Join us for (M)other, a free one-woman performance
 
THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2010   7:00PM
AT MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY, WEASLER AUDITORIUM
 
followed by  Empowering Mother Voices 
a free workshop to provide skills and rehearse activism
 
(M)other is a one-woman show performed and directed by Beth Osnes, MAU Co-founder.  The show explores what it might take for the mothers of one country to authentically care about
the mothers and children of another country.  The show's opening describes a fictional UN program called "Baby Swapping." In this small, limited pilot program, seven mothers from seven
nations from around the world are required by their governments to swap their six month old babies with another mother from another nation for one month.  What follows is an intimate
look at one of these mother's experience and her eventual realization of her interconnectedness with these other mothers, their children, and their nations. 
The Empowering Mother Voices workshop asks mothers to identify their most passionate concern for children and helps them gain skills, confidence and practice declaring this concern. 
The workshop leads each mother to her own brand of leadership in creating a world in which children’s needs are prioritized and their rights protected. 
Hosted by the Center for Peacemaking, Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition, Welfare Warriors, 
Casa Maria Hospitality House, Iraqi Student Project Milwaukee,
 and Well Rounded Maternity Center, in partnership with Mothers Acting Up and Philanthropiece.
 
For more information, to reserve tickets, or to reserve child care, please call 414.288.8444