Women's Respect, Women's Rights

On November 15, The Blue Castle welcomes MUN doctoral student and Trudeau fellow, Leila Qashu. Leila will discuss Ateetee, a musical conflict resolution ritual undertaken by Arsi Oromo women in Ethiopia. Although these women are excluded from many male spaces, activities and political decisions, they secure and assert their power by creating their own social spaces and by interacting with the male social order through such media as musical conflict resolution rituals. Leila will explain the ritual through stories, musical, video and pictorial examples from her fieldwork.

Leila Qashu is a doctoral candidate in Ethnomusicology at MUN. She has studied and worked in Canada, Africa and Europe. Outside her studies, Leila plays viola in the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra.

Women's Respect, Women's Rights
Ateetee, a vernacular conflict resolution ritual

Tuesday, 15 November 2011 at 8 pm
The Ship (265 Duckworth Street)

Fast Talk about Body Image

The Blue Castle welcomes St. John's artist, Pam Hall, for an unrehearsed, interactive multi-vocal community reading of part of her long term performance activism project around re-writing the female body.

Over 150 women from across North America have offered their insights into the phrase, "I feel beautiful when..." Join us in reading their words while also contributing your own!


Fast Talk about Body Image
Tuesday, April 26 at 8 pm !!!NOTE DATE CHANGE!!!
The Ship (265 Duckworth Street)

Je me souviens: memories of an expatriate anglophone, montréalaise, québecoise exiled in Canada

MUN students, faculty and community members present a public reading of Lorena Gale’s acclaimed dramatic monologue, Je me souviens, an autobiographical meditation on nation, language, identity, and the complexities of belonging. Challenging, provocative, thoughtful and intimate, this Governor General’s Award nominated play is also a love song for Québec. This is also our opportunity to remember Lorena Gale, a formidable Canadian actor and writer who died in Vancouver in June 2009, aged 53.

Tuesday, March 8 at 8 pm
The Ship (265 Duckworth Street)