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Women’s History Month: Music & Theater In-Person

Join the Irondequoit Public Library, Ukrainian-American Community Foundation at Ukrainian FCU, Irondequoit Historical Society, and the Ukrainian National Women's League of America Br. #120 for programs celebrating Womens History Month. Festivities include a display by the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House.

Susan B. Anthony Exhibit     

On March 1, 2022, a new exhibit featuring a display on Susan B.Anthony’s life and work from the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, and a display highlighting notable Irondequoit and Ukrainian women will debut in the Muisus Family Local History Gallery. The exhibit runs through June 11, 2022.

Musical & Theatrical Performances

Join us on Sunday March 6, 2022, at 1:30 PM for a musical and theatrical performance! The popular Ukrainian Womens Vocal Ensemble, Malvy Morning Glory” will perform live in the library meeting room. The ensemble, created by Zhanna Polyanska-Wirlo almost twenty years ago at St. Mary's Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Irondequoit, performed at festivals, church and community events in Rochester, Syracuse, and Buffalo. Current ensemble members are Ulyana Demydiv, Galina Dyakiv, Marta Fediuk, Sofiya Kreminska, Svitlana Tretyak, Maria Voloshyn, and Zhanna Polyanska-Wirlo.

After the musical entertainment, journey back to a time when women fought valiantly against the status quo to achieve the rights that we enjoy today. Suffragettes UNITE! is a theatrical portrayal of select womans suffrage leadersspeeches orated during the long battle for the womans right to vote.

Ann Mitchell opens her womens conventionwith the impassioned words originally spoken by Sarah C. Owen in Rochester, NY. Mitchells passionate portrayal features the charm and rhetoric of the 19th language written and spoken by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony.

The one-woman costumed performance culminates with a musing, On Being a Woman” written by Ogden, NY school teacher Sarah Jennie McCleery in 1883.

Registration is requested. Register online at www.irondequoitlibrary.org.

Date:
Sunday, March 6, 2022
Time:
1:30PM - 3:30PM
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Double Room (114+115)
Audience:
  All Ages  
Categories:
  Music  
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