Celebrate Mother’s Day and its 1870s origin with performance, “The Face of War,” Sunday, May 13, 2007

The Women's Studies Program, the Drama Department and the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Vassar College host a special free public performance:

Celebrate Mother's Day and its 1870s origin
Women Unite Against War

Students from the current Women's Studies course, "Women and War: resistance in performance," join with professional actors from Half Moon Theatre to present a reading of poetry, theater, journalism, essays, statistics, and first hand accounts of armed conflict.

The Face of War:
Women's resistance from antiquity to the present

Conceived and directed by course instructor and Half Moon Theatre Artistic Director, Margo Whitcomb

The Powerhouse Theater
Vassar College
Sunday, May 13, 2007
4:00 p.m.
Refreshments to follow
Free Public Performance

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Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861.

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