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Celebrate women with words

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.