Tuesday, March 10, 2009

PINAYspeak Announcement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Kamalayan Kollective presents

PINAYSPEAK: DIALOGUES FOR ACTION AND HEALING

SAN DIEGO, California – March 9, 2009 – Kamalayan Kollective presents PINAYSPEAK: DIALOGUES FOR ACTION AND HEALING, a one-day community-building intensive for self-identified Pinays and their allies. PINAYspeak will be hosted at the University of California, San Diego Cross-Cultural Center on Saturday, April 25, 2009.

Named after our Pinay-created space for personal growth, empowerment and dialogue, PINAYspeak will include workshop sessions, speakers and dialogues in a community-centered effort to explore and narrate the stories and experiences of Pinays. Topics will include but are not limited to: the ideology of Pinayism; the intersections of Pinay experience with relationships, poverty, sexism, lesbianism, homophobia, militarism, imperialism; and Pinay motherhood. Through various ways of knowing and sharing, both critically and creatively, attendees will engage in the artistic, the spiritual, and the material as ways of grounding, understanding, reclaiming, and constructing new language for the Pinay’s social reality.

PINAYspeak: DIALOGUES FOR ACTION AND HEALING

Date and Time: Saturday, April 25, 2009; 9:30AM – 6:00PM

Location: University of California, San Diego Cross-Cultural Center, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093

Fees: Free Admission and Free Parking


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