CGE Programming and Special Events - Archive

Each semester, the Center for Gender Equity organizes and sponsors a host of special events relating to our mission. These are some of the special events we've put on in the past...


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Fall 2009
September 11-12 MENSCH Festival of Music and Art: SUSTAINING A PLANET

Spring 2009
February 12-14 The Vagina Monologues
The Month Of March Womens History Month
April 9 Take Back the Night

Fall 2008
September 12 Mensch Festival
September 21 Race for The Cure
October 10 Love, Loving and In Love
October 30 Pro What
November Aids Memorial Quilt
November 1 Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
November 10 - 15 End Sex Trafficking Week
November 15 Slam Poetry Night

Spring 2008
February 23 Slam Poetry Night
March 4 Hanayui and Kaoru Watanabe - Free public concert
March 6 - 9 On the Verge - Theatre
March 10 - 15 Love Your Body Week
March 12 The Good Global Indian Woman - Lecture
March 17 MadCat Film Festival - Free public film festival
March 27 Mammogram Mobile - Mammogram screenings
March 31 - April 4 Sexual Violence Awareness Week
April 1 Take Back the Night
April 24 Equal Pay Day
April 25 Day of Silence

Fall 2007
November 13 India's Culture, Image, Voice: Bridging Cultural Boundaries Through a Lens
Nov 5 - Dec 2 AIDS Quilt on display at the Pacific University Library
October 12-14 Laramie Project
September 15 Forest Grove Chalk Art Festival
August 28 Dissolve: Date Rape Drugs Exposed

Spring 2007
April 5 Guerrilla Girls
March 1 - April 6 Four Weeks of Women
March 8 Take Back the Night
February 9-11 Vagina Monolouges

Winter III 2006-2007
Dec 31 2006 -
Jan 22 2007

Travel Course in India

Fall 2006
Oct 19

Slam Poetry Festival
Nov 7-22 AIDS Quilt on Display at the Pacific University Library
Nov 14 Spreading Hope in Africa: AIDS, Orphans and Art

Events From CGE's Early History

Vagina Monologues

February 2005, three-night run, full houses each night. This event will be repeated this year.

Theatre of the Oppressed

October 2005, CGE brought a theatre trope from University of Oregon which orchestrated an audience participation event on sexual assault called “Consent is Sexy.”

Voices of Africa

CGE is partnered with the Martin Luther King Jr. Committee to sponsor an evening program of women performing traditional African music.

Invisible Children and Night Commute

CGE brought to campus a film and the film producers on Ugandan children kidnapped to serve in the rebel army. CGE organized 50 students who protested this kidnapping at a sleepover event in Portland.

Semester Invitation Lunch

Each semester the board of directors sponsors a public lecture and invitation-only lunch. Fall semester we will sponsor Kirsten Carpentier who will speak on her work with AIDS and children in Africa. Other programs have been: (1) Methodist Minister sponsored by UCC led a discussion on “Faith and Feminism,” (2) Rosie Lee Bryant – First Lady of Liberia. CGE sponsored a lecture and lunch in which Ms. Bryant spoke of the condition of life and role of women in Liberia. (3) Bonnie Smith. CGE sponsored a lunch featuring Bonnie Smith from Rutgers University speaking about female genital cutting. (4) Hannah Jane Toomey, the last remaining daughter of an American slave spoke on her humanitarian and activist activities. She was a claimant in the reparations trials.