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Women & Revolution
In what ways have women revolutionized society?
How have revolutions affected the lives of women?
What facets of society are in need of a revolution?
Explore these questions and more as De Anza College celebrates Women's History Month and remembers the sacrifices, challenges and hard-won chapters of social change that become apparent when we consider Women and Revolution.
All events are free and open to the entire campus community.
For further information call 408.864.8433.
MONDAY, MARCH 2
Film screening: In Whose Honor? (U.S.), 1997 47 minutes. Directed by Jay Rosenstein.
Monday, March 2 at 11:30 a.m. in VPA-132
Profiling the work of Native-American activist Charlene Teters, this documentary about racism and sports—characterized as “graphic and eloquent”—addresses stereotypes and the powerful effects of mass-media imagery relative to the long-standing practice of using Native American names in sports.
Film screening: Chiapas: Prayer for the Weavers (U.S.), 1999 34 minutes. Directed by Judith Gleason.
Monday, March 2 at 12:30 p.m. in VPA-132
A poetic and moving documentary about the members of an indigenous women’s weaving collective in Chiapas, Mexico, whose families are engaged in a struggle against injustice, poverty, and marginalization in the face of privatization of Mayan farmland. The filmmaker focuses on the activities of Las Abejas (The Bees), a group which has organized in the face of violence.
TUESDAY, MARCH 3
Readers Theatre: “The Vagina Monologues”
Tuesday, March 3, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in ADM-102
and Wednesday, March 4, 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. in the WRC
Join De Anza College staff, students, and faculty in a reading of Eve Ensler’s beloved play.
Panel: “Can Women of Color Be Allies to One Another?”
Tuesday, March 3, 12:30 to 4:00 p.m. in the Campus Center, Conference Rooms A and B
Come and explore the importance of allies and whether having allies is a necessity for women of color on college campuses and in the community.
Hosted by the Black Student Union
Film screening: The Education of Shelby Knox (U.S.), 1005 74 minutes. Directed by Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt.
Tuesday, March 3 at 12:30 p.m. in L83 (Part 1) and Wednesday, March 4 at 12:30 p.m. in L83 (Part 2)
This film tells the story of a teenage girl, 15-year old Shelby Knox, of Lubbock, Texas, who joins a campaign for comprehensive sex education in the high schools of her community. As she is swept into the fight, she begins to question the beliefs of her family, and in the end declares herself a feminist and a liberal Christian.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4
Readers Theatre: “The Vagina Monologues”
Wednesday, March 4, 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. in the WRC
Join De Anza College staff, students, and faculty in a reading of Eve Ensler’s beloved play.
Film screening: The Education of Shelby Knox (U.S.), 2005 74 minutes. Directed by Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt.
Wednesday, March 4 at 12:30 p.m. in L83 (Part 2)
This film tells the story of a teenage girl, 15-year old Shelby Knox, of Lubbock, Texas, who joins a campaign for comprehensive sex education in the high schools of her community. As she is swept into the fight, she begins to question the beliefs of her family, and in the end declares herself a feminist and a liberal Christian.
Film screening: SA-I-GU: From Korean Women’s Perspectives (U.S.), 1993 36 minutes. Directed by Dai Sil Kim-Gibson and Christine Choy. Wednesday, March 4 at 3:30 p.m. in ADM-101
Exploring the 1992 Los Angeles riots from the perspectives of members of the Korean-American community three months after the event, this film considers the little-heard thoughts and feelings of Korean-American women shopkeepers who owned the businesses destroyed in the violent aftermath of the Rodney King verdict.
Film screening: Lucía (Cuba), 1968 160 minutes. Directed by Humberto Solás.
Wednesday, March 4 at 4:30 p.m. in AT-120
“Cinema takes on a revolutionary character to the extent that it becomes a weapon of struggle,” argued filmmaker Humberto Solás. In this film, he portrays three facets of Cuba’s history through a character called Lucía: Cuba’s war of independence from Spain; an attempt to overthrow dictator Gerardo Machado; and the modern era.
Film screening: The Passion of Joan of Arc (Denmark), 1928 114 minutes. Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer.
Wednesday, March 4 at 7:30 p.m. in AT-120
Long-celebrated for its stunning camera work and a singularly powerful performance by French actress Renée Falconetti, Carl Dreyer’s film depicts the young martyr powerfully yet realistically. This restoration of the film is accompanied by a soundtrack which includes Richard Einhorn’s oratorio, “Voice of Light,” set to texts by medieval and early-Renaissance women.
THURSDAY, MARCH 5
Film screening: Grrlyshow (U.S.), 2000 18 minutes. Directed by Kara Herold.
Thursday, March 5 at 10:30 a.m. in ADM 101
An exploration of fringe feminism and print media, Kara Herold’s film is a powerful and rebellious message from voices not often heard. The filmmaker examines the girly Zine revolution by interweaving head-shot interviews, clips from the zines, and 1950s television-like vignettes.
Film screening: DAM/AGE: A Film with Arundhati Roy (India), 2002 50 minutes. Directed by Aradhana Seth.
Thursday, March 5 at 2:30 p.m. in AT-120
Director Aradhana Seth traces writer Arundhati Roy’s bold and controversial campaign against the Narmada dam project in India. Weaving together a number of issues that lie at the heart of politics today, the filmmaker addresses the consequences of development and globalization as well as the urgent need for state accountability and freedom of speech.
SATURDAY, MARCH 7
Film screening: Breaking the Ice: The Story of Mary Ann Shadd (Canada), 1999 23 minutes. Directed by Sylvia Sweeney.
Saturday, March 7 at 10:00 a.m. in ADM 103
This film sheds new light on North America’s first woman newspaper editor and first female attorney of African descent. Using interviews with Shadd’s familial and ideological forbearers, the filmmaker recreates the experiences of an early African-Canadian community.
MONDAY, MARCH 9
Presentation: Silicon Valley De-Bug and their Community Advocacy Criminal Justice Project
Monday, March 9, 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. in the Campus Center, Conference Rooms A and B
Come and hear documentary photographer Charisse Domingo and De-Bug community organizer Gail Noble speak about the experiences of mothers who are fighting the criminal justice system. Charisse Domingo’s work is included in the innaugural exhibition, “Looking Back, Looking Ahead.”
Co-sponsored by the Euphrat Museum
Film screening: Persepolis (France/Iran), 2007 96 minutes. Directed by Marjane Satrapi with Vincent Paronnaud.
Monday, March 9 at 12:30 p.m. in VPA-132
The poignant coming-of-age story of young girl in Iran, this animated film explores, through the eyes of a nine-year old, the dashed hopes of a people in the face of fundamentalism. Fraught throughout her girlhood and young adulthood over where to make her home, this autobiographical film offers a provocative glimpse into exile.
Film screening: Wild Swans: Jung Chang (U.K.), 1995 59 minutes. Directed by Mischa Scorer.
Monday, March 9 at 7:00 p.m. in ADM-101
This film captures the turbulent transformation of China in the twentieth century by exploring the lives of three generations of Chinese women: Jung Chang’s grandmother, born into a feudal society; her mother, a guerrilla fighter and high-ranking Communist; and Jung Chang herself, an exile to the Himalayas who eventually relocated to England.
TUESDAY, MARCH 10
Visiting Filmmaker and hosted film screening: Lourdes Portillo
Tuesday, March 10, 1:30 p.m. in A-11
Co-hosted by the Puente and ¡LEAD! Programs
Sponsored by the Visiting Speakers Series
Al Más Allá (Mexico/U.S.), 2008 43 minutes.
Join the critically-acclaimed and Oscar-nominated director Lourdes Portillo for a screening and discussion of her new film, Al Más Allá, a provocative experimental documentary about a filmmaker who investigates drug trafficking along the Mayan coastline. Chicana identified, Lourdes Portillo has worked in a wide range of film and video media, and focuses largely on the search for Latino/a identity. Her 2001 film Señorita Extraviada received the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
Film screening: Black Kites (U.S.), 1996 26 minutes. Directed by Jo Andres.
Tuesday, March 10 at 10:30 or 12:30 in G4
Based on the 1992 journals of Bosnian visual artist Alma Hajric, who was forced into a basement shelter to survive the siege of Sarajevo, this film is the outcome of a chance encounter between the artist and filmmaker-choreographer Jo Andres. Focusing on Hajric’s inner landscape, it skillfully merges reality-based content with interpretive visual material.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11
Visiting speaker and hosted film screening: Dr. Joi Barrios
Wednesday, March 11, 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., Campus Center, Conference Room A
Following a screening of Sine Patriyotiko’s 20-minute film Aklasan! (Strike!), poet and activist Dr. Joi Barrios will read from her poems and lead a discussion about human rights. Dr. Barrios, currently a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, holds the most prestigious literary award in the Philippines, the Palanca Award. She teaches creative writing at the University of Philippines.
Co-hosted by the Institute of Community and Civic Engagement
Film screening: Shouting Silent (South Africa), 2002 50 minutes. Directed by Renee Rosen and Xoliswa Sithole.
Wednesday, March 11 at 8:30, 9:30, or 10:30 a.m. in L63
An exploration of the South African HIV/AIDS pandemic through the eyes of Xoliswa Sithole, an adult orphan who lost her mother to HIV/AIDS in 1996. Xoliswa journeys back home in search of other young women who have also lost their mothers and are now struggling to raise themselves and their siblings.
Film screening: The Land Has Eyes (Fiji), 2004 91 minutes. Directed by Vilsoni Hereniko.
Wednesday, March 11 at 1:30 p.m. in MCC-16
The daughter of a wrongly-convicted thief, the protagonist of Vilsoni Hereniko’s narrative film is Viki, a Pacific Islander who is shamed by the people of her village. Ultimately redeeming her family’s name by exposing the secrets of her island’s most powerful and important people, Viki confronts the conformity of her island’s culture as well as notions of personal freedom.
Film screening: Aklasan! (Strike!) (Philippines), 2004 20 minutes. Directed by Sine Patriyotiko.
Wednesday, March 11 at 6:00 p.m. in the Campus Center, Conference Room A
This film chronicles the events that followed the November 6 strike in Hacienda Luisita, Inc. (HLI) in the Pilipino farmers’ and factory workers’ fight for just pay and land reform. The film popularizes the HLI struggle and provides an alternative source of information to mainstream media footage, revealing the violence committed by the police and military against the workers.
THURSDAY, MARCH 12
Multicultural Fashion Show
Thursday, March 12, 6:00-8:00 p.m. in the Campus Center, Conference Rooms A and B
Come and experience the diversity of De Anza College and celebrate women from different cultures through traditional clothing as well as vintage wear. Watch De Anza celebrate women with music and dance!
Hosted by the Black Student Union
Visiting Filmmaker and hosted film screening: Elizabeth Farnsworth
Thursday, March 12, 2:00 p.m. in AT-120
Hosted by the Film/Television Department
and the De Anza Academy of Independent Filmmakers
The Judge and the General (U.S.), 2008 90 minutes.
Documentary filmmaker Elizabeth’s Farnsworth’s new film, The Judge and the General, which she co-directed with Patricio Lanfranco Leverton, chronicles two investigations undertaken by Chilean Judge Juan Guzmán, a one-time supporter of the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet who was given the job of investigating the general’s crimes. Recently nominated by the Director’s Guild of America for the Award in Outstanding Directorial Achievement, Elizabeth Farnsworth will screen and discuss the film.
Hosted film screening: But I’m a Cheerleader (U.S.), 1999 85 minutes. Directed by Jamie Babbitt.
Thursday, March 12 at 3:30 p.m. in A-11
Join the De Anza Gay-Straight Alliance as they host a screening of a comedy that focuses on a young female cheerleader whose parents send her to a homosexual-rehabilitation camp in order to complete a program to re-learn her gender roles and sexuality. The film is replete with characters designed to personify a range of gay stereotypes and features actress Cathy Moriarty.
FRIDAY, MARCH 13
Hosted film screening: Children of the Crocodile (Australia), 2001 52 minutes. Directed by Marsha Emerman.
Friday, March 13 at 10:30 a.m. in Forum 1
This documentary follows two young Timorese-Australian activists—one a high-profile human rights worker, the other a performance artist and lesbian—in their personal journey to further the cause of peace in the homeland that their families fled when the girls were infants. Their tireless efforts are documented through two years in East Timor’s history. Hosted by the First Year Experience program.
Film screening: House of Flying Daggers (China), 2004 119 minutes. Directed by Zhang Yimou.
Friday, March 13 at 2:30 p.m. in AT-120
In this narrative, which has been described as a “muscular balance of aesthetic splendor and dazzling swordplay,” an underground movement called the House of Flying Daggers openly challenges the authority of a government. The film is recognized for its particularly strong depictions of women as warriors and activists who work to foment revolution.
MONDAY, MARCH 16
Film screening: Zanzibar Soccer Queens (U.K.), 2008 55 minutes. Directed by Florence Ayisi.
Monday, March 16 at 10:25 a.m. in G1
In the Muslim country of Zanzibar, soccer is considered a man’s game. Yet a group of women have made the sport their own, giving reign to an alternative side of their existence. The filmmaker interviews the players about the difference that playing soccer has made to their daily lives. Clerical disapproval has meant that there is a lack of women’s teams with which to compete.
Film screening: Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible (U.S.), 2006 50 minutes. Directed by Shakti Butler.
Monday, March 16 at 3:30 p.m. in ADM 101 (Part 1) and Wednesday, March 18 at 3:30 p.m. in ADM 101 (Part 2)
This film features the experiences of white women and men who have worked to gain insight into what it means to challenge notions of racism and white supremacy in the United States. It is a moving and long-overdue call, coming from the heart of white people who are working to undo the all-pervasive and subtle teachings of racial supremacy.
TUESDAY, MARCH 17
Visiting Artist Consuelo Jimenez Underwood
Tuesday, March 17, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the Euphrat Museum of Art
Participate in a conversation with Consuelo Jimenez, a professor of textile art at San Jose State University. Designed as a mini artist-in-residence event, Consuelo Jimenez Underwood will discuss art, education, labor, and community. The artist’s work is included in the innaugural exhibition, “Looking Back, Looking Ahead.”
Co-sponsored by the Euphrat Museum
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18
Exhibition: “The Clothesline Project”
Wednesday, March 18, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Campus Center Patio
An important effort of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, “The Clothesline Project” is an outdoor exhibition conceived by artist Rachel Carey-Harper which provides visible witness to the casualties and wounded victims of violence against women.
Film screening: Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible (U.S.), 2006 50 minutes. Directed by Shakti Butler.
Wednesday, March 18 at 3:30 p.m. in ADM 101 (Part 2)
This film features the experiences of white women and men who have worked to gain insight into what it means to challenge notions of racism and white supremacy in the United States. It is a moving and long-overdue call, coming from the heart of white people who are working to undo the all-pervasive and subtle teachings of racial supremacy.
The Women’s History Month Committee would like to thank our primary funder, the De Anza Associated Student Body.
We also thank the Visiting Speakers Series, the California History Center, the Euphrat Museum of Art, the Women’s Studies Department, the Division of Creative Arts, the Division of International/Intercultural Studies, and graphic designer Lauren Nguyen.
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