DAYTONA BEACH
Tidings
January 2023
Explore Women's Art
Saturday, January 21
10 am
MOAS
Join us for a guided tour through three exhibits by women at MOAS: A Beautiful Mess :Weavers and Knotters of The Vanguard ; Magical: The Art of Susan Zukowsky: Pace Center for Girls exhibit, Every Girl Deserves Flowers
  
All exhibits are at MOAS 352 South Nova Rd.,Daytona Beach, FL32114.
 We will meet at the museum at 10:00 on Saturday, January 21st.
Afterwards we plan to go the lunch at Leanh's Chinese Restaurant 1780 South Nova Rd., South Daytona , FL 32119  

Please RSVP so we can make a lunch reservation: RSVP Paross@aol.com
Book Group
January 9
10:30 am
City Island Library
(also available on Zoom)
January 9–The Japanese Lover, by Isabel Allende. A magical and sweeping love story and multigenerational epic that stretches from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during WW ll. Joann Meder will lead the discussion.  
Great Decisions
Monday, January 30
3:30
Energy Geo-politics
How will changes in the energy industries impact relations between countries?
Access to oil and gas has long held an influence over the politics of individual nations and their relations with others. But as more countries move toward sustainable energy, and supply chain shortages affect the availability of oil and gas, how will this change the way in which the United States interacts with the outside world? By Carolyn Kissane

All members are invited to participate! If you would like a copy of the 2022 book, please contact Lucy Jackman.
Membership Renewal 

Members can renew now by sending a check for $90 payable to AAUW Daytona Beach to Treasurer, Joanne Meder at
AAUW Daytona Beach
174 Florida Shores Blvd
Daytona Beach Shores, FL 32118
The branch membership form is available here.

You may also renew on the AAUW Community Hub https://my.aauw.org/onlinejoin  If you have not already signed in to this new database, please start by resetting your password.

AAUW National dues ($67) + AAUW Florida dues ($12) + Branch dues ($11). $64 of the $67 national dues is tax-deductible; $3 of the national dues payment is not deductible because it supports the AAUW Action Fund’s section 501(c)(4) Lobby Corps and election-related activities.




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Diversity Dialogues
January 14, 2023
10:00 a.m.

 “Intersectionality of Dance as a Universal language through gesture and unspoken dialogue that instigate cross-cultural connections”
featuring
Alexandria Davis

Dancer, Actress, Teaching Artist, Choreographer, and Screendance maker Alexandria Davis holds an MFA in dance choreography from the University of Michigan. Alexandria earned her BFA in Dance Performance and Dance in Medicine certification from the University of Florida.
Born and raised in Gainesville, Florida, Alexandria's movement sources from her community upbringing and academic investigations of dance forms like Liturgical, Modern, Jazz, Heels/Stilletto Jazz, Funk, Ballet, Contact Improvisation, HBCU Marching Auxiliary technique, Hip Hop, Stepping, West African Rhythms, Contemporary, Afro-Caribbean Motifs, Vogue, Chinese Fan, Laban/Bartenieff fundamentals, and Katherine Dunham technique.
A Black American Southern Belle gone rogue, raptured in protest and reappropriation. Alexandria creates dangerous dances, often using choreography as a device to instigate and advocate. 

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Upcoming 2023 DEI Dialogues

  • DEI Dialog #3 – February 11 – Intersectionality 2
  • DEI Dialog #4 – March 11 – Appearance and Age
  • DEI Dialog #5 – April 8 – Hispanic, Latino and Haitian Culture
  • DEI Dialog #6 – May 13 – Reflections and Observations

To see previous DEI Dialogues, click here.
Coming Up:
Friday, February 24: AAUW FL Regional Leadership Conference,
  • Education Room, Hyatt and Cici Brown Museum of Florida Art
  • Would you like to attend? Can you help (set up, pick up lunches, etc)?
Wednesday, March 30: DSC's Women's History Luncheon honors AAUW
  • Tickets $40 from Ellen O'Shaughnessy
Saturday, April 22: Florida's Female Pioneers
  • Anderson Price Building, 42 N. Beach Street, Ormond Beach
  • Peggy Macdonald, alumna of the University of Florida, public historian and adjunct professor at Stetson University and Indian River State College, will examine some of the women who have shaped Florida, including Dr. Esther Hill Hawks, a physician who ran the first racially integrated free school in Florida; Harriet Beecher Stowe, famous for writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin who kick-started Florida’s tourism industry with her 1873 book, Palmetto Leaves; and Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, the first and only female Florida Seminole Tribal Chair and the first elected female tribal chair of any federally recognized American Indian tribe in the nation.
RIP Prema Nayar
  Prema Nayar, a longtime member of the Daytona Beach Branch of AAUW , passed away on December 26, 2022. She and her husband moved out of state a year ago to be near their adult children. Prema was an active member for many years, serving on the branch board as Membership Chair and participating in the Literature Club. She volunteered with the AAUW Archeology project with the Museum and the Burns School of Math and Science. She was a graduate of the University of Calcutta, India ,BA , and from Nova Southeastern University,MS. 

Funeral services will be held February 4 in Springfield MO. Please hold Ram and the rest of the family in your thoughts and prayers as they go through this time of grief. If you would like to drop him a note of condolence, his email address is; ram.nayar@outlook.com
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