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Featuring Guest

1. Jessica Litwak, RDT, PhD, Writer/Actor/Educator, Artistic Director of The H.E.A.T. Collective

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Featured Guest:

1. Jessica Litwak was commissioned by the Petaluma Museum to create a stage production of the life of a pioneering Petaluman Suffragist Selena Solomons for the Centennial of the 19th Amendment.  Solomons was active in moving California on October 10, 1911 to become the 6th state to give women the right to vote. The play will be available as an online presentation beginning October 8, 2020, since the pandemic has restricted in person theater. Jessica shares her path to theater and the challenges she had to overcome. She discovered her love for acting and theater and returned to school after failing high school to eventually achieved her doctorate and a Fullbright Scholarship. She tells the story of a teacher who recommended she smoke and drink a lot to age more quickly as she was not pretty enough for younger roles, but had the self-esteem to then proceed to write plays for herself to act. She became a leading advocate of socially Engaged Theater for Healing of soul and society with Activism, and formed The H.E.A.T. Collective.   Jessica treats us with a reading from her play: 50,000 Mice , the Selena Solomons Story. She lets us know why she chose this title, so be sure and listen.

About our Guest: Jessica Litwak, RDT, PhD is an award-winning playwright, an actor, a Registered Drama Therapist (RDT), an educator, a coach, a puppet builder, and an International leader in the field of socially engaged theatre. She is the Artistic Director of The H.E.A.T. Collective (www.theheatcollective.org), the founder of Artists Rise Up New York, and The New Generation Theatre Ensemble, a core member of Theatre Without Borders and a Fulbright Scholar. She has taught theatre at universities around the world. Her work has been published by TCG, Applause Books, Smith and Krause, No Passport Press, Amazon, and The New York Times. Her plays have been produced in Europe, South America, the Middle East, India, the UK and throughout the U.S. She is currently working on an international production of The FEAR Project (based on verbatim interviews) a UK tour of My Heart is in the East (a play about Muslim and Jewish relations), and 50,000 Mice , the Selena Solomons Story which was commissioned as a one woman play for the centennial of the 19th Amendment and is being produced by The Marsh Theatre.

Guest Link:

The H.E.A.T. Collective
www.theheatcollective.org

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 Herstory

Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women's History Alliance

October 3, 1904 – Mary McLeod Bethune opens her first school for African American students in Daytona Beach, Florida.

October 4, 1976 – Barbara Walters becomes the first woman co-anchor of the evening news (at ABC).

October 4, 1993 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg joins the U.S. Supreme Court as its second woman Justice.

October 8, 1993 – Toni Morrison becomes the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

Herstory Birthdays:

October 3, 1897 (1982) – Ruth Bronson, Bureau of Indian Affairs official who got loans for Indian students, National Congress of American Indians forced authorities to honor treaties (1944), wrote Indians are People, Too.

October 4, 1908 (1995) – Eleanor Flexner, influential author, and historian, wrote Century of Struggle: The Women’s Rights Movement in the United States (1950) and Mary Wollstonecraft: A Biography (1972).

October 5, 1959 – Maya Lin, artist, and architect of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C. (1980-82) and other public sculptures, author of Boundaries (2000).

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Announcements

Check links in case of postponement, cancellations, or restrictions due to pandemic precautions:

 Beginning October 8, 2020, 50,000 Mice, the Selena Solomons Story, online theatre presentation as part of the exhibit Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum, the link will be posted October 8th at https://www.petalumamuseum.com/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/

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Sonoma County 2020 Women’s Suffrage Project’s
19th Amendment Centennial Series
has occured with live online presentations from
Tuesday, August 18 to August 26, 2020.
Visit the Project's YouTube channel main site for the 19th Centennial Series recordings of online presentationss at www.youtube.com/channel/UCqynwJCqhLMtPtjdDdsdQdQ

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The Women's Vote Centennial Initiative is a collaboration of women-centered institutions, organizations, and scholars from across the US, works to ensure that this anniversary, and the 72-year fight to achieve it, are commemorated and celebrated throughout the United States.  www.2020centennial.org/.

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August 26 - November 8, 2020, Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum The Petaluma Museum Association’s suffrage exhibit has been rescheduled. For details visit

https://www.petalumamuseum.com/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/

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JJanuary 25 through (extended!) January 24, 2021,  From Suffrage to #MeToo at Museum of Sonoma County.  Please note: Fee is required for entry to museum. For more information, also for Covid precautions taken at museum, visit https://museumsc.org/suffrage-metoo/

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League of Women Voters of Sonoma County has scheduled candidate debates and ballot measure discussions. See their webpage listing the events at https://www.facebook.com/lwvsonomacounty/ and at http://lwvsonoma.org/

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Sonoma County Women's Suffrage Project  https://socowomen2020.org/
with Calendar of related Events at https://socowomen2020.org/calendar

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Music Selections:

The Opening and Closing Theme song is with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin:

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For music purchasing opportunity: 

Link:  Spinitron.com Playlist for Women's Spaces Show