Suffrage Centennial, Women’s Rights, and Voting Rights Events
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Celebrate the centennial of women’s suffrage with a whole year of music by women!
Hildegard von Bingen’s “Ordo Virtutum”
Saturday, February 22, 2020 – 7pm – Eliot Church of Newton
Sunday, February 23, 2020 – 5pm – St. Paul’s Brookline
Immerse yourself in chanted opera: what Director LeClair calls the very first opera, written around 1150 by Abbess and now St. Hildegard von Bingen, fully staged for modern audiences with 18 women and men lending gender fluidity to the various ancient roles; with Na’ama Lion, flute, Nancy Hurrell, harp, Laura Jeppesen, vielle, and Mike Williams, percussion.
Celebrate the centennial of women’s suffrage with a whole year of music by women!
Hildegard von Bingen’s “Ordo Virtutum”
Saturday, February 22, 2020 – 7pm – Eliot Church of Newton
Sunday, February 23, 2020 – 5pm – St. Paul’s Brookline
Immerse yourself in chanted opera: what Director LeClair calls the very first opera, written around 1150 by Abbess and now St. Hildegard von Bingen, fully staged for modern audiences with 18 women and men lending gender fluidity to the various ancient roles; with Na’ama Lion, flute, Nancy Hurrell, harp, Laura Jeppesen, vielle, and Mike Williams, percussion.
Help us kick off a year of programming around our 2020 theme, “Who Are Cambridge Women?”
Opening Conversation and Annual Meeting
Tuesday, February 25, 2020*
Cambridge Public Library, Main Branch
6-8 PM
*Inclement weather date is Wednesday, February 26, at the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House
The event will feature Eva Martin-Blythe, Executive Director of YWCA Cambridge, in conversation with Diana Lempel, the Society’s Doing History Curator. The Annual Meeting of the membership will immediately follow the presentation.
The Metrowest Commission on the Status of Women, in partnership with Senate President Karen Spilka and State Representatives Maria Robinson, Jack Lewis and Carmine Gentile, would like to invite members of the MetroWest region to join us for a conversation about the Reproductive Justice challenges that face women and girls from adolescence to adulthood, and some of the current legislation aimed at addressing these challenges. Featured panelists will include:
Brandon Adams, FSU Student and board member of the Department of Education’s Safe and Supportive Schools Commission
Mehreen Butt, Assoc. Director of Policy and Government Affairs for Planned Parenthood
Kim Comatas, Lead Teacher at Partners in Sex Education
Lisa MacDonald, Director of Equity Compliance at MassBay Community College and Title IX Coordinator/Affirmative Action Officer
Kate Sanetra-Butler, Founder and Executive Director of Dignity Matters
The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited, so reserve your seats TODAY!
Join the League of Women Voters of Needham for a screening of this compelling story of the Mississippi Civil Rights movement as told by the remarkable and courageous women who changed the course of history.
Blanche Ames, a Massachusetts suffragist, see a complete set of her cartoons during March 2020.
Girl Scout Troups in Needham will play out key events that lead to the passage of the 19th Amendment.
This March we will join organizations and individuals around the world in celebrating International Women’s Day. This year the International Women’s Day campaign theme is #BalanceForBetter, which challenges our global community to strive towards gender balanced boardrooms, governments, media coverage, employment practices, wealth, sports coverage and more.
2019 International Women’s Day Forum: #BalanceForBetter
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 | 5:30-7:30PM
We were reminded recently through Worcester Business Journal‘s March 2018 “Boardroom Gap”series that Worcester has a long way to go towards creating more gender-balanced businesses and boardrooms. Join us before International Women’s Day as we examine the gender gap in business, discuss ways we can address gender inequity in our community, and develop strategies for how we can create #BalanceForBetter.
With guest panelists:
Lisa Clauson
Director of Strategic Partnerships, New England Regional Council of Carpenters
Brad Kane
Editor, Worcester Business Journal
Yuisa Pérez -Chionchio
Director of Human Resources, Family Health Center of Worcester
Kate Sharry
Chair, Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce
Monica Thomas-Bonnick
Vice President, Business Lending Officer, Webster Five
Stacey Luster (moderator)
Assistant Vice President, Worcester State University
Proudly presented in partnership with League of Women Voters of the Worcester Area and Massachusetts Women Of Color Coalition.
Learn more about International Women’s Day at
LWV (Winchester) brings you a musical about how women got their rights in America. Educational, fun!
Join the “Not Just For Young Adults” Book Group for a discussion of “The Cure For Dreaming” by Cat Winters
Olivia Mead is a headstrong, independent girl—a suffragist—in an age that prefers its girls to be docile. It’s 1900 in Oregon, and Olivia’s father, concerned that she’s headed for trouble, convinces a stage mesmerist to try to hypnotize the rebellion out of her. But the hypnotist, an intriguing young man named Henri Reverie, gives her a terrible gift instead: she’s able to see people’s true natures, manifesting as visions of darkness and goodness, while also unable to speak her true thoughts out loud. These supernatural challenges only make Olivia more determined to speak her mind, and so she’s drawn into a dangerous relationship with the hypnotist and his mysterious motives, all while secretly fighting for the rights of women. Winters breathes new life into history once again with an atmospheric, vividly real story, including archival photos and art from the period throughout.
