[Imc] women's conference Saturday

[Cope Cumpston]

delete if you're not interested (apologies if this clutters anyone's
list) --

free lunch available for this if you call by tomorrow --

Cope

The Women’s Studies Program
presents
The Gender and Creativity Workshop

Saturday, February 16
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
611 Taft Drive, Champaign

Schedule of Events:

9:00 ?10:15 am  Vocal Power
Description:  An active and participatory workshop focusing on societal
attitudes and inhibitors towards women and voice. There will be
discussion as well as audience participation.  We will practice
exercises to access an authentic and empowered voice.  Note: wear loose
clothing, and be prepared to move and speak.
Workshop leaders:   Lisa Dixon, Assistant Professor of Theatre, acting
                         Leslie Brott, Assistant Professor of Theatre,
voice and speech

10:30 am ?11:45 Women and Publishing
This panel will address ways that women have published their visual and
written work in recent years. The three members have experience in the
world of commercial publishing, university presses and independent
publishing. In addition to discussing projects that they have been
involved with, there will be a display featuring the creative work of
several women on campus.
Moderator:  Bea Nettles, Professor of Photography and author of several
independently published books of her photographs and texts
Panelists:  Carol Spindel, Visiting Lecturer, author of In the Shadow of
the Sacred Grove and Dancing at Halftime
 Cope Cumpston, Art Director, University of Illinois Press,
 designer of The First Look by Amelia Davis

Noon - 1 pm  Lunch (by registration only)

1:15 ? 2:30 pm "Girl in the Glass House: A Multi-Genre Reading.”
By Audrey Petty, Assistant Professor, English
Gale Walden, Visiting Lecturer, English

2:45 ? 4 pm Dreaming in the Flesh
Dance is the world of dreams, the embodiment of thought, ideas moving
through space and time. A selection of faculty and graduate students
from the Dance Department offer moments of a variety of choreographies
demonstrating the diversity of expression, of aesthetic, of the human
experience.

Please register and return the form below to the Women’s Studies
Program, 911 S. Sixth, Champaign, IL  61820, MC-494.  You may also
register by email by sending the information below to wsp at uiuc.edu.
DEADLINE FOR LUNCH REGISTRATION IS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13.


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Copenhaver Cumpston
 Art Director
University of Illinois Press
1325 South Oak Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820-6903
phone (217) 333-9227    fax (217) 244-8082
cumpston at uiuc.edu
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/