Friday 3/23 – Thursday 3/29
Women’s impact on the global economy and their influence in religion and in the workplace will be put under the microscope at this weekend’s Women’s Ways of Leading conference. Guests will include Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly, who heads Voices in the Wilderness, which campaigns to end economic sanctions against Iraq; Jeanne L. Nowaczewski of Business and Professional People for the Public Interest; Esther Nieves, executive director of Erie Neighborhood House; and Margaret Small and Mary Ann Pitcher, codirectors of the Young Women’s Leadership Charter School. Preregistration is required for the conference, but tonight’s 8 PM performance by Marie Aponte of I Will Not Be Silenced, a monologue about 17th-century nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, is open to the public; general admission tickets are $10. The conference runs through Sunday morning in Galvin Hall at Loyola University’s Sullivan Center, 6339 N. Sheridan. Registration is $40, $15 for students and seniors. Call 773-508-8430.
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26 MONDAY Four years ago Julia Butterfly Hill began her sit-in high in the branches of a 200-foot old-growth redwood. She lived in the tree, which she named Luna, for 738 days in order to keep the Pacific Lumber/Maxxam Corporation from felling it. To get her down, the company agreed to preserve the tree, about 230 miles north of San Francisco, and to refrain from logging in a 250-foot radius around it. Now Hill’s on solid ground promoting her new book, The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods. She’ll read from it tonight at 7 at the Conrad Sulzer Regional Library, 4455 N. Lincoln. It’s free; call 312-744-7616.
