LUNAFEST
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Simmons Institute for Leadership and ChangeConnecting Simmons to the Community and the Community to Simmons, The Simmons College Women's Center and Women's and Gender Studies, Cinema and Media Studies Minor Presents LUNAFESTA national festival of films by, for or about women
2009 Community Change Leadership Awards
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change, Connecting Simmons to the Community and the Community to Simmons Presents: Community Change Inc. 2009 Community Change Leadership Awards The Community Change Leadership Awards ...Challenging Structural Racism includes the annual Drylongso Awards, the Horace Seldon Emerging Leader Award, and the inaugural presentation of CCI's Lifetime Achievement Awards. The evenings award recipients include Margaret A. Burnham, Peggy McIntosh, Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., and many other distinguished leaders in our community.
Developing Your Career as a Fine Art Photographer
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change, Connecting Simmons to the Community and the Community to Simmons Presents American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP), and New England Women in Photography: Developing Your Career as a Fine Art Photographer. This seminar will address questions that emerging artists might have about studio visits, presenting to a gallery or museum, how to evaluate your own artwork and strengthen your craft, contract negotiations, legal issues, promotional questions and more. Our panel is comprised of professionals in the field who can help you navigate the next step in your career as an artist Also accepting photographs to present at the event. Send Jpeg, 1000 pixels at widest To RSVP email diane.hammer@simmons.edu
Write to Change the World Seminar
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Briefing for Funders on STEM Programming for Girls
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Women, Public Policy and Media
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
2008 We are proud to offer this unique learning opportunity in conjunction with the National Women's Editorial Forum in honor of the Boston Women's Fund's 25th Anniversary.
LUNAFEST
Thursday, April 16, 2009
The Women's Center and Cinema and Media Studies Minor Presents LUNAFEST A national festival of films by, for or about women.
GoGirlGo! Boston Leadership Conference
Friday, February 27, 2009
Join us for GoGirlGo! Boston 2009 Leadership Conference designed to provide opportunities for networking and addressing issues related to girls' health and sports.
Jean Kilbourne and Diane Levin - So Sexy, So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood, and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Join us as we welcome legendary feminist and activist, Jean Kilbourne with her co-author, Diane Levin, as they discuss their new book, So Sexy So Soon!
GoGirlGo! Boston Leadership Conference
Friday, November 14, 2008
Join us for GoGirlGo! Boston 2008 Leadership Conference designed to provide opportunities for networking and addressing issues related to girls' health and sports.
LEARN, LOOK OUT, STEP UP and SPEAK OUT — PAVE 2008: Peers Against Violence
Saturday, November 1, 2008
A summit for teens preventing dating abuse and sexual assault through anti-violence education. This event is designed to provide teens who want to speak out against dating violence and sexual assault in their schools, communities, and social groups with professional training and peer networking.
Women and Girls Night
Monday, October 20, 2008
Hosted by the Boston Asian American Film Festival and Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change - Connecting Simmons to the Community and the Community to Simmons.
Fenway Community Health - Audre Lorde Cancer Awareness Brunch: Collective Voices for Life
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Hosted by Boston Centers for Youth and Families and Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change - Connecting Simmons to the Community and the Community to Simmons.
Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines and Traveling Alone by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Monday, October 6, 2008
Part memoir, part journalistic reportage, Mexican Enough illuminates how we often cast off our identity in our youth, only to strive to find it again as adults — and the lessons to be learned along the way.
Queer and Catholic: How does faith inform your sexuality?
Friday, September 19, 2008
Queer and Catholic examines the culture of how being raised catholic informs and influences, positively or negatively, our queerness and how our queerness affects our Catholicism, our vestigial catholic nature or even our flight from and continued struggle with the 'the Church of Rome.'
Third Annual Mothers, Daughters, Money Conference
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Join us for this free conference intended to help women and girls of all ages increase their financial skills and build a more secure future for themselves and their families. Workshop topics include asset building, money management, credit and philanthropy.
Healing Through Movement: Dancing with the Stars — Audre Lorde Breast Cancer Awareness Brunch
Saturday, October 27, 2007
SILC has hosted the Audre Lorde Cancer Awareness Brunch since its founding six years ago, with the mission to build community and promote healing by bringing together women and their families who are living with cancer, who are in remission or who have lost loved ones to cancer. This brunch offers participants access to community resources, organizations and networks.
Alumna Presents Cape Verdean Documentary
Monday, February 12, 2007
More than 150 members of the Simmons community attended a February screening and discussion of the film "Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican? A Cape Verdean American Story" featuring filmmaker Claire Andrade-Watkins '74.
Patricia Hill Collins & Imani Perry: Get Real About Feminism, Racism and Hip Hop
Thursday, November 2, 2006
Over 300 people attended this unique cross generational conversation about the relationship between racism, black nationalism, feminism and women in the hip-hop generation featuring authors Patricia Hill Collins and Imani Perry. A diverse audience in terms of age, race, class, sexuality, and professions, including community activists, Boston Public School students, local artists, musicians, Simmons alumnae, students and faculty, participated in this standing-room only event. It was featured in the Bay State Banner and the Simmons Voice.
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Contact Information
For more information about upcoming events, or about organizing a program or event, contact:
Diane Hammer
617-521-2480
Upcoming Events
- Developing Your Career as a Fine Art Photographer
November 5, 2009 - 2009 Community Change Leadership Awards
November 10, 2009 - LUNAFEST
November 19, 2009
