Maplewood Women's History Month Events Continue This Week

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — As Women’s History Month continues, SOMA Celebrates Women will continue to hold special events this week that recognize the historical achievements of women.

The events, which have been taking place throughout March, are designed to feature events that educate, empower, support and create solidarity. The events are also being held to help amplify women’s voices to honor the past, inform the present and inspire the future, according to the South Orange Maplewood (SOMA) website.

On Thursday, the group will hold its annual breakfast with the theme of Women Leading Through Crisis. The event will run between 9:30-10:30 a.m. Each year, the women’s empowerment breakfast is held to bring the community together and is held to carry out the group’s mission to inspire women as they thrive in their respective communities.

More information about the breakfast can be found here and registration can be completed here.

Other events include:

Three Visionary Women, Three Great Art Museums

7-8:30 p.m. Thursday

The event will trace the steps that Isabella Stewart Gardner, Helene Kroller-Muller and Peggy Guggenheim took to amass some of the most impressive art collections in the world. The event, which will be moderated by award-winning arts educator Janet Mandel, can be attended for $20. Registration can be completed here.

The Women Who Built the Maplewood Library

7:30 p.m. Thursday

Maplewood Library Director Sarah Lester will profile the women who led the way in constructing Maplewood’s two library buildings in the 1950s and 60s. Lester will be joined by current and former library trustees to discuss the important role women have played in our libraries and the plans to build the new Library for the 21st Century.

The event will be held on Zoom

• Meeting ID: 925 2373 0606
• Password: 341239

Women’s History Month Virtual Cabaret

Friday-Sunday Online

Tickets begin at $10

interACT celebrates Women’s History month with monologues, historical speeches, poems, and songs celebrating women and women’s history through a special streaming cabaret production. “EVERY WOMAN” conceived by Maryann Post, and starring many familiar and new faces of interact.

Tickets are available at www.interactproductions.org.