The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute
Celebrating Our 28th Anniversary
Location: Friends Meeting House, Manhattan
15 Rutherford Place (15th Street Between Second and Third Avenues.
Short walk from Union Square)
$10-$75 Suggested Donation / underwritten tickets available
As part of our campaign to bring awareness to the public mental health crisis facing girls and women in relation to their bodies and self-esteem, we are again providing a forum to continue the conversation about what it means to live in a female body.
-- HONORING Nona Willis Aronowitz, Co-author of GIRLDRIVE-CRISS-CROSSING AMERICA, REDEFINING FEMINISM. Willis Aronowitz is a journalist and cultural critic who writes about women, sex, feminism, film, and music for numerous publications including The Nation, The Village Voice, The New York Observer, Salon, Double X and Bitch. She blogs at Girl-drive.com.
-- Cheryl Cochran, actor and elder at Middle Collegiate Church will enact a piece from BELOVED about the body. Cochran’s Philadelphia credits include Romeo and Juliet, The Blacks and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Off-off Broadway credits include The Children’s Hour, Zoo Story, Dark of the Moon & Fire on Wall Street. She has also worked with Bil Wright on Eva’ Baby & For Sakia Gunn.
-- SPEAKOUT our time-honored forum for women to find their individual voice and share experiences, allowing the personal experience of each woman to be heard, dignified, and transformed by our coming together.
-- WOMEN'S BODIES/WOMEN'S ART, an art exhibition by women portraying the female body, organized by Caren Shapiro, LMSW, MFA, artist and graduate of The WTCI.
-- Courtney Martin will announce The WTCI’s forthcoming international campaign, Endangered Species: Preserving the Female Body.
