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WOMEN'S VOICES 2010-2011 SCHEDULE
Meetings will take place the first Monday of every month from 5:00 to 6:30PM.
Women's Voices does not endorse any of our presenters.

This winter and spring sessions, we're going to explore local galleries, the St. Francis Auditorium, Site Santa Fe, and the Inn of the Anasazi. With the exception of the financial seminar, the Chico's sale, and the Governor's Health Day, our programs will take place from 5:00pm-6:30pm, the first Monday of each month.

June 6: Marty Braniff, Child Advocate who founded 50 chapters of Case in Texas, Topic: Child abuse and child trafficking in the United States, Where: at Charlie Romney-Brown's home. Members only.

Other events of interest in Santa Fe and NM:

May 17: The NM Commission on the Status of Women will host Strong Voices: Women and Crime Conference. See the web site for more information.

Other items of interest:

From Singer Rankin: WorldWomenWork is proud to announce support for the Grevy's Zebra Trust. Strong community involvement combinded with cutting edge conservation techniques has begun to reverse decades of habitat degridation for a critically endangered species, the Grevy's Zebra. See www.grevyszebratrust.org

2010-2011 past events:

May 2: Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way, The Creative Life and The Right to Write will discuss her work. Topic: How to Become More Creative Where: Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta. 6:00pm (note time change from regular programming). The cost of the event for non-members is $25, which is tax-deductable as your donation will help support the Solace Crisis Center and Women's Voices.

April 23: Saturday: Chico's clothing store is hosting a benefit for Women's Voices. Ten percent of the total daily sales will be donated to us and the Solace Trauma Center. Please go shopping! You might want to join Chico's club. They give you a coupon for approximately 25% off each month, which you can use at our sale.

April 4: Mary Lynn Kotz, award-winning biographer of Rauschenberg, Art and Life, will give us the acclaimed lecture on Georgia O'Keeffe that she gave at the Phillips Gallery in D.C. Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, 435 So. Guadalupe.

March 18 (Friday), 10:00am-12:00 noon. This important seminar on How Best to Invest For Our Futures is free to our members but is being offered to the public for $25. Make your reservations early as we sold out last year. At Ironstone Bank, 700 Paseo de Peralta.

March 7: Jim Ledyard, Dir. of NM School for the Arts and Sherry Thompson, Board Member and former Director of the Thaw Charitable Trust. Topic: The NM School for the Arts and the declining support for the arts in Santa Fe. Inn of the Anasazi 113 Washington Ave. (Valet parking available)

Feb. 7: Patsy Philips, director of the Museum of Contemporary Native Art, will address her exciting plans for the Museum at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art gallery, 554 So. Guadalupe St., in the Railyard Contemporary Arts District. It is necessary that you RSVP for this event: womensvoices@comcast.net.

Oct. 4: Fab-Lab is based on the MIT model, which can teach you how to make anything. Pat French will tell us her idea on how to raise money for our desperate schools.

Fall: Tours of Site Santa Fe's Biennial: The Disolve

Nov. 1: Silver Bullet Productions - Pamela Pierce will tell us what is happening in the New Mexico film world.

Dec 3: Dr. Emile Nakhleh will discuss the latest on Muslim and American relations. He will speak at our Holiday party at Lisa Bemis's home. Spouse or partner is welcome.

2009-2010 past events:

June 8: Richard Moe, President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Richard will discuss the need for historic preservation in the southwest. The National Trust for Historic Preservation provides leadership, education, advocacy, and resources to save America's diverse historic places and revitalize our communities.

June 15, 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. Historical Markers: You are invited to Women's History along the Highways; a talk with Dr. Tom Chavez, Patricia French and Karren Sahler.

Sponsored by Women's Voices and the New Mexico Historic Women Marker Initiative a project of the New Mexico Women's Forum,

Not one of New Mexico's 600+ Official Scenic Historic Markers had as its central subject a woman, although dozens of men from the valiant to the shameful are commemorated with markers around the state. That has all changed thanks to the New Mexico Historic Women Marker Initiative, which has now placed 64 markers around the state honoring more than 100 women. Historian Dr. Tom Chavez will provide an engaging lecture about these fascinating women from our history. Founding member Patricia French and Executive Director Karren Sahler will be on hand to provide a history of the project. All are welcome but seating is limited.

May 11: Panel on Santa Fe's challenges and widening horizons.

Claudia Pavel: owner of Positive Energy in Santa Fe
Claudia will tell us how going green will benefit our world.

Ana Pacheco: founder of Las Herencia Magazine,
will discuss the health of the Santa Fe Community. La Herencia is the only publication of its kind about Hispanic culture.

Diane Karp: Executive Director of the Santa Fe Art Institute
Diana will speak to what is happening financially in the arts.

Peter Balleau: owner of Balleau Groundwater, Inc. is an expert on Santa Fe's water situation.
Peter's focus is on hydrology, with emphasis on arid-zone hydrology.

April 24, Saturday, 9:45-12:00AM: Seminar: Women need to be in financial control of their lives. Ironstone Bank, 700 Paseo de Peralta. Susan Wells and Ben Trujillo -ChFC, CLU will inform and educate us about the best use of our money. There is also the possibly of forming an investment club. Mr. Trujillo owns his own firm: JB Trujillo which works with private clients. Ms. Wells is a Vice President of Ironstone Bank and Financial Sales Manager.

April 13: A reception at Lisa Bemis' home - to honor those who have supported Women's Voices and to give people an opportunity to get to know each other better. Please RSVP to Womensvoices@comcast.net.

March 9: Dr. Duane W. Roller gave us a new view of Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen, as a diplomat and war strategist. Book is published by Oxford Press. Dr. Roller is a noted archeologist who has published ten books.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Panel discussing State and National Perspective on Health Reform and Women
Giovanna Rossi: Governor Richardson appointed Giovanna to be N.M.'s first Women's Health Advisor and is Executive director of the Governor's Health Office.
Jane Wishner: is the Founder and Executive Director of the Southwest Women's Law Center in Albuquerque, She is a member of the Governor's Domestic Violence Leadership Commission and serves on the National Advisory Board for the coalition of national and state-based reproductive rights organizations.
Dr. Justina Trott: has been President of the American College of Women's Health Physicians, has completed a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship in D.C., and is a clinical professor at The University of New Mexico.
Patricia Heyman: founder & principle of Bridging Associates, speaker, facilitator, consultant and executive coach will moderate the panel.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 5:00-6:30 PM,
Collected Works, 202 Galisteo Street.
Maria Sanchez-Grana of the Office of New Mexico Attorney General
will speak on Human Trafficking and the New Mexico border.

Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery, widespread throughout the United States today. Trafficking of humans is the second largest criminal industry in the world after drug dealing. Force, fraud and coercion are the methods used by traffickers to press victims into lives of servitude and abuse. Many cross the New Mexico border from Mexico into the United States.

Due to snow, this program was postponed to Friday, Dec 11
Tuesday, December 8, 5:00 - 6:30 PM at Collected Works
Sally Denton will be talking about her new book on Helen Gahagan Douglas

Tuesday, December 1, 5:30 - 7:00 PM at Collected Works
Women's Voices Authors' Christmas Celebration!
We are proud to honor our own fine women authors, who will read from their works and answer your questions:
   Nancy Bartlit    Marigay Grana    Anna Jane Hays    Tori Shepard

2009 - 2010 speakers to date have included: Lt Governor Diane Denish; Valerie Plame; Dr. Fera Simone (one of the country's foremost Iranian experts), Frieda Arth on the refugees now pouring into New Mexico.

Women's Voices has the right to replace speakers.
Last updated: May 16, 2011