This looks really interesting, regards, Vivienne ---------- > From: Paul Canning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: RecOzNet2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ESORA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Simone de Beauvoir's Daughters > Date: Thursday, February 18, 1999 10:12 PM > > ESORA: Eastern Suburbs Organisation for Reconciling Australia > > if you've never heard Romaine Moreton mark this in your diaries - she's > fantastic. > > paul > > -- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > **** Could you pass this message on anyway to as many people you can? > > On Tuesday 16 March at 6.00 pm in the State Library, Sydney, we're > holding an event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication > of Simone de Beauvoir's book "The Second Sex". > > The content of the evening is still being finalised but the plan is to > have a mix of polemics and poetry, sex and song, readings and real > stories, humour and harmony. > > So far we have on board - either in organising capacity or as > 'prerformers': Sylvia Lawson, Eva Cox, Romaine Moreton (performance > poet), Jan Preston (the music), Julie Rigg (Radio National's Arts > Today will be recording), Jocelynne Scutt, Bronwyn Winter (lecturer > in French dept, Sydney Uni), Sara Madison (WEL), and others. > > We're also going to screen an extract from a doco about Simone de > Beauvoir, so we'll have the author herself. > > Bronwyn is going to select some extracts from the book (not too long) > and the idea at the moment is to follow uo each of the reading with a > contribution - song or poem or personal testimony or reading - or > whatever. > > No one will talk or read or sing or dance for more than about 6-8 > minutes. > > I'm wondering if any of you would like to contribute a short statement > about what the book meant to you? We might have a section (or > sections) where a whole bunch of women on the stage give us a brief > personal testimony. > > And if you can't (or don't want to) do it perhaps you could pass this > on to other women to ask them? > > I can't promise that we'll be able to fit everyone in: but we would > love to have represented a wide range of ages, backgrounds, > communities, etc. > Celebs and non-celebs. > We're particularly keen to address the issue of the relevance of 'The > Second Sex' to young Australian women today. > Blokes too. > > > **** Could you pass this message on anyway to as many people you can? > > Susan Wilson will be doing the publicity nearer the time - but I'd > love to pack out the place. > > We might have to ask for a financial contribution on the night - to > pay for the refreshment and nibbles we'd like to be able to provide. > > Hope to hear from you > > Jane Mills > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/ LL.NB end ============== Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html The Year 2000 Bug - An Urgent Sustainability Issue http://www.peg.apc.org/~psutton/grin-y2k.htm Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
