2008 Suppressed Histories Events
visual presentations by Max DashuFriday, Nov 21, 1:15 pm
Female Rebels and Mavericks: Special Lesbian edition for Lavender Seniors
Audacious women who break the rules: adventurers, wantons, and witches, heretics, freethinkers, lesbians, radicals, insurgents, activists and visionaries. A global spectrum of valiant and defiant women, including women who passed as men in order to practice medicine, fight in revolutions, or roam the world.
North Oakland Senior Center, 5714 Martin Luther King Jr. Way (old Merritt College)
Free admission, donations accepted. All are welcome to attend. Entrance / parking through gate on 58th St.
If you register a week in advance, you can take part in Lavender Lunch Bunch, through Lavender Seniors and City of Oakland.
A free lunch is provided at 12:30 pm, and the slide will follow in another room.
Saturday Nov. 22 at 7 pm
a new expanded version of
Rebel Shamans: Indigenous Women Confront Empire
Priestesses, diviners and medicine women stand out as leaders of aboriginal liberation movements against empire. Spiritual spheres of power have been an arena for women's political leadership and for challenging systems of domination on many levels. This visual presentation looks at how indigenous women draw on their cultural traditions to resist colonization and how, by virtue of who they are and where they stand in the social order, their personal access to direct, transformative power makes the spiritual political. With great new stuff on Teresa Urrea, Tang Saier, the Nyabinghi oracles of Uganda, and more.
Redwood Gardens Community Room:
2951 Derby Street, Berkeley 94705 (upper end of Derby east of College)
$10-20. sliding scale donation. All are welcome. Wheelchair access.Women's Power dvds, prints and specials will be available for purchase,
and we have Suppressed Histories T-shirts in all sizes once again!
Earlier in 2008:
North Carolina:
Goddess Cosmologies Friday, Oct. 17, 7:30 pm
A comprehensive global view of Goddess as Mother Essence, Source of Life, and Divine Law, whether she is called Maat (Egypt), Tao (China), Wyrd (Britain), or Aluna (Colombia). We gaze at cosmic maps and sacred signs in ancient and indigenous art: Australian bark-paintings, Mexican murals, Kongo gourds, Lithuanian distaffs and the stone tablets of Adena, Ohio. In praise of the Tree of Life, the Four Winds, goddesses of sun, moon and stars; Grandmother Spider and other female Creators. The ancient, mighty Fates who spin out the lives of all beings.Simpson Hall, AB Tech, 340 Victoria Rd, Asheville, NC 28801
$10-20 sliding scale, students $5. All are welcome. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Woman Shaman Tuesday, Oct. 21, 7:30 pm (in Greensboro)
Woman is by nature a shaman, says a Chukchee proverb from Siberia, and many traditions say that the first shaman was female. See what is probably the most comprehensive visual record of female shamanic traditions worldwide, from ancient times to the present: women as drummers, dreamers, healers, oracles and diviners, ecstatic dancers, shapeshifters, and spirit-riders. Taste their primordial wisdom and water your visionary dreamscape with long-obscured riches.
at Guilford College, Community Center Multi-Purpose Room
5800 West Friendly Avenue Greensboro, NC 27410 .... FREE ADMISSION
Sponsored by Guilford College, Department of International Studies and WomanSpirit Rising
For more information e-mail: info@womynspirit-rising.org Directions
Woman Shaman Friday, Oct. 24, 7:30 pm in Asheville
Woman is by nature a shaman, says a Chukchee proverb from Siberia, and many traditions say that the first shaman was female. See what is probably the most comprehensive visual record of female shamanic traditions worldwide, from ancient times to the present: women as drummers, dreamers, healers, oracles and diviners, ecstatic dancers, shapeshifters, and spirit-riders. Taste their primordial wisdom and water your visionary dreamscape with long-obscured riches.Simpson Hall, AB Tech, 340 Victoria Rd, Asheville, NC 28801
$10-20 sliding scale, students $5. All are welcome. No one turned away for lack of funds.
The Old Goddess and her night-flying witches
Saturday, October 25, 7 pm
As All Hallows approaches, we honor the ancestors and spiritual heritages of pagan Europe. Fatas, faeries, and the “good women who go by night” with the Old Goddess: Holle, Diana, Holle, Abundia, Andra Mari, Fraw Perchta, and others). How Goddess paganism persisted in medieval Europe, from Norns and Weird Sisters to faerie godmothers, and from Eorthan Mother and her serpents to Diana, Herodias, and the shamanic myth of the witches' flight.Simpson Hall, AB Tech, 340 Victoria Rd, Asheville, NC 28801
$10-20 sliding scale, students $5. All are welcome. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Woman Shaman / Healing the Female:
UNDOING THE CULTURAL SPELLS OF DOMINATION"We live in a society that subordinates, insults and violates women and girls. We desire to reclaim our power, to free contracted emotions and release toxic energies that have become trapped in our bodies. Under the wounded female is our true nature: joy, brilliance, wholeness. Cleanse the mirror and our light will shine forth strong and powerful."
Incantation, sounding, breath and movement. We invoke the resurgence of the Sacred within and among us, and will release, detoxify, expand, and open the flow so that we resound with shakti. Bring a mat, cushion, or blanket --and if you wish, a drum, rattle, or other sacred tools. No experience necessary! Come ready to imbibe nectar.
Sun Oct. 26, 1-4 pm, at Asheville Community Center,
Greenlife, at 70 Merrimon. This event is for women. $20-40 sliding scale.
Back in San Francisco: All Hallows Eve/Samhain, Oct. 31:
Women's Power screening in Honolulu
Wednesday, Aug 14, 2008 7:30pm
Revolution Books, next to Puck's Alley, behind 7-11, on King Street,
A panoramic view of female leadership, creativity, wisdom, and courage, around the world and over thousands of years. For the first time on DVD, this acclaimed show looks at female spheres of power in politics, economics, religion, medicine, arts and letters, featuring a rich tapestry of women famous and anonymous, ancient and modern.
These are the bold and creative women you always knew existed, who were kept out of the history books and off the TV screens. Seeing their reality will change how you think about female humanity. If you've ever wondered where the women were—see this movie!
The Women's Power DVD will be available for sale at this event.
Women's Power screening in Palo Alto
Wednesday, Aug 20, 2008 7:30pm
First Presbyterian Church, 1140 Cowper Street, Palo Alto
(in the Lounge)The Peninsula Women's Group hosts a screening of "Women's Power" as a benefit for the Suppressed Histories Archives. This dvd is an eye-opening documentary about women whose role in history has been minimized or deleted from standard history books.
The Women's Power DVD will be available for sale.
Tickets: $5-$15. No one turned away for lack of funds.
All women are welcome. www.peninsulawomensgroup.org
Saturday, August 23, 2008 noon to five pm
Snow Park, Oakland CA ... a free pride event
Nava and I will have our booth at the fabulosa Sistahs Steppin' in Pride festival (everyone welcome). It's a fun, free event, with a stage and great performers including Afia Walking-Tree and her posse of drummers. The Women's Power dvd, t-shirts, and art will be for sale.
Women's Power dvd premiere screening and release party!
Saturday March 22 2008 at 7 pm
Redwood Gardens Community Room: 2951 Derby Street, Berkeley
(at the upper end of Derby east of College Ave)Donations accepted. All are welcome. Wheelchair access.
DVDs will be available for purchase, of course, as well as Suppressed Histories T-shirts, prints and specials.
If you can't attend the release event, you can order online or by mail . DVDs will be ready to ship after March 20.
See video clips from the DVD online.
The full transcript is available on the Suppressed Histories website. Study guide questions will soon follow.
Convene a showing of Women's Power for your community, hold council about where women stand today and what needs to be done now, and support the Suppressed Histories Archives.
Massachusetts:
Thursday April 3, 6 pm
Female Rebels and Mavericks (plus an excerpt on Mother-Right cultures from Women's Power DVD)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA. Sponsored by CSS, for women students at M.I.T only.
Friday April 4, 7 to 9:30 pm
Rebel Shamans: Indigenous Women Confront Empire
Priestesses, diviners and medicine women stand out as leaders of aboriginal liberation movements against empire. Spiritual spheres of power have been a crucial staging area for women's political leadership and for challenging systems of domination on many levels. This visual presentation looks at how indigenous women draw on their cultural traditions to resist colonization and how, by virtue of who they are and where they stand in the social order, their personal access to direct, transformative power makes the spiritual political.
Includes Veleda of Bructerii (Netherlands), Dahia al-Kahena (Tunisia), the Kumari of Taleju (Nepal), Juana Icha (Peru), Kimba Vita (Congo), Maria Candelaria (Chiapas), Queen Nanny of the Maroons (Jamaica), Toypurina (Tongva Nation), Wanankhucha (Somali Bantu), Lozen (Apache Nation), Teresa Urrea (Sonora), Nehanda Nyakasikana (Zimbabwe), and Muhumusa (Uganda).The Women's Well
120 Commonwealth Avenue, West Concord, MA (Directions: http://www.womenswell.org/faq.html )
$20 early/$25 regular
Pre-register (you can pay with credit card if you register with Women's Well online; scroll down on registration page to find date of showing)
Or call to register at 978-371-0469
Saturday April 5, 7 to 9:30 pm
Chinese Deasophy
The dragon woman – where does she come from? But when she comes, she rides the wind and rain! --poem of Ch'u
This visual presentation explores the Divine Female in ancient Chinese art: the rites of the Wu, the female shamans of old China; creation stories of the serpent goddess Nu Gua Shih; and Taoist animals of the elemental directions. Through images of Xi Wang Mu, the Great Yin, and her Tree with the peaches of immortality, her dragon-tiger throne, and her shamanic helpers – the three legged raven, phoenix, and medicine hare – we will look at traditions of the “Mysterious Female”/Dark Woman in Taoist mysticism and among female adepts and mountain herbalists.
The Women's Well
120 Commonwealth Avenue, West Concord, MA (Directions: http://www.womenswell.org/faq.html )
$20 early/$25 regular
Pre-register (you can pay with credit card if you register with Women's Well online; scroll down on registration page to find date of showing)
Or call to register at 978-371-0469
Sunday April 6, 7 to 9:30 pm
Taming the Female Body
In the name of propriety, modesty, and femininity, women have been bound, broken, slashed, hobbled, shrouded and confined. Hatred of women's bodies is not just in the past, or in some other benighted country, but lived here and now. This visual presentation looks at corsets, footbinding, seclusion, burqas and niqab, witches' bridles, female genital excision (and today's variant, surgical "labial reductions"), breast implants, liposuction, and the media culture of anorexia. Nawal el-Saadawi has called the Western obsession with makeup "the postmodern veil." Many women feel ashamed to be seen without it. Social coercion takes many forms, whether they involve the imperative to cover a woman's entire body -- or to strip it in a commercially-mandated display.
This presentation helps to understand such social coercion in its many forms, and give food for thought about what needs to change. We will conclude with a circle affirming the sacredness of the body, our power to release and transform pain, and to heal the female and all maladaptive forms of culture, in the name of what each of us holds most sacred.
Unitarian Universalist Congregation 6 Locke Street, Andover, MA 01810
Donation. No pre-registration required. All are welcome. Wheelchair accessible.
Information/Directions: Contact susanjfoster@comcast.net
Tuesday April 8, 7 pm (please note time change!)
Rebel Shamans: Indigenous Women Confront Empire
Priestesses, diviners and medicine women stand out as leaders of aboriginal liberation movements against empire. Spiritual spheres of power have been a crucial staging area for women's political leadership and for challenging systems of domination on many levels. This visual presentation looks at how indigenous women draw on their cultural traditions to resist colonization and how, by virtue of who they are and where they stand in the social order, their personal access to direct, transformative power makes the spiritual political.
Includes Veleda of Bructerii (Netherlands), Dahia al-Kahena (Tunisia), the Kumari of Taleju (Nepal), Juana Icha (Peru), Kimba Vita (Congo), Maria Candelaria (Chiapas), Queen Nanny of the Maroons (Jamaica), Toypurina (Tongva Nation), Wanankhucha (Somali Bantu), Lozen (Apache Nation), Teresa Urrea (Sonora), Nehanda Nyakasikana (Zimbabwe), and Muhumusa (Uganda).Donation (suggested $10.-20). No one turned away for lack of funds. All are welcome.
at the Media Education Foundation Community Room 60 Masonic St, Northampton, MA 01060.
Sponsored by the Rain and Thunder Collective. INFO: contact <rainandthunder@yahoo.com>
Wednesday April 9, 7:30 pm
Rebel Shamans: Indigenous Women Confront Empire
Priestesses, diviners and medicine women stand out as leaders of aboriginal liberation movements against empire. Spiritual spheres of power have been a crucial staging area for women's political leadership and for challenging systems of domination on many levels. This visual presentation looks at how indigenous women draw on their cultural traditions to resist colonization and how, by virtue of who they are and where they stand in the social order, their personal access to direct, transformative power makes the spiritual political.
Includes Veleda of Bructerii (Netherlands), Dahia al-Kahena (Tunisia), the Kumari of Taleju (Nepal), Juana Icha (Peru), Kimba Vita (Congo), Maria Candelaria (Chiapas), Queen Nanny of the Maroons (Jamaica), Toypurina (Tongva Nation), Wanankhucha (Somali Bantu), Lozen (Apache Nation), Teresa Urrea (Sonora), Nehanda Nyakasikana (Zimbabwe), and Muhumusa (Uganda).
Women's Temple, In Her Name
8 Stone Meadow Lane, Canton, CT
www.womenstemple.net or www.norajamieson.com
$20. For info or scholarship call 860-693-9540
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