AAUW Valparaiso – AAUW Valparaiso

American Association of University Women

Valparaiso IN Affiliate

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 (raindate 9/11) – 4:30 p.m. –

Books, Brews, and Bites

Ironwood Brewery, 6 Roosevelt Road, Valparaiso

Come meet Barb Kehe, owner and brewer at Ironwood Brewery and learn about the challenges of being a women in what’s seen as a man’s job and raise money to support Hilltop’s Bookmobile. Hilltop takes their Bookmobile, along with the mobile food pantry, out into our neighborhoods to provide gently used books to children in the community. The Bookmobile will be parked and open for inspection at the brewery. Tickets are $20 and include one free drink and appetizers

Thursday, September 12 – 6:30 pm – ArtFlix – via Zoom only

Film: Found

Leader : Clare Pokorny

A 2021 documentary/drama that follows the story of three American teenage girls -each adopted from China – who discovered they are blood related cousins. Their online meeting, inspires the young women to confront the burning question that they have about their lost history. When they meet for the first time, they embark on a once in a lifetime journey to China to search for answers.

Found is available on both Netflix and fuboTV.

Wednesday, September 18 – 6:30 PM – All member business meeting via zoom only.

Send agenda items to president Cindy Hesemann

Thursday, September 19 – 6:30 pm – Great Decisions – PCCF and via Zoom

Topic: High Seas Treaty

Leader: Diane Woolever

Areas of the seas beyond national jurisdiction comprise the high seas, which are facing a degradation of ecosystems due to climate change and the increase in human activities, such as shipping, overfishing, pollution, and deep-sea mining. The recently negotiated High Seas Treaty, also known as the Biodiversity Beyond

Tuesday, September 24 – Book Group-4 pm – via Zoom only

Title: The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

Leader: Karen Hug

In 1962, Mi’kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four year old Ruthie, the family’s youngest child, vanishes. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on a favorite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain distraught by his sister‘s disappearance for years to come. In Maine, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother is frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize that something her parents are not telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades, trying to uncover this families secrets.
This novel gives witness and voice to those who suffer the attempts to erase native culture in the name of a simulation.