Performers/Presenter
Women's History Performer
- Item Number
- 231
Item Description
Jane Curry is an author, storyteller, performer, and recovering academic with a knack for provoking both thought and laughter with her one-woman shows. Since 1983, she has traveled with her various personae to forty-eight states, Israel and Japan and is available for single-show events, multiple-show tours, and residencies.
Written and performed with a sense of history and humor, the five shows described below address themes of women's history and gender equity. They have been featured for a variety of audiences and venues: performing arts stages, conferences, banquets, fundraisers, teacher in-service workshops, Artists/Lecture/Lyceum/Convocation Series, student assemblies, government agencies, corporations, college and university programming, community groups, festivals, and celebrations.
The performer is not available during the month of March, but these performances are also especially appropriate for special events: Women's Equality Day (August), National Girls and Women in Sports Day (February), Math, Science, & Technology Month (April), National Chemistry Week (October), Federal Women's Day, Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day (February), and National Business Women's Week (October)
| Nice Girls Don't Sweat | Sammy Kay Knight, English teacher and veteran of the All American Red Heads professional basketball team, tells stories about women's experiences with athletics over time. With a sense of history and humor, Sammy Kay's verbal meanderings engage the enduring themes of physical capacities, propriety, and femininity. |
| Miz Wizard's Science Secrets | Join Barbara Knight, aka Miz Wizard, as she tells stories about women's contributions to science, engineering, invention, and math... about revolutionary research and media portrayals... about obstacles faced and overcome by women whose passion is discovery. |
| Samantha 'Rastles' the Woman Question | Features farm wife and rustic philosopher Samantha Smith Allen as she "rastles" with questions concerning history's treatment of women, rights denied by the church, women's powerlessness before the law, social status, role assumptions, and more. Samantha challenges the status quo and plants herself squarely on the side of sensible women's rights. |
| Sisters of the Quill and Skillet | As her deadline rapidly approaches, newspaper columnist Weezie Alton just can't seem to find the inspiration for her latest offering of "Weezie's Whimsies." So she does what any other self-respecting writer would do. She procrastinates. |
| Just Say Know : Educating Females for the 21st Century | Molding an institution of higher learning for the 1990s and beyond, the founders of Pandora College for Women recognized the wisdom of reclaiming the legacies of past traditions in medicine, science, the classics, and ladylike deportment that must combine to educate today's females for regaining their rightful place as society's custodians of modesty. |
Item Special Note
The winner bid is only for the Performance fee.
The winner bidder will need to pay for travel and accommodations. Jane Curry lives in Minneapolis, MN.
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