Jan
25
The RCAH Center for Poetry
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The RCAH Center for Poetry is a HerStories partner! From its base in the Residential College of Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University, the Center is co-promoting HerStories events.
Jan
25
Updated February 17, 2010
Dawn Comer joins HerStories! Her workshop “On Becoming a Fish: Birthing Characters and Finding Voice Through Fiction” is scheduled March 13 at 2:30pm.
Dawn received her MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Notre Dame. She currently teaches part-time at Defiance College and is writing two books: Raised in a [...]
Jan
25
Updated February 17, 2010
Andrea King Collier joins HerStories! She is the author of Still with Me: A Daughter’s Journey of Love and Loss (2003) and lead author of The Black Woman’s Guide to Black Men’s Health (2007). Her reading is scheduled March 20 at 1:00pm.
Andrea has been writing and speaking about health and health [...]
Jan
24
Benefit Show & Open Mike
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Updated Jan. 25
On March 27 at 4:00pm, join the HerStories Benefit Show & Open Mike! This finale event of the month-long series is a fundraiser for the Women’s Center of Greater Lansing.
The details are coming together for an amazing ensemble of performances and author readings. Here is the growing list of contributors:
Silvana Alfaro (Vagina Monologues [...]
Jan
24
Everybody Reads
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Everybody Reads Books & Stuff is hosting all HerStories events. For anyone new to ER, it is an independent bookstore owned by Scott Harris. ER is in transition to become Michigan’s first cooperatively-owned bookstore and already boasts a host of volunteers.
ER serves the wider Lansing community as well as Eastside neighbors in a number of [...]
Jan
24
Storyteller Charles Thornton joins The HerStories Project! He has graced Lansing at the Old Town Poets gathering over the years. More details about his storytelling adventures are coming in February!
Charles is storytelling on March 13 at 1:00pm for a kid-friendly audience.
Jan
24
Marilyn Mayer Culpepper: Writing about Women
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Updated February 17, 2010
Marilyn Mayer Culpepper joins HerStories! Her workshop “Writing about Women” is scheduled March 20 at 2:30pm. She is emeritus faculty from Michigan State University and the author of several books documenting women in U.S. history, including the most recently published Never Will We Forget: Oral Histories about World War II (2008).
The [...]
Jan
24
Holly Makimaa: Journaling through Change
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Updated February 17, 2010
Holly Makimaa from Oasis Health & Wellness/ Yoga Center of East Lansing joins the HerStories program! Her workshop “Journaling through Change” is scheduled March 6 from 2:30-3:30pm. Holly has been teaching holistic journaling workshops for almost 10 years and has worked with clients nationally in telling their life stories. She is [...]
Jan
24
Women’s Center of Greater Lansing
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The Women’s Center of Greater Lansing has joined The HerStories Project! The Women’s Center is co-promoting events and will receive donations raised at the Benefit Show & Open Mike on March 27.
Jan
15
Updated February 25, 2010.
Michigan Women’s Historical Center & Hall of Fame partners with The HerStories Project! The Center is promoting the HerStories program with its members and the public. Also, The Center has donated admission tickets, which will be raffled at all four Saturdays of HerStories.
FYI: Don’t miss the Michigan Women’s Historical Center & Hall [...]