53 - Sunday, December 3, 1989 ~ Nosth Shore News

HANDSWORTH BAND members (left to right) Christine McDonaid,
Tanya Fleck and Kathryn Evans rehearse for Handsworth Secondary
School's Christmas Concert Dessert Extravaganza to be held Wednesday,
Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. at the school. For ticket information call $87-3381.

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genders, to attend.
For more information call
NSWC at 984-6009,

Women in

THE TOPIC of women’s portrayal
in the mass media will be address-
ed in a workshop session entitled
Images of Women in the Media.
‘ Presented by the North Shore
Women’s Centres (NSWC), the
event takes place on Tuesday, Dec.
5 at 7:30 p.m. in the theatre at
Presentation House, 333 Chester-
field Ave., North Vancouver.
Kathy Dornan, coordinator of
NSWC, describes the topic as
‘timely. Women are seeking in-
formation and demanding change
in this area. At a recent meeting of
NSWC members, we documented
women’s images in advertising and
media as 2 primary concern. We
see it as an industry that is slow in
catching up with the positive
changes that women are achieving
in society. lt is becoming socially
unacceptable to objectify and ste-
teotype females.”

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The workshop will feature guest
speaker Suzanne Strutt, national
director of MediaWatch, an
organization focused on educating
concerned individuals and groups
in media literacy and in pressing
for change through political and
industry lobbying. PLE ai Res

Among the goals of the .
organization are efforts to en- -
courage the media to use non-sex-
ist language, to depict women real-
istically as societal contributors
and experts and to reflect an accu-
rate appearance of women of
varied cultures, races and ages.

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of how stereotyping affects
women, government initiatives to
change it, and wiil provide
guidelines on what participants can
do to heip affect change. She will
also refer to rock videos and their
portrayal of females.

The NFB video Sill Killing Us
Softly will be viewed and discuss-
ed, The film is an enlightening and
amusing commentary that points
out how stereotypical ads are used
not only to sell products but
values, goals, concepts and i:nages

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