Suffrage Centennial, Women’s Rights, and Voting Rights Events
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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.
With special guests Daniel Stepner and Julie Leven, violins, Laura Jeppesen, gamba and Catherine Liddell, theorbo.
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.
With special guests Daniel Stepner and Julie Leven, violins, Laura Jeppesen, gamba and Catherine Liddell, theorbo.
Sojourner’s Song
Saturday
May 9, 2020
4:00 pm
Trinity Episcopal Church
81 Elm Street, Concord, MA
Sojourner’s Song, composed by Mari Esabel Valverde, sits at the heart of a distinctive program dedicated to works written by European and American women composers.
All seats are general admission (unreserved). Online ticket orders may be made up to 5:00 pm the day before the concert, and tickets are also available at the door (cash, check or credit card). Ticket prices are $25 adults, $20 seniors/students, and $5 for children 12 and under.
Celebrate the centennial of women’s suffrage with a whole year of music by women!
The Dinner Party-illuminated by the spectacular art of Fran Forman!
Saturday, May 16, 2020 – 7pm – Eliot Church of Newton
Sunday, May 17, 2020 – 5pm – St. Paul’s Brookline
Immerse yourself in visual and musical beauty: CC and friends Na’ama Lion, flute, Nancy Hurrell, harp, Catherine Liddell and Charles Iner, theorbos and baroque guitars, and Mike Williams, percussion, gather around a table to sing “after dinner” entertainment part-songs by Barbara Strozzi, Vittoria Aleotti, Rebecca Clarke, and Fanny Mendelssohn, all illuminated by the stunning images of visual artist Fran Forman franforman.com !
Celebrate the centennial of women’s suffrage with a whole year of music by women!
The Dinner Party-illuminated by the spectacular art of Fran Forman!
Saturday, May 16, 2020 – 7pm – Eliot Church of Newton
Sunday, May 17, 2020 – 5pm – St. Paul’s Brookline
Immerse yourself in visual and musical beauty: CC and friends Na’ama Lion, flute, Nancy Hurrell, harp, Catherine Liddell and Charles Iner, theorbos and baroque guitars, and Mike Williams, percussion, gather around a table to sing “after dinner” entertainment part-songs by Barbara Strozzi, Vittoria Aleotti, Rebecca Clarke, and Fanny Mendelssohn, all illuminated by the stunning images of visual artist Fran Forman franforman.com !
