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Welcome to the
Women's and Gender Studies
Program
at Northern Arizona University
NAU’s Women’s and Gender Studies
program is interdisciplinary, with a particular focus on
transnational feminisms and the gendered experiences of US
ethnic and indigenous peoples. We offer a unique vantage point on those
experiences: our own glorious and embattered home on the Colorado Plateau.
Announcements: DANCEDOWNRIVER
Wednesday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m. ~ Cline Library Hall ~ Northern Arizona University
Choreographer and river guide Jayne Lee will offer a free presentation of her work DANCEDOWNRIVER. Dance Down River is a Human Nature Dance Theatre project. Seven dancers with guides and technical crew went on an 18-day raft trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in fall 2007. The improvised canyon dances were edited into the film DANCEDOWNRIVER. Check out a scene from the film online at
http://web.me.com/leejayne/Human_
Nature_Dance_Theatre/DanceDownRiver.html.
You'll be mesmorized.
You too can dance down river. Jayne Lee will be co-leading the WGS class, "Gendering the Wilderness: Poetry and Dance on the Colorado River," in Marble Canyon, April 17-20. See below for more details.
Gendering the Wilderness:
Poetry and Dance on the Colorado River
WGS 499/599 1-credit class
Friday April 17 to Sunday April 19, 2009
Explore alternative forms of feminist environmental activism at Marble Canyon, AZ, with poet, Ann Walka, author of Walking the Unknown River and Other Travels in Escalante Country, and dancer Jayne Lee, co-creator of the film DanceDownRiver.
$150 for transportation, lodging, meals and tuition for fulltime students. Contact the WGS Office for more information at 523-3300. Sign up by April 10, 2009.
Flagstaff Fairworld Project
WGS is working with the Abya Yala University Association to organize the Flagstaff Fairworld Project, Flagstaff’s first fair trade initiative. The project supports the livelihoods of crafters of authentic traditional items by paying them fair prices for their work. Currently we have goods from the Apache nation and from Mayan Guatemala. To read more about where and when Flagstaff Fairworld Project auctions and sales are being held, click on the following link:http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~abyaya-
p/index-2b.html
Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Box 5695
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
Telephone: 928-523-3300 ~ fax: 928-523-5560
womens.studies@nau.edu