Celebrate Women 2016
Celebrate Women is Wednesday, April 13, 2016
The Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW - Sudbury), in partnership with the YWCA and the Women’s Legal, Education, and Action Fund (LEAF) will be presenting their 21st annual Celebrate Women on April 13th at Laurentian University’s Fraser Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. This event provides an opportunity for a female Canadian author to feature her latest book.
This year’s author is Carmen Aguirre, a Vancouver-based writer and theatre artist, and her new memoir is titled Mexican Hooker #1 and My Other Roles Since the Revolution. Click here to download a pdf of the event’s poster.
Celebrate Women includes a reception, book signing, brief performance by Nickel City Sound, and free parking - all for only $10. Funds raised support scholarships totalling $7000 to young women in Sudbury. Tickets available at Gloria’s, Apollo Restaurant, LU Bookstore, at the door or from any CFUW Sudbury member.
The Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW - Sudbury), in partnership with the YWCA and the Women’s Legal, Education, and Action Fund (LEAF) will be presenting their 21st annual Celebrate Women on April 13th at Laurentian University’s Fraser Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. This event provides an opportunity for a female Canadian author to feature her latest book.
This year’s author is Carmen Aguirre, a Vancouver-based writer and theatre artist, and her new memoir is titled Mexican Hooker #1 and My Other Roles Since the Revolution. Click here to download a pdf of the event’s poster.
Celebrate Women includes a reception, book signing, brief performance by Nickel City Sound, and free parking - all for only $10. Funds raised support scholarships totalling $7000 to young women in Sudbury. Tickets available at Gloria’s, Apollo Restaurant, LU Bookstore, at the door or from any CFUW Sudbury member.
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About the new book:
A powerful, heartfelt and grippingly honest memoir of finding meaning in life and one’s voice as an artist after being a teenage revolutionary, and of developing the strength to confront a childhood trauma.
Carmen Aguirre has lived many lives, all of them to the full. At age six she was a Chilean refugee adjusting to life as a Latina in North America. At eighteen she was a revolutionary dissident married to a generous-hearted man she couldn’t fully love. In her early twenties she fought to find her voice as an actress and to break away from the stereotypical roles thrust upon her—Housekeeper, Hotel Maid, Mexican Hooker #1—all the while navigating the complex paths of lust and heartbreak.
As she grew in her career, Aguirre became a writer, a director, an actress, and then a mother, but alongside her many multi-faceted identities was another that was unbearable to embrace yet impossible to escape; that of the thirteen-year-old girl attacked by one of Canada’s most feared rapists. Thirty-three years after the assault, Aguirre decided it was time to meet the man who changed her life.
Fierce, funny and enlightening, Aguirre interweaves her account of overcoming the attack that shook her world with a host of stories of life and love. From her passionate but explosive relationship with a gorgeous Argentinian basketball player to the all-consuming days at drama school in Vancouver; from the end of the Chilean revolutionary dream to life among the Chicano theatre scene of Los Angeles; from the child who was made the victim of a terrible crime to the artist who found the courage to confront her assailant, Aguirre tells a story of strength and survival that will leave you speechless.
A powerful, heartfelt and grippingly honest memoir of finding meaning in life and one’s voice as an artist after being a teenage revolutionary, and of developing the strength to confront a childhood trauma.
Carmen Aguirre has lived many lives, all of them to the full. At age six she was a Chilean refugee adjusting to life as a Latina in North America. At eighteen she was a revolutionary dissident married to a generous-hearted man she couldn’t fully love. In her early twenties she fought to find her voice as an actress and to break away from the stereotypical roles thrust upon her—Housekeeper, Hotel Maid, Mexican Hooker #1—all the while navigating the complex paths of lust and heartbreak.
As she grew in her career, Aguirre became a writer, a director, an actress, and then a mother, but alongside her many multi-faceted identities was another that was unbearable to embrace yet impossible to escape; that of the thirteen-year-old girl attacked by one of Canada’s most feared rapists. Thirty-three years after the assault, Aguirre decided it was time to meet the man who changed her life.
Fierce, funny and enlightening, Aguirre interweaves her account of overcoming the attack that shook her world with a host of stories of life and love. From her passionate but explosive relationship with a gorgeous Argentinian basketball player to the all-consuming days at drama school in Vancouver; from the end of the Chilean revolutionary dream to life among the Chicano theatre scene of Los Angeles; from the child who was made the victim of a terrible crime to the artist who found the courage to confront her assailant, Aguirre tells a story of strength and survival that will leave you speechless.