The documentary Miss Representation, by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and aired on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.

The film explores how the media’s misrepresentations of women have led to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence.

• Sunday, March 18. 2012, 2-4:30 p.m.
• Peninsula Center Library Community Room
• Free and open to the public

Readers Theater Presents: "Athletes in Skirts"

This new original play by AAUW/PVP member Jacky Mason features four famous, or not so famous, female athletes who made a real difference for women in sports. Featured athletes are Annie Oakley, Gertrude Ederle, Baby Didrickson, and Billie Jean King.

The performance is a major fundraiser for AAUW projects and a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the passage of Title IX, the legislation guaranteeing equal opportunity to girls and women in sports.

• Saturday, April 21, 2012
• 2 p.m.
• Pacific Unitarian Church
• Free and open to the public