Ritual vessel with women facing the Directions,
from the great mound at Betancí, Colombia.
Sinú culture.
View a clip on Mother-Right
from the Women's Power dvd
Nights of Remembrance: Women’s Empowerment Councils
Between March 18 through the 23rd, 2008, women are hosting the first of a series of gatherings to screen the DVD premiere of Women’s Power, the first video created by Max Dashú.
This ground-breaking movie gives a condensed view of female leadership, creativity, wisdom, and courage, around the world and over thousands of years. It features female governors, elders, clan mothers, culture-makers, healers, priestesses, poets, musicians, doctors, witches, athletes, rebels, and liberators. For more information on the DVD, click here .
The Councils:
After showing the DVD, participants can discuss their reactions to the movie and the issues it raises. Wherever the Women’s Power slideshow was presented over the past 32 years, women are always struck by the magnitude of what has been withheld from us, and invariably someone asks, How did women get to where we are now? Here is an opportunity to hold council about what needs to be done to overcome the patterns of domination, all of them. This is it, do or die, time to create change. How do we do it?
Become a Convenor:
This means organizing and hosting an event at a space of your choice, buying a copy of the DVD, showing it to your community, and collecting donations for the Archives. We recommend a modest donation at the door. After the video, people can donate more if they choose.
Convenors have the option (not required) to pre-order extra copies for women to buy at the event. (Prepaid orders only: no consignments.) Unsold copies can be returned for refund (seal unbroken).
Whether the event is for women or open to everyone is up to the convenors.
The full transcript of Women's Power is online and can be printed out, especially for accessibility to deaf women, but also as reference for names, dates, and other information.
A study guide is online with questions for discussion. This aid is not intended as a definitive list.
We are asking Convenors to print out pdfs of promo slips for the DVD and give them out to attendees.
And we call for more gatherings to be convened during this crucial year.
Send email queries to maxdashu@LMI.net . Not online? Mail queries to Max Dashu, PO Box 3511, Oakland CA 94609 (USA), and be sure to include your phone number.
Ordering the Women’s Power DVD:
Convenors and anyone else can order DVDs directly online (see upper right page area here) or by mail order..