Upcoming Events
Sip and Scene Discussion Group of AAUW North Dallas 2023-24
Our Sip /n Scenes Interest Group meets on the first Monday of the month at New New Buffet, 3822 Belt Line Road in Addison at 6:30 p.m. After selecting food from the buffet, we gather in a side meeting room and begin discussion by 7 p.m. Participants have watched the movie individually in a theater or streaming at home before the meeting. Discussion focuses on the ideas related to women’s issues, treatment of women by media, how mores have changed over the years (or not!), among other concepts.
Oct 2 – Barbie!! “This funny, eye-catching film sports pitch-perfect performances from Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, paying tribute to the iconic toy while skewering the patriarchy and feminist window-dressing.” –Valerie Kalfrin –AWFJ.org
Nov 6—Wild A chronicle of one woman’s 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy, played by Reese Witherspoon
Dec 4 Our Christmas Journey – Lena, is a single mom of an autistic son who comes to the realization that it’s time to give him some independence. But as she learns to let go, an unexpected holiday romance makes the transition a little bit easier.
Jan 8 – Little Miss Sumo – Documentary Banned from professional competition, female sumo wrestler Hiyori encounters obstacles both in and out of the ring as she attempts to change the rules of Japan’s national sport.
Feb 5 Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Lee Israel is a frustrated, hard-drinking author who can barely afford to pay her rent or bills in 1990s New York. Desperate for money, Israel soon hatches a scheme to forge letters by famous writers and sell them to bookstores and collectors.
Apr 1 – The Starling – Sip ‘n Scene April 1, 2024 “The Starling” (2021)
After Lilly suffers a loss, a combative Starling makes a nest beside her quiet home. The feisty bird taunts and attacks the grief-stricken Lilly. On her journey to expel the Starling, she rediscovers her will to live and capacity for love. Stars Melissa McCarthy, Chris O’Dowd, and Kevin Kline.
Viewing this movie will be a special group event, watching together, sharing our tissues and maybe our tears.
Book Discussion Group of AAUW North Dallas 2023-2024
The Book Discussion group meets on the 4th Tuesday of every other month at Sweet Basil Italian Restaurant, 17610 Midway Road at Trinity Mills, Carrollton. We gather at 6:30 p.m. in a room separated from the rest of the dining areas. We order from the menu and begin discussion at 7:00 p.m. Reading the book is not a requirement for attending as you will surely learn from the other participants. Everyone is welcome.
AAUW Book Selections for 2023-2024
September 27, 2023
Lessons in Chemistry, a novel by Bonnie Garmus.
It is imaginative, creative, and hilarious. It’s a story of feminism in the 50s and 60s. A New York Times reviewer said, “Welcome to the 1960s, where a woman’s arsenal of tools was often limited to the kitchen–and where Elizabeth Zott is hellbent on overturning the status quo one meal at a time.”
Discussion leader: Jan McDowell
November 28, 2023
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
An unforgettable true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to end mass incarceration in America—from one of the most inspiring lawyers of our time.
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a nonprofit law office in Montgomery, Alabama, dedicated to defending the poor, the incarcerated, and the wrongly condemned.
Just Mercy tells the story of EJI, from the early days with a small staff facing the nation’s highest death sentencing and execution rates, through a successful campaign to challenge the cruel practice of sentencing children to die in prison, to revolutionary projects designed to confront Americans with our history of racial injustice.
Discussion Leader: Jane Henry
February 27, 2024
The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
“Historical fiction at its best!”
A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation. The authors tell the story of an extraordinary woman, famous for her intellect, style, and wit, and share the lengths she must go to—for the protection of her family and her legacy—to preserve her carefully crafted white identity in the racist world in which she lives.
Discussion Leader: Kari Gould
April 23, 2024
History of Art, Without Men by Katy Hessel. How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? This is the history of art as it’s never been told before.
Discussion Leader: Viccy Kemp