Category — Local event

From SOCS alum Brenda Gabel:

We have an full-time opening now thanks to the Google funding that I thought you might be able to pass on if you know of someone. They will work with me in the San Jose office and report to my boss. This position will take over my duties from last year’s expansion project as I transition to doing more volunteer and role model recruitment and management. We would like to hire in the next few weeks if possible.

Description: The Program Manager designs, delivers and will evaluate contemporary program activities to meet the needs and interests of girls in targeted populations to enhance the Girl Scout experience for girls ages 5-17. Will work within program parameters as defined by programming requirements and/or budgets and defined funding. This position is based out of our San Jose office, but will coordinate Girls Go Tech outreach efforts council-wide. This position is grant funded for one year as a full time, exempt employee.

The perfect person would have a science background and/or teaching experience, grants knowledge, budgeting experience, and extensive work with youth (at-risk is best). Someone fluent in Spanish would be an extra bonus. If they know about Girl Scouting then all the better, but not necessary.

All candidates should go to our website and follow instructions for submission. **Please email me additionally if you refer someone so that I can pull it from the flood of resumes coming in.

Thank you so much!
Brenda

If the links don’t work: www.girlscoutsnorcal.org, click on Employment at the bottom, Job: #0337, Program Manager – Girls Go Tech

Greetings All~

I am working with CommUniverCity on the SJSU Day of Service team.  We are currently looking to identify student Project Leaders on SJSU Day of Service on November 4th.  Please pass the word to students that may have interest in leading a service project.  I know you have communication with a lot of strong campus leaders and empowered students.  Please encourage them to lead a project!

• In general, they will be asked to attend one training either September 29th (4:00-5:30) or September 30th (10:00-11:30) where they will choose a project.

• Meet their community partner once in October (on site) to get logistics for the project.

• Help lead volunteers on Day of Service November 4th (approximately 8-3pm).

Please forward my email and contact information to any students that may be interested.  We need to identify 40-60 project leaders by the date of the Project Leader training September 29th/30th.  Or students can email sjsudos@communivercitysanjose.org

Thank You,
Monica Gallyot
CommUniverCity San Jose
Project Coordinator

Women’s Studies 2011 Alumnus Kendall Sallay is working with her indie rock/folk trio Cartoon Bar Fight to release a five-song EP titled “Tell All the Children” later this year.  She is seeking financial support from friends, family, and allies for her project via Kickstarter, a unique site that accepts contribution pledges for various creative projects.  Please consider supporting this talented alum!  The group needs to raise $550 by September 6.

Kendall writes:

Our San Jose indie rock/folk trio, Cartoon Bar Fight, plans to release a five-song EP titled “Tell All the Children” by the beginning of November 2011. Recordings are underway, but professional CD mastering, replication, album art/design, and packaging will be pricey.

We have raised some funds for this EP through tips at our shows (a hearty THANK YOU!!!!! to all the sweethearts around San Jose who have tipped us for this album), but what we have made thus far will cover only a fraction of the production and design costs. We need this album to be the real deal–snazzy, professional and ready to send to indie labels and local radio stations so we can increase our odds of “making it” as a band.

The EP is about childhood, fairytales-turned-nightmares, wishing stars, disillusionment, and best friends.

Any funds raised over the pledge amount will simply go to printing more copies of the EP, or they will be reserved specifically for our full-length album (also in the works).

Thank you for helping fund one of our many dreams. :) We hope you’ll love what you hear–and don’t forget to tell your friends, family members, and anyone you know who supports independent music!

Please mark your calendars for next Tuesday, March 22 for two events aimed at helping us understand the interconnected nature of women’s reproductive health issues.

2 – 3:15 pm MLK Library 255/257
Why Midwifery Matters with Allana Moore

A History of Self-Help Reproductive Movements with Pati Garcia

6 – 8 pm Guadalupe Room, SJSU Student Union
Know Your Own: A Smart Sex Workshop with Pati Garcia

Allana Moore is a professional doula, birth educator, and case manager with teen moms at the nonprofit Bill Wilson Center.

Pati Garcia is a professional doula, assistant midwife, and Somatic Sex Educator (CSB) trained at the Institute for Advanced Study in Human Sexuality.

Flyers are here in pdf and in MSWord formats; please help us distribute!

San José State University students and community members will hit center stage dressed in red and black, ready to spread awareness about violence and abuse toward women and girls through their production of Eve Ensler’s play The Vagina Monologues. The benefit production will run at the historic SJSU Morris Dailey Auditorium on Thursday, March 11, 2011 at 6:00 p.m., Friday, March 12th at 8:00 p.m. and on Saturday, March 13th at 8:00 p.m. Tickets for the event are $8 for students and $10 for general admission. For ticket information please call 800-745-3000 or visit http://www.ticketmaster.com.

The Vagina Monologues celebrate the global movement of V-Day, which strives to empower women to find their collective voices and demand an end to the violence. SJSU is joining this global movement as part of the V-Day 2011 College Campaign. Each year V-Day increases awareness by focusing on a specific group of women in the world who are resisting violence with courage and vision.

In 2011, V-Day’s Spotlight Campaign will be on the Women and Girls of Haiti. The Spotlight will highlight the high levels of violence against women and girls in Haiti, and will focus on the increased rates of sexual violence since the devastating earthquake that took place in January 2010. All funds raised through the Spotlight Campaign will be used to support a revolutionary national campaign in Haiti lead by a coalition of women activists – including longtime V-Day activist Elvire Eugene – that will address sexual violence through art, advocacy, safe shelter and legal services.

The proceeds of the V-Day SJSU 2011 will benefit the women and children of Haiti, as well as local non-profit organizations whose programming supports survivors of violence and work toward the ending of violence against women and girls. [Read more →]

Women’s Studies Alumni Teresa Pedrizco will offer this four-hour seminar in Spanish on Domestic Violence and Creating Healthy Relationships.

• Did you know that:  1 in 4 women experience domestic violence?
• 1 in 33 men have been sexually assaulted?

1 – 5pm January 30, in Redwood City.  $150 registration before Jan 24, $200 after.  Space is limited…. call 408.807.5955 or email tpedrizco@yahoo.com.

Winning the Vote:  A Special Evening Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Woman’s Right to Vote in California

Join us at this special event that will honor the courageous individuals who fought for Woman’s suffrage in California.

The evening will feature a viewing of the University’s rare exhibit highlighting the western state victories, which provided the foundation for the Susan B. Anthony Suffrage Amendment as well as other important Suffrage artifacts from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Additionally, Robert P.J. Cooney, author of Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement will discuss his book that documents this historical achievement.  This event is sponsored by the League of Women Voters San Jose/Santa Clara and the San Jose State University Special Collections Department

February 23, 2011
5pm-8pm
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library
150 East San Fernando Street
San Jose, CA 95112
5th Floor, Schiro Room

5:00 – 6:00pm Reception and viewing of San Jose State’s unique collection of artifacts and exhibits relating to the Suffrage movement in California and the country

6:00 – 7:00pm Robert P.J. Cooney, author of Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement will discuss the color, passion, and excitement of this important part of American history

7:00-8:00pm The League of Women Voters honors the Women’s Studies programs at Evergreen College, Santa Clara University and San Jose State University as well as History San Jose and the Santa Clara Library

Confirm your seat at this special event: league@lwvsjsc.org

Please forward to your student lists:

Take advantage of the opportunity to study this spring in a small seminar with Women’s Studies Professor Shahin Gerami.   WOMS 189, Gender and Sexuality in Islam is a seminar introducing the variety of gender roles and expressions of sexuality within contemporary Islam.  Readings consist of a sample original texts and a selection from popular novels.

Please spread the word!

WOMS 189  Gender and Sexuality in Islam (Add code 26635)
TTh 10:30-11:45 / DMH 126
Questions?  Email: shahin.gerami@sjsu.edu

Hello,
Last minute (sorry!) forwarding an event taking place this Thursday for any interested.  Stanford student and fellow youth activist, Aurora Victoria David has put together some great research about the conditions facing Filipinas in Hong Kong. Spread the word!

[Okada lounge is on the Stanford campus in Palo Alto]

From the San Mateo County Times

Artist Cristina Velazquez uses recycled dresses to expose women’s reality in the show “Everything I Must Be,” which opens Friday at Avenue 25 Gallery in San Mateo. A reception will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Jan. 15.

Velazquez feels the imposed cultural roles of motherhood, housekeeper, lover and healer as ghosts which follow her. “I must always be something for someone because I was born a woman,” she says in her Artist Statement.

For her work “Women Must Bear Children,” Velazquez created stuffed dolls and attached them to a dress. Kitchen utensils are the add-on in “Women Must Cook.”

The demands expand as a woman must not only be a good mother and housekeeper, but also “Women Must Be Beautiful,” which Velazquez demonstrated through items such as hair rollers, curling iron, acrylic nails, and makeup attached to a dress. “Women Must Have the Right Measurements” includes measuring tapes, while “Women Must Be Saints” combines such objects as a crucifix, Bible, holy water and scapulars.

In “Women Must Be …” Velazquez has affixed blank tags onto a dress, inviting observers to add their own ideas to the list of “chores that women must ascribe to.”

She sums it up with a question: “I must wear all these dresses as my uniform. I must do as I am told, and I must achieve it all….Or should I?”

Velazquez earned her bachelor of fine arts degree from San Jose State University. Her commissioned work includes the “Altar de La Virgen de Guadalupe” at Saint Francis of Assisi Church in East Palo Alto, completed in 2003, and a mural for Menlo Atherton High School in 1994.

“Everything I Must Be” will continue through March 4. The show was curated by Kim McCool Nelson. Avenue 25 Gallery in on the second floor at 32 West 25th Ave. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. Admission is free. Visit http://avenue25gallery.plsinfo.org.