from the press release

Off The Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art lecture

26 October 2009
UCSD Campus
Center Hall, room 109
6:30pm

Please join the University Art Gallery, UCSD in the first of three discussions associated with the current exhibition entitled Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art that to explore the global ramifications of gender-based violence. "Throughout the world, women and girls are victims of countless and senseless acts of violence. The range of gender-based violence is devastating, occurring, quite literally, from womb to tomb," explains Randy Jayne Rosenberg curator and executive director of Art Works For Change. "The stories that underlie these artworks return us imaginatively to the event of violation and allow it to affect us."

This program will be in a roundtable discussion that examines the range of issues from domestic violence to human trafficking that affect women globally and what is being done to address these concerns as well as what action can be taken.

Speakers include: Farrah Douglas from 5 Women Who Care, Taja McKinney-Zisler from Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, Kathi Anderson from Survivors of Torture, Katie Feifer from The Voices and Faces Project and Verna Tabor from Center for Community Solutions.

This programming has been endorsed by Amnesty International, Casa Cornelia Law Center, Center for Community Solutions, San Diego, Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, End Violence Against Women International, License to Freedom, Survivors of Torture, The Voices and Faces Project, United 4 Iran, and Women's Resource Center as well as departments and programs on campus.

ABOUT ART WORKS FOR CHANGE
Art Works for Change produces contemporary art exhibitions to address social and environmental.
It uses the power of art as a vehicle to promote dialogue and awareness, and to inspire action and thought. Art Works for Change operates under the fiscal umbrella of the Tides Center, a tax-exempt organization.

ABOUT 5 WOMEN WHO CARE
5 Women Who Care is a group of women who came together to help make a difference and bring awareness to women's and children's issues globally. Operating out of the San Diego area, these 5 Women collaborate with like-minded organizations for the empowerment and justice of women and children worldwide.

The University Art Gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 5pm.
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