Women on Women

RAINBOW FAMILIES
New Information and contacts:
This is a group for LGBT parents/carers/pregnant lesbians and their children. We meet up once a month at different venues for play and chit-chat. Keren writes: I’ve set up a facebook group for Rainbow Families www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=111434215550888 I’ve also set up an email address for it: rfnorfolk@googlemail.com and tel or txt 07771820872

As always, wow posts information on groups and events organised by others in good faith, please send us your feedback, and wow wishes the rainbow families every success in this new venture.Jo

GENDER STUDIES READING GROUP

Dr BJ Epstein and Dr. Valentina Cardo and are launching a Gender Studies Reading Group in conjunction with the Millennium Library at the Forum. The group will be open to anyone (of any gender, sexuality, etc.) who wants to discuss the challenges and debates surrounding gender differences, identity, and practices.

Questions to discuss will include: What is a woman? What is a man? Why does it matter? What is sex? What is sexuality?

The group will meet every other month at the Library, starting on 21 April from 6-7.30 p.m.
BJ Writes:
“For the first session, please read this short piece: http://carnalnation.com/content/43798/44/when-men-wear-skirts?page=0,1 The session will start at 6 pm on 21 April.
Feel free to contact either of us with questions or to pass this information on to anyone else who might want to attend.
Thank you again! ”
It would be useful to have a mailing list, so email either BJ at B.Epstein@uea.ac.uk or Valentina at v.cardo@uea.ac.ukto let us know whether you would be interested in being part of the group.

NOW Poetry
Vince Laws will lead a monthly poetry group, based in central Norwich, starting on Wednesday 14 April, in the early evening 6pm, and (then every 2nd Wednesday in the month). Vince is a poet and artist, interested in written, visual and performance poetry. He can be contacted at vincelaws@gmail.com.

“I hope as many of you as possible can get to the first meeting on Wednesday night, 6-8pm. We’re meeting at St Margaret’s Church on St Benedict’s Street, because I’m displaying some visual poetry there, so I thought I’d start with a talk on taking poetry off the page, how I started and why, and show some examples. That first hour is open to anyone. 7-8pm we’ll discuss our first project, I am poems (get in touch if you want to have a go, even if you can’t make the meeting, I can email you all the info you need to take part). We are going to consider poems for many voices, read out our own poetry, read other people’s poetry, talk about writing, reading aloud, writing for performance, poster poems, etc, etc. I’ll be at the church from 5.30pm if you get there early. If you get there late, no worries, just slip in and join us. Vince”

Norwich Out Write-NOW is a workshop by and for lgbt writers based in Norfolk. Initially, there will be two groups — one for poetry and one for fiction — and these groups will meet monthly to discuss literature and writing, to do writing exercises, and to critique and support the participants’ craft.
NOW Fiction
The NOW fiction workshop will first meet on 22 April at 7 pm at UEA Arts 01.03 at the University of East Anglia. There’s plenty of parking and it is quite easy to find the building (it’s the very long one, but there are maps if you have trouble). The room is on the lower level, called 01.
This will be led by B.J. Epstein.
B.J. writes fiction, essays, and journalism, and is a translator and editor as well as a lecturer in literature and translation at UEA. She can be contacted at B.Epstein@uea.ac.uk

Who can join NOW? Anyone who subscribes to Norwich Pride’s core intention of making Norwich a safe place for everyone. How much will NOW cost? The idea is to cover the costs of the venues etc., so everyone will chip in a couple of quid as required.