en Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:44:55 GMT Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:44:55 GMT http://www.imow.org/calendar/viewEvent?eventId=148 6pm - 8pm
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Join Camfed and I.M.O.W. for a screening of Camfed's award-winning documentary, Where the Water Meets the Sky, in celebration of International Women's Day. If you haven't yet had the chance to see Where the Water Meets the Sky, here's an opportunity to watch it in your own backyard. The film, written by Jordan Roberts (March of the Penguins) and narrated by Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman, will be screened at the Cubberley Theater in Palo Alto on March 16th. Chronicling 23 women in a remote region of northern Zambia as they learn to make a film to tell their stories, Where the Water Meets the Sky focuses on Penelope, a young woman who was forced to drop out of school and provide for herself and her siblings after her parents' death. The screening will be preceded by a multimedia piece from the International Museum of Women's current online exhibition, "Economica: Women and the Global Economy", and will be followed by a question-and-answer session with Camfed U.S.A... ]]> http://www.imow.org/calendar/viewEvent?eventId=148 http://www.imow.org/calendar/viewEvent?eventId=154 6pm - 7:30pm
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Join I.M.O.W. for an evening conversation with Liesl Gerntholtz, director of the Women's Rights Division for Human Rights Watch. Liesl will discuss pressing issues affecting women's rights in emergencies, ongoing armed conflicts, and humanitarian contexts. ABOUT LIESL Liesl Gerntholtz joined Human Rights Watch in May 2008 as the director of the Women's Rights Division. She previously served as the Executive Director of the Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre to End Violence Against Women in Johannesburg. In addition to providing regular briefings to the South African parliament she was involved in high impact strategic litigation - including a successful case to help change the definition of rape in South Africa... ]]> http://www.imow.org/calendar/viewEvent?eventId=154 http://www.imow.org/calendar/viewEvent?eventId=145 5:30pm - 10pm
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010 City View atop the Westfield Metreon San Francisco, CA, USA Tickets are now available for Celebrating Change, our annual evening benefit to support the International Museum of Women! Join us on the evening of Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at the Metreon City View, a spectacular venue with the night-time skyline of San Francisco as our glittering backdrop. Celebrating Change will include multi-media exhibits, live performances, a DJ and Dancing, and food, wine and spirits from leading women chefs and producers. TO PURCHASE TICKETS: Please call 415.543.4669 x27 or email events@imow.org, or buy tickets online. (Please note that we are charge a fee for payments made on our Web site.) You can also purchase tickets by filling out the PDF response form and faxing it to 415.543.4558... ]]> http://www.imow.org/calendar/viewEvent?eventId=145