Next Meeting is April 15th

Hello Ladies! The next meeting of The Ladies Underground Tea and Arsenic Society will be on April 15th 2009! We will be discussing how to stay healthy while finishing this semester. As usual we will be serving an assortment of goodies and tea. We will also be doing some painting to release stress. Can't wait... See you all there!!!!

Burlesque Success

Program Success! Thank You to everyone that worked, volunteered, and came to see the Women's Resource Center & The GSSO's Fundraiser Burlesque! Burlesque!! Also thank you to One Longfellow Square for hosting us! (If you would like more info : www.onelongfellowsquare.com) It was such a success that we WILL BE HAVING IT NEXT YEAR!!!!!!! So keep you eyes peeled for tryouts! I also want to thank our producer and creator extraordinaire Victoria Von for spending countless hours putting the show together. Helpfully it will be a success this coming year... and it can become a yearly thing for the WRC. I love burlesque in a feminist context ~E

Ladies Tea & Arsenic

Our next meeting will be on Wednesday,March 11th from 1-3

We will be joined by Victoria von Teasedale for a history lesson about Burlesque!!! Victoria is the director of the WRC & GSSO's fundraiser Burlesque! Burlesque!! The show will be taking place for one night only Thursday March 12th at One Longfellow Square (State & Congress, Portland, ME)!!! There will be 2 fabulously sexy, smart, crazy, fun shows at 7pm and at 9pm!

Due to the subject matter the shows are 18+!

Please come and support our performers!

If you nee information on the show you can contact the WRC!

Vagina Monologues 2009

Vagina Monologues was a huge success this year! The WRC Wants to thank the wonderful directors Erica & JoHannah, actresses (who rocked it out every night), Lyndsay, Crew, and most important the audience and

businesses that donated to the V-Day cause.

Neat & Clean for Spring

COME VISIT THE NEW AND IMPROVED, TOTALLY CLEAN, TOTALLY CHIC
USM WOMEN RESOURCE CENTER

!!!!!!!BEFORE!!!!!!!!

!!!!!AFTER!!!!!

Yes, it is true! The Ladies Underground Tea & Arsenic Society is back for Spring 2009 at USM! Our first meeting of the spring social season will be February 25th from 1pm to 3pm at the Women's Resource Center. The kick off meeting will include tea and baked goodies as well as a meet and greet with the 2009 cast of the Vagina Monologues! We will as be decorating speculum's as part of the special V-Day Campaign to stop violence against women.

Please check out the following information about show times and dates for the 2009 performance of

Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues at USM!

Performance Dates :

February 26th at 7:30pm, Corthell Concert Hall, Gorham

USM STUDENT SHOW ONLY!!!!!

February 27th & 28th at 7:30pm, Luther Bonney Auditorium, Portland

March 1st, at 1:30pm, Luther Bonney Auditorium, Portland

Tickets are $5.00 for students and $8.00 for the public

For ticket reservation please call the USM Women's Resource Center at

207-780-4996, TTY 207-780-5646

And during today's program...

Today's program served as a much needed venting period for those of us who feel the stress of the semesters end pressing down. We ate cookies and made necklaces, earrings and bracelets using materials from previous donations via Caravan Beads and Thistle Hill Glass. Lyndsay made a ton of paper cranes too :)



The jewellery made during this little session will be sold at the December 5th craft fair in the Woodbury campus center. All proceeds will go towards the Women's Resource Center.



With Thanksgiving right around the corner, it really feels like things are winding down. I'm glad that the Tea and Arsenic program has been so well recieved by the USM community; I've made closer bonds with a lot of peers!