KQED Celebrates Women’s History Month
March 2009 KQED Public Television proudly celebrates the diversity of our community with a special lineup in February on KQED Channel 9 and HD (the high-definition channel, Comcast 709, digital 9.1). This guide also lists programs airing on the following digital channels, which are available to viewers on Comcast digital cable and/or via a digital receiver: Life (Comcast 189, 54.3), World (Comcast 190, 9.3) and Kids (Comcast 192, 54.4). Some programs repeat
additional times on these channels. Celtic Women: The Greatest Journey Photo: Agatha Stoinska. Visit www.kqed.org/dtv for complete digital program schedules. Sunday 1 Thursday 5 EARLY EARLY programming symbols 5:30am Life | Loreena McKennitt: A Moveable 1:30am KQED 9/HD | Celtic Woman: The Greatest q This program is a KQED Musical Feast | H | follows the Canadian Journey | P | HD | RR 3/4 7:30pm | R 3/7 production or presentation. singer behind the scenes and on stage 9:30am & 9pm, 3/8 3am, 3/11 1pm (9/HD) ; H This program is airing on KQED for during her 2007 An Ancient Muse tour. 3/10 7pm (Life) the first time. 1:30pm World | To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe P This broadcast will be interrupted by | H | Syndicated columnist Bonnie Erbe hosts pledge intermissions. Saturday 7 a lively discussion of news and national R This program will be repeated on the affairs with a panel of nationally known 9:30am KQED 9/HD | Celtic Woman: The Greatest date noted. female experts. Journey | P | HD | RR 3/4 7:30pm | R 9pm, RR This program is a repeat. See noted 3/8 3am, 3/11 1pm (9/HD); 3/10 7pm (Life) 2:30pm World | Maria Hinojoas: One-on-One | H | date and time of original broadcast Teresa Rodriguez. Journalist María Hinojosa 10:30am World | To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe for program description. interviews the Cuban American journalist Syndicated columnist Bonnie Erbe hosts a who is also host of the Univision news- lively discussion of news and national affairs magazine Aqui y Ahora. with a panel of nationally known female experts. Programs are subject to change. EVENING 1:30pm World | Untold Stories: Mina Miller For the latest information, call 8:00pm World | Independent Lens A Fish Story. Edison, The Wizard’s Wife Perhaps 415.553.2215 or view our listings at Two women battle against a coalition of best-known as Thomas Edison’s wife, Mina www.kqed.org. For a list of changes national environmental groups for control of was a remarkable woman in her own right. the ocean. only, visit www.kqed.org/tvchanges. Her diary entries hint at a side of the prolific If you are recording a program, 9:00pm World | In Search of Myths and Heroes inventor not always seen by the public. please allow five minutes for early The Queen of Sheba. Clues to the truth 3:00pm World | View from a Grain of Sand behind the myth are found around the Red starts and late finishes. | H | Combining verité footage, interviews sea from Egypt to Eritrea and Ethiopia. and archival material, this documentary is a harrowing, yet intimate portrait of Afghan Monday 2 women’s history over the last 30 years. 4:00pm World | Keepers of the Flame: The Cover: Independent Lens: 2:00pm Kids | Reading Rainbow Show Way. The Cultural Legacy of Three A historian, a Iron Ladies of Liberia women in one family began creating quilts dancer and kuma hula teacher helped revive Airs Sunday, March 8, at 8pm with secret maps to freedom during the the flame of traditional Hawaiian culture. on World. years of slavery. 5:00pm World | Shipping Out: The Story of Photo: Henry Ansbacher/ITVS. America’s Seafaring Women celebrates Wednesday 4 the modern-day women who work in com- EVENING mercial shipping—on the container ships, bulk cargo carriers and tankers, coastal 7:30pm KQED 9/HD | Celtic Woman: The Great- tugs, barges and ferry boats that traverse est Journey | P | Highlights of the musical America’s waterways. ensemble’s performances are intertwined with stunning images of Ireland. | HD | R 3/5 1:30am, 3/7 9:30am & 9pm, 3/8 3am, 3/11 1pm (9/HD); 3/10 7pm (Life) EVENING EVENING Tuesday 17 9:00pm KQED 9/HD | 7:00pm World | Not Celtic Woman: The Greatest Ken Burns American Stories EARLY Journey | P | HD | RR 3/4 7:30pm | R 3/8 For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth 3am, 3/11 1pm (9/HD); 3/10 7pm (Life) Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Part 1:30am KQED 9/HD | Katharine Hepburn: They 1 of 2 reveals the dynamics behind this Called Me Kathy | RR 3/16 7:30pm remarkable alliance that gave birth to the 3:00am KQED 9/HD | Madams of the Barbary Sunday 8 women’s rights movement. Coast | RR 3/16 9pm EARLY 8:40pm World | Ken Burns American Stories Not 5:00am KQED 9/HD | Betty Ford: The Real Deal 3:00am KQED 9/HD | Celtic Woman: The Greatest For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth | HD | RR 3/16 11pm | R 10pm (Life) | | | RR 3/4 7:30pm | 3/11 Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Part 2 Journey P HD R EVENING 1pm (9/HD); 3/10 7pm (Life) of 2. 8:00pm KQED 9/HD | Nova Pocahontas Revealed 11:30am World | 10:10pm World | Independent Lens Lioness. In Pure Magic: The Mother- tells the Native American side of the | H | profiles Katherine Iraq, a group of women became the first Daughter Bond Jamestown story, providing a fascinating Cheng—who came to the United States from in American history to be sent into direct new perspective on the colonists’ inevitably China as a young university student—and ground combat. one-sided accounts of their sometime-allies/ her four adult daughters. | R 6:30pm (World) sometime-adversaries. | D | HD | R 3/18 2am EVENING Monday 16 (9/HD); 3/21 10pm (World) 8:00pm World | Independent Lens Iron Ladies of EVENING 11:00pm KQED 9/HD | Picturing Mary explores Liberia. This intimate documentary goes achievements in painting, architecture, 7:30pm KQED 9/HD | Katharine Hepburn: They behind the scenes with Africa’s first freely poetry and music inspired by the Virgin Mary. Called Me Kathy The acclaimed actress elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson | R 3/23 6pm (Life) reminisces about her youth in Hartford, Sirleaf, president of Liberia. Conn.; features home movies of the star and 9:00pm World | Sisters of Selma: Bearing her family at home. | R 3/17 1:30am (9/HD) Wednesday 18 Witness for Change explores the role of 9:00pm KQED 9/HD | Madams of the Barbary Catholic nuns on the voting rights marches EARLY Coast This award-winning documentary tells of 1965 in Selma, Alabama. 2:00am KQED 9/HD | Pocahontas Revealed. the captivating and sometimes scandalous Nova | | | 3/17 8pm | 3/21 10pm (World) 10:00pm World | Independent Lens Motherland stories of the madams, prostitutes and other D HD RR R Afghanistan. One in seven Afghan women “women of questionable virtue” who helped EVENING dies in childbirth. Sedika Mojadidi explores bring culture, beauty and compassion to the 7:30pm KQED 9/HD | Spark | q | H | Wayne the people behind these statistics. Gold Rush era of San Francisco. | 3/17 R Thiebaud, Vienna Teng, Janice Garrett. Spark 3am (9/HD) 11:00pm World | Independent Lens Shadya looks at kicks off its seventh season with a look at the the evolution of an Arab-Israeli woman with 10:00pm Life | Where Words Prevail follows the life and work of painter Wayne Thiebaud, and feminist ideas in a male-dominated culture. work of Cicely Berry, voice director of the spends some time with singer-songwriter Royal Shakespeare Company, from New Vienna Teng and modern dance choreogra- York to Moscow. pher Janice Garrett. | HD | R 3/19 1:30am, Wednesday 11 3/20 11:30pm, 3/21 5:30am (9/HD); 3/21 11:00pm KQED 9/HD | Betty Ford: The Real Deal 1:00pm KQED 9/HD | 2pm & 10:30pm (Life) Celtic Woman: The | H | Historians and family discuss the first Greatest Journey | P | HD | RR 3/4 7:30pm lady who went public with her mental illness 9:00pm KQED 9/HD | Marie Antoinette examines and addiction. | HD | R 3/17 5am (9/HD); 3/17 the life of a one of the most controversial Saturday 14 10pm (Life) monarchs, from her childhood to her final hours. | D | HD | R 3/19 3am (9/HD); 3/28 10:30am World | To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 3pm (World) | H | Syndicated columnist Bonnie Erbe hosts 11:00pm KQED 9/HD a lively discussion of news and national | Final Hours: Amelia re-creates the final affairs with a panel of nationally known Earhart’s Last Flight flight of the noted aviation pioneer, whose female experts. historic 1937 trip around the world ended in 3:00pm World | Wide Angle Class of 2006 profiles her tragic disappearance. | R 3/19 5am the first contemporary group of women of- (9/HD); 3/19 10pm (Life) ficially trained as religious leaders in the Arab world. Thursday 19 4:00pm World | Wide Angle Flying Down to Kabul. Artist and pilot Simone Aaberg Kaern helps EARLY a young Afghan girl fulfill her dream of flying 1:30am KQED 9/HD | Spark | q | Wayne Thiebaud, a plane. Vienna Teng, Janice Garrett. | HD | RR 3/18 5:00pm World | Wide Angle Birth of a Surgeon. 7:30pm | R 3/20 11:30pm, 3/21 5:30am Midwives in Mozambique are receiving (9/HD); 3/21 2pm & 10:30pm (Life) medical training in advanced life-saving 3:00am KQED 9/HD | Marie Antoinette | D | HD | surgery. | RR 3/18 9pm | R 3/28 3pm (World) 5:00am KQED 9/HD | Final Hours: Amelia Sunday 15 Earhart’s Last Flight | RR 3/18 11pm | R 10pm (Life) EARLY EVENING mid KQED 9/HD |Soundstage Stevie Nicks, Part 2 of 2. | HD | 8:00pm KQED 9/HD | Secrets of Mary Magdalene strips away the veils of history to reveal the woman who served as Jesus’ foremost apostle. | R 3/20 2am, 3/22 6pm (9/HD); 3/20 7pm (Life)
3 Betty Ford: The Real Deal Photo: David Hume Kennerly/ G etty I mages. 9:00pm Life | An Evening with Eartha Kitt In this lively and playful interview, Gwen Ifill talks with the legendary performer (who passed away in December 2008) about her stage, dance and acting career. 9:00pm KQED 9/HD | Catherine the Great Part 1 of 2. This two-part documentary tells the amazing story of the obscure German princess who transformed Russia from a backward feudal outpost to a vast modern empire. | R 3/20 3am (9/HD); 3/20 8pm (Life) 10:00pm KQED 9/HD | Catherine the Great Part 2 of 2. The empress rules with principles of reason and enlightenment and tries to ex- pand Russia’s borders. | R 3/20 4am (9/HD); 3/20 9pm (Life) 11:00pm KQED 9/HD | Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels Along with Shirley’s own on- Great Performances: Beverly Sills: Made in America Photo: Metropolitan Opera Guild, photo by William Harris. camera participation, the film also includes on-camera appearances by actors Anthony Hopkins, Nicolas Cage, Jack Lemmon, John 4:30pm World | Bold Visions: Women in 9:00pm World | P.O.V. No More Tears Sister Set Forsythe and Julia Roberts. | R 3/20 5am, Science and Technology looks into the during the violent ethnic conflict that has 3/21 7pm, 3/22 1am (9/HD); 3/20 10pm (Life) lives of a research scientist hunting for the enveloped Sri Lanka over decades, the genetic causes of diseases, an astronaut documentary recreates the courageous and applying her engineering expertise in space vibrant life of renowned human rights activist Friday 20 and a technologist responsible for numerous Dr. Rajani Thiranagama. EARLY patients. | R 3/30 1:30pm (KQED HD) 10:00pm World | P.O.V. In the Family. Filmmaker 2:00am KQED 9/HD | Secrets of Mary Magdalene 5:00pm World | Government Girls of World Joanna Rudnick faces her deepest fears | RR 3/19 8pm | R 3/22 6pm (9/HD); 3/20 7pm War II tells the story of the young women when she tests positive for the breast (Life) who flocked to Washington, D.C., to help in cancer gene. the mobilization for the Second World War. 3:00am KQED 9/HD | Catherine the Great Part 1 of 2. | RR 3/19 9pm | R 8pm (Life) EVENING Monday 23 4:00am KQED 9/HD | Catherine the Great Part 2 7:00pm KQED 9/HD | Shirley Maclaine: Kicking EVENING Up Her Heels | RR 3/19 11pm | R 3/22 1am of 2. | RR 3/19 10pm | R 9pm (Life) H (9/HD) 9:00pm KQED 9/HD | Powder and the Glory | | 5:00am KQED 9/HD | Shirley Maclaine: Kicking chronicles how Helena Rubinstein and Up Her Heels | RR 3/19 11pm | R 3/21 7pm, 7:00pm Life | Great Performances Loreena Elizabeth Arden began what is now a $150 3/22 1am (9/HD); 3/20 10pm (Life) McKennitt: Nights from the Alhambra. The billion health and beauty industry. “eclectic Celtic” performs at Granada’s | D | HD | R 3/24 3am (9/HD) EVENING magnificent Alhambra Palace. 9:30pm Life | The Storied Life of Millie Benson 11:30pm KQED 9/HD | Spark | q | Wayne Thiebaud, 8:30pm Life | Erma Bombeck: Legacy of Laugh- recounts the inspiring life of the author and Vienna Teng, Janice Garrett. | HD | RR 3/18 ter Phil Donahue narrates this exploration adventurer who wrote the first Nancy Drew 7:30pm | R 3/21 5:30am (9/HD); 3/21 2pm of the extraordinary life and career of the mysteries. & 10:30pm (Life) beloved humorist. | R 3/30 7:30pm, 3/31 1:30am (9/HD) Tuesday 24 Saturday 21 EARLY EARLY Sunday 22 3:00am KQED 9/HD | Powder and the Glory | D | 7:30am KQED 9/HD | To the Contrary with Bonnie EARLY | HD | RR 3/23 9pm Erbe | H | A news analysis program examin- 1:00am KQED 9/HD | Shirley Maclaine: Kicking ing major issues of the day. | HD | R 3/21 Up Her Heels | RR 3/19 11pm 10:30am (World) Wednesday 25 6:00pm KQED 9/HD | Secrets of Mary Magdalene 5:30am KQED 9/HD | Spark | q | H | Wayne EVENING | RR 3/19 8pm Thiebaud, Vienna Teng, Janice Garrett. | HD | 7:30pm KQED 9/HD | Spark | q | H | Mary Sano, RR 3/18 7:30pm | R 2pm & 10:30pm (Life) EVENING Ron Nagle, Sandow Birk profiles Mary Sano, 3:00pm World | Grab Hold of the Reins: Women 7:00pm Life | Celtic Woman Exceptional Irish who came to the Bay Area from her native and Cancer profiles three long-term breast musicians—four singers and a violinist —give Japan to dedicate her life to the preservation and ovarian cancer survivors, focusing on a spectacular performance. of Isadora Duncan’s work; ceramicist and how they reclaimed their identity, sexuality 7:00pm World | Motherhood Manifesto | H | looks musician Ron Nagle; and visual artist and femininity after the assault of cancer. at the challenges facing working mothers in Sandow Birk, who takes puppetry to a 3:30pm World | Heartbeat to Heartbeat: Women America and offers ideas for solving them. whole new level. | HD | R 3/26 1:30am, 3/27 11:30pm, 3/28 5:30am (9/HD); 3/28 2pm (Life) and Heart Disease reveals useful informa- 8:00pm World | Independent Lens Taking the Heat: tion on risk factors, symptoms and preven- The First Women Firefighters of New York tion of heart disease. City. With the story of Lt. Brenda Berkman 4:00pm World | Living Courageously: The Spirit at its core, this film explores the history of of Women profiles women whose lives have women firefighters in America and the price been transformed by challenging and these women have paid to serve their devastating circumstances. communities.
4 Thursday 26 EVENING Women’s History Month 8:00pm Life | EARLY Carole King: Welcome to My Living Room | H | is an intimate glimpse into the Programming q 1:30am KQED 9/HD | Spark | | Mary Sano, Ron “living room” of one of the greatest songwrit- Nagle, Sandow Birk. | HD | RR 3/25 7:30pm ers in history. | R 3/29 mid (9/HD) KQED Public Radio | R 3/27 11:30pm, 3/28 5:30am (9/HD); 3/28 2pm (Life) 88.5 FM San Francisco Sunday 29 10:00am KQED 9/HD | Colonial Williamsburg 89.3 FM Sacramento Fieldtrips | H | Remember the Ladies. In EARLY 1776, Abigail Adams requested that her mid KQED 9/HD | Carole King: Welcome to husband, future president John Adams, My Living Room | RR 3/28 8pm (Life) “remember the ladies” when establishing the government and laws of the new nation. 5:00pm Life | Independent Lens Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway. The ec- EVENING A Conversation with centric lives of Edith Beale and her daughter Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg 8:00pm Great Performances Beverly Sills: Made in Edie set the stage for a film and a musical. Wednesday, March 4, 8pm America profiles one of opera’s homegrown 6:00pm Life | Picturing Mary explores the achieve- Saturday, March 7, 1pm stars, who circled the globe triumphing in a ments in painting, architecture, poetry and host of leading roles. | 3/27 2am (9/HD); R music inspired by the Virgin Mary. Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life is a 3/27 7pm (Life) EVENING paradigm of the American immigrant experience. In one generation, she rose Friday 27 8:00pm World | Path to Nuclear Fission: The from the daughter of Jewish immigrants Story of Lise Meitner is the intriguing story to a seat on the Supreme Court. Born Early of the lives and times of Lise Meitner and in 1933, she credits much of her early Otto Han, who revolutionized the history of 2:00am Great Performances Beverly Sills: Made in success to the influence of her mother, science and the role of women in physics. America. | RR 3/26 8pm | R 7pm (Life) who gave her two pieces of advice: 8:00pm Life | EVENING 12 Girls Band: Live from Shanghai Always be a lady and be independent. During the 13th century, the Chinese Em- in her conversation with Larry q 11:30pm KQED 9/HD | Spark | | Mary Sano, Ron peror was usually entertained by a band of Josephson, Ginsberg offers a rare Nagle, Sandow Birk. | HD | RR 3/25 7:30pm made up of 12 girls playing a variety of string personal look into the life of a sitting | R 3/28 5:30am (9/HD); 3/28 2pm (Life) instruments. Those same instruments are Justice of the Supreme Court: used today by China’s foremost world music her struggles against gender Saturday 28 ensemble as they perform in Shanghai. discrimination, anti-Semitism and severe illness (her mother died of 10:00pm World | By Invitation Only | H | New Or- Early leans filmmaker Rebecca Snedeker decided cancer, both she and her husband 5:30am KQED 9/HD | Spark | q | Mary Sano, Ron to forego the debutante tradition of the car- survived it). Justice Ginsburg, one Nagle, Sandow Birk. | HD | RR 3/25 7:30pm nival ball, which was a birthright of women in of the Court’s centrist liberals, | R 2pm (Life) her family—but still she could not ignore its also explains her philosophy of judicial restraint. 7:30am KQED 9/HD | To the Contrary with Bonnie hold on her identity. Erbe | H | A news analysis program examin- 10:30pm Life | American Masters Sweet Honey Peace Talks Radio: ing major issues of the day. | HD | R 10:30am in the Rock: Raise Your Voice captures the (World) tremendous energy this sextet of African Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams 5:30pm World | The Reindeer Queen | H | profiles American women unleashes on stage. Wednesday, March 11, 8pm “Sinrock Mary”—an elderly Eskimo woman who fought to save her reindeer herd from Monday 30 From the recent “Building a Culture of the Gold Rush rumrunners and drifters. Peace Conference” in Santa Fe, N.M., EARLY this program presents highlights from The Reindeer Queen Photo: Anchorage Museum of History and Art. mid KQED 9/HD |Austin City Limits | H | an address and a one-on-one interview Sarah McLachlan/Duffy. | HD | with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody EVENING Williams, who talks about human rights and international law, the role of civil 7:30pm KQED 9/HD | Erma Bombeck: Legacy of society in international diplomacy, and Laughter | RR 3/21 8:30pm (Life) | R 3/31 individual initiative. Williams received 1:30am (9/HD) the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the campaign that she led, the Interna- Tuesday 31 tional Campaign to Ban Land Mines. The program also explores the EARLY role of peace and justice centers in 1:30am KQED 9/HD | Erma Bombeck: Legacy of communities by talking with directors Laughter | RR 3/21 8:30pm (Life) of peace centers in Albuquerque, N.M., Las Vegas, Nev., and Burlington, Vt. ADVOCACY Girls Inc. of Alameda County 510.357.5515; Asian Immigrant Women Advocates www.girlsinc-alameda.org 510.268.0192; www.aiwa.org Inspires all girls to be strong, smart and Seeks to foster empowerment of low- bold since 1958. Challenges girls to income, limited-English–speaking Asian explore their potential, attend college, immigrant women in the Bay Area. build fulfilling careers and expand their sense of what is possible. Asian Women’s Resource Center 415.788.1008, Youth Justice Initiative 1.888.977.3399 (youth line); 415.753.7670; www.yjinstitute.org or Please note that this is only www.gummoon.org www.bayareagirlsjustice.org a small portion of the many Addresses the needs of women and Works to ensure that youth in the organizations that serve the children in geographic and social juvenile justice system receive treatment that is responsive to their women’s community in the transition. Empowers these individuals, fostering stability, self-reliance, self- needs and nurtures their strengths via Bay Area. To add your determination and full access to case planning and advocacy, mentoring organization to this list or opportunity. and making available youth centered update information for next therapeutic approaches aimed at assisting them in the development of year’s guide, please send an Bay Area Radical Women skills that improve their mental health. e-mail to [email protected]. 415.864.1278; www.radicalwomen.org A multi-issue international socialist feminist organization dedicated to The Global Fund for Women training women leaders. Meetings 415.248.4800; are held at 7 p.m. on the second and www.globalfundforwomen.org fourth Thursdays of the month at New A grant-making foundation supporting Valencia Hall, 625 Larkin Street, #202, women’s human rights organizations San Francisco around the world that address issues of economic independence, girls’ access to education and stopping violence California Women’s Agenda against women. 415.221.4841; www.win-cawa.org/cawa A state action alliance of 600 League of Women Voters of organizations working in collective Berkeley, Albany and Emeryville action through real and virtual networks 510.843.8824; http://lwvbae.org to empower California women. A nonpartisan, nonprofit, grass-roots organization that promotes political responsibility through informed, active Commission on the Status of participation of citizens in government. Women 415.252.2570; www.sfgov.org/cosw Ensures equal treatment and fosters National Center for Lesbian Rights the socioeconomic, political and 415.392.6257; www.nclrights.org educational advancement of women A nonprofit, public interest law firm and girls throughout San Francisco that litigates precedent-setting cases through policies, legislation and at the trial and appellate court levels programs. and advocates for equitable public policies affecting the LGBT community. Provides free legal assistance to LGBT Community United Against people and their legal advocates. Violence 415.777.5500, 415.333.HELP (4357) (crisis line); www.cuav.org Offers a 24-hour confidential, multi-
Resources lingual support line, free counseling, legal advocacy, and emergency assistance (hotel, food and transportation vouchers) to survivors of domestic violence, hate violence and sexual assault.
Equal Rights Advocates 415.621.0672, 800.839.4372 (toll-free advice/ counseling line); www.equalrights.org Protects and secures equal rights and economic opportunities for women and girls through litigation and advocacy.
6 Austin City Limits: Duffy Photo: KL R U/Scott N ewton. Women’s Economic Agenda Project International Museum of Women 510.986.8620; www.weap.org 415.543.IMOW (4669); www.imow.org Demands economic justice for poor Amplifies the voices of women women and their families. Assists poor worldwide through history, the arts and women in achieving a living wage by cultural programs that educate, create providing technical training, emotional dialogue, build community and inspire support and links to resources. action. Learn more about current exhibitions and public programs at Women’s Foundation www.imow.org. 415.837.1113; www.womensfoundca.org Intersection for the Arts Supports organizations that serve low- 415.626.ARTS (2787); income women and girls throughout www.theintersection.org California. Funds and supports An alternative art space that presents programs that work to prevent violence new and experimental work in the against women and girls; that promote fields of literature, theater, music and girls’ leadership, health and economic visual arts. justice; and that promote and protect the human rights of women and girls. KITKA Women’s Vocal Ensemble 510.444.0323; www.kitka.org Women’s Intercultural Network A professional women’s vocal 415.221.4841; www.win-cawa.org ensemble dedicated to producing An international nonprofit organization, concerts, recordings and educational consultative to the United Nations, that programs that develop new audiences links women and girls across cultures, for music rooted in the vocal traditions globally and locally, for collective action of Eastern European women. on common critical concerns. Maiko Women’s Drum and Women’s Justice Center Poetry Ensemble 707.575.3150; 510.623.2831, 408.272.9924; www.justicewomen.com www.sjmag.org Provides free advocacy services for Blends percussive rhythms with poetry Great Performances: Beverly Sills: Made in America Photo: Don Perdue. victims of rape, domestic violence and and choreography to promote cultural child abuse, particularly in the Latina expression through performance. and other underserved communities of Sonoma County. Coordinates the Margaret Jenkins Dance Task Force on Women in Policing, National Conference for Spectrum Community Services Company with the goal of increasing the number Community and Justice, Northern 510.881.0300; 415.861.3940; www.mjdc.org of women and minorities working in California Region www.spectrumcs.org Supports the artistic vision of founder law enforcement. www.nccj.org A community service center and artistic director Margaret Jenkins. A human relations organization committed to improving people’s Known for the innovative collaborative dedicated to fighting bias, bigotry and quality of life. Builds partnerships process by which the work is made racism. Promotes understanding and with other community service ARTS and for the initiation of programs that respect among all people through organizations and helps people to be support and encourage new work. advocacy, conflict management functional, financially sustainable and Brava! for Women in the Arts and education. independent. 415.641.7657; www.brava.org Mary Sano Studio of Duncan Specializes in the creation of new Dancing works by women of color and lesbians. National Organization for Women Women of Color Resource Center 415.357.1817; www.duncandance.org Promotes multicultural and feminist www.now.org 510.444.2700 ext. 301; Dedicated to preserving the art productions and provides adults and Contra Costa County: 925.952.2012 www.coloredgirls.org of Isadora Duncan and exploring youth with comprehensive theater Marin: 415.289.9550; An education, community action the contemporary relevance of her training. www.nowmarin.org and resource center that supports, art. Offers ongoing Duncan dance Oakland: 510.287.8948 sustains and advances social justice technique classes and workshops for San Jose: www.sanjosenow.org movements around issues that affect Community Women’s Orchestra all ages and levels. A grassroots organization that women of color. 510.463.0313; promotes women’s rights. www.communitywomensorchestra.org Museum of Craft and Folk Art A self-supporting group of amateur The Women’s Building 415.227.4888; www.mocfa.org women musicians joyfully dedicated National Women’s History Project 415.431.1180; Fosters the appreciation and to the rehearsal and performance of 707.636.2888; www.nwhp.org www.womensbuilding.org understanding of craft and folk art from music by women composers and the Recognizes and celebrates the diverse A vibrant multiservice community diverse cultures and traditions through standard orchestral repertoire. and historic accomplishments of center and resource room in San exhibitions, educational programs and women by providing information and Francisco dedicated to providing research publications. educational materials and programs. women and girls with the tools and Dance for Power resources they need to achieve full and 209.937.0402; www.danceforpower.org Oakland Civic Orchestra A nonprofit arts organization that works The Older Women’s League equal participation in society. Hosts 510.238.7275; to build cross-cultural understanding www.oaklandnet.com/parks/programs/ See SENIORS an annual celebration of International Women’s Day, provides support for through arts programming that is ca_civicorchestra.asp adults pursuing post-secondary inclusive, creative, educational and A volunteer community orchestra education and houses numerous affordable. Offers ethnic dance and bringing together musicians of all ages organizations supporting women and music programs throughout Bay Area and backgrounds to share in the joy communities of color. schools and community centers for and magic of making music. school audiences and for the public.
7 International House at U.C. U.C. Davis Women’s Resource and Berkeley Research Center 510.642.9490; 530.752.3372; http://wrrc.ucdavis.edu http://ihouse.berkeley.edu Promotes an understanding of the role Aims to foster intercultural respect by and impact of gender in our lives and providing students and scholars from our society. around the world with an opportunity to live and learn together in a challenging U.C. San Francisco Center for and supportive residential, community- Gender Equity oriented program center. 415.476.5222; www.ucsf.edu/cge Promotes an understanding of the role The Junior League of San of gender and sexuality in our lives Francisco Inc. and our society. Supports equity and 415.775.4100; www.jlsf.org achievement for women and serves An organization of women who want as a liaison to existing campus and to make a difference in the community. community services. Committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and Women’s Leadership Institute, improving communities. Mills College 510.430.2019 Expanding Your Horizons Network Aims to build bridges between the at Mills College college and the wider world of women Pure Magic: The Mother-Daughter Bond Photo: courtesy of the Cheng family. 510.430.2222; in ongoing and emerging leadership www.expandingyourhorizons.org roles. Oakland Museum of California Flyaway Productions Nurtures girls’ interest in science and 510.238.2200, 415.333.8302; math courses and encourages them Women’s Studies Programs 888.OAK.MUSE (625.6873) (toll free); www.flyawayproductions.com to consider science- and math-based Foothill College Women’s Studies www.museumca.org Experimenting with height, speed and career options. Program 650.949.7196; Provides collections, exhibitions and gravity and performing off-the-ground www.foothillcollege.org educational services that generate dances that expose the range and Mills College English Center for Mills College Women’s Studies wider public understanding of power of female physicality. Also teach International Women Department 510.430.2233 California’s environment, history and off-the-ground dance to women 510.863.6700; www.eciw.org San Francisco State University art. and girls. An independent, nonprofit year-round Department of Women’s Studies program of intensive instruction of 415.338.1388; ODC Dance English as a second language serving www.sfsu.edu/~woms Stanford University Program of 415.863.9834 (box office); EDUCATION women and men. Feminist Studies 650.723.2412 www.odcdance.org U.C. Berkeley Women’s Studies A resident dance company known Berkeley Information Network Oakland Public Library Department 510.642.8513 worldwide for its athleticism, passion 510.981.6100; 510.238.3134 (information desk), U.C. Davis Women and Gender Studies and intellectual depth. www.berkeleypubliclibray.org 510.238.3615 (children’s room); A service of the Berkeley Public Library. www.oaklandlibrary.org Program 530.752.4686 A vital information, education, La Peña Cultural Center community and cultural center offering Young African American Women 510.849.2568, 510.841.3800 (Café East Palo Alto Library a wide range of services, programs and Valparaiso); www.lapena.org 650.321.7712; Mentoring and Educational materials for all ages and interests. A multicultural performing arts center www.eastpaloaltolibrary.org Program and restaurant in Berkeley that presents A branch of the San Mateo County 415.921.6276 music, theater, dance, film and visual Library system (see “San Mateo County San Francisco Public Library, arts that examine contemporary social Library”). Main Branch YWCA at U.C. Berkeley issues and that reflect a wide variety of 415.557.4400; www.sfpl.org 510.848.6370; cultural traditions. Gender Equity Resource Center Dedicated to free and equal access to www.ywca-berkeley.org —U.C. Berkeley information, knowledge, independent Provides programs and resources learning and the joys of reading for our for the Berkeley community and U.C. VOCI Women’s Choral Ensemble 510.642.4786; diverse community. Berkeley students. Programs include 510.531.8714; www.vocisings.com http://geneg.berkeley.edu the Racial Justice Program, the Youth A women’s choral ensemble dedicated Provides events, programs, Mentor Program, English in Action, the to performing new and innovative services and resource information San Mateo County Library Student Volunteer Board, volunteer music within the classical choral particularly for college students that 650.312.5258; www.smcl.org (listings opportunities, and classes in fitness tradition. increase knowledge, awareness and for all branches and events) understanding of gender, sexual and international dance. Woman’s Will orientation, sex and gender identity, Skyline College WIT (Women in relationship violence, sexual violence, 510.420.0813; www.womanswill.org Transition) Program and bias-related incidents. Produces classes, performances and 650.738.4157; www.skylinecollege.edu FAMILY/CHILDREN special events that use theater as a Helps women make the transition back into the academic environment and Adoption SF tool to create social and gender equity, Girls After School Academy 415.584.4044; encourages women to expand their 888.SFCHILD (732.4453) (toll free); build job and life skills, and bring www.gasa.citysearch.com horizons and reach their intellectual, www.sfchild.org communities together for meaningful A comprehensive program that serves professional and personal goals. A unique collaboration of the City dialogue. girls 8 to 18 years old who live in and County of San Francisco Sunnydale, San Francisco’s largest Human Services Agency and the San Francisco Girls Chorus public housing development, and in the private, nonprofit Family Builders 415.863.1752; greater Visitacion Valley. that endeavors to recruit, certify and www.sfgirlschorus.org prepare families to make a difference A regional center for choral music that matters in the life of a waiting child education and performance for girls or youth. and young women age 7-18, offering a program of unparalleled excellence designed to take young girls from their first introduction to the art of choral singing through a full course of choral/ vocal instruction.
8 Girl Ventures SOUL (School of Unity and Berkeley Women and Men’s Health National Alliance for the 415.864.0780; www.girlventures.org Liberation) Center Mentally Ill Empowers adolescent girls to develop 510.451.5466; 510.843.6194 415.905.6264; www.namisf.org and express their strengths. Explores www.schoolofunityandliberation.org A local affiliate of the National Alliance self, community and the natural world A youth empowerment and training Birthways for the Mentally Ill, dedicated to helping through outdoor adventure, creative center to develop a new multiracial 510.869.2797; www.birthways.org people with mental illnesses through arts and group experiences. generation of young organizers who Educates woman and families about advocacy and education campaigns. will have the skills and the vision to choices and decisions they will face Offers support and education to Bay Area Women’s and struggle for the liberation of all people. in pregnancy, birth and post-partum families affected by mental illness. Children’s Center through classes and referrals. Creates 415.474.2400; www.bawcc.org Talkline for Parents a supportive environment where unique National Hispanic Prenatal A full-service community-based 415.441.KIDS (5437) 24-hour parental decisions about childbirth, breast- Hot Line/The National Alliance for institution offering educational, training, stress line; 415.387.3684; feeding and parenting are accepted. Hispanic Health social and medical services. Includes www.talklineforparents.org 800.504.7081 (prenatal helpline) or counseling, medical and dental clinics, Promotes healthy families and Breast Cancer Action 866.783.2645 (toll free family health and an after-school program. children by providing a range of 415.243.9301, 877.278.6722 (toll free); help line); early intervention services designed www.bcaction.org www.hispanichealth.org Children’s Council of to reduce parental stress, enhance Provides information, opportunities for Offers bilingual (English and Spanish) San Francisco parenting skills and provide ongoing activism and in-depth policy analysis referrals to low-cost primary care and 415.276.2900, 415.343.3300 (child care support for families. on breast cancer issues. Publishes a prenatal clinics throughout the United resource and referral); bimonthly newsletter and advocates States. Provides written information on www.childrenscouncil.org Through the Looking Glass for policy changes that will lead to prenatal care, vaccines, nutrition and Supports children, families and child 510.848.1112 or 800.804.1616 (TTY); true prevention, better treatments and general health topics. care providers through advocacy, www.lookingglass.org universal access to quality care. information, education and child-care Provides services to East Bay families U.C. Berkeley, University Health resources. who have a deaf or disabled family Breast Cancer Fund Services member; provides a national parent- 415.346.8223; 510.642.2000; www.uhs.berkeley.edu East Bay Moms to-parent network for parents with www.breastcancerfund.org A fully accredited health service center. 510.653.7867; disabilities, technical assistance, In response to the public health www.eastbaymoms.com information and referrals, publications, crisis of breast cancer, identifies and Women’s Cancer Resource Center Offers support, companionship and and training for parents and professionals. advocates for the elimination of the of Oakland networking for members. Provides an environmental and other preventable 510.420.7900 (help line), 888.421.7900 avenue for new mothers, infants and Wee Poets causes of the disease. (toll free); www.wcrc.org toddlers to meet, exercise and enjoy 510.848.2288; www.betv.org A community organization offering a the outdoors. An educational cable television literacy Breast Health Access for Women full range of free services to women program which helps children learn to with Disabilities who have cancer and their supporters, Family Paths read by writing and reciting poetry on 510.204.4866; www.bhawd.org including a multilingual reference and 510.893.9230, 510.893.5444 (crisis camera; part of the Oakland Unified A community partnership with free lending library; an information and line), 800.829.3777 (toll-free crisis line), School District’s educational access clinical services; serves as a model referral helpline; support groups; the 510.893.9266 (foster parent support), television station (KDOL TV). for leadership and collaboration East Bay Breast Cancer Emergency 888.580.3725 (toll free foster parent in increasing health services and Fund; in-home practical support; peer support); www.familypaths.org accessibility for women with referrals; and more. A nonprofit organization of mental HEALTH disabilities. health professionals and dedicated Women’s Choice Clinic volunteers who help families in Arthritis Foundation, Northern Instituto Familiar de la Raza 510.836.5676; Alameda County who have abused California Chapter 415.229.0500 www.womenschoiceclinic.net their children or are at risk of abusing 415.356.1230; www.arthritis.org Promotes the health and well-being Seeks to free women from fears their children. Offers a variety of programs and of the diverse communities of San concerning their bodies, from services to the diverse communities of Francisco, with primary emphasis on unwanted pregnancies, from an the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Chicano/Latino community. impersonal medical system and from education and exercise programs for excessive fees. people who have arthritis. Iris Center: Women’s Counseling and Recovery Services Women’s Recovery Association 415.864.2364; www.iriscenter.org 650.348.6603; Provides counseling and recovery www.womensrecovery.org services for low-income women and Assists women, girls and their their families, with special emphasis on families in recovering from chemical services for women of color, lesbians, View from a Grain of Sand Photo: courtesy Ecesis Films Inc. dependency and its secondary effects. transgender women and single mothers. HIV-prevention services, case YWCA managers and child care services are Oakland: 510.451.451-9662; also available. http://ywcaoakland.org San Francisco and Marin: Lyon-Martin Women’s Health 415.775.6502; www.ywcasf-marin.org Services YWCA Apartments: 415.397.6886 415.565.7667; www.lyon-martin.org Silicon Valley: 408.295.4011; Provides quality, affordable, www.ywca-scv.org nonjudgmental, comprehensive health U.C. Berkeley: See EDUCATION care and health education for women, Empowers women and their families by women. to become strong, productive, healthy members of the community.
9 MEDIA Invent Your Future Enterprises Positive Women’s Network Women’s National Book www.inventyourfuture.com 415.905.4105, 1.888.651.8931; Association The Bay Area Business Woman A professional development www.pwnetwork.org www.wnba-books.org (national), 707.938.0700; www.babwnews.com company specializing in the retention, An organization based in the Pacific www.wnba-sfchapter.org (local) Provides news, current events and development and acceleration Northwest that connects women and A national organization of women and information for local business and of women leaders. Offers talent their families to health care, social men who work with and value books. professional women. Represents development programs, tools, skill- services and disease prevention Promotes reading and supports the role a socially-aware and highly-active building events and organizational programs. of women in the book community. community of business owners and consulting. professional women throughout the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Bay Area. National Association of Women Center SENIORS Business Owners—San Francisco 415.541.8580; www.rencenter.org Filipinas Magazine Bay Area Chapter Provides training and support services Older Women’s League (OWL), 650.985.2530; 415.333.2130; www.nawbo-sf.org to Bay Area women and men who San Francisco www.filipinasmag.com Strengthens the wealth-creating want to start or grow a small business. 415.989.4422; www.owlsf.org The only nationally circulated capacity of its members. Creates Services include training classes and A chapter of OWL, the only national publication for and about Filipinas innovative and effective changes in workshops, a business incubator, the grassroots membership organization in North America. Covers stories of the business culture; builds strategic financing resource center, the Bay View focusing on critical issues facing heroes, leaders and mavericks in the alliances, coalitions and affiliations; business resource center, the women’s midlife and older women. Engages in community. transforms public policy; and influences business center, and graduate services. advocacy, research and education. opinion makers. Meetings are open to the public. U.S. Equal Employment PROFESSIONAL National Association of Women Opportunity Commission, San Ohlone/East Bay OWL ORGANIZATIONS Business Owners—Silicon Valley Francisco District [email protected] Chapter 415.625.5600; www.eeoc.gov Provides support and advocacy for Bay Area Community of Women 408.257.3857; Provides a free mediation program and midlife and older women, serving 415.865.5630; www.bacw.org www.nawbo-sv.org free investigation of job bias based residents of Alameda and Contra Committed to building community, Provides a forum for delivering on race, color, religion, sex, national Costa Counties. providing positive images of lesbians knowledge and information; serves as a origin, age or disability. Promotes equal and supporting equal rights and ending conduit to building relationships among opportunity through education and Senior Information Line discrimination and prejudice, BACW members, corporate partners, other training. 415.626.1033; actively partners with leading LGBT associations and the community. www.networkofsupport.com organizations throughout California and Women’s Initiative for across the United States. Organization of Women Architects Self-Employment and Design Professionals 415.641.3460; SERVICES FOR Creating Economic Opportunities http://owa-usa.org www.womensinitiative.org ABUSED WOMEN Provides comprehensive business for Women (C.E.O. Women) training, ongoing technical assistance 510.836.3481; Professional Businesswomen of Asian Women’s Shelter and financing to San Francisco Bay www.CEOWomen.org California 415.751.7110, 415.751.0880 (crisis Area low-income women. Assists A nonprofit company that pairs English 925.426.0276; www.pbwc.org line), 877.751.0880 (toll-free crisis line); women in gaining the necessary and entrepreneur skills training in A source for advancing and www.sfaws.org skills to start, grow and expand their innovative ways to give low-income celebrating women’s participation and businesses. immigrant and refugee women skills to impact. Connects, collaborates and Bay Area Women Against Rape start small businesses and establish communicates with the world and 510.430.1298, 510.845.7273 (crisis line) successful livelihoods. transforms it to create compelling new futures. Break the Cycle 888.988.8336; www.breakthecycle.org Independent Lens: A Fish Story, Members of the Gloucester Fishermen’s Wives Association protesting oil drilling on George’s Bank. Aims to end domestic violence by Photo: Nubar Alexanian/ITVS. working proactively with youth; provides 12- through 22-year-olds with preventive education, free legal services, advocacy and support.
La Casa de las Madres 415.503.0500 (business office), 877.503.1850 (toll-free adult crisis line), 877.923.0700 (toll-free teen crisis line); www.lacasa.org Provides shelter to battered women and their children. Strives to empower women and children to better control their own lives. Restores dignity, generates hope, evokes courage and helps maximize individual potential. Women’s History Month Guide
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KQED Public Television Info Loreena McKennitt: A Moveable Musical Feast Photo: ©Richard Haughton. Tel 415.553.2135 Fax 415.553.2254 CORA SAVE (Safe Alternatives to Violent WOMAN Inc. (Women Organized to Live assistance 9am-5pm, Mon–Fri. 650.652.0800, 800.300.1080 (toll free), Environments) Make Abuse Nonexistent) After hours, recorded information. 650.312.8515 (24-hour hot line); 510.794.6055 (crisis hot line), 415.864.4777 (business office), www.corasupport.org 510.574.2250 (business center); 415.864.4722 (crisis line), KQED Public Television The only agency in San Mateo County www.save-dv.org 877.384.3578 (toll free crisis line); Comments serving victims/survivors of domestic Promotes alternatives to family violence www.womaninc.org 415.553.2100 abuse regardless of age, ethnicity, through support services, advocacy, Confronts violence against women and Record a statement about KQED race, financial status, language, sexual and education; assists domestic assists battered women in reaching Public Television programs. orientation, immigration status, class, violence victims and their families safety and gaining control of their lives. religion, gender, mental or physical to end the cycle of violence. Uses Provides a 24-hour crisis line, legal KQED Public Radio Info ability. a comprehensive approach offering assistance, counseling, community 88.5 San Francisco 415.553.2129 prevention and intervention from crisis education, Latina and bicultural 89.3 Sacramento 415.570.0215 Family Violence Prevention Fund to resolution. services, and a lesbian domestic Live assistance and audio and 415.252.8900; www.endabuse.org violence program. transcript information 9am-5pm, Works to end domestic violence and STAND! Against Domestic Violence Mon–Fri. After hours, recorded help women and children whose lives (925) 676.2845, (888) 215.5555 (toll- information. are devastated by abuse. free crisis line); TRAVEL AND www.standagainstdv.org RECREATION Audience Services Narika Serving Contra Costa County, a [email protected] 800.215.7308 (toll-free helpline); comprehensive community-based Call of the Wild Send your programming questions www.narika.org agency for domestic violence victims 888.378.1978; www.callwild.com anytime. Responses are usually Works to end violence against women and their families. Critical services Gives women safe opportunities to sent within one to two business in the South Asian community, include an emergency response team, venture into the wilderness. Offers days. and empowers women to confront emergency shelter, crisis line, legal adventure trips with guides who are the cycles of domestic violence, advocacy, individual counseling, certified in CPR and wilderness Member Services exploitation and ignorance. transitional housing, case management, first aid. [email protected] transportation, food, clothing vouchers 415.553.2150 A Safe Place and employment counseling. 9am-5pm, Mon–Fri. After hours, 510.986.8600 (business and counseling please leave a message. center), 510.536.7233 (crisis line); www.asafeplacedvs.org Other KQED Info Offers comprehensive services to 415.864.2000, 9am-5pm, Mon–Fri victims of domestic violence. Works to decrease the number of women Latest Updates on KQED Public and children returning to violent Television Schedule Change relationships and educates the www.kqed.org/tvchanges community. © NCPB 2009
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