October

This October, in honor of Relationship Abuse Awareness Month, SHARPP will be hosting a social media awareness campaign:

Healthy Relationships Everyday – 31 Days of Awareness

For 31 days in October, SHARPP will post a photo and quote from a UNH community member that answers the question:

“What makes a healthy relationship?”

We will also encourage students, staff and faculty to wear a purple ribbon. The Purple Ribbon is a unifying symbol of courage, survival, honor and dedication to ending relationship abuse. You can get your purple ribbon from our office or at one of our tabling events.

During the week of October 7th, Wolff House (the SHARPP office) will glow purple for 5 nights in recognition to the importance to healthy relationships.

Find out more about what a healthy relationship means by clicking here.

The Clothesline Project at UNH

In New Hampshire, the Clothesline Project is an annual statewide event. Put on by the AmeriCorps Victim Assistance Program. The project displays shirts from crisis centers across the state on the statehouse lawn in Concord every April. Following the statehouse display, the shirts are then moved to Colby-Sawyer College where all shirts from years prior are displayed. At the latter event, the shirts number into the thousands.

Twice a year, SHARPP hosts the Traveling Clothesline Project. During the month of October (Relationship Abuse Awareness Month) and April (Sexual Assault Awareness Month), the Clothesline is brought to different halls across campus for display. There is also opportunity for students to make their own t-shirts once or twice during those months (see below). T-shirts displayed at UNH are all made by students, faculty and staff members of years past dating back to 2002.

T-Shirt Making Workshops

All members of the UNH community are invited to attend a t-shirt making workshop. No registration required. SHARPP provides all materials. We will also have a t-shirt display for your viewing at our workshops. Upcoming workshops are:

Thursday, October 3, 2013 (12:40 - 2:00pm) in MUB Room 302

Find out about the history of the Clothesline Project here.

Everyone is Gay with everyoneisgay.com creators
Danielle Owens-Reid & Kristin Russo

Wednesday October 9 at 7pm, Strafford Room

In honor of National Coming Out Week, please join us for this MUB sponspored Coming Out Week Lecture!

6,000,000 page views • 60,000 Tumblr followers • 19,000 Facebook fans • Over 1,000,000 YouTube views.

Everyone Is Gay began as an advice website for all with an emphasis on LGBTQ youth. Through an integration of humor, honesty, and pictures of kittens on several social media outlets, Kristin and Dannielle found that they were able to support these youth while keeping them laughing. In 2011, Everyone Is Gay began visiting schools and community centers to reach a larger audience and to continue promoting a message of equality. 

SHARPP is a co-sponsor of this MUB event.

Fierce & Fabulous 2013 Expo!

Thursday October 10, 2013, 11am - 2pm Strafford Room
Explore your community. Make connections. Be inspired. Get involved.
Learn about and visit with various women’s organizations and locally-owned women’s business from around the state.

More details to come.

SHARPP Film Series begins!

Makers: Wednesday, October 23, 2013, (6 - 8pm) MUB Theater II

See how women have helped shape America over the last 50 years through one of the most sweeping social revolutions in US history, in pursuit of their rights to a full and fair share of political power, economic opportunity, and personal autonomy.
Find out more about Makers here. (Co-sponsored by Women’s Studies and Eating Concerns Mentors (ECM) from the of Office of Health Education and Promotion, Health Services)

November

SHARPP Film Series

Half the Sky: Tuesday, November 12, 2013, (6 - 8pm) MUB Theater I

Take an unforgettable journey with six actress/advocates and New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof to meet some of the most courageous individuals of our time, who are doing extraordinary work to empower women and girls around the world.
Learn more about Half the Sky here. (Co-sponsored by Women’s Studies)

2nd Annual Floor Hockey Tournament to benefit SHARPP

November 16, 2013, details to come!

December

The Clothesline Project: T-Shirt Making Workshops

All members of the UNH community are invited to attend a t-shirt making workshop. No registration required. SHARPP provides all materials. We will also have a t-shirt display for your viewing at our workshops.

Thursday, December 12, 2013 (12:40 - 2:00pm) in MUB Room 302

February

 
The Vagina Monologues at UNH – 2014

Friday, February 28, 2014, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, MUB Strafford Room
The Vagina Monologues dives into the mystery, humor, pain, power, wisdom, outrage and excitement buried in women’s experiences. 

The Vagina Monologues will be performed by students at University of New Hampshire. Presented by the University of New Hampshire, Sexual Harassment & Rape Prevention Program.

Details to come!

March

The Clothesline Project: T-Shirt Making Workshops

All members of the UNH community are invited to attend a t-shirt making workshop. No registration required. SHARPP provides all materials. We will also have a t-shirt display for your viewing at our workshops.

Thursday, March 6, 2014 (12:30 - 2:00pm) in MUB Room 302

April

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month – (SAAM)

Thursday, April 10, 2014 (12:30 – 2:00)

In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, SHARPP cordially invites the UNH Community to SHARPP’s 4th Annual, Stepping Out to Speak Out Against Violence. Read about last years event here.

Click on this link for more details of the campaign.

UNH White Ribbon Campaign: Last Year over 1,000 UNH took the pledge!

The White Ribbon Campaign is the world’s largest movement of men and boys working to end violence against women and girls, promote gender equity and healthy relationships. During the month of April UNH men can take an active role in preventing violence against women. SHARPP is sponsoring the fourth annual UNH White Ribbon Campaign (WRC) during the month of April. By wearing a white ribbon, men take a personal pledge to:

“NEVER COMMIT, CONDONE, NOR REMAIN SILENT ABOUT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN”

Check back later for details for our 2014 Campaign!

Please click on this link for details of the 2013 campaign.

SHARPP Film Series

Invisible War: Tuesday, April 15, 2013, (6 - 8pm) MUB Theater I

From Oscar® & Emmy® nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick comes The Invisible War, a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of America’s most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military.

SHARPP Film Series

Rape in the Fields: Thursday, April 17, 2013, (12:40 - 2pm) MUB Theater I

FRONTLINE and Univision partner to tell the story of the hidden price many migrant women working in America’s fields and packing plants pay to stay employed and provide for their families.