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Woman This Woman That: An Evening of Suffrage Plays, will be performed in the McCarthy Theatre March 22-25, 7 pm each night, free admission, first-come, first-served. These performances are “UPlift” events.

Two one-act plays and a suffrage poem set to new music by local musician and composer Tom Cleary place the voices of women front and center, revisiting a time when their advocacy and determination were catalysts to necessary social change: the right to vote. That same push for change exists today, including with the #metoo movement and outcry over recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions. These current events inspired director Peter Harrigan to once again amplify the voices of women as a way to engage people in conversation about divisive issues and lead toward action to fight social injustice.

The performance will include:

•    Tennessee Women for the Vote: A Suffrage Play, 1920. The play, written by B. Ayne Cantrell in 2019, centers around a rally for women’s suffrage set in Nashville, Tennessee on June 25, 1920. The rally is 23 days before the Tennessee General Assembly voted to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – the final state needed to ratify the amendment, which allowed all American women to vote.

•    How the Vote Was Won. The play, written by Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St John, was first performed at the Royalty Theater in London in 1909. It is a satire set in the modest London home of stodgy Horace Cole and his long-suffering wife Ethel, and it is set at a time when suffragettes have called a women’s strike in response to the government view that “women do not need votes as they are all looked after by men.” As a result, women who previously supported themselves leave their jobs and homes and move in with their nearest male relative – with all their possessions (even pets) in tow. After Horace’s sisters, aunts and distant cousins suddenly turn up at his home, he immediately rushes to Parliament to demand the vote for women.

•    Woman This & Woman That. This satiric Suffrage poem from 1910 – a parody of the 1890 poem “Tommy” by Rudyard Kipling – has been set to music for this performance by local Jazz and Musical Theatre musician, composer and arranger Tom Cleary. The original work was written by Laurence Houseman, who founded the Suffrage Atelier. The song will serve as the show’s finale.
 

Woman This Woman That: An Evening of Suffrage Plays, will be performed in the McCarthy Theatre March 22-25, 7 pm each night, free admission, first-come, first-served. These performances are “UPlift” events.

Two one-act plays and a suffrage poem set to new music by local musician and composer Tom Cleary place the voices of women front and center, revisiting a time when their advocacy and determination were catalysts to necessary social change: the right to vote. That same push for change exists today, including with the #metoo movement and outcry over recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions. These current events inspired director Peter Harrigan to once again amplify the voices of women as a way to engage people in conversation about divisive issues and lead toward action to fight social injustice.

The performance will include:

•    Tennessee Women for the Vote: A Suffrage Play, 1920. The play, written by B. Ayne Cantrell in 2019, centers around a rally for women’s suffrage set in Nashville, Tennessee on June 25, 1920. The rally is 23 days before the Tennessee General Assembly voted to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – the final state needed to ratify the amendment, which allowed all American women to vote.

•    How the Vote Was Won. The play, written by Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St John, was first performed at the Royalty Theater in London in 1909. It is a satire set in the modest London home of stodgy Horace Cole and his long-suffering wife Ethel, and it is set at a time when suffragettes have called a women’s strike in response to the government view that “women do not need votes as they are all looked after by men.” As a result, women who previously supported themselves leave their jobs and homes and move in with their nearest male relative – with all their possessions (even pets) in tow. After Horace’s sisters, aunts and distant cousins suddenly turn up at his home, he immediately rushes to Parliament to demand the vote for women.

•    Woman This & Woman That. This satiric Suffrage poem from 1910 – a parody of the 1890 poem “Tommy” by Rudyard Kipling – has been set to music for this performance by local Jazz and Musical Theatre musician, composer and arranger Tom Cleary. The original work was written by Laurence Houseman, who founded the Suffrage Atelier. The song will serve as the show’s finale.

Woman This Woman That: An Evening of Suffrage Plays, will be performed in the McCarthy Theatre March 22-25, 7 pm each night, free admission, first-come, first-served. These performances are “UPlift” events.

Two one-act plays and a suffrage poem set to new music by local musician and composer Tom Cleary place the voices of women front and center, revisiting a time when their advocacy and determination were catalysts to necessary social change: the right to vote. That same push for change exists today, including with the #metoo movement and outcry over recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions. These current events inspired director Peter Harrigan to once again amplify the voices of women as a way to engage people in conversation about divisive issues and lead toward action to fight social injustice.

The performance will include:

•    Tennessee Women for the Vote: A Suffrage Play, 1920. The play, written by B. Ayne Cantrell in 2019, centers around a rally for women’s suffrage set in Nashville, Tennessee on June 25, 1920. The rally is 23 days before the Tennessee General Assembly voted to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – the final state needed to ratify the amendment, which allowed all American women to vote.

•    How the Vote Was Won. The play, written by Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St John, was first performed at the Royalty Theater in London in 1909. It is a satire set in the modest London home of stodgy Horace Cole and his long-suffering wife Ethel, and it is set at a time when suffragettes have called a women’s strike in response to the government view that “women do not need votes as they are all looked after by men.” As a result, women who previously supported themselves leave their jobs and homes and move in with their nearest male relative – with all their possessions (even pets) in tow. After Horace’s sisters, aunts and distant cousins suddenly turn up at his home, he immediately rushes to Parliament to demand the vote for women.

•    Woman This & Woman That. This satiric Suffrage poem from 1910 – a parody of the 1890 poem “Tommy” by Rudyard Kipling – has been set to music for this performance by local Jazz and Musical Theatre musician, composer and arranger Tom Cleary. The original work was written by Laurence Houseman, who founded the Suffrage Atelier. The song will serve as the show’s finale.

Woman This Woman That: An Evening of Suffrage Plays, will be performed in the McCarthy Theatre March 22-25, 7 pm each night, free admission, first-come, first-served. These performances are “UPlift” events.

Two one-act plays and a suffrage poem set to new music by local musician and composer Tom Cleary place the voices of women front and center, revisiting a time when their advocacy and determination were catalysts to necessary social change: the right to vote. That same push for change exists today, including with the #metoo movement and outcry over recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions. These current events inspired director Peter Harrigan to once again amplify the voices of women as a way to engage people in conversation about divisive issues and lead toward action to fight social injustice.

The performance will include:

•    Tennessee Women for the Vote: A Suffrage Play, 1920. The play, written by B. Ayne Cantrell in 2019, centers around a rally for women’s suffrage set in Nashville, Tennessee on June 25, 1920. The rally is 23 days before the Tennessee General Assembly voted to ratify the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – the final state needed to ratify the amendment, which allowed all American women to vote.

•    How the Vote Was Won. The play, written by Cicely Hamilton and Christopher St John, was first performed at the Royalty Theater in London in 1909. It is a satire set in the modest London home of stodgy Horace Cole and his long-suffering wife Ethel, and it is set at a time when suffragettes have called a women’s strike in response to the government view that “women do not need votes as they are all looked after by men.” As a result, women who previously supported themselves leave their jobs and homes and move in with their nearest male relative – with all their possessions (even pets) in tow. After Horace’s sisters, aunts and distant cousins suddenly turn up at his home, he immediately rushes to Parliament to demand the vote for women.

•    Woman This & Woman That. This satiric Suffrage poem from 1910 – a parody of the 1890 poem “Tommy” by Rudyard Kipling – has been set to music for this performance by local Jazz and Musical Theatre musician, composer and arranger Tom Cleary. The original work was written by Laurence Houseman, who founded the Suffrage Atelier. The song will serve as the show’s finale.

On Thursday, March 30 Dr. Marvin Malek, past president of Vermont Physicians for a National Health Program (VT PNHP), will give a presentation on the privatization of Medicare.  The program, sponsored by the LWVVT, will take place at 1:00 pm, at the Barre Area Senior Center, 131 South Main Street, Barre.  Dr. Malek will discuss Medicare Advantage, DCEs and the new ACO/REACH program.  The event is cosponsored by VT PNHP, Vermont Health Care for All, Vermont State Employees' Association, and Vermont Workers' Center. 

For the first 20 years after its implementation in 1965, the Medicare program reimbursed hospitals and doctors directly for the care they provided to Medicare enrollees. Beginning in 1985, some Medicare recipients were given the option of electing to have their benefit managed by a private company, currently known as the Medicare Advantage program. Last year, officials in the Medicare program announced that by the year 2030, they would be involuntarily enrolling the remaining Medicare enrollees into another managed care program—the ACO/REACH program.

The goal of the March 30th program is to discuss the impacts of these privatization initiatives on the care that Medicare beneficiaries receive, on the costs Medicare beneficiaries will be facing, and the impacts of these changes on the financial stability of the Medicare program.

Marvin Malek, MD MPH, received his medical training at SUNY Upstate in Syracuse, NY,
residency training at Cook County Hospital and earned a Masters Degree in Health
Policy at Harvard University’s School of Public Health. Dr. Malek has spent most of his
career in community medicine, providing care to underserved populations,including Latino, Black, and Navajo communities. He currently works on the hospital care team at Springfield Hospital in Vermont.
 

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Meeting duration: 1 hour. 

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Find more information. VCW committee meetings are open to the public. If you'd like to join us, would like the meeting link, or have any questions please contact Ellie Lane at ellie.lane@vermont.gov.

Find more information. VCW committee meetings are open to the public. If you'd like to join us, would like the meeting link, or have any questions please contact our staff.
Meeting duration: 1 hour. 

Find the agenda for this meeting and more information on our Meetings page.

Find more information. VCW committee meetings are open to the public. If you'd like to join us, would like the meeting link, or have any questions please contact Ellie Lane at ellie.lane@vermont.gov.