FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Kris Malone Grossman
Phone: 415-575-6255
Email: womenrising@ciis.edu
CIIS to Host Conference:
WOMEN RISING! NEW VISIONS FOR A POST-PATRIARCHAL WORLD
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — The Women’s Spirituality graduate studies program at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) is excited to announce Women Rising! New Visions for a Post-Patriarchal World, a dynamic 2.5-day conference to be held October 12–14 at the CIIS campus.
Women Rising! will gather 200 visionaries, educators, artists, practitioners, care workers, and social justice activists, including keynote speaker Sherri Mitchell and other Women’s Spirituality trailblazers, such as Charlene Spretnak, Starhawk, Arisika Razak, and Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum to celebrate the inspiring and groundbreaking eco-social justice work that women do.
WHERE: CIIS, 1453 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
WHEN: October 12–14. Friday, 5:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.;
Saturday, 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.; Sunday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
“We are at critical juncture in human evolution,” says Dr. Alka Arora, core faculty in Women’s Spirituality at CIIS. “Movements such as #MeToo, #TimesUp, #BlackLivesMatter, #IdleNoMore, and #NeverAgain are creating profound global change. Women are at the forefront of such movements, and Women Rising! grows out of the spiritual and political movements of today, seeking to redress the misogyny, sexual violence, institutionalized racism, economic oppression, and ecological devastation that patriarchal societies have wrought.”
This landmark conference includes breakout sessions, workshops, live performances, ceremonies, film screenings, networking opportunities, an evening with Jennifer Berezan & Friends in concert, the Once and Future Goddess art exhibition, AmyJo Mattheis’ one-woman play From Eve to Me, the Women’s Spirituality 25th Anniversary Book Awards, and more. It seeks to honor, ignite, connect, and empower every person’s innate divinity and invites participants to celebrate and co-create a visionary culture and activism that promotes a plurality of voices and change-makers who are actively building a new, post-patriarchal world.
To register or to learn more about Women Rising!, visit www.womenrisingconference.org.