Upcoming Events:
Fall Yoga with Pat Barnes
Mondays 5:00-6:15pm
September 14 through November 30
$120/ 12 classes
Classes on October 19th and October 26th have been cancelled and rescheduled for December 7th and December 14th. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Contact the Women's Center to enroll or for more information.
Free Women's Self-Defense Workshop
Tuesday, October 20, 5-7pm, Women's Center (Commons 004)
Join instructor Cathy Johnson for an introduction to self-defense. Learn basic skills, including:
- assertiveness and boundary-setting
- verbal de-escalation
- physical techniques
Students, faculty, and staff welcome. Space is limited. Please call x52714 or email womens.center@umbc.edu to reserve a spot.
Fall 2009 Women's Film Series
- October 12, 13, 14, 15: Chain of Love (2002), 50 minutes
The demand for domestic help is increasing in the West, because in many families both parents must work for economic survival. One consequence is migration: escalating numbers of women in the Third World are leaving their own children to take care of kids in the West. Women from the Philippines are well regarded by prospective employers in the United States and Europe. The money the expatriates earn in the West is sent home to the Philippines, where local help can then be hired to look after their children. This money is the Philippines' largest source of income in foreign currency. This is a film about the Philippines' second largest export product - maternal love - and how this export affects the women involved, their families in the Philippines, and families in the West.
Viewings occur every hour, on the hour as follows:
Monday- First showing: 10:00am, Last showing: 3:00pm
Tuesday- First showing: 11:00am, Last showing: 6:00pm
Wednesday- First showing: 11:00am, Last showing: 6:00pm
Thursday- First showing: 2:00pm, Last showing: 6:00pm
If none of these times are conducive to your schedule, please call x52714 to inquire about the possibility of scheduling a special viewing.
- Other films this semester:
November 9, 10, 11, 12: Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza De Mayo, (1985), Subtitled
December 7, 8, 9, 10: Nobody Knows My Name, (1999)
Mothers Meetings
Noon - 1pm
2nd Fridays:
- (2009) October 9, November 13, December 11
- (2010) January 8, February 12, March 12, April 9, May 14
Join others for a monthly informal meeting and discussion about the joys and challenges of parenting. Children are welcome. Feel free to bring your lunch. New, experienced, expecting, adopting, or just thinking about it....all are welcome.
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