Spring in the USA

Through the month March -  Display «Spring in the USA».
The "Window on America" center presents to the patrons a book- and- image display "Spring in the USA" to observe the Women's History Month in the US and International Women's Day in Ukraine.
The exhibition introduces to the visitors outstanding women who contributed to the political, cultural and sport history of America. Among them - the First Ladies of the United States, the fighters for women's rights and the abolition of slavery; women-writers and poets, journalists, doctors, athletes, teachers, musicians, representatives of ethnic minorities and simply beautiful women.

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The Women’s World of America

The WOA center has presented a new book display for the patrons. The title of the display is “The Women’s World of America”. The display showcases the center’s resources about outstanding female personalities in the USA - the books about;

- the famous first ladies of the country;

- the well-known American writers and poets;

- the jazz singers;

- the athletes, doctors and journalists.

All library patrons are invited to explore the book display! 
The books will be on display until the end of March 2015.

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Inspiring Change

Today’s session of the Gabfest club (at Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) was dedicated to the Women’s History Month celebrated in the USA in March.  The club members were offered an article from the “American English” website about the background of this holiday.
We started the conversation with the official International Women’s Day site and  discussed the 2014 slogan – ”Inspiring Change”.
To motivate active participation in the discussion we have selected for discussion outstanding female personalities of the modern time and with Ukrainian roots. We started with the NASA astronauts Heidi Stefanyshyn-Piper and Roberta Bondar.

 

The group watched videos about these brave women, shared the information received and commented on the change these ladies introduced into the modern society.
To continue the topic of bravery among women the group  watched and discussed the video of the US ”Women of Courage Award” ceremony where the First Lady  Michelle Obama handed the award to the Ukrainian rock singer Ruslana  for her role in the Ukrainian “Revolution of Dignity”.
 
As a musical wrap up of the session we watched and discussed the videos of Karina Smirnoff ballroom dancing. Unlike Karina her dancing partner is well known in Ukraine due to his participation in popular Ukrainian reality show. But Karina’s achievements as a world scale ball room dancer were a big surprise to the club members.
The session was both educational and funny.
Number of participants – 24 persons.

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Display «Woman’s World of America»

To commemorate the International Women’s Day celebrated in Ukraine on the 8th of March the WOA Dnipropetrovsk presented the book and image display “Women’s world of America”.
The WOA patrons can learn more about the outstanding women of the United States of America: Martha Washington, Emily Dickenson Emily, Louise Alcott, Abigail Adams, Jacqueline Kennedy, Nancy Reagan, Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Michelle Obama. Among them the American women of the Ukrainian descent: Kvitka (or "Kasey") Cisyk , Maria Zakrewska, etc.

International Women’s Day

Today’s session at Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk was dedicated to the International Women’s Day.
Each year around the world, International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8. Thousands of events occur not just on this day but throughout March to mark the economic, political and social achievements of women.
Organizations, governments, charities and women's groups around the world choose different themes each year that reflect global and local gender issues.
"Connecting Girls, Inspiring Future" is the 2012 theme of the internationalwomensday.com website.
Each year the United Nations declares an overall International Women's Day theme. Their 2012 theme is “Empower Rural Women – End Hunger and Poverty”.
Many organizations develop their own themes that are more relevant to their local contexts. For example, the European Parliament's 2012 theme is "Equal pay for work of equal value".
We have watched a funny slideshow about the innovations introduced by women – like coffee filters, water heater, chocolate chip cookies, windshield wipers, Kevlar, etc.
We have watched and discussed the Reuters slideshow about women from other countries.
The slideshow “Women’s World of America” allowed as to make a retrospective of most prominent women in the USA history.
The final activity today was the introduction of the new club members.
The number of visitors – 16 persons.
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