This week on Chronversations: Rebeca Urzúa, an international student from Mexico, hosts this week’s Uplift: Women Telling Stories Empowering the Future.
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0:08 Welcome back to this week’s Chronversations.
0:11 I’m your guest host, Greer Stewart.
0:14 Women’s History Month, celebrated each March, honors the contributions of women to society, history and culture.
0:22 This week on Chronversations, we’re joined by Rebeca Urzúa, an international student hosting this week’s Uplift, Women Telling Stories Empowering the Future.
0:33 I was born and raised in Mexico, but I moved here for college.
0:35 I’m a music major.
0:37 I’m the host.
0:38 That means I’m going to be introducing and leading everyone through the whole event.
0:41 I’m a head engaged leader.
0:42 That means that, you know, I’m in charge of giving orientation to new students.
0:45 I also work at the digital print center, in case that you guys need prints.
0:49 This past week, the Office of Student Diversity and Inclusion welcomed students to Uplift, an annual Women’s History Month celebration featuring a week full of programming dedicated to honoring the historic strides women have made towards equity and the ongoing efforts to build a more inclusive and equitable future for all.
1:09 The week began with an artist showcase on Monday, March 10th from one to three p.m. on the fifth floor of the Student Center, highlighting the power of unity and collective progress featuring student artists and performances making students feel seen, celebrated and uplifted.
1:27 The Uplift Women, as you know, yesterday was International Women’s Day.
1:31 So, we’re basically celebrating and acknowledging people know, like, you know, that today’s a really important date for women in general.
1:38 I know it was yesterday, but, in Mexico, we actually celebrate, we don’t celebrate, we commemorate. March 8th, but we also do some stuff on March 9th,
1:49 International Women’s Day, a commemorative day of the struggle for women’s rights, began in the U.S. and Europe in the early 1900s.
1:58 It was first celebrated in Mexico City in the 1930s and continues to be commemorated with marches, protests and other events today.
2:07 Some of these events include A Day Without Us on March 9th, where women stay home and off work to protest femicide and violence against women.
2:19 This year’s theme, Moving Forward Together, honors the achievements of women throughout history, including Columbia’s very own founders, Mary Blood and Ida Riley.
2:29 We do have a lot of performances that cover a huge topic of what it’s like to be a woman.
2:34 We actually, you know, did some art and history stuff. These posters are also going to be here for the rest of the week
2:40 We did a lot of research about it. Today is basically, like, you know, that’s like, commemoration of this event and this date.
2:45 Urzúa says the opening installation allowed for students to learn more about women’s history, including from an international standpoint.
2:56 I really hope that they can see how it works in other countries that they can appreciate, like, you know, the art that they made for this occasion.
3:02 There’s a lot of great paintings, visual art, a lot of good performances, good songs, meaningful lyrics, poetry.
3:10 There’s poetry, actually, so I really hope that, you know, they can connect, but the meaning of what it means to be a woman like, what we, what we want people to see.
3:18 I’m, I’m actually really glad that, you know, a lot of people is coming today. We have a lot of women performance That means a lot. That really means a lot.
3:25 That’s all for this week.
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3:46 I’m your guest host, Greer Stewart.
3:49 Thanks for listening.
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