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February 2023 AAUW Little Rock, Inc. News & Events

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February Branch Meeting

 

Saturday, February 11th, 11am
Whole Hog Cafe
Riverdale Shopping Center at 2516 Cantrell Road
Little Rock


Our confirmed speaker for February is LaTonya Bynum. LaTonya is the principle consultant, CEO and Founder of URA Resource Center in Conway, Arkansas.  She is a Masters in Public Health (MPH) trained Master Certified Health Education Specialist. She has over 30 years of experience in corporate retail sales, public health, and health information technology work.

LaTonya specializes in using research for access to improve health status and quality of life, specializing in:

  • creative and technical writing (including resume preparation),
  • public speaking and job interview preparation, and
  • research and data use including salary negotiation. 
She is the author of four books including "Tools for Career Success".


Our luncheon meeting will be in the Whole Hog Cafe in Little Rock. Everyone will order and pay for their own food at the restaurant's check-in counter. Once your number is called and you retrieve your food, bring your tray through the small door in the large dining area to the separate dining room.  The room is spacious and separate from the main dining area. RSVPs are not required for this meeting.

Questions? Contact Mary McGehee, Co-President, by email (mary_mcgehee@comcast.net) .
 

AAUW Art Contest - Voting Open Now

In the art world, women are underrepresented and undervalued. Only a third of artists represented by commercial galleries are women, and women working in arts professions are paid on average 74 cents to every dollar paid to men. This is what motivates AAUW to host an annual art contest—to give women artists the attention they deserve.

The 2023 AAUW art contest is now underway! The winning entries will be featured in a collection of note cards mailed to AAUW members in the spring.

February 2 through February 10, 2023 you will be able to cast your vote for your favorites by clicking here. You must be a current AAUW member to participate.

   

AAUW LITTLE ROCK 2023 CALENDAR

REGULAR MEETINGS AND EVENTS


Regular meetings of the branch are on the second Saturday of the month, beginning at 11am, September through May. We do not meet in January or in the same month as the state convention. We currently meet in person.

February 11 - Regular Meeting at Whole Hog Cafe, 2516 Cantrell Road, Little Rock

March 11 - Regular Meeting

April 22 - State Convention in Little Rock [NEW!]

May 13 - Annual Branch Meeting

October 19 - 21 Regional Conference in St. Louise [NEW!]

 


AAUW TUESDAY AFTERNOON BOOK CLUB




AAUW Little Rock members are eligible and invited to participate in the Tuesday Afternoon Book Club. The Book Club meets at 12:30 pm on the first Tuesday of the month, October through May. They don't meet in January. Contact Diana Glaze, Book Club President, or Kathryn Buril, hostess, if you would like to attend the February meeting or join the book club. They will meet in Kathryn's home. 

The Book Club is a great social time as well as a good way to find out about interesting books before you read them. Debra Tillery hosted the club in December and reviewed the book she is showing in the picture above, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus.

Book Club Schedule 2023:

DATE               HOSTESS(ES)

February 7       Kathryn Buril
March 7           Gloria Bastidas & Maria Jones
April 4             Maureen Terrafranca
May 2              June Lloyd

 
 

BRANCH BULLETIN BOARD

Share your announcements, events, awards, pictures, greetings and activities with other members.  Send to Maria Jones by clicking here and she will add to the next newsletter.

Keeping Up with the Arkansas Legislature

 
Your options to stay involved at our State Capitol:
  • Sign up for Action Alerts from the Arkansas Coalition for Strong Families by clicking here. AAUW is a member of this coalition.
  • Sign up for Senator Greg Leding's ARLEG Update by clicking here. Senator Leding's updates are concise and reflect AAUW priorities.
  • The Citizens First Congress Lobby Day scheduled for January 31, was rescheduled to Wednesday, February 15.  AAUW is a member of the CFC. Register by clicking here.
  • AAUW is supporting legislation to eliminate the taxes on feminine hygiene products and to make these products more available in public schools. Follow the Period Poverty Project Legislative Coalition by clicking here.
  • For public education-focused updates and action, subscribe to Arkansas Strong in Education by clicking here. They also do a video summary weekly that is very informative.

LEGISLATIVE SESSION INFO          

Clinton Presidential Center Presents “Women’s Voices: Activism in Art”

Conversation with the artists

Thursday, February 9 – Click here to register

The Clinton Presidential Center Presents “Women’s Voices: Activism in Art,” a dynamic conversation with three world-renowned fiber artists whose art quilts are on display in our current exhibition, “Women’s Voices, Women’s Votes, Women’s Rights.” Guest curator, Allida Black, Ph.D., will moderate the conversation. 

Hollis Chatelain is an internationally renowned and award-winning artist. Through a dynamic and characteristic style marked by dreamlike imagery, elaborate use of color, and intricate thread detail, Chatelain creates unique compositions that address challenging social, environmental, and political themes.

Shin-hee Chin is a fiber artist and professor of art at Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas. Her work addresses issues of the female body, cultural identity, and sense of belonging.

Sara Trail started sewing at age 4. As a college student, she realized how art and justice are connected when she created a quilt honoring Trayvon Martin, who was killed walking home from a store. That inspired her to empower young artists to find their voices and to found the Social Justice Sewing Academy.

Allida Black, Ph.D., is a Historian and Advisor to Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. She also curated this exhibit. She is author of ten books and dozens of articles on Eleanor Roosevelt, the evolution of human rights, and women’s political history, and is editor emeritus of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, a documentary history of Roosevelt’s efforts to construct and apply the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

ARKANSAS SCHOLARS - 2023

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February marks Black History Month, a tradition that got its start in the Jim Crow era and was officially recognized in 1976 as part of the nation's bicentennial celebrations. It aims to honor the contributions that African Americans have made and to recognize their sacrifices...

Each year, the ASALH [Association for the Study of African American Life and History] chooses a different theme for Black History Month. This year, the theme is "Black Resistance."

"African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression, in all forms, especially the racial terrorism of lynching, racial pogroms, and police killings since our arrival upon these shores," the ASALH says of this year's theme. "These efforts have been to advocate for a dignified self-determined life in a just democratic society in the United States and beyond the United States political jurisdiction."

Read the full NPR article by clicking here.

AAUW Little Rock Branch


CO-PRESIDENTS - ZENOBIA HARRIS & MARY ALICE MCGEHEE
MEMBERSHIP CO-VICE PRESIDENTS - LOTTIE ADAMS & MAUREEN TERRAFRANCA
SECRETARY - SUSAN HOLT
FINANCE - NELL MATTHEWS


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