[AAACE-NLA] 2 events on women & literacy in Cambridge, MA

[mev@litwomen.org]

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WE LEARN
Women Expanding: Literacy Education Action Resource Network is proud to 
announce 2 upcoming events on Women & Literacy.

October 2, 2004
Cambridge, MA (2 different locations)

1:00 - 5:00 / A Symposium on Women and Literacy: Moving to Power and 
Participation

5:30 - 8:30 / Celebration Party for The Change Agent Issue 19 on Women 
& Literacy

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Women and Literacy: Moving to Power and Participation - A SYMPOSIUM
Come meet the contributors to the recent edition of Women Studies 
Quarterly 32: 1-2 on women and literacy. Hear about their work. Share 
your ideas.

Saturday, October 2
1:00 – 5:00 pm
Gutman Conference Center, Gutman Library
6 Appian Way, Cambridge, MA

Featuring…
Guest Editor and Director of WE LEARN: Mev Miller - Opening Remarks

Contributors:
Najwa Adra: Literacy through Poetry with Women in Yemen
Kelley Evans: The Place of Writing in an Urban Drug Treatment Center
Jane Maher: Education at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women
Lorna Rivera: Popular Education and Homeless Women
Jenny Sandlin: Gender and Power in Welfare-to-Work Educational Programs

This event is FREE and Open to the Public.
Donations will be requested to support WE LEARN 
(www.litwomen.org/welearn.html).
Copies of this WSQ issue will be available for purchase at the event.

Sponsored by:
WE LEARN, The Harvard Adult Learning and Development Group, UMass 
Boston, Applied Linguistics Program, NCSALL, Harvard Office of Student 
Affairs, The Center for New Words
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A Celebratory Publication Party for Issue 19 of THE CHANGE AGENT on 
Women & Literacy
This issue features 72 pages of writing by students and teachers in 
adult basic education on a wide variety of issues of interest to women 
in ABE.

Saturday, October 2
5:30 – 8:30 PM
Cambridge College
1000 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Contributors to the issue are invited to read their work.

• A light dinner will be available
• Teachers, learners and friends are all welcome.

This event is FREE and Open to the Public.

We ask you to please REGISTER for this event (in order to arrange for 
food.)
Please let us know how many people you expect to attend.
Contributors, please indicate if you would like to read your work.
Register with: Mev Miller, 401-383-4374, welearn at litwomen.org
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for more information on either of these events, contact:

Mev Miller, Ed.D., Coordinator
welearn at litwomen.org

WE LEARN
Women Expanding: Literacy Education Action Resource Network
www.litwomen.org/welearn.html

182 Riverside Ave.
Cranston, RI 02910
401-383-4374