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SUMMARY:The Suffragist Reenactment Society: Play
DESCRIPTION:THE SUFFRAGIST REENACTMENT SOCIETY October 2021 Performances \n  \nTHE SUFFRAGIST REENACTMENT SOCIETY \nOctober 2021 Performances \nFast-paced\, fun journey through the history of how women fought for and won the right to vote in the United States. Covering the period 1848-1920\, actors Kathryn Blume\, Sarah Mell\, and Julie Sioss reenact the determination of suffragists from Susan B. Anthony to Ida B. Wells while addressing the complex interplay of race and gender in the suffrage movement and how this continues to impact us to this day. Written by Mary Beth McNulty and directed by Laura Roald\, the show is suitable for ages 12 and up.  \nTickets: https://bit.ly/suffragistreenactment. While there is no admission charge\, tickets are recommended.  \nProof of vaccination or negative COVID test\, plus face covering required. \nSaturday October 2 7:30 p.m. \nBurlington\, Main Street Landing /Black Box\, 60 Lake Street \nFollowing performance there will be a Panel Discussion featuring Jen Berger (artist/educator and creator/leader of At the Root and adjunct faculty at Champlain College and Community College of Vermont)\, Kathryn Dungy (History Department chair\, St. Michael’s College)\, Selene Colburn (member\, VT House of Representatives and faculty\, UVM Theatre and Dance Department)\, and Mary Beth McNulty (playwright). Mariah Riggs\, director of Main Street Landing\, is the moderator. \nFriday October 8 7:30 p.m. \nSt. Albans\, First Congregational Church\, 27 Church Street \nSaturday October 9 7:30 p.m. \nRutland Area\, West Rutland Town Hall\, 35 Marble Street \nSunday October 10 2:00 p.m. \nVergennes\, Vergennes Opera House\, 120 Main Street \nFriday October 15 7:30 p.m. \nNewport\, United Church of Newport\, 63 Third Street \nSaturday October 16 7:30 p.m. \nSt. Johnsbury\, Catamount Arts\, 115 Eastern Avenue \nSunday October 17 2:00 p.m. \nWhite River Junction\, Briggs Opera House\, 5 South Main Street \nFriday October 22 7:30 p.m. \nBennington\, Bennington Performing Arts Center\, 331 Main Street \nSaturday October 23 7:30 p.m. \nBrattleboro\, Latchis Theatre\, 50 Main Street  \nSaturday October 30  7:30 p.m.  \nMontpelier\, Montpelier City Hall Arts Center\, 39 Main Street
URL:https://vtsuffrage2020.org/event/the-suffragist-renactment-society-play/
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SUMMARY:HARD WON\, NOT DONE: VOTING MATTERS
DESCRIPTION:HARD WON\, NOT DONE: VOTING MATTERS IS VSCA’S MAIN EVENT TO COMMEMORATE THE 101ST ANNIVERSARY OF THE 19TH AMENDMENT.\n\nOn August 14\, the Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance (VSCA) will bring Pulitzer-prize and National Book Award winner\, author Annette Gordon-Reed to Vermont for a two-hour (3–5 pm) event on the State House Lawn. Ms. Reed’s remarks will be complemented by three or four additional speakers\, storytellers\, poets\, and musicians. Open to all. No cost to attend. REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hard-won-not-done-voting-matters-tickets-164168184459
URL:https://vtsuffrage2020.org/event/hard-won-not-done-voting-matters/
LOCATION:Vermont State House Lawn\, 115 State Street\, Montpelier\, VT\, 05602\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner on the Women’s Suffrage Movement: Virtual Discussions
DESCRIPTION:October 21 – October 23 @ 5:30 PM EDT. Free Online Presentations. \nThe Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Burlington Branch hosts virtual presentations by Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner on the women’s suffrage movement. Co-sponsored by VSCA\, presentations are open to the public at no cost and will be recorded. Register for these virtual presentations via links below. There will be opportunities for live discussion. \nWOMEN VOTED HERE — BEFORE COLUMBUS\nWednesday\, October 21\n7-9 PM. Zoom presentation sponsored by St. Michael’s College. \nRegister at: http://bit.ly/before-columbus \nWhile white women were the property of their husbands and considered dead in the law\, Haudenosaunee women had more authority and status pre-Columbus than United States women have today.   \nWomen of the Six Nation Iroquois Confederacy (the Haudenosaunee) had the responsibility for putting in place the male leaders. They had control of their own bodies and were economically independent. Rape and wife-beating were rare and dealt with harshly; committing violence against a woman kept a man from becoming Chief in this egalitarian\, gender-balanced society. \nWOMEN’S SUFFRAGE: THE REST OF THE STORY\nThursday\, October 22\n2-3:30 PM. Zoom presentation at Community College of Vermont. \nRegister at: http://bit.ly/rest-of-the-story \nI am sick of the song of suffrage\, Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote Matilda Joslyn Gage in the 1880’s. Gage concurred. These two women had begun to think differently than Susan B. Anthony\, their co-leader of the National Woman Suffrage Association\, who believed the movement should concentrate on getting women the vote. We already have that right\, Gage contended.   \nIn a system based on consent of the governed\, the government just needs to protect our right to exercise citizenship\, not “give” it to us. We need to look at the larger issues. \nStanton and Gage agreed. Those issues were: creating a system of cooperation\, not competition; ensuring that every child born was wanted and women were the “absolute sovereigns” of their bodies; rebalancing economic disparity while gaining equal pay for women and demanding a “true” religion\, one that fostered freedom and equality for all. \nPOWER\, PRIVILEGE & THE VOTE:  FOCUS ON WOMEN\, CULTURE AND HERSTORIES OF SUFFRAGE\nThursday\, October 22\n5-6:30 PM Microsoft Teams. presentation at University of Vermont\nRegister at: https://bit.ly/35POSiO \nThis presentation explores important influences in the US Women’s Suffrage movement that are often forgotten but are critical to the concerns of today. \nWho were the women presidential candidates in the 1800’s? When in 1884\, with the exception of the territories of Wyoming and Utah\, it was against the law for women to vote in every state and territory in the union. What were the challenges they faced?  \nHow did the indigenous people (Haudenosaunee women) influence ideas of women’s suffrage and rights? \nWho was not included in the US suffrage movement? What were the reasons? \nAs we approach the 2020 election\, how can the herstories of women’s suffrage provide a lens to explore the ongoing creation of democracy in our country. \nWOMAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE – IN 1872 AND 1884\nFriday\, October 23.  \n4-5:30 PM. Zoom presentation at Middlebury College Gender and Women Studies \nRegister at: http://bit.ly/middleburySRW \nVictoria Woodhull\, the first woman to declare her candidacy for President of the United States\, spent election night in jail for exposing two #MeToo-like violations in her newspaper. She was arrested under the Comstock obscenity law in 1872\, a law that prohibited the distribution of any information related to contraception or sex. \nWhile Woodhull never carried out a presidential campaign\, Belva Lockwood did. Disgruntled feminists formed the Equal Rights Party in 1884 when both the Republicans and Democrats continually ignored women’s concerns. Presidential candidate Belva Lockwood declared that “It is quite time that we had our own party; our own platform\, and our own nominees\,” even if they couldn’t vote for them. With the exception of the territory of Wyoming\, it was against the law for women to vote in every state and territory in the union.  \nLockwood never made it to the White House. “Reforms are slow\, but they never go backwards\,” she reflected. “Their originators may die\, but the reform will live to bless millions yet unborn.”  \nAs we approach the 2020 election\, Lockwood provides a lens through which to explore the ongoing creation of democracy in our country. \nSinger-Historian: Linda Radtke\nLinda Radtke will open and close all three programs with music which was essential to the movement. Each state convention of suffragists began and ended with songs. Linda\, a Vermont high school teacher for 31 years now produces the VPR Choral Hour on Vermont Public Radio. A classically trained singer\, Linda is a member of Vermont’s professional vocal ensemble\, Counterpoint\, the Oriana Singers\, and the Arioso Chamber Ensemble. She also sings with a vocal quartet\, Ah!Capella\, sponsored by the Vermont Symphony. \n\nDr. Wagner is a nationally recognized lecturer\, author and story-teller of woman’s rights history. One of the first women to receive a doctorate in the United States for work in women’s studies (UC Santa Cruz)\, and a founder of one of the country’s first college women studies programs\, (CSU Sacramento)\, Dr. Wagner taught women’s history for forty-eight years. She served as historian in PBS’s One Woman\, One Vote\, and appeared as a “talking head” in Ken Burns’ documentary\, Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony\, and penned the accompanying faculty guide. Dr. Wagner’s Women’s Suffrage Anthology published by Penguin Classics in 2019\, unfolds a new intersectional look at the 19th century woman’s rights movement.
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SUMMARY:19th Amendment Gatherings in Vermont
DESCRIPTION:Join public gatherings Barre\, Bennington\, Brattleboro\, Burlington\, Montpelier\, Norwich\, St. Albans\, St. Johnsbury\, Vergennes\, and Worcester | Wednesday\, August 26 \nVSCA members invite Vermonters to gather\, observing protocols of social distancing and face coverings\, to commemorate the historic passage of the 19th amendment.  Non-partisan\, non-political signs\, hats or “Votes for Women” sashes encouraged. Burlington’s event at 11 a.m. in front of City Hall will feature speakers\, find details here Burlington event’s press release here; Montpelier’s encourages strolling\, from 11 am to 3 pm with stops near City Hall\, and Pavilion area where there’s a photo opportunity banner displayed on the lawn next to the building.  For more information\, please contact organizer Dell McDonough. \nVSCA director Sue Racanelli\, and members Rachel Onuf (Vermont Historical Records Program) and Tabitha Moore (Rutland Area NAACP) are guests on Vermont Public Radio’s Vermont Edition Program | Wednesday\, August 26\, noon to 1 p.m. (rebroadcast at 7PM)\nPLEASE tune in and participate with questions or comments: \n\nCall 1-800-639-2211 to join the live discussion at noon\nSend an email to vermontedition@vpr.net\nComment on the Vermont Edition webpage\nComment on VPR’s Facebook postsor Tweet @vermontedition\n\nRead the press release with reflections from Governor Kunin\, Senator Leahy\, Senator Sanders\, Congressman Welch\, Governor Scott\, Lt. Governor Zuckerman\, Xusana Davis\, Kesha Ram\, and Cary Brown on the significance of the 19th amendment. \nThe press release has links to the following suffrage centennial themed documents/video: \n\nGovernor Phil Scott’s two-minute video commentary and Women’s Equality Day proclamation\nSenator Bernie Sanders’ Congressional Record statement\nCongressman Peter Welch’s Congressional Record statement\n\nRead Seven Days article Vermont Commemorates Victories and Inequities of the 19th Amendment.  The same issue sports a full page ad from VSCA.
URL:https://vtsuffrage2020.org/event/19th-amendment-gatherings-in-vermont/
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SUMMARY:Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance SuffrageFest and Parade POSTPONED
DESCRIPTION:The Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance (VSCA) will postpone its Parade & SuffrageFest originally scheduled for August 22nd in Montpelier due to COVID-19 public health concerns. \nVSCA plans on extending commemoration of the suffrage centennial into 2021 to recognize the 100th anniversary of noteworthy state events: Edna Beard became Vermont’s first woman legislator in January 1921 and the Vermont Legislature finally ratified the 19th Amendment on February 8\, 1921. \nVSCA will go ahead with other centennial projects and activities.
URL:https://vtsuffrage2020.org/event/vermont-suffrage-centennial-alliance-parade-festival/
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SUMMARY:Votes for All Women: Patience\, Persistence\, and Politics
DESCRIPTION:Meg Mott\, Professor of Politics Emeritus of Marlboro College\, offers this spoken word theatrical lecture examining the ambitions and aspirations of women’s suffrage. The 19th amendment\, ratified on August 18\, 1920\, prohibited states and the federal government from denying citizens the right to vote on the basis of sex. Once the 19th Amendment became law\, the franchise doubled. But what effect did women’s participation have on American politics? Frederick Douglass promoted women’s suffrage in 1848\, claiming it would increase the “moral power” of the nation. Did that prophecy come true? Q&A follows. Watch a video of this performance\, courtesy\, Brattleboro BCTV’s website. \nFind out more » \nDr. Meg Mott is well known for dynamic and insightful presentations about the US Constitution. Since the 2016 election\, she has been traveling around the Northeast presenting on the Bill of Rights. “The point is not to lecture but to get the audience engaged in the constitutional questions of our nation\,” she explains. “Just about every passage in our founding document is open to debate. The trick is to allow space for all sides in these on-going arguments.” \nThis event will be live-streamed from Next Stage Arts. Executive Director Keith Marks said\, “…I am thrilled that Meg will bring her passion\, expertise\, and depth of knowledge on a topic as vitally important as the 19th amendment.”
URL:https://vtsuffrage2020.org/event/patience-persistence-and-the-politics-of-morality-on-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-19th-amendment-livestream/
LOCATION:Online\, VT\, United States
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SUMMARY:Honoring the 19th Amendment through Word and Song – Farmers’ Night Program
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, February 5\, 2020 | 7:30 PM\nVERMONT STATE HOUSE\, HOUSE CHAMBER 115 State Street\, Montpelier\nMeg Mott\, Marlboro College professor\, leads a dialogue on the history and meaning of the 19th Amendment. She will be accompanied by accomplished Wesleyan University scholar and composer Neely Bruce conducting the State House Singers in his original choral arrangement of the Bill of Rights\, plus the “world premiere” of his 19th Amendment composition\, essentially setting it to music! \nA First Wednesday presentation of the Vermont Humanities Council and partnership with Friends of the State House.
URL:https://vtsuffrage2020.org/event/honoring-the-19th-amendment-through-word-and-song-farmers-night-program/
LOCATION:Vermont State House\, House Chamber\, 115 State Street\, Montpelier\, VT\, 05602\, United States
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