Schedule - Women Rising! New Visions for a Post-Patriarchal World

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Friday, October 12
Time	Event
3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.	Registration (Lobby)
4:30 p.m. -6:00 p.m.	Dinner Break
5:45 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.	Welcome & Reunion Reception. Women Spirituality Photo Albums by Mara Lynn Keller and Morgan Hopson: Women’s Spirituality Graduate Studies at CIIS ~ Celebrating 25 Years!; Women’s Spirituality Journeys; Women’s Sacred Arts GalleryWomen Spirituality Photo Albums by Mara Lynn Keller and Morgan Hopson: Women’s Spirituality Graduate Studies at CIIS ~ Celebrating 25 Years!; Women’s Spirituality Journeys; Women’s Sacred Arts Gallery
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.	Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Women’s Spirituality Graduate Studies at CIIS! Opening Ceremonies. Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits Drumming Circle and Ohlone Blessings for the Ancestors, Kanyon Sayers-Rood; Annette Williams, Women’s Spirituality Program Director; Judie Wexler, CIIS President; WS Program Directors: founder Elinor Gadon, represented by Tricia Grame; Rose Frances; Mara Lynn Keller, Arisika Razak, Alka Arora and Annette Williams
8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.	AmyJo Mattheis, “From Eve to Me,” a one-woman play

Saturday, October 13
Time	Event
9:00 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.	Morning Café: Tea, Coffee & Small Bites, with *Poster Sessions*
9:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.	Breakout Sessions: Panels, Workshops, Lectures, Rituals
11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.	Pause
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	*Keynote Speaker Sherri Mitchell*
12:30 p.m. - 2:00p.m.	Lunch Provided. “Food for Thought” Networking Tables, or free time
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	*Breakout Sessions:* Panels, Workshops, Lectures, Rituals
3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.	Pause
3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Breakout Sessions: Panels, Workshops, Lectures, Rituals
5:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.	*Dinner break*
6:00 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.	Artists and Authors Reception. Artists in the Once and Future Goddess art exhibition, curated by Tricia Grame and Mara Lynn Keller, and 100 new authors Women’s Spirituality Book Awards; with music by SimplePraise featuring Valerie Joi Fiddmont and Anne Stafford
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.	A Celebratory Concert Ritual with Jennifer Berezan and Friends ~ Evelie Posch, Women Master Drummers Carolyn Brandy and Barbara Borden, Adwoa Kudoto, and Sena Kugbeg

Sunday, October 14
Time	Event
9:00 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.	*Morning Café:* Tea, coffee & small bites with *Poster Sessions*
9:45 am.- 10:45 a.m.	*Breakout Sessions:* Panels, Workshops, Lectures, Rituals, and Film
10:45 a.m.-11:00 a.m.	Pause
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	*Breakout Sessions:* Panels, Workshops, Lectures, Rituals, Film
12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.	Lunch Provided. “Food for Thought” Networking Tables, or "Open Mic Poetry Circle with Patti O'Luanaigh," or free time
1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.	*Eahr Joan Legacy Lecture.* Regenesis: Three Million Years of Women's Sacred Iconography
2:15 p.m.-2:30 pm	Pause
2:30 p.m.-- 4:00 p.m.	Plenary Panel: New Visions for a Post Patriarchal World: Alka Arora and Ladale Benson for Gender Equity and Reconciliation, International; Starhawk, Genevieve Vaughan
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.	*Lifetime Achievement Awards* for Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum and Eahr Joan; *Closing Ceremonies* with Annette Williams, Spirit-Dancer Arisika Razak, Singing Circle with Melanie DeMore. Gratitude to Lisa Christie and the Women Rising! conference team.