7/8ths of the Iceberg: the Rest of Writing

Join Cindy Hardy, poets, poetry fans, writers, & others

for

7/8ths of the Iceberg: the Rest of Writing

a Craft Talk by Cindy Hardy

Wood Center Conference Room C/D

Friday, April 30th 3:30-4:30 pm

PLUS

Cindy Hardy and Jean Anderson will be reading from their works on Saturday night, May 1st, 7pm, at the Bear Gallery in Pioneer Park aka Alaskaland. They will finish their reading in time to scoot over to the Empress for the staged reading of Tom Moran's play.

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Cindy Hardy was born in Salisbury, Maryland and grew up in horse and farm country in southern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Penn State University and holds an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi.

A past recipient of an Alaska State Council on the Arts Individual Artist grant, Cindy has published poems and stories in Permafrost, The Northern Review, and Ice-Floe: An International Journal of the Far North. Her chapbook, We Tempt Our Luck, was a finalist in the 2008 Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press Poetry Chapbook competition. Her poetry collection Beneath a Portrait of a Horse is newly published by Salmon Press of Ireland.

Cindy writes poems of longing, disappointment, and discovery, of the natural world bumping up against the man-made world, of the small places where we can find respite—the crack in a sidewalk, a conversation on a ferry, the taste of ginger or coffee. She lives in Fairbanks, Alaska, where she teaches at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, dances, gardens, and tends the horses that appear in her poems.

Thursday, April 29th - Gender & Health Care Panel

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Before (or after) the Gender & Health Care Panel, Dine Out to support the Interior AIDS Association (see blog post below)

DINE OUT FOR LIFE

Join in supporting Interior AIDS Association.
Date : April 29th
Dine out at local restaurants with friends while supporting HIV prevention! Participating restaurants will donate a portion of their proceeds to Interior AIDS Association.
For more information and list of participating restaurants:
Ivory Jacks - 11am to 5pm
Bobby's Downtown - Dinner
Lavelle's Bistro - Dinner

The Clothesline Project

Come by the Women's Center on Friday from 10am until 3pm to make a t-shirt for the Clothesline Project.

 Photo taken from http://www.clotheslineproject.org/Photos.htm

Originally contributed by Kathy J,   Domestic Violence Specialist @ A Safe Place, NH

 

The Clothesline Project (CLP) is a program started on Cape Cod, MA, in 1990 to address the issue of violence against women. It is a vehicle for women affected by violence to express their emotions by decorating a shirt. They then hang the shirt on a clothesline to be viewed by others as testimony to the problem of violence against women. 

The t-shirts made at the Women's Center on Friday will be displayed at the Take Back The Night Rally on Friday April 23, 2010 at the UAF campus.   

The Women's Center is located at 112 Eielson Hall on the UAF Campus.

For more information on the Clothesline Project go to 

http://www.clotheslineproject.org/

TAKE BACK THE NIGHT

Take back the night is a rally and march to raise awareness about domestic violence and sexual assault.
A rally will be held in front of wood center with a Guest speaker, FOOD, Representatives from various local organization and a march around campus.

Date : April 23, 2010

Place: UAF Campus- Infront of Wood Center

Time: 4.00pm

Event Sponsor: Organization of Student Social Workers
Alaska Native Social Work Association
Interior Alaska Center For Non Violent Living
UAF Women's Center

UWA Undergraduate Scholarships

DEADLINE EXTENDED

Now due: April 16, 2010

Apply NOW!

The University Women's Association (UWA) provides scholarships for undergraduate women at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Application deadline for 2010-11 has been extended to April 16, 2010.

Scholarship Requirements

Female applicants enrolled in the Associate Degree program who meet the following minimum requirements will be considered:

• demonstrated financial need
• current enrollment of 9 credits or more at UAF in a field of study leading to an Associate Degree
• a 3.0 or better cumulative GPA based on a minimum of 9 credit hours
• strong faculty and/or employer recommendations

Female applicants enrolled in the Bachelors Degree program who meet the following minimum requirements will be considered:

• demonstrated financial need
• completion of at least 12 credit hours for each of the two preceding semesters (at UAF or another institution)
• a 3.0 or better cumulative GPA based on a minimum of 9 credit hours
• current enrollment as a full-time (12 credit) UAF undergraduate in a degree program with at least sophomore standing
• strong faculty and/or employer recommendations

Additional information and application forms available at http://www.uaf.edu/uwa/scholarship.html

Pam Mitchell Hoy Memorial Scholarship

Pam Mitchell Hoy 1947-1990

2010-2011 Pam Mitchell Hoy Memorial Scholarship application now available online  http://www.uaf.edu/cla/hoy.app.02.10.pdf

Pam Mitchell Hoy loved all animals, but especially enjoyed dogs. Pam raised and showed Italian Greyhounds and worked as a vet tech for two decades in North Carolina. She was a strong and vocal advocate for dogs and other pets. Pam was killed in 1990 and her murder remains unsolved.

This scholarship is given in Pam’s honor to encourage students to be advocates for women and animals.

To qualify for this scholarship you must have earned at least 24 credit hours prior to the start of the fall 2010 semester, have a minimum GPA of 3.5 and meet one of the following criteria:

• be a declared minor in Women’s Studies,
• be enrolled in the Veterinary Science Certificate Program,
• be a declared major or minor in Justice, or
• have made significant and positive contributions to the community on behalf of women or animals 

Application http://www.uaf.edu/cla/hoy.app.02.10.pdf must be submitted by April 16, 2010.

The Vagina Monologues

UAF will be treated to two performances of the

Vagina Monologues   

Saturday, April 17th at 8pm

and

Sunday, April 18th at 2pm

Both performances will take place in Schaible Auditorium in Bunnell Building.

Prices are $8 for students, $10 general admission.