Previous Events
October 2011 October's meeting started with a selection of Community notices, house sales advertisements and the sort of other interesting and useful snippets that many people hear first at alba. Our guest speaker was Tulia Thompson who is completing her PHD at Auckland University. Tulia's doctoral research is about sexual subjectivities in Fiji. She spoke about the stories of lesbian Fijian women living in Suva and the difficulty of doing research on Lesbian topics in a macho, militaristic, heavily religious society. She comes from a Tongan/Fijian background and did much of her work through NGO' in Fiji.
August 2011 The August ALBA meeting was the last at the Short Room for a couple of months. We are being moved out because of the RWC. However, September and October might be a good time to stay out of the way of the rugby, and we have been enthusiastically welcomed at Marcello's Cafe which is at 28 College Hill, just up the road from the supermarket. The August meeting featured Anne Spier talking about her journey into stand-up comedy and the "invention" of Dolores Clitoris. Danielle Smith spoke about her business ventures in linen supply and elder-care.
March 2011
The March alba meeting was the first one in the new venue at "The Short Room" which is attached to The Long Room at 114 Ponsonby Road. It was nice to be back in Ponsonby Road again and the new venue is almost directly across the road from our previous Ponsonby Road venue in what became the ill-fated Plato's.
The new venue is bright and airy with folding windows which enable great ventilation, plus an attached balcony area.
The theme of the March meeting was lesbian representation at the Outgames and we heard from several women who were heading to Wellington to compete. Cynthia gave some facts and figures about women's representation at the games and introduced some women members of the master swimmers. Following Cynthia, we were treated to a dance demonstration by Jodi and Jenni and their fabulous partners.
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