All Aboard!
Roxbury Women’s History Trolley Tour
Saturday, March 10, 2012 – 9:30 am -12 noon
How many stories do you know about Roxbury’s prominent women? Dr. Z, Susan Dimock, Melnea Cass (pictured), Muriel Snowden, Elma Lewis, and others made important contributions to the neighborhood, Boston, and American society. Explore their histories and see their legacies on a fascinating tour led by members of the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail.
and
visit BU’s Huntington Theater to learn about their upcoming production of
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom by August Wilson
(for more information on the production http://www.huntingtontheatre.org/rainey)
Trolley pick-up locations:
9:30 am: Hotel 140, 140 Clarendon Street (former YWCA)
9:50 am: Roxbury Heritage State Park/DCR, 183 Roxbury Street
Cost $20. Reservations required.
Contact our partner: Discover Roxbury
International Women’s Day – March 8
Two Special Events:
Ending Violence Against Women: Pathways to Power
Resilience & Leadership
A Panel discussion led by Ann Fleck-Henderson, Simmons College of Social Work, Emerita.
With panelists Purnima Mane, CEO and President, Pathfinder International; Audrey Porter, Assistant Program Director and Coordinator of Survivor Services, My Life, My Choice; and Ayanna Pressley, City Councillor At-Large, City of Boston
7: 30- 9:30 am Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Linda K. Paresky Conference Center
Suggested donation: $6. – includes light continental breakfast
RSVP by March 5 to
iwd2012.eventbrite.com
End Impunity for Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls
This conference includes panel discussions with lawmakers, law enforcement officers, academics and human rights activists as well as a screening of the short documentary film “Opium Brides.” The event is co-sponsored by Promote Congo, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing human rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with Suffolk University Law School, Victim Rights Law Center, and Boston Initiative to Advance Human Rights.
5:00-7:30 pm at Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington St., Boston.
Free. Part of the Partners in Public Dialogue Program
Our Voices Festival V
Boston Area Women Playwrights
Regis College Fine Arts Center Black Box, Weston, MA
March 26, 6:30 pm
Free
Staged readings of Boston area women playwrights – audience feedback, and creative support. Play readings start at 6:30 p.m. with a reception in the lobby; Featured Playwrights include: Kelly DuMar, Wendy Lement, Sybil Roberts Williams, Ellen Davis Sullivan, Geralyn Horton, Madge Kaplan, Phyllis Rittner, Lida McGirr, M. Lynda Robinson, Deirdre Girard, Sandra Weintraub, Leanne Calderone. Co-produced by Image Theatre, Lowell, MA, Kelly DuMar, festival founder & playwright, and Wendy Lement, Regis College playwright and faculty member. Guest Dramaturge and Playwright Sybil Roberts Williams will present a play and moderate discussion.
Remembering the Ladies
A slide lecture by Susan Wilson
March 27, 7 pm
The Watertown Public Library, 123 Main Street
Watertown Savings Bank Room
Did you know that in the era between the Civil War and World War I, Boston women created a world-class museum, a hospital, and a religion? That during a time when ladies were supposed to work quietly on the home-front, outspoken Boston women of all races and classes established schools, settlement houses, journals, associations, and businesses?
To celebrate Women’s History Month, photographer and author Susan Wilson traces the origins and development of the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail, which has sought to “remember the ladies” of Boston history for more than two decades. Making its debut in 1989 as a project of the Boston Public Schools, the BWHT followed in the footsteps, and filled in the gaps, of Boston’s two earliest historic walking tours, the Freedom Trail (1951) and the Black Heritage Trail (1965).
Wilson’s illustrated, anecdotal talk will include BWHT involvement in creating the Boston Women’s Memorial (2003) on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall as well as the author’s two recent projects with the trail — creating a four-color walking map and guide to historic women’s sites in downtown Boston and writing a chapter for the forthcoming Boston Atlas on “Enterprising Women.”
Lecture attendees will receive a FREE copy of the walking map, Boston Women’s Heritage Trail: 30 Highlights of Boston History. Copies of the 108-page Boston Women’s Heritage Trail Guidebook will also be for sale.
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