice Paul, we were thrown into the staunch political activism of the National Woman’s Party and its influence today.
Finally, putting history into practice, the group examined advocacy at a local level, with a facilitated discussion on what is worth fighting for.
You, too, can think about the following questions:
- What have been your own experiences with protesting and taking a stand?
- What resources are available to promote change for the good?
- What barriers exist that need to be overcome?
- What will it take to create change in today’s highly diverse and divided communities?
This enlightening Women’s History Month program once again highlighted the power, influence and potential of sharing our stories. We are all part of each other’s stories.
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SAVE THE DATE - March 21, 2019 WORKSHOP
Diversity Leadership Alliance Presents
Tea with Alice and Me
A Solo Show
Performed and Written by
Zoe Nicholson
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Date | Thursday
, March 21, 2019
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Time |
8:00am - 12:00pm
(Registration begins at 7:30AM)
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Location |
Estrella Mountain Community College
3000 N Dysart Road
Avondale, AZ 85392 (map it)
Estrella Conference Center Note: We encourage you to review the map and directions prior to your arrival.
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Cost |
Complimentary Event w/ light refreshments - RSVP today!
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WORKSHOP SUMMARY
Workshop Performer:
Zoe Nicholson has been practicing nonviolent direct action for over 50 years and her North Star, Miss Alice Paul has led the way. Heckling, fasting, marching, organizing, these two women have a lot to teach and inspire contemporary activists. Zoe Nicholson’s front-line experience informs her presentation of history in a tour-de-force demonstration of why we ask students to understand the value of a purpose beyond themselves. Distinguishing between radical and moderate courses of action, she humorously and graciously bestows the ethical decisions upon her audience as we confront the tasks challenging us as a society, as a nation, today.
Tea with Alice and Me is no history lesson, it is a call to action. Zoe has sifted through what works and how change occurs. This show is the long view of women’s culture as politic. It is never finished. It is dynamic. Zoe is constantly expanding it to include yesterday, today and tomorrow
REGISTRATION
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