Arts & Entertainment
Women Rise !
Clazzical Notes will celebrate a key feminist milestone, a celebration of the 100th anniversary of women's right to vote air via Zoom.
With the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the issue of women's rights has never been more on American's minds. Clazzical Notes will celebrate a key feminist milestone when it presents Women Rise!- a celebration of the 100th anniversary of women's right to vote. The program, which will air via Zoom, will pay tribute to the unsung activists who worked tirelessly for the ratification of the 19th amendment on August 26, 1920. Groundbreaking women the audience will meet include abolitionist and women's suffrage leader Frances Ellen Watkins, who popularized African American protest poetry; former slave Sojourner Truth, an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, women's/civil rights; composer Amy Beach, the first woman to premiere a symphony; feminist writer MarÃa Jesus Alvarado Rivera, author of El Feministo, the first revolutionary essay of the 20th century; and Chinese suffragist Mabel Lee. Artists participating in "Women Rise!" are soprano Shana Blake Hill, recording artist Nia Allen, dancer Brittany Daniels (back by popular demand after her Clazzical appearance in MAYA), Chinese Bamboo Flute player Josie Hung; and spoken word actresses Dee Dee Stephens, Gigi Yam, and Gabriela Bonet. In addition, Martha Zavala, President of the Pasadena League of Women Voters will speak to the importance of the vote. Rachel Fine, Executive Director/CEO of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (The Wallis), will act as host. To register for "Women Rise!" and learn more about Clazzical Notes, visit https://www.clazzicalnotes.org/. For more information, email clazznotes@gmail.com