More Events for March celebrating International Women's Day

Events:

-Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
7:00 pm-9:00 pm, Friday, March 8
Mills Hall Living Room
Professor Imani Perry will be joining the Mills College and wider Oakland and Bay Area communities to discuss the life of the late Lorraine Hansberry from her book, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry. Professor Perry is an American interdisciplinary scholar of race, law, literature, and African American culture. She is currently the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University.

-KPFA Women will also be bringing you 18 hours of International Women's Day programming on Saturday, March 9, from 6:00 am to 12:00 midnight.  Live music, interviews, features, speeches by Angela Davis and others, sound from the Women's Climate Summit.  The full schedule is available now on Facebook.  From 2:00-3:15 pm, Kate Raphael will be curating a show on Socialist Feminism, including a lookback at the first National Socialist Feminist Conference held in 1975 in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Don't miss it!

-Tuesday, March 5, at 6:45 pm we'll present She's Beautiful When She's Angry, Mary Dore's documentary about the Second Wave women's movement, at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland.  Details.

-Golden Thread’s annual celebration of International Women’s Day
WHAT DO THE WOMEN SAY?
ROOTS & REFLECTIONS
Friday, March 8, 2019 at 8pm
at Brava Theater Center (2781 24th Street, San Francisco)
Tickets are $15-$20.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Reem’s California will sell food in the lobby starting at 6pm.

Roots & Reflections showcases leading Middle Eastern women artists working at the crossroads of tradition and experimentation: master contemporary Maghreb dance artist Amel Tafsout will perform; stand-up comedian Zahra Noorbakhsh will share excerpts from her upcoming world premiere On Behalf of All Muslims, a Comedy Special; filmmaker Nadia Shihab will present an excerpt of her new feature JaddoLand about her Iraqi Turkmen family; and Golden Thread Resident Artist Nora El Samahy will perform Brass Knuckles by Yussef El Guindi, to be featured in ReOrient 2019. After the presentations, Founding Artistic Director Torange Yeghiazarian will facilitate a conversation with the participating artists and the audience.


-2019 International Working Women’s Day March & Celebration | Oakland
Saturday, March 9, 2019 - 11:00 am to 4:00 pm | Cost: FREE
Fruitvale Village | 34th Avenue, Oakland, CA
Members of Gabriela Oakland invite you to join for a March & Celebration on Saturday, March 9th to commemorate the 111th International Working Women’s Day anniversary in honor of the first women strikers in 1908.

Join to Rise, Resist, and Unite to build the collective Resistance here and abroad. Take the streets as we rise up and say no to violence against women and trans people and resist militarization and state violence.