October 2018
Come Celebrate 15th Anniversary of Boston Women’s Memorial!
Celebrate the Boston Women’s Memorial 15th Anniversary ! Featuring Meredith Bergmann Sculptor of Boston Women's Memorial and Chosen Sculptor for Stanton & Anthony statue, Central Park, New York Barbara Lee Founder and President of Barbara Lee Foundation A Spoken Word Performance honoring the women of the memorial: Abigail Adams, Phillis Wheatley, Lucy Stone The Boston Women's Memorial honors three important contributors to Boston’s rich history – Abigail Adams, Lucy Stone and Phillis Wheatley. Each of these women had progressive ideas…
Find out more »November 2018
Shaping the Social Contract: Insights from the Women of Brook Farm
Meet seven remarkable women who visited and joined the Brook Farm utopian community (1841-1847) in West Roxbury, Mass. Then, consider the threads connecting their progressive social agenda and 19th century abolition and suffrage movements to 21st century issues of race and gender equality. Presented by New Brook Farm and the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail. Community discussion led by Dr. Kerri Greenidge, Tufts University. Women played an important role in the Brook Farm transcendentalist Utopian community in the 1840s, where they…
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“I Want to Go to Jail” – Suffrage Play
An original play by Pamela Swing and Elizabeth Dabanka This short, original play transports you back to February, 1919, when women suffragists grappled with unexpected obstacles in their quest for the final vote needed to pass the suffrage amendment. In the span of the play, suffragists picket President Wilson at the Boston State House, are arrested and serve time in the Charles Street Jail. Their time in prison is cut short in a surprising way. These were the last arrests of…
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