Welcome to VOICES.

It has been busy in the office getting ready to welcome Dee Dee Myers to Portland on February 3. Tickets are limited with about 50 General Admission tickets remaining for Dee Dee Myers and Kerry Kennedy. Tickets are $59 plus $2.50 handling per ticket. . To order click here or call TICKET HOTLINE at 503.243.3440.

I am very excited to announce our 18th Season Lineup . . . truly international. Since 1993, VOICES has brought the most extraordinary women of our time to Portland. Renowned magazine editor Tina Brown will discuss women as leaders, the changing role of the media and of course, Princess Diana; Elizabeth Alexander will enchant us with her poetry and stories as she did at President Obama’s Inauguration; Lisa Shannon will inspire us with her personal journey as she did on OPRAH and Isabella Rossellini will share some of her most memorable moments on film and off.

Join our family of subscribers, connect with other women and hear the life stories of dynamic women. Their stories change our lives. To order click here, call TICKET HOTLINE at 503-243-3440 or click here to download the Early Bird Order Form (pdf). For additional information, please call our office at 503.631.7477.

With warm regards,

Francine Read
President
VOICES, INC.

Since 1993 the VOICES Contemporary Lectures has featured in order of appearance:

Linda Ellerbee • Sarah Brady • Geri Jewell • Cicely Tyson • Jehan Sadat • Dr. Helen Fisher • Faye Wattleton • Molly Ivins • Ellen Goodman • Leslie Abramson • Honorable Ann Richards • Kathy Buckley • Lesley Stahl • Geraldine Ferraro • Cathy Rigby • Liz Carpenter • Patricia Schroeder • Terry Gross • Isabel Allende • Lynn Sherr • Beverly Sills • Liz Curtis Higgs • Jane Alexander • Gloria Steinem • Susan Stamberg • Gail Sheehy • Eleanor Clift with Bay Buchanan • Anna Quindlen • Linda Wertheimer • Joan Rivers • Dr. Sylvia Earle • Doris Kearns Goodwin • Katherine Martin • Sister Helen Prejean • Lucie Arnaz • Sue Kirby • Ann Curry • Stephen Engelberg • Diana Jordan • Helen Thomas • Janet Reno • Susan Faludi • Lalita Tademy • Sherron Watkins • Sarah Weddington • Nadine Strossen • Erin Brockovich • Mavis Leno • Susan Orlean • Catherine Crier • Anna Deavere Smith • Arianna Huffington • Michele Norris and Marlee Matlin • Irshad Manji • Valerie Plame Wilson • Nancy Giles • Lisa Ling • Naomi Wolf • Lee Woodruff • Charlayne Hunter-Gault • Amy Dickinson • Elizabeth Edwards • Rachael Scdoris • Dee Dee Myers • Kerry Kennedy

Now on Sale—18th Season featuring:

Tina Brown—Wednesday, October 2, 2010
Renowned Magazine Editor, Best Selling Author & Founder of TheDailyBeast.com
From Glossy Page to Web Page: An Editor's Odyssey

Elizabeth Alexander—Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Poet, essayist, playwright and Yale professor,
Hearing America Singing: Multi-vocal Cultures in America

Lisa Shannon—February 9, 2011
Author and founder of Run for Congo Women
A Thousand Sisters: My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman

Isabella Rossellini—April 6, 2011
Actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model
An Evening with Isabella Rossellini

Sincerely,
Francine B. Read
President
VOICES, INC.