The Committee on the Status of Women in partnership with Prevention Awareness Understanding Violence Kauai, will premiere the film, Rise of the Wahine: Champions of Title IX at the Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center on March 21. Doors open at 5 p.m., and the film begins at 6 p.m.
The Committee on the Status of Women in partnership with Prevention Awareness Understanding Violence Kauai, will premiere the film, “Rise of the Wahine: Champions of Title IX” at the Kauai Community College Performing Arts Center on March 21. Doors open at 5 p.m., and the film begins at 6 p.m.
Admission is free and DVD copies will be available for purchase. Filmgoers will have a chance to meet Hawaii-born director, writer and producer Dean Kaneshiro and co-producer Ryan Kalei Tsuji, who was a former UH Wahine Volleyball Assistant Coach and UH Athletics commentator.
“Rise of the Wahine: Champions of Title IX” is a historical sports documentary chronicling the birth of the first Rainbow Wahine volleyball team during a time of great change for women’s equality. This documentary tells the untold story of a group of women from Hawaii who battled inequality issues, leading up to the passing of Title IX.
Info: Edith Ignacio-Neumiller, 639-9973, ainapono@gmail.com.
Title IX: Equal rights and no discrimination on the basis of sex. It was passed in 1972 by Patsy Mink. Sports. For women’s sports. Later it was used for anything equating to college sports and education.
It is good I suppose. But I am not into sports. So it doesn’t apply to me. So it doesn’t effect me.