American Association of University Women
Valparaiso IN Affiliate
UPCOMING EVENTS
SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS MAY BE SUBMITTED
FEBRUARY – MARCH
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Feb 6,2025 – Thursday – 1:00 pm – Spirituality Group
The Spiritual Seekers will meet at the home of Joanne Groff. The group will continue to discuss Joy by the Dalai Lama and Bishop Desmond Tutu. Contact Ann Ruggaber for chapters to be covered.
DATE CHANGED TO FEB 26, 2025- Wednesday- 11 am
Art and the Notion of Home will be the topic of the general membership meeting on Wednesday, February 12th at 11:00 am at the Porter County Community Center, 1401 Calumet, Valparaiso. The speaker will be Nina Corazzo, formerly of the Valparaiso University faculty and an instructor at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts. A catered lunch will follow.
February 13th -Thursday 6:30 pm – ArtFlix via Zoom only
Film – Portrait of a Woman On Fire.
Leader – Renee Caprile
The film is available Hulu, Apple TV, YouTube, Prime Video, Disney.
Portrait of a Lady On Fire is an intimate and deeply affecting period drama about freedom, love and desire. Marianne is a young painter in 18th-Century France, commissioned to paint a wedding portrait of Heloise without her knowing. Marianne disguises herself as her companion to get closer to her subject – observing by day and secretly painting at night. Intimacy and attraction grow between the two women as they share Heloise’s first and last moments of freedom. The portrait soon becomes a collaborative act and a testament to their love.
Portrait of a Lady On Fire is an intimate and deeply affecting period drama about freedom, love and desire. Marianne is a young painter in 18th-Century France, commissioned to paint a wedding portrait of Heloise without her knowing. Marianne disguises herself as her companion to get closer to her subject – observing by day and secretly painting at night. Intimacy and attraction grow between the two women as they share Heloise’s first and last moments of freedom. The portrait soon becomes a collaborative act and a testament to their love.
Feb 20, 2025 – Thursday – 1 pm. The Spirituality Group
Spiritual Seekers. (Contact Ann Ruggaber for location and topic information.)
Feb 20, 2025 – Thursday – 6:30pm- PCCF in person and via Zoom – Great Decisions
Topic – American Foreign Policy at a Crossroads.
Discussion leader – Kathy Evans.
Contact Renee Caprile for more information.
This chapter will explore the contours of the U.S. foreign policy debate as it plays out in a world of multiple and escalating crises and domestic polarization.
Contact Renee Caprile for more information.
This chapter will explore the contours of the U.S. foreign policy debate as it plays out in a world of multiple and escalating crises and domestic polarization.
Feb 24, 2025 – Monday – 7 pm-Zoom only
The brainstorming session is for those interested in discussing support of our AAUW members. Contact Cindy Hesemann for more information.
Feb 25, 2025 – Tuesday-4 pm via Zoom only– Book Group
Title – Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. Leader – Kathy Evans will lead the discussion.
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.
Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.
Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.
Meet Our New Members
October 12 Dress for School
Sept 10 Books, Brews, and Bites
August 28 Welcome Fest
June 19 Hamstra Gardens
