In the mid-eighties, a group of women artists took to the streets (with clever and politically devastating posters) to protest the lack of work by women artists and artists of color in museums. Working anonymously to expose sexism and racism in the art world, these women adopted the names of famous female artists and wore gorilla masks to protect themselves from the angry art world elite. Calling themselves The Guerrilla Girls, they have taken their activism from the U.S. to Canada, Japan, Ireland, Germany, and elsewhere—and have expanded their repertoire to include an attack on sexism and racism in Hollywood as well as in global politics.

And now, The Guerrilla Girls are coming to Augsburg for a discussion/lecture/performance with Guerrilla Girl, Frida Kahlo. T-shirts, books, and posters will be on sale before and after the performance, with a book-signing after the performance, as well. The performance is free and open to all.

Limited spaces are also available for a special “Aestheticize Your Activism” workshop for students on Saturday, Nov. 6 from 10am-noon. If you are interested, contact nathanso@augsburg.edu.

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Koryne Horbal Lecture Series

The Anne Pederson Women’s Resource Center is also committed to bringing quality women speakers to Augsburg College. This lecture series features women speakers of national prominence who address important issues that especially impact women. The series is named after Koryne Horbal, former ambassador to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and consultant to the Anne Pederson Women’s Resource Center.

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He will be on campus to give a public lecture and do a reading from his sprawling latest novel, The Wizard of the Crow.

Ngugi has sustained prolific productivity for decades with some 25 books to his name, and at least six distinguished literary awards for his work. In his essays, Ngugi has confronted with remarkable stamina, persistence, and consistency the somewhat intractable question of the role of language in cultural imperialism. He continues efforts to empower the languages of formerly colonized nations in his important role as director of the International Center for Writing and Translation at the University of California, Irvine.

Always a champion of the dispossessed and a relentless critic of political corruption in his country, Ngugi lived in political exile from Kenya for 22 years, having survived there a year of detention without trial for his writing and other literary activities.

Ngugi’s visit is being sponsored by Augsburg’s English Department, the General Education program, the Center for Global Education, and the ACTC’s Creative Writing Program. The lecture will complement the ongoing 25th Anniversary program of the Center for Global Education, and it is open to the public.

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