The IUPUI Women’s Studies Program, School of Liberal Arts, Office of Campus and Community Life and University Library will present their free International Women’s Day Celebration March 1 at the IUPUI University Library, Lilly Auditorium.

The opening reception, catered by Caribbean Flavor restaurant, will begin at 6:30 p.m. Represented at the reception will be the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the Julian Center, the Etheridge Knight Poetry Festival, Planned Parenthood and Out Word Bound Books.

At 7 p.m., the featured performers will present their work, including classical Indian dance by Priyanka Dube, poetry by Tasha Jones, fiction by Joanna Wos and Claudia Labin and a dramatic performance by Donna Edmond. Debra White-Stanley will host. After the featured performers, there will be another 20-minute break, and the multicultural, multilingual open mic will begin at 8:20 p.m. E-mail Tiffany Kyser, tkyser44@hotmail.com, if you want to be put on the list. Kyser, a former women’s basketball star at IUPUI and a poet, will emcee.