"Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity."

~ Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, quoted in The Voice of Black America

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ANNUAL EVENTS & CONFERENCES FOR JULY

• Brazen Images Film Festival, Women's Media Project, Austin, TX: 512-472-8230
  
• Business & Professional Women/ USA Annual Conference: 202-293-1100
  
• Federally Employed Women annual meeting: 202-898-0994
  
• Feminist Women's Writing Workshops: P.O. Box 6583, Ithaca, NY 14851
  
• International Cross-Cultural Black Women's Studies Summer Institute: CUNY, 1150 Carroll St., Brooklyn, NY 11225; fax 718-270-5126
  
• International Feminist Book Fair: P.O. Box 882554, San Francisco, CA 94188; 415-626-1556
  
• International Women Playwrights Conference, Adelaide, SA, Australia: (61) 8-210-6776
  
• Mateel Women's Music Festival: P.O. Box 1574, Redway, CA 95560; 707-923-5271
  
• National Association of Negro Business & Professional Women's Clubs Annual Convention: 202-483-4206
  
• National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, Feminist Caucus Summer Conference: 212-721-8259
  
• National Black Nurses Association annual meeting, end of July, early August:202-392-6870
  
• National Lesbian & Gay Health Conference, Annual HIV/AIDS Forum: 202-939-7880
  
• National Women's Political Caucus Convention, every other year: 202-785-1100; 800-729-NWPC
  
• NOW Annual Conference: 202-331-0066
  
• Ride 'In for a Cure motorcyclists gathering, fund-raiser for breast cancer, Rochester, NY: 716-768-6054; fax 716-768-8014