Suffrage Centennial, Women’s Rights, and Voting Rights Events
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Join Associate director for collections, Abby Battis, for a 1 hour, in gallery discussion of our newest exhibit “Rightfully Hers”. This pop-up exhibit from the National Archives commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment and is supplemented by an exhibit from our collection. Explore the history of the ratification of this historic amendment, women’s voting rights before and after, and its impact today. This pop-up exhibit from the National Archives commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment and is supplemented by artifacts from Historic Beverly’s collection.
$10/free for members.
This event is presented by The Belmont Women’s Club and is free and open to the public.
There was a time when women couldnt have jobs and had no voting rights. Women were property passed from father to husband. High-school student Melanie must learn how things changed. We Did It For You! is a quick tour through the journey that women have taken to get rights in the United States, starting with the struggle women had in the 17th century Puritan Revolution through to our 21st century empowered women politicians. The play focuses on the stories of just some of the women who believed they deserved more than being treated as minors and being extensions of men. The few women portrayed in the play are not the whole story. Women have not only struggled to obtain their rights, they have made contributions that have been overlooked in many history books. In so many areas, women have been the first to accomplish things, have ideas, create inventions, and solve problems.
General admission tickets $15 in advance, $20 at the door. For more information go to www.orpheum.org link. Contact the MRPAC Box Office at 508-543-ARTS (2787) or boxoffice@orpheum.org for membership and group discounts.
Please join Boston Mayor Marty Walsh for a ribbon cutting ceremony dedicating the new Angelina and Sarah Grimke bridge in Hyde Park.
Opening Reception: (Anti)SUFFRAGE
with Polly Thayer Starr Fellow of American Art and Culture Theo Tyson
This event is part of “(Anti) Suffrage,” a series of programming commemorating the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment. The amendment stated that the right of citizens to vote “shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” There was, however, no amendment to address or eliminate the pervasive racism and misogyny that permeated politics and society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Join us as we probe the complexities of the struggle to secure and protect voting rights for women and people of color in the past and today.
The League of Women Voters of Marblehead continues its recognition of the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment with author Barbara Berenson, who will discuss her book, Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement.
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.
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
Celebrate the centennial of women’s suffrage with a whole year of music by women!
ReSOUND in the CONVENT
Saturday, April 4, 2020 – 7pm – Eliot Church of Newton
Sunday, April 5, 2020 – 5pm – First Parish Cambridge
ReSound in the Convent is our 6th edition as moving constellations of singers chant and sing polyphony surrounding you with lush harmonies and soaring melodies.
With the brilliant accompaniment of Catherine Liddell on theorbo and baroque guitar, together with and a string trio, we revisit the unique and stunning repertoire by northern Italian nuns in the early baroque period. Women whose names you may remember from our earliest seasons, like Isabella Leonarda, Raffaella Aleotti, Sulpitia Cesis, and Chiara Margarita Cozzolani will be well represented, as well as our dear friend Anonymous. We’ll also reprise two pieces written for this program in 2019, one by Patricia Van Ness and the other by Suzanne Sheppard. And of course the standard bearer of women composers, Hildegard von Bingen will do what she does best which is surround the program and YOU with her extraordinary chant. With Catherine Liddell, theorbo, and string trio.
