March 5, 2021
Photo: Martha Tadesse/IRC
For International Women’s Day, the March 8 global event celebrating the achievements of women worldwide, the International Rescue Committee asked teenage girls living in Helowyn refugee camp in Ethiopia to describe themselves in one word, and to tell us what it means to them “to be a girl.”
Ethiopia hosts more than 850,000 refugees the second largest cohort in any African nation about 40,000 of them in Helowyn camp, located in the southern part of the country. The larger region, often referred to as the Horn of Africa, has suffered years from conflict and drought. Conditions in the camp are basic, with most refugees living in temporary accommodations. It’s especially tough to be a girl in the camp, as they face an increased risk of gender-based violence.
March 3, 2021
By John Rieger and Tracie Yang
In observance of International Women’s Day, on March 8, our hosts John Rieger and Tracie Yang celebrate some of the remarkable women we’ve met in the past year on the
Sha Elijah Dumama-Alba was a promising attorney climbing the professional ladder in New York City when she felt called to return to her homeland in the southern Philippines to work for peace. Today the activist and mother of two is the first-ever attorney general of the Bangasamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, where she continues to navigate the precarious path to peace.
Power of Haitian Women
For International Women s Day, the Center for Experimental Ethnography presents a screening of Madan Sara: The Power of Haitian Women. The film tells the story of women working along the margins of the Haitian economy, selling essential goods. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion.
For more information, visit gsws.sas.upenn.edu.
Monday, March 08, 2021
Verdi’s
La Traviata. Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti, director: Simon Stone. With Pretty Yende, Juan Diego Flórez, Igor Golovatenko, and Margaret Plummer. Register for free and view here. LIVE
2 pm ET: London Symphony Orchestra presents Rattle conducts Stravinsky. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the LSO in Stravinsky’s Octet for Wind Instruments,
Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920),
Four Norwegian Moods, Suite No 1, and Suite No 2. View here.
2 pm ET: VOCES8 Live from London, Spring presents
Joanna MacGregor. To celebrate International Women’s Day, pianist Joanna MacGregor curates a journey from the Deep South to New York, from Russian poetry to an African paradise. The program includes Florence Price’s spiritual arrangements, Margaret Bond’s