April 12, 2001

Middlebury College celebrates

“Take-Back-the-Night Week” April 23-26

Events Calendar

Listings:

Monday, April 23

4-5:30 p.m.

Film: “Live Free or Die”

This award-winning 2000 documentary highlights

the struggle of an obstetrician and gynecologist who performs

abortions in Manchester, N.H., as he fights to maintain a woman’s

right to chose on both an institutional and personal level. He

becomes the focus of a small group of very vocal protestors in the

process. The film won awards at the Human Rights Watch International

Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, Maine Film Festival and Hot

Springs Documentary Film Festival.

Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center,

College St. (Route 125)

Tuesday, April 24

8 p.m.

Play and Panel Discussion: “The Yellow Dress”

This one-woman play is a powerful and moving

dramatic account of the life of a young woman whose dreams are cut

short when a seemingly idyllic relationship becomes violent. A panel

discussion on dating violence will follow. The panel will include

Anne Smith of Addison County Women in Crisis.

Coltraine Lounge, Adirondack House, College

Street (Route 125)

Wednesday, April 25

7:30 p.m.

Keynote Lecture by Jackson Katz: “More Than a

Few Good Men: A Lecture on American Manhood and Violence Against

Women” by Jackson Katz, one of America’s leading anti-sexist male

activists. Since 1996, he has directed the first worldwide gender

violence prevention program in the history of the United States

Marine Corps. He is a member of the United States secretary of

defense’s task force on domestic violence in the military. Katz’s

talk will include the topics of gender violence, homophobia, and

connections between the campus culture of drinking and the incidence

of sexual assault.

Room 216, Bicentennial Hall, Bicentennial Way

off College Street (Route 125)

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Thursday, April 26

6:30 p.m.

Film and Discussion: “Defending Our Lives”

This 1993 Academy Award-winning documentary

exposes the magnitude and severity of domestic violence in this

country. The devastating accounts of the women featured in this film

reveal the failure of the criminal justice system-and of our society

as a whole-to protect the victims of domestic violence. “Defending

Our Lives” has often served as a tool in starting discussions about

domestic violence, human rights, criminal justice, violence against

women, the need for social legislation, law enforcement, and women’s

status in society. A discussion will follow the film.

Warner Hemicycle, Warner Hall, College Street

(Route 125)

Admission is free to all events. For more

information, contact the Middlebury College Chellis Women’s and

Gender Studies Center at 802-443-5937.