OntheWilderSide

Dear Friends of Herstory,

As we settle into our new Centereach “Room of Our Own,” we are going to be sending out regular emails about new workshops and special events. Do forgive us if you receive some of these first mailings more than once, as we perfect our data base and mail merges. With a lively group of volunteers working in our new quarters, we are still looking for software and mail merge help. We hope you will visit our website where we have an updated listing of our ongoing workshops and daylong retreats at http://www.herstorywriters.org/happen3d.html We hope also that you try out our new Building Bridges workshop series, sponsored by Bay Shore Unitarian Fellowship’s Social Justice Committee, offered for six weeks at the Fellowship at 28 Brentwood Road, 6:30 -8:30pm. This workshop is designed to bring together women newly released from prison and women from the community. http://www.herstorywriters.org/gen-conn-bayshore-2008.html

Below is our calendar for March, Women’s History Month, free special events. To find out more or to preregister for these free programs, click on the hyperlinks below.

March 2^nd, 10am – 3:30 pm will be our very popular annual Building Bridges Daylong Retreat at the Charles B. Wang Center Chapel. This outgrowth of Dialogues Across Differences has traditionally brought together women from all walks of life seeking to find a voice to tell their stories. http://www.herstorywriters.org/gen-conn-stonybrook-2008.html

March 22^nd 10am -1pm, we will be presenting Part Two of a special Journeys Towards Kindness Memoir Writing Workshop at Middle Country Public Library’s Selden Branch, in conjunction with their Middle Country Reads initiative. While our ongoing program at the library is available only to district residents, for this workshop any woman working with Herstory is invited to attend. http://www.middlecountryreads.com/events.htm

March 27^th at 2:30-4 pm Our South Setauket workshop, hosted by Jefferson’s Ferry Lifecare Community will be presenting a special reading on Life Journeys by members of the workshop young and old. The public is invited to attend. Information will be posted on Herstory’s Website by the end of this week. http://www.herstorywriters.org/

March 29^th– Eileen Fisher’s Easthampton store is again dedicating a day of shopping to Herstory, offering a $25 discount with 10% of the proceeds dedicated to Herstory’s work with women in prison and in the community. If you are unable to come to the store on that day but would like to participate, you are welcome to call the store to preorder with processing happening on the 29^th. This year, in a more active partnering, there will be spontaneous readings on body image by Herstory members sprinkled throughout the day.

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