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Women and Gender Studies Programming Presents Annual International Women’s Day Dinner

February 22, 2008

Annual International Women’s Day Dinner
Friday, February 29
5– 6:30 p.m.
USM's Abromson Community Education Center
88 Bedford St., Portland
Tickets are $20 public/faculty/staff; $10 students

This year’s International Women's Day Dinner will be served in the lobby of USM's Abromson Community Education Center, located at 88 Bedford Street on the Portland campus.
Dinner begins at 5 p.m. For more information and to purchase tickets call Lauren Webster at 207-780-4862 or e-mail: lwebster@usm.maine.edu

Additionally, Women and Gender Studies Program and USM's Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing invite the public to celebrate the beauty and power of women’s words and work through the presentation "Breaking the Silence: Feminism in Modern Iranian Poetry." "Breaking the Silence" will feature women from the local Iranian community reading poems by Forough Farokhzad and other Persian feminist poets. Writer and translator Reza Jalali also will discuss feminism in contemporary Iranian poetry. The evening’s program will also include a performance of Persian music from the Yaar Choir. "Breaking the Silence" begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Abromson Hall and is free and open to the public.

Co-sponsors for “Breaking the Silence” include: USM’s: Academic Council for Christian, Jewish and Islamic Studies, Office of Campus Diversity and Equity and the Office of Multi Cultural Student Affairs.

For more information call 207-780 4862 or 207-780 4289.

The University of Southern Maine’s Women and Gender Studies Program celebrates the diversity of women working in all fields, and each year takes the opportunity during this annual dinner to honor the program itself and all the students, faculty and community members that have contributed to it since its founding in 1980. Women and Gender Studies courses explore a variety of perspectives focused on diverse human experiences. It’s public programming extends this educational mission into the broader community.

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