Women's History Month (WHM)
March 2023
Welcome:
NVC’s Women’s History Month Committee is proud to present this series of feminist programming for March 2023, supported by the Student Activity Fee. Events are open to all. There are opportunities to attend lectures, panel discussions, film screenings, participate in art and dance workshops and contribute to a crowd-sourced feminist text in partnership with the library. This year we mark the 20th anniversary of the dedication of the Sojourner Truth Memorial on NVC's campus. Programming details are below, contact the faculty leads with questions.
Mission:
The mission of the Women’s History Month Committee is to recognize the scholarly, artistic, professional, and activist contributions of women. Our mission is also to recognize women’s work and women’s issues including how they intersect with race, class, and sexuality. To do so, we aim to provide space for educational events from a feminist perspective, promoting a commitment to diversity and aiming to achieve social justice and women’s empowerment. We also participate in or involve our campus in service related to furthering these goals.
Black Feminism Research Guide: https://nvcguides.libguides.com/BlackFeminism
Women’s History Month Research Guide: https://nvcguides.libguides.com/c.php?g=1127078
WHM 2023 EVENTS:
The NVC Women's History Month Planning Committee presents:
Women’s International Film Festival
sponsored by the World Languages Department and the NVC Library
Date: March 1-25
Faculty Contact: Pilar Damron mdamron@alamo.edu
Link for Event:
https://nvcguides.libguides.com/ForeignFilmsWHM2022
About the Event:
World language together with the NVC Library will host a series of films in their original version, French, Spanish and German, where the main protagonists, women from different backgrounds and cultures, show their struggles. We will also have an online reflection questionnaire or discussion afterwards. Best submissions can get a reward for student stipends.
The NVC Women's History Month Planning Committee presents:
Feminist Typing and Consciousness-Raising Station
Drop-in participation during NVC Library hours
Date: March 1-31 month long drop in event
Monday-Thursday: 7:30am-8:30pm
Friday: 7:30am-4:00pm
Sat: 8:30am-2:30pm
Location for Event:
Library, RLC (Redbud Learning Center)
Faculty Contacts: Rachael Bower rbower3@alamo.edu, Sabrina Carey scarey5@alamo.edu, Renata Gibson rgibson13@alamo.edu & Rose Rodriguez rrodriguez679@alamo.edu
About the Event:
All are invited to explore a collection of feminist literature and student-created zines in the library, on display all month long. The consciousness-raising station has a typewriter and space for the everyone to experience feminist literature across the disciplines at their own pace. A typewriter loaded with a scroll of paper will be continuously typed on by participants, resulting in a truly collaborative and inclusive work of art. Everyone is invited to type a line from the text that speaks to them and add the name of a significant woman in their life. The resulting artwork will be displayed at Redbud Learning Center, Live Oak Hall, and Palmetto Center for the Arts.
The NVC Women's History Month Planning Committee presents:
Healing Our Ancestral Bodies and Creating Our Healing Instruments: a doll making workshop and discussion for all experience levels
Hands-on workshop with Julienne Knowles
Date: Wednesday, March 1, 1-4pm
Location: RLC 116
AlamoExperience:
https://alamo.campuslabs.com/engage/event/8730032
Faculty Contact: Rose Rodriguez, rrodriguez679@alamo.edu
About the Event:
In this class, we will reconnect with deeper parts of ourselves through the art of doll making. In this workshop participants will be exploring play, creativity and channeling their innate gifts through the art of doll making. Artist, Julienne Knowles, uses a traditional doll making technique that originated in Mexico dating back 200 years. These dolls are called 'Muneca de Carton' and were sold in the cartoneria or papier mache markets in Mexico. Participants will explore their influences through art, the use of meditation, and reflective discussion to ease into vulnerability and their own unique creative processes. This onsite event offers engagement for all learning styles, self-exploration, representation of minority voices, and the exploration of hands-on creativity. By the end of the class, students will have made and painted their very own paper mache doll!
More about the Artist:
Julienne Knowles works primarily with acrylics on papier mache and canvas. Born in Ladyville, Belize but spending most of her childhood living internationally, primarily in south and east Africa, she explores the many contexts of her third-culture influences and uses doll-making and contemporary painting as vehicles for storytelling, self-exploration and representation of minority voices. In her work you will find an intimate manifest of her lived experiences and ancestral inheritance.
The NVC Women's History Month Planning Committee presents:
Female Agency and Identity in Stranger Things
Virtual lecture with Dr. Kimberly Grenadier
Date: Thursday, March 2, 12:30pm-1:15pm
Location: Zoom
https://alamo.zoom.us/j/98802876834
Faculty Contact: Rachael Bower, rbower3@alamo.edu
About the Event:
Netflix’s Stranger Things (2016-present) has not only reawakened American nostalgia for the 1980s but has reimagined female characters from that era, and its cinematic genres, into contemporary women and feminists. From the usurpation of the traditional 'final girl' (Clover, 1987) to the use of female gaze (Mulvey, 1981) Stranger Things not only reflects and criticizes misogyny of the time but gives its female characters various forms of agency.
In this brief discussion we will analyze several characters, their arcs, and specific scenes from several seasons to examine how the Duffer Brothers make their female characters feminist. Our analysis will ultimately showcase how the Duffer Brothers are not only reimagining 1980s popular cinema, but are also reimagining female identity and agency of then for today’s audience of 4th wave feminists.
The NVC Women's History Month Planning Committee presents:
Las Revolucionarias Siguen Luchando
Virtual Lecture with Kelly Shipman
Date: Tuesday, March 7, 11am-1:15pm
Location: Zoom
https://alamo.zoom.us/j/94457164497
Faculty Contact: Maria Pilar Damron, mdamron@alamo.edu
About the Event:
The soldaderas of the Mexican Revolution and the milicianas of the Spanish Civil War have served as inspiration for women for a century. Their influence can still be seen in contemporary culture in several ways, such as representations in photographs, film, paintings, and even commodification. However, little scholarly work has been done on these revolutionary women, their participation, or impact. This presentation investigates the role these women and their images played not only in the past but also into the present, thus demonstrating their evolution and relevance to society today as symbols of feminine power and resistance.
The NVC Women's History Month Planning Committee presents:
NVC Alumni in Health and Nursing Careers
Panel discussion with NVC alumni
Date: Wednesday, March 8, 9:30-11am
Location: LOH 301
Faculty Contacts: Yael Edrey, yedrey1@alamo.edu and Leticia Guerrero, lguerrero23@alamo.edu
About the Event:
Join us as we welcome back NVC alums! Nursing students and registered nurses will discuss their path that started at NVC and culminated in a rewarding career in nursing! Panelists will share their experiences, advice and tips on succeeding in this field.
The NVC Women's History Month Planning Committee presents:
Bystander Intervention: Educational session with the Rape Crisis Center
Date: Wednesday, March 22, 11:00am-12:15am
Location: RLC 118
Faculty Contact: Rachael Bower rbower3@alamo.edu, Teri Dimas tgarza14@alamo.edu
About the Event:
Explores methods of intervention for events that need immediate action and also for those moments we witness that are not violent but are intended to marginalize groups of people. The presentation will strengthen participant’s ability to speak up and give tools to identify, act and keep you safe when intervening. We will examine the culture and climate that informs the method of intervention and the consequences perpetuated when action is not taken.
The NVC Women's History Month Planning Committee presents:
Centering Self-Worth through Dance and Community Support
Lecture & Demonstration with Judi Gani, owner of Ballet Arts & Executive Director of Alamo Arts Ballet Theater
Date: Thursday, March 23, 9:30am-10:45pm
Location: PCA 108
Faculty Contacts: Yael Edrey yedrey1@alamo.edu, Jayne King jking80@alamo.edu, Brittany Lopez blopez128@alamo.edu
About the Event:
Ms. Judith Gani (cv below) has been dancing, choreographing, inspiring, and teaching ballet since she was in high school. She is the owner of a ballet company (Ballet Arts) and executive director of Alamo Arts Ballet Theater, which holds public performances that combine professional, preprofessional and ballet students at no cost to schools in San Antonio.
Despite the challenges posed by COVID, Ms. Gani, her group and a team of loyal volunteers produced The Dancing Princesses at the Carver Theater in September and will be holding auditions for next year’s production soon. As part of the AABT’s mission, this included two free productions to San Antonio schools that were very well received.
This event aims to bring the art form to anyone interested. It will include a lecture and a demonstration regarding, among others, the principles of dance, the contribution of dance and art to resiliency during challenging times.
Ms. Julie Morton Simpson, choreographer, and several dancers will be accompanying Ms. Gani for this lecture/demonstration.
The NVC Women's History Month Planning Committee presents:
Survivor Sensitivity: Educational session with the Rape Crisis Center
Date: Thursday, March 23, 11:00am-12:15am
Location: RLC 118
Faculty Contact: Rachael Bower rbower3@alamo.edu, Teri Dimas tgarza14@alamo.edu
About the Event:
Best practices for working with survivors of sexual assault and responding to outcries. Explores specific populations that are at higher risk for sexual assault and the barriers they face when reporting and seeking help.
The NVC Women's History Month Planning Committee presents:
Pelvic floor, posture and… Pilates?
The importance of our anatomy to everyday life... A lecture demonstration
Date: Tuesday, March 28, 9:30am
Location: CESC 115
Faculty Contact: Yael Edrey rrodriguez679@alamo.edu
About the Event:
Mrs. Kaylie Caires is a certified GYROTONIC®️ Method and STOTT PILATES®️ instructor. Her practice is primarily focused on women’s health. Her support ranges from help with rehab and recovery to advanced athletic training.
She recently launched Kind Body Works. A collaborative female owned and operated wellness studio. The studio is the first of it’s kind in San Antonio, including the only place in town to find the GYROTONIC®️Method.
Kaylie offers us insight into the most common musculoskeletal issues we face, as well as practices to help resolve them. She also grants us a view into the world of start up business in San Antonio. She speaks to how a path in independent business and wellness can offer great service to the community.
The NVC Women's History Month Planning Committee presents:
Northwest Vista College Sojourner Truth Memorial Re-dedication Ceremony
Date: Wednesday, March 29, 10:00am-2:00pm
Location: MZH patio and garden
Contacts: Mallory Plummer mplummer4@alamo.edu, Gary Bowling gbowling1@alamo.edu, Debi Gaitan dgaitan@alamo.edu
About the Event:
In observance of the 20th anniversary of the original 2003 dedication of the Sojourner Truth Memorial, NVC’s only historic memorial. We will gather to listen, learn, and honor her legacy. The ceremony will include the history of the monument, how it was lost, found, moved, and rededicated in 2007. Remarks from the original team and a walk to the original memorial site will be followed by a reading of Truth’s Ain’t I a Woman. The memorial’s re-dedication follows and the event is closed by the NVC students singing the Black National Anthem.
The NVC Women's History Month Planning Committee presents:
The Female Factor in Adolescent Mental Health
Discussion with Jillian LopIano, MD, MPH, FACOG, Medical Director of Betty’s Co.
Date: Thursday, March 30, 11:00am-12:15pm
Location: JH 323
Faculty Contact: Diana Bradford dbradford2@alamo.edu
About the Event:
According to the National Institute for Health, adolescent and young adult women are at the greatest risk for severe depression and mental health disorders globally. In this session, Dr. Jillian LoPiano, will discuss how some mental health conditions disproportionately or uniquely affect adolescent females. The discussion will also include an overview of the menstrual cycle and its effects on physical, mental, and emotional well-being along with recommendations for supporting adolescent females.
The NVC Women's History Month Planning Committee presents:
Mark(ed) Agents: Where Double Consciousness and Representation Intersect with Movement
Movement Workshop with Tanesha Payne
Date: Thursday, March 30, 12:30pm-1:45pm
Location: PCA 108
Faculty Contact: Brittany Lopez blopez128@alamo.edu
About the Event:
Inspired by Tanesha Payne's MFA thesis, Mark(ed) Agents, this workshop invites participants to bring their whole selves (race, gender, age, sexuality, religion, etc.) to the process as we explore, through dance and text, who we are and believe ourselves to be. By creating our own words and movements, we will ignite our feminist agency to shift our relationship with ourselves and those around us. By facilitating a space to blur the boundaries that divide us, I hope to build a collective capacity for being and belonging simultaneously. The movement workshop will be concluded with a showing of the dance film Mark(ed) Agents, followed by a Q & A.
For Making Northwest Vista College Women's History Month 2023 Happen, Special Thanks To:
The NVC Women's History Month Planning Committee
Northwest Vista College Student Activity Fee
Northwest Vista College Marketing & Strategic Communications
View Archived WHM 2022 Events Here