Sponsored by Women in the Audience Supporting Women Artists Now
Celebrate the Silver Anniversary of a Feminist Classic: A Jury of Her
Peers
Sponsored by Women in the Audience Supporting
Women Artists Now
IWPA is collaborating with three local women's organizations, under the banner of WITASWAN, on an exciting Women's History Month program scheduled for Saturday afternoon, March 19th.
Chicago Cultural Center (Michigan & Randolph)
Saturday, March 19, 2005 from 1 to 5:30 PM
Schedule of Events
1 to 2:45 PM: Screening of A Jury of Her Peers + Q&A with filmmaker Sally Heckel
3 to 4 PM: Lecture by Patricia L. Bryan & Thomas Wolf, authors of
Midnight Assassin:
A Murder in America's Heartland (the real story on which Jury is based)
4 to 5:30 PM: Reception & Signing Party @ La Strada Ristorante with Sally, Patricia & Tom. (Books & tapes will be available for purchase. Light snacks will be served.)
Cost
The screening & the lecture are free. The cost of the reception is $25 per person paid in advance ($15 for seniors & students with ID), & $35 for all walk-ins.
Background
A Jury of Her Peers is based on a 1917 short story by Susan Glaspell, inspired by events covered during her years as a court reporter for the Des Moines Daily News.
Susan Glaspell wrote 13 plays, 14 novels, & more than 50 essays, articles & short stories. In 1931, she received a Pulitzer Prize, one of the first American women so honored. Glaspell was a true feminist pioneer!
Sally Heckel is a Manhattan-based independent filmmaker best known for her 1980 Oscar-nominated dramatic short A Jury of Her Peers.
Patricia Bryan is a professor of law at the University of North Carolina. Her
husband & collaborator, Thomas Wolf, is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's
Workshop.
WITASWAN Sponsoring Organizations
AAUW-Illinois (American Assoc of University Women)
CAWHC (Chicago Area Women's History Council)
IWPA (Illinois Woman's Press Association)
WIDC (Women in the Director's Chair)
For reservations & more information, log on to: http://www.films42.com/witaswan/march.asp or download PDF.
NOTE:
La Strada Ristorante is located on the diagonal corner of Michigan & Randolph.
It is connected to the Chicago Cultural Center via the underground pedway,
which also connects to Grant Park underground parking & public transportation.