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As we get news of theatre events, CD launches or the ballet, anything you might enjoy we will have it here on our events page.
We will talk with the women involved and we often are lucky enough to have tickets to give away.
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The Ministry of Women’s Affairs is seeking your assistance to identify and nominate women for the 2011 New Year Honours List.

In the 2010 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, only 31 percent of the 172 recipients were women (53 women). It is important that worthy women are brought to the attention of the Appointments and Honours Committee who decide on the list, and so we are asking for your assistance.

How you can help

If you know of a woman deserving of an Honour, please submit a nomination form identifying her to the Honours Secretariat. You can find everything you need to know about the nominating process at http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/honours/nominations/index.html

From the Honours Secretariat website: “It is important that you provide as much information as possible about your nominee and the reasons for which recognition is sought. You should state how your nominee has contributed to the community and explain how they have made a difference to their community or field of work, whether they have demonstrated innovation or entrepreneurship, improved the lives of others, or exemplified selfless voluntary service.”

It is important that you, or someone even closer to the nominee, fills out the nomination form. The Ministry of Women’s Affairs can only provide publicly available information at best, which does not always give a complete enough picture of the nominee to be awarded an Honour.

The closing date for nominations for the 2011 New Year Honours List is 1 August 2010. We realise this deadline is not far away, but applications submitted after this date will be considered for the 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

More information on Women on Boards is on our website http://www.mwa.govt.nz/women-on-boards.

The NZ Skeptics will demonstrate the power of physics over the mind, with a firewalk planned as part of their annual conference in Auckland this August.

"Firewalking can be scary and exhilarating, whether you know the physics behind it or not," says Skeptics Chair-entity Vicki Hyde. "But if you´ve ever grabbed a hot loaf of bread out of the oven, or quickly tossed a stray ember back onto the fire, you´ll understand that it doesn´t take special powers to handle the heat."

The heat is on in other topics as well, with the traditional mix of critical thinking, cutting-edge science and the out-right weird making for a diverse and fascinating conference lineup. The wide range of subjects includes the end of the world, attitudes to the use of 1080, the New Zealand Atheist Bus Campaign, how memory can fool us, and the science and history of mass delusions. A range of medical topics will cover immunisation controversies (including the MMR vaccine hoax), an analysis of at the "Unfortunate Experiment" at National Women´s Hospital, and the demonization of fat. "It´s a great meeting for anyone who wants to find out more about how we think about things, and what we don´t know we know. Along the way you learn a lot, and laugh a lot too," says Hyde.

The event will include the formal announcement of the Bent Spoon Award, the NZ Skeptics annual award for the greatest example of gullibility in the public arena.
"We had nominations come over the past year ranging from Fonterra´s tacit support for treating serious cattle ailments with water to TVNZ touting the use of psychics to find missing toddlers. We´ve also had nominations for our Bravo Awards for people who demonstrate the rare moments of critical thinking in our media."

The Butterfly Creek venue near Auckland Airport will provide its own distractions with birds, tropical fish, lizards and crocodiles. The Skeptics say they have no plans to try walking over the latter. The conference is open to the public. Registrations and further details can be found at the New Zealand Skeptics website: http://skeptics.org.nz

THE MILITARY AND HOSPITALLER ORDER OF SAINT LAZARUS OF JERUSALEM – GRAND PRIORY OF NEW ZEALAND

to raise funds to purchase Water Tanks for fresh water for children and their families in the outlying villages of Samoa.

A programme featuring Helen Charlton, Erin Callanan, Genevieve Boyle, sopranos, David Round, baritone, Bryan Cairns, tenor, Blake Spooner, Daniella Brocovitch,

And an exciting programme of song and dance presented by the Samoan cultural community, Filipino song and dance, Catholic Cathedral College and St Bede’s College Barber Shop Group.

Tickets, $20 (Senior Citizens $15) Children $5, available from Sister Marietta Parsons Ph. 355 0959, Joan Curwood Ph. 322 8317,

2010 CATHEDRAL LECTURE

Helen Clark
Head of the United Nations
Development Programme

“The Millennium Development Goals:
Ten years down, five to go”

ChristChurch Cathedral
Aug 13th , 6.15pm

Christchurch Cathedral | CWS | THE PRESS

Lea Holford has over several decades taught women’s spirituality and the mythology of various spiritual paths, linking the making of ritual powerfully to everyday life. A psychologist from Auckland, she has also taught in the fields of Jungian and transpersonal psychology. Lea will be teaching for a day in Christchurch on Saturday October 16. She will focus on Edith Wharton’s belief that living a long and creative life rests on four things:

Lea will put this in the context of living into middle and older age, drawing on a related female archetype, also allowing time for experience of ritual around these beliefs.

Venue: Community of the Sacred Name, 181 Barbadoes St, Christchurch
(entry from St Asaph Street)

Numbers are limited and prior registration is essential.
Please make your cheque out to Celine Kearney, and post to:
Women’s Spirituality Workshop
374 Barbadoes Street
Christchurch 8011

with your name, e-mail and phone number, or direct credit to a/c 02-0124-0075223-067, with your name as reference, and send us an e-mail with your name and phone number, and the date you made the payment.

EXHIBITION OF SILVER JEWELLERY 27th JULY - 2nd AUGUST

Local silversmiths to show original work at Cloisters Gallery, Christchurch Arts Centre.

Silversmiths Guild of Canterbury members Karen Atherton and Jo Crompton will have their first independent exhibition at the Cloisters Gallery in the Arts Centre for a week starting 27th August.

Karen and Jo learned basic silver work techniques at the Silversmiths Guild workshop and have been developing their skills at Hagley College for the last two years. The exhibition, called Jumping Off, will feature original designs and will demonstrate their growing skill and continuing enjoyment in exploring the metalworker's art. Please come see them and support their efforts -- they would love to see you.