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Your Guide Winter 2012 Issue

"Realism or Not" Exhibition
Jan. 13–Feb. 23

Art Sampler: Watercolor
Feb. 4, 9:30a–1:00p

Writershop for Beginning & Aspiring Writers
Feb. 6, 6:30–8:30p

Art Lecture: Kandinsky
Feb. 9, Noon–1:30p

Ancient Wisdom–
Modern Science Retreat
Starts Jan. 30, 9:30a

Spring Luncheon: Happy for No Reason with Marci Shimoff
April 14, 11:00a–2:00p

Calendar of Events

Special Events

Margaret Fuller

A Women's History Month benefit performance

Come discover what was left out of our history books at this live performance honoring the mother of the women’s movement. Lost in a shipwreck in 1850 at age 40, Margaret Fuller was a world celebrity – her era’s Gloria Steinem. She is perhaps our earliest foremother, and influenced thousands, including Susan B. Anthony, Emerson, and Thoreau, with her groundbreaking book, Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Then Summer on the Lakes chronicled her pioneering trip here in 1843. Laying the groundwork for the women’s rights movement in the U.S., Fuller was the:

First American to write a book about equality for women
First woman literary critic
First editor of The Dial magazine, voice of the Transcendentalists
First woman permitted inside Harvard Library for research
First woman journalist at Horace Greeley’s New York Daily Tribune
First woman foreign correspondent & professional war correspondent

Author & actress Laurie James promotes women’s issues with her original acclaimed solo dramas about Margaret Fuller & Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She has performed Off-Broadway, throughout the US, and around the world. Laurie’s book Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller won the non-fiction award from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her current project, Heartblood, is a play about the controversial issues of female genital mutilation (FGM).

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Sponsored by:

Margaret Fuller Sponsors

Course #: SE11-3
Date: March 28
Time: Wednesday, 7:00p
Presenter: Laurie James
Location: Maddox Theatre, Rockford College, 5050 E. State St
Regular Fee: $25
Student Fee: $10
Registration Policy

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Spring Luncheon

Having money, success, relationships, health can provide a certain kind of happiness, but temporary satisfaction soon fades and we have to hurry up and fulfill the next desire to feel happy again. To experience true and lasting happiness, we can learn to access the deep states of peace and well-being that already exist within us. Then, no matter what is happening in life, we are Happy for No Reason! Join us for a dynamic, inspiring and interactive presentation with real-life stories, as well as the latest scientific findings about how to create a life that is full of genuine happiness every day.

Happy for No Reason With book sales of more than 15 million copies worldwide in 31 languages, Marci Shimoff is one of the bestselling female nonfiction authors of all time. Happy for No Reason is a breakthrough book from this New York Times best-selling author and world-renowned transformational expert. Shimoff is also the author of Love for No Reason, co-author of six Chicken Soup for the Soul books, and featured teacher in the hit film The Secret. Her profound teachings are easy to understand…and her methods work! www.happyfornoreason.com

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