Women’s History Month 2024 — March 1 to 31
Our Story is Our Strength
Tuesday, March 5 | 6 p.m.
The Annual Women’s Justice Roundtable (AWJR) at BHCC with Robin Chandler, Ph.D.
Welcome to the Women’s Justice Roundtable community!
For Us, By Us, About Us: My journey as a Latina in Public Service in Higher Education
Dr. Robin Chandler, BHCC’s Inaugural Artist Scholar in Residence 2018 – 2019 and one of eight BHCC’s 2023 – 2025 Distinguished Artist Scholars in Residence celebrating the 50th Anniversary of BHCC, as the College reflects on its origins, recognizing the centrality of women’s narratives with our theme, Origins Rematriated, will host the AWJR with Dr. Cynthia Orellana an award-winning, influential leader in Latine-centered education, holder of a Ph.D. in higher education leadership, and the daughter of Salvadoran immigrants.
Q & A to follow the presentation.
Remarks by Elizabeth C. Miller, Professor and Chairperson, Computer Science Department
Presenter Dr. Cynthia Orellana, Director of the Office of Community Partnerships (OCP) UMass Boston
Facilitator Robin Chandler, Ph.D., Founder R M Chandler Consultants LLC, a Media, Publishing and Consulting Firm
Sponsored by the Mary L. Fifield Art Gallery
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March 7 | 1 p.m. | A-300 Lobby
BHCC Celebrates International Women's Day – #Inspire Inclusion
International Women's Day is celebrated globally to raise awareness and work together towards a more equitable world where difference is both valued and celebrated. Let’s come together for tea and conversation as we collectively forge a more inclusive world for women. When we inspire others to understand and value women's inclusion, we frame a better world. And when women themselves are inspired to be included, there's a sense of belonging, relevance, and empowerment. Let’s commit to Inspire Inclusion!
Sponsored by the International Center and the Office of College Events and Cultural Planning
Refreshments will be served.
March 9 | 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. | A-300 Lobby
A Conversation with Bianca Broxton
Join BHCC Alumna-artist and co-curator, Bianca Broxton, as she leads the BHCC arts community through a symbiotic relationship between identity and exploitation while crocheting dreadlocks as part of her sculptural piece “Tendrils (revisited)” featured in the current Mary L. Fifield Art Gallery exhibition "Dissident Morphologies" on view through March 30, 2024.
This performance piece acts as a way to form a dialogue between the audience and the artist regarding hair, beauty, discrimination, and personal histories. Attendees are welcome to watch, tell their personal stories around hair, and to participate in crocheting hair with the artist.
Refreshments will be served.
March 15 | 7 p.m. | Pao Arts Center
She, Her, and I; a Fleeting Story By Proshot Kalami
A timed multimedia performance installation, She, Her, and I invites spectators and visitors into an immersive sensual experience by meandering in a space in which all their senses will be engaged. She, Her, and I; a Fleeting Story is inspired by lives of multiple generations of women who have migrated from the Asian continent to the States, reflecting back to their mothers and forward to their daughters. The installation aims to remind the spectators how fleeting the fantasized notion of the woman has been when fantasized by the western artists. Especially when she, with her real body and voice, reveals herself through layers of notions and senses. Tonight, She, Her, and I; this mysterious woman beyond the West, who was exoticized in sensational arias from Puccini’s Turandot and Madam Butterfly moves in the space of the performance installation. Proshot invites the spectator to receive the real woman by meandering along her when she paces the space, in between layers of senses, to experience her presence, this woman from beyond the West, in the ocean of notions and senses.
She, Her, and I; a Fleeting Story
And in collaboration with:
Soo Park, Dean of Humanities and Learning Communities, BHCC
Yoo Sun Na: Lead Soprano
Leona Cheung: Piano
Cecilia Caraballo Acevedo: Production Manager (set, sound, light, camera)
Malik Bazile: Production Assistant (set, sound, light, camera)
Karma Tsering: Stagehand
Pao Arts Center was established in 2017 as a visionary program collaboration between Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center and Bunker Hill Community College. Located at 99 Albany Street in downtown Boston, Pao Arts Center is Chinatown’s first arts and cultural center.
www.paoartscenter.org
Pao Arts Center
99 Albany St, Boston, MA 02111
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
March 26 | 6 p.m. | A-300 Lobby
A Conversation with Bianca Broxton
Join BHCC Alumna-artist and co-curator, Bianca Broxton, as she leads the BHCC arts community through a symbiotic relationship between identity and exploitation while crocheting dreadlocks as part of her sculptural piece “Tendrils (revisited)” featured in the current Mary L. Fifield Art Gallery exhibition "Dissident Morphologies" on view through March 30, 2024.
This performance piece acts as a way to form a dialogue between the audience and the artist regarding hair, beauty, discrimination, and personal histories. Attendees are welcome to watch, tell their personal stories around hair, and to participate in crocheting hair with the artist.
Refreshments will be served.