Sunday, 20 July 2008

Feminist Events: Auckland book stuff in late July & early August

Found via the Auckland Women's Bookshop:

What: Juliet Batten and Midwives in Mali
When:
Thursday 24 July 6pm
Where:
Women's Bookshop, 105 Ponsonby Rd, Ponsonby, Auckland
This double event features Juliet Batten (Auckland artist, author & pysychotherapist) with her autobiography Touching Snow: A Taranaki Memoir, and American Kris Holloway who worked for two years in a remote, impoverished West African village where she assisted a remarkable midwife. Her book, Monique and the Mango Rains, captures the true story of women's friendship reaching beyond borders.
Authors reading & talking 6.30pm; entry by donation at the door.

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What: Celebrating Survivors of Sexual Assault
When:
Tuesday 5 August 6pm
Where: Women's Bookshop, 105 Ponsonby Rd, Ponsonby, Auckland
Join Kim McGregor for the launch of Surviving and Moving On (originally published as Warriors of Truth) and Jan Jordan from Wellington with Serial Survivors: Women's Narratives of Surviving Rape, to celebrate two profoundly important New Zealand books for and about women survivors.
Authors reading & talking 6.30pm; entry by donation at the door.

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What: What's happening to our girls? with Maggie Hamilton
When:
Thursday 7 August 8pm
Where:
Dorothy Winstone Theatre, Auckland Girls' Grammar, Howe St, off K'Rd
Too much, too soon! How our kids are overstimulated, oversold & oversexed.
New Zealander Maggie Hamilton, an author & educator who lives in Australia, takes a comprehensive & compassionate look at the pressures our girls face with technology, marketing, early sexualisation, binge drinking; often accompanied by low self-esteem.

Tickets $12 adults, $5 students from the bookshop.
Visa & Mastercard bookings accepted by phone, email & website (see the Women's Bookshop website for more on this.)

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If you have any events to promote that may be of interest to NZ feminists please feel free to email us with details, via my profile.

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