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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 Women’s 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 Women’s 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 woman’s suffrage leaders’ speeches orated during the long battle for the woman’s right to vote.
Ann Mitchell opens her ‘women’s convention’ with the impassioned words originally spoken by Sarah C. Owen in Rochester, NY. Mitchell’s 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.