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March 2008 Edition

Boston's Women's History Month Events

March 2008

Women's Heritage Month offers visitors to Boston concerts & exhibitions to celebrate

women's culture & heritage

BOSTON- Boston celebrates the March Women's Heritage Month with a series of concerts, exhibitions and special events.

2008 is a particularly exciting year for Boston with the 11^th Annual International Women’s Day Breakfast & Celtic Woman performing...

These events are constantly updated; please return to this site for more events: 

• Ladies of the House, The Otis House Museum, Saturday, March 1, 2008
  Tour the Otis House Museum and learn about the daily life and social expectations of women in three different eras: Sally Otis, wife of a wealthy congressman in 1800; Mrs. Mott, a physician in the 1830s; and four sisters who operated a boarding house in the 1860s.
  Call 617-227-3957, ext. 256, or visit www.historicnewengland.org for more information. 

• Music for Social Change: "Carry It On," Museum of Fine Arts, Saturday, March 1, 2008
  A poignant film with a newfound resonance in today's political climate, Carry It On follows folk singer Joan Baez as she embarks on a musical tour of protest during the tumultuous summer of 1969. Pregnant and reeling after her husband-student organizer, writer, and a leader of the draft resistance movement, David Harris-is sent to prison for three years after dodging the draft, the documentary follows the outspoken singer from her home in Los Altos to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Denver, Woodstock, Cambridge, Big Sur, Toronto, and New York.  Discussion with Christopher Knight follows screening.  To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.mfa.org. 

• Libana - Women World Music, Sunday, March 2, 2008
  Libana performances illuminate the creativity, vision and spirit of the world's women through music and dance.  At the Follen Unitarian-Universalist Church at 4:00pm.  Please call 617 628-0916 or visit www.libana.com for more information.    

• Hotel Marlowe and PEN New England Present Heather Christle, Laura Van Den Berg & Jessica Belt in honor of Women's History Month, Wednesday, March 5, 2008                                                                                                                                                            The Hotel Marlowe and PEN New England have partnered to create a forum that features some of the areas most accomplished authors as they read from their newest works in the Hotel Marlowe’s elegant living room. On March 5, 2008 , in celebration of Women’s History Month, Jessica Treadway, a novelist and member of the PEN New England Executive Board will introduce three stellar, emerging women writers who are currently studying in local graduate writing programs. The event is free of charge and open to the public.  For more information, visit www.hotelmarlowe.com.  

   

• "Next Generation" Boston Ballet at the Wang Theatre, March 6-9, 2008
  Next Generation is a showcase and celebration of the next generation of choreographic talent. Four ballets, including three world premieres, highlight some of today’s most exciting young choreographers. The program features another new piece by Resident Choreographer Jorma Elo, whose recent works for Boston Ballet and companies around the world have been met with outstanding reviews.  For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.bostonballet.org.
   
• Berklee’s 11^th Annual Women Musicians Network concert, Berklee Performance Center, Friday, March 6, 2008
  The Women Musicians Network is proud to announce its 11th annual Berklee Performance Center concert.  The show includes 13 distinct acts in styles ranging from blues and rock to alternative folk, jazz and contemporary classical ensembles.  This show is composed, arranged, produced and performed by Berklee women students and their bands under the direction of Berklee faculty Lucy Holstedt and Christiane Karam.  You'll hear inventive, high-powered solos on piano, electric violin and marimba; driving rock guitar and vocals; quiet moments with poignant and humerous lyrics; exciting jazz; and world-beat grooves.  This year features a guest appearance by alumna MIDI-marimba player Vessela Stoyanova with her tech rock band, Fluttr Effect.  WMN also welcomes back the Boston-based world-beat band, Zili Misik, winner of the 2007 Rockgrl Battle of the All-Female Bands.  The concert is $10 and begins at 8:15 p.m.  For more information call 617-747-2261 or visit www.berkleebpc.com. 

• Female Faces of War Conference & Workshop, Saturday, March 7, 2008
  The event partnership with YWCA Greater Rhode Island and Battleship Cove will cover personal experiences of war from a variety of generations, focusing on the contributions and sacrifices that women have made for our country. This event will be a day to hear educational, inspirational and conscience raising stories from women who have felt the impact of war. Activities include the opening of the ‘Women Protecting US’ exhibit, discussion groups, speaker presentations and the chance to sleep overnight aboard the Battleship on Friday, March 7. Please logon to their website for more information at www.ywcagri.org.

• 11th Annual International Women’s Day Breakfast, Saturday, March 7, 2008
  Celebrate International Women's Day. Join the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus and other organizations to discuss "Women's Economic Self-Sufficiency: Global and Locally." 7:30-9:30am at Simmons College. Please e-mail info@mwpc.org for more information. 
  

• Girls Get Connected 2008 Conference at Simmons College, Saturday, March 8, 2008
  Sponsored by the Girls Get Connected Collaborative, this year's topic is "going green."  Click here for more information or to register www.girlsgetconnected.org.

• Music at the MFA: Patty Larkin, Saturday, March 8, 2008
  A guitar focused singer/songwriter, Patty Larkin has immersed herself in a musical world that knows no borders. Her most recent solo release, Red=Luck, showcases a world where the ancient strains of modal folk meet brooding ambient noise. It is a world where Middle-Eastern flavored melodies collide with R&B, where joyous pop and somber reflection, playful eroticism and naked soul searching entwine.  Visit www.mfa.org for more information.

• American Girl Fashion Show & Tea, Renaissance Hotel, Boston Waterfront, Saturday, March 8, 2008                                              American Girl Dolls have been a source of special moments for young girls, and the link to historical characters in the American Girl line allows for more memories and a connection to America’s true history as interpreted by the Freedom Trail Foundation at the second annual Boston American Girl Fashion Show & Tea. The event promises a day of magic and wonder at Boston’s newest signature event.  Participation will help raise money to bring inner city children to the Freedom Trail, American’s Indoor/Outdoor History Museum of the American Revolution. Visit www.web5.mkat.com to purchase tickets or for more information. 

• Longwood Symphony International Women's Day Benefit, Saturday, March 8, 2008 
  Join the Longwood Symphony on International Women's Day as Music Director Jonathan McPhee leads the orchestra in an exciting, humanistic program. Internationally acclaimed pianist Meng-Chieh Liu—whose dramatic life story includes surviving a rare, debilitating immune system disease that kept him off the concert scene for 10 years—plays Tchaikovsky's stirring "Piano Concerto No. 3."  NEC's Jordan Hall 8:00pm.  For tickets or more information, please visit www.longwoodsymphony.org.   

   

• Music at the MFA: Carmen Consoli, Sunday, March 9, 2008
  Carmen Consoli is known for her unflinching emotional live performances of songs that examine broad themes of love, illness, solitude and friendship from a feminine - and feminist - perspective. Her innovative mixture of Italian song with indie-rock influences, bossa nova rhythms, and jazz and blues inspired riffs have engendered a unique sound. For more information, visit www.mfa.org.

• Come "Walk this Way," Museum of Fine Arts, Thursday, March 13, 2008
  On this curatorial gallery talk with Pamela A. Parmal, David and Roberta Logie Curator of Textile and Fashion Arts, discover shoes paired with works of art in other media, exploring aspects of design, materials, history, and culture in art from Ancient Egypt and Rome, Asia, Europe and the Americas.  The "Walk this Way" exhibit of footwear placed throughout the MFA's galleries to illustrate their relationship to other works of art will also be available to view until March 23, 2008.  For more information about both the exhibit and the event, visit www.mfa.org. 

• “Celtic Woman”  in Concert, Verizon Wireless Arena Manchester, NH, March 21, 2008 Celtic Woman features 5 beautiful performers: 4 gifted vocalists – Chloë, Lisa, Orla and Meav -- and Máiréad, a brilliant fiddler. Celtic Woman ushers Celtic music into the 21st century, putting a distinctively Gaelic twist on ethereal contemporary songs (Enya’s “Orinoco Flow,” “May It Be,” the theme from “Lord of the Rings”) and timeless classics (“Ave Maria,” “Somewhere”), a modern flair on traditional Irish songs (“She Moved Thru’ the Fair”), and their own personal stamp on spellbinding original songs (“The Voice,” “Send Me A Song”), all with exciting new arrangements.                                             

• "All About Darfur" Film screening, Friday, March 28, 2008
  The Sudan-Reach Women's Foundation presents: All About Darfur at The Democracy Center, Cambridge, MA. RSVP online at www.sudanreach.org/events or call 617 909-9576.  $5 suggested donation, snacks and refreshments provided!
   

• Boston is venue for WITI Women and Technology EAST The Women's Congress Boston March 29-30, 2007 Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
  A two-day powerhouse professional conference WITI and TWC will attract 8,000 women from throughout the Northeast by presenting dynamic speakers and offering more than 350 exhibits. During the two-day event, leading corporations and service providers - committed to doing business with women-led enterprises and women executives - will come together to participate in what will be one of the most exciting events for women in 2007. The agenda will include networking activities, workshops, general sessions, special events and demonstrations.

Ongoing Events during Women's History Month

• "Beyond Belief" Film at the Museum of Fine Arts, Select Days Throughout March
  Susan Retik and Patti Quigley are two ordinary women living in Boston’s affluent suburbs when tragedy strikes on September 11, 2001. Over the course of the next two years, as they cope with loss of their husbands and struggle to raise their families as single mothers, these extraordinary women dedicate themselves to empowering Afghan widows whose lives have been ravaged by decades of war, poverty, and oppression—factors they consider to be the root of terrorism. As Susan and Patti make the courageous journey from their comfortable homes to the most desperate Afghan villages, they discover a powerful bond with each other, an unlikely kinship with widows on the other side of the world, and a profound way to move beyond their personal tragedies. Visit www.mfa.org for more dates and ticket information.  

• "Pioneering Spirits: Some Remarkable Women at Mount Auburn" – a self-guided walking tour at Mount Auburn Cemetery 
  Please join us for this walk to celebrate National Women’s History Month. While strolling through the Cemetery you will visit the memorials of women whose determination and courage moved history forward. Civil rights activist Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, abolitionist Harriet Jacobs, peace activist Julia Ward Howe, and crusader Dorothea Dix are some of those we plan to visit. Mount Auburn Cemetery is located at 580 Mount Auburn Street in Cambridge, MA. Call 617-607-1981 for information or send an email to friends@mountauburn.org.

• Boston Women's Heritage Trail
  The Women's lives and achievements have enriched the history of Boston for almost four centuries, yet the significance of their stories is often overlooked.  Partriots, intellectuals, abolitionists, suffragists, artists and writers - Boston women have always played an integral role in shaping history.  Boston Women's Heritage Trail (BWHT) is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1989 and dedicated to weaving the lives and work of women back into the story of the City of Boston. The Trail publishes a Guidebook and brochures of self-guided walks, a regular newsletter and teaching materials, presents programs, hosts events and supports the work of independent scholars. For more information call 617-522-2872 or visit www.bwht.org. 
   

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