{"id":2435,"date":"2020-01-02T11:43:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T17:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2020-05-02T11:46:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T16:46:24","slug":"exciting-events-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/?p=2435","title":{"rendered":"Exciting Events in 2020!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WNBA members and friends attended a screening of Little Women<\/em> just days after its opening in late December. Afterwards the group engaged in a lively discussion led by member Anne Boyd Rioux\u2014University of New Orleans professor, scholar, and author of, among other books,\u00a0Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters<\/em>.\u00a0 The discussion touched on the film’s ambiguous ending, feminism, casting, costuming, chronology, and more!\u00a0\u00a0 We are so grateful to Anne Boyd Rioux. Please check out her\u00a0book<\/a> if you haven’t already. We had such a great time that we hope to host another movie event, perhaps for the upcoming\u00a0Emma<\/em>. Stay tuned!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Coming Up:\u00a0 Friday, January 10, 6 – 8 PM:\u00a0King Cake Party\/ Annual Social<\/strong><\/h3>\n

We’ll be asking for RSVPs and then give the address for the party, which will be at the residence of Board Member Pam Ebel.<\/h4>\n

Our annual Holiday Book Drive will benefit the New Orleans Chapter of GiGi’s Playhouse, a non-profit resource center for the Down Syndrome community. Slated to open in Spring 2020, GiGi’s Playhouse New Orleans will offer educational, physical fitness and life skills programs free-of-charge. They’ve provided us with a list of both proprietary and general access literacy materials for their programs; the materials cover all ages. The list will be sent out separately in a few days with more information on how to participate in this special Book Drive.<\/h3>\n

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WNBA members and friends attended a screening of Little Women just days after its opening in late December. Afterwards the group engaged in a lively discussion led by member Anne Boyd Rioux\u2014University of New Orleans professor, scholar, and author of, among other books,\u00a0Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-2435","6":"format-standard","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2436,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions\/2436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnba-nola.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}