Celebrate with Us!
Kingston AAUW Birthday Celebration
DATE: Saturday, December 3, 2011
TIME: Doors open at 1pm; film at 1:30
LOCATION: Kingston Library Community Room
MORE: AAUW members have been advancing equity for women and girls for 130 years. Our founding members were leaders in the suffrage movement, opened educational opportunities for women, and worked to improve conditions for working women and their families. We continue that work today.
To celebrate our 130th birthday, on December 3rd, AAUW Kingston will have a public showing of Ironed Jawed Angels, the Golden Globe award winning film about suffragettes fighting for the right to vote. It underscores the challenges — personal and political — in the story of these remarkable women.
Come cheer them on, hiss, cry, and celebrate.
If you’ve never seen it, you MUST.
If you have seen it, SEE IT AGAIN.
And bring a friend who hasn’t seen it.
Katja von Garnier’s “Iron Jawed Angels” tells the remarkable and little-known story of a group of passionate and dynamic young women, led by Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and her friend Lucy Burns (Frances O’Connor), who put their lives on the line to fight for American women’s right to vote.
Please contribute personal care items or small, unwrapped gifts for the women living in the domestic violence shelter.
What a great afternoon. Thank you to Evelyn Ness, Adele Calcavecchio, Susan Holland, David Cardall, and Glenn Packert for making it happen! And to the Children’s Library staff who worked so hard to help us get the room ready after the kids spent the morning with glitter and paste.
What did you think of Ironed Jawed Angels?