[NEohioPAL]Poetry and Dance Event spons'd by Sacred Space at Lakewood Women's Club Pavilion
Cherie Dillon
cherie_dillon at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 16 08:34:30 PDT 2004
>
>NEWS RELEASE
>
>September 16, 2004 For immediate release: Contact CeCe Miller
>440-843-7378
>
>
>EDWINA GATELEY, writer, poet, activist, public speaker, will be in
>Lakewood,
>Ohio, Friday, October 8 and Saturday, October 9, 2004, to celebrate the
>15th
>Anniversary of Sacred Space.
>
>Gateley will feature excerpts from her latest book, Soul Sisters: Women in
>Scripture Speak to Women Today at Lakewood Woman's Club Pavilion. Soul
>Sisters is a work of poetry and reflection inspired by 12 portraits of
>women
>in scripture by Louis Glanzman, one of America's most acclaimed
>portraitists.
>
>Gateley is well-known as founder of Genesis House in Chicago, a house of
>hospitality and nurturing for women in prostitution and Exodus, a program
>for women in the second phase of recovery from prostitution.
>
>She has received numerous awards including the Call to Action National
>Leadership Award in 1998 and the Oscar Romero Award from Mercyhurst
>College,
>Erie, PA, in 1998. Her work and ministry have been publicly commended by
>the Governor of Illionois, the Mayor of Chicago, and the former President
>of
>the United States, Bill Clinton.
>
>Gateley's work with marginalized women, homemakers, child runaways,
>teachers, and mothers, inspired her to give life to Glanzman's 12 portraits
>through poetry. She realistically connects contemporary women's struggles,
>joys, and dreams to the lives of women in scripture.
>
>These archetypes portrayed in dance and song become an uplifting of spirit
>by women in Sacred Space with their performance on Friday evening, entitled
>"Veils." A Saturday morning brunch, presided over by Edwina Gateley, will
>recount her personal journey as writer, author, and advocate.
>
>Cost of Friday evening performance, which begins at 7:00 p.m. is $20.00
>and
>Saturday brunch, beginning at 10:00 a.m is $15.00. Advance reservations
>are
>necessary. For more information, call CeCe Miller 440.843.7378 or go to
>www.sacredspace.cc.
>
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