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The Secret Furies performances

File contains one cassette tape recording of performances the Halifax-based choral group The Secret Furies. Cassettes features recording of The Secret Furies performance at Truro Women's and Children's Dance on October 25, 1991. Songs performed are You Can Forbid Nearly Everything ; December 6 : Russian Learning Lullaby ; Living Flame ; Hippopotamus Song ; Look to the Women ; Women All Around the World. Cassette also features a recording of the song Burning Times from a performance at the Stepping Stone Benefit on October 30, 1991. Cassette also includes recordings with no specified performance date. These recordings are of the songs We All Come From the Mother ; Round and Round the Earth is Turning ; Women All Around the World.

The Secret Furies performance

File contains one cassette tape recording of performances the Halifax-based choral group The Secret Furies. Cassettes features recording of The Secret Furies performance at the Halifax launch of the film The Burning Times on November 3, 1990. Songs on the recording performed prior to the screening are Round and Round the Earth is Turning ; River of Birds ; Witch's Song. Songs performed after the screening are Round and Round the Earth is Turning ; Under the Full Moon ; Burning Times ; Earth Air Fire Water Return.

Making a difference : Halifax women remember the 1950s, 60s and 70s : [workshop videos]

File contains the 3-tape VHS video master set for the "Making a Difference : Halifax women remember the 1950's, 60's and 70's" workshop, part of the "Women, Work and Social Policy" project, held on May 7, 1999.

Participants in the workshop included researchers Judith Fingard (chair), Frances Gregor, Janet Guildford, Suzanne Morton, and Jeanne Fay (social work), and community activists Dr. Pamela Brown, Sister Mary Jean Burns, Muriel Duckworth, Joan Fraser, Judith Giffin, Dorothy Grantmyre, Fran Maclean, Judge Sandra Oxner, Linda Christiansen-Ruffman, Myrna Slater, Gertrude Tynes, and Sue Wolstenholme.

Women and the law in Nova Scotia

Item is a revised edition of Women and the Law in Nova Scotia published in 1972, and covers a range of legal issues affecting women in Nova Scotia, including marriage, abortion, rape, maternity leave benefits, tenancy law etc. It was written by Susan Perly with research and discussion by the Women and the Law Pamphlet Revision Committee: Deborah Dostal, Elizabeth Glenister, Elizabeth Lennon, Susan Perly and Judith Wouk.

Maritime women's access handbook

Item is a book complied, edited and published by Reel Life, a women's media collective, from resource information they collected during a tour of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick screening and distributing films, videotapes, slides and women's art. "S. Sherwin, Philosophy Dept." is written in ink on the front cover.

Anita Martinez fonds

  • MS-15-2
  • Fonds
  • 1980-1999
Fonds consists of photographs taken by Anita Martinez at pride events and women's events in Nova Scotia between 1987 - 1999. There are also clippings, event programs, brochures, posters and promotional materials related to various women's and pride events.

Martinez, Anita Louise

Marjorie Stone fonds

  • MS-2-739
  • Fonds
  • 1975 - 1999
Fonds consists of Marjorie Stone's records illustrating her professional involvement with the Dalhousie University English Department, Dalhousie University Graduate Faculty Review Committee, Dalhousie Women Faculty Organization, and the Women's Action Coalition of Nova Scotia. Record types include correspondence, meeting minutes and reports.

Stone, Marjorie

Women of the world (W.O.W.)

File includes an 11-minute animated color film called "W.O.W. (Women of the World)." The film is directed and produced by Faith Hubley. Hubly began working on the film after she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1975. She designed the storyboards during a seminar at the Yale University School of Art. The film features music composed and conducted by William Russo. Musicians include Paula Hatcher, Rosalind Ross, Eugene Orcutt, Louise Schulman, Eugene J. Moye Jr., and James Preiss. The film was animated by Ruth Kissane, William Littlejohn, Barry Nelson, Earl James, Spencer Peel, and Kate Wodell. Artists include Faith Hubley, Kate Wodell, Gen Hirsch, Georgia Hubley, and Ida Greenberg. Brigalia Bam, Joan Erikson, and Letty Russell were consultants to Hubley. John Taylor and John Hubley were associate producers.

W.O.W was produced for the World Council of Churches in honour of the United Nations' Women's Year in 1975. It addresses historical gender relations and gender issues up to the 1970s.

Women Willing To Work : An Exploratory Investigation of the Economic Integration of Women with Disabilities in Nova Scotia / researched and written by Elizabeth Doull

Item consists of a copy of the May 1993 report "Women Willing To Work : An Exploratory Investigation of the Economic Integration of Women with Disabilities in Nova Scotia", researched and written by Elizabeth Doull and edited by Brenda L. Beagan.

Movement for Citizens Voice and Action fonds

  • MS-11-1
  • Fonds
  • 1967-1982
Fonds consists of a wide range of records from both MOVE and MOVE coalition members, consisting of administrative records to material on social issues. Records include meeting minutes from the board and staff; material on operations; records on funding and finances; material on activities and participation of MOVE such as conferences, seminars, and workshops; various material on internal committees and external committees; various material on MOVE coalition member groups; resource and reference material that made up much of MOVE's library as well as research information they used for various publications for citizen awareness. In addition, the above records contain material that target many social issues such as environment, human rights, poverty, unemployment, city planning, and transit issues.

Movement for Citizens Voice and Action

Workshop "Bashing Queers and Women"

File contains audio recording of the workshop "Bashing Queers and Women" from the Women's Health Education Network Conference on May 5, 1990. Workshop was administered by Anne Bishop and Jan Morrell.

Wimmin's Words newsletters

File contains three issues of the Wimmin's Words newsletter published in Halifax between November 1982 to February 1983. This file contains two copies of the November 1982 issue.

Reference materials regarding homosexuality, sexual heath, substance abuse, relationships, parenting, discrimination, legal rights, and women's issues

Subseries contains materials collected for reference and educational use by GayLine volunteers. Subjects covered include homosexuality and coming out, sexual heath and AIDS prevention, alcoholism and substance abuse, abuse in LGBT relationships, parenting, discrimination, legal rights, and women's issues. Materials include pamphlets, flyers, newsletters, essays, and correspondence.

Women of Note performance

File contains one cassette tape recording of performance of the Ottawa-based choral group Women of Note. The group was a predecessor to the Halifax-based group The Secret Furies, and featured three Nova Scotian members, Anne Bishop, Barbara MacDonald, and Pat Brennan. The tape features a performance of the song This is Not a Bingo at the Women's Health Interaction fundraiser in Ottawa on April 1, 1987. The tape also contains recordings of the songs La Andina ; Divide and Rule ; Roly Poly People ; The Spelling Song ; Period Piece ; This is Not a Bingo.

The Secret Furies performances

File contains one cassette tape recording of a performance of the Halifax-based choral group The Secret Furies. Performances include a performance at the Montreal Massacre Memorial at Eye Level Gallery in Halifax on December 6, 1990. Songs performed at the memorial are There Comes a Time ; December 6 ; You Can Forbid Nearly Everything ; Fight Back ; Keep on Walking Forward. Tape also contains recordings of a performance at the Furies Solstice Party on December 17, 1990. Songs performed are Russian Learning Lullaby ; Three Wise Women.

The Secret Furies rehearsals

File contains one cassette tape recording of rehearsals for the Halifax-based choral group The Secret Furies. Tape contains recordings of the songs Come Justice Come ; Keep on Walking Forward ; Witch's Song ; and Burning Times. Recordings were made on June 23 and July 2, 1990.

The Secret Furies performances

File contains one cassette tape recording of performances the Halifax-based choral group The Secret Furies. Cassettes features recording of The Secret Furies performance at an International Women's Day event on March 8, 1991. Recording features a warm up or equipment test and the songs Come Justice Come ; Russian Learning Lullaby ; Mothers Teach Your Sons ; The Spelling Songs ; There Comes a Time. Cassette also features recording of a performance at the Women's Health Education Network Conference in Truro on May 4, 1991. Songs performed are Temagami Song ; Mothers Teach Your Sons ; Period Piece ; Best Woman ; We Always Had Sense ; There Comes a Time.

Rehearsals of "Women of Note"

File contains one cassette tape recording of rehearsals for the Ottawa-based choral group Women of Note. The group was a predecessor to the Halifax-based group The Secret Furies, and featured three Nova Scotian members, Anne Bishop, Barbara MacDonald, and Pat Brennan. Side A features recordings of the songs The Underground Railroad ; Listen to the Voices ; Freedom Has Beckoned ; Justice and Peace ; La Andina. Side B features recordings of Still Ain't Satisfied ; Listen to the Voices ; Still Ain't Satisfied [second version].

Women's Health Educational Network

Sub-series consists of materials from the Women's Health Education Network Conference [WHEN] 1989, 1992, 1993, and materials from the WHEN 11th annual conference.
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