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 Women’s Votes, Women’s Voices
The Campaign for Equal Rights in Washington
by Shanna Stevenson
One Hundred years ago, women in Washington State won the right to vote. Women’s Votes, Women’s Voices by Shanna Stevenson tells the story of the women who, in 1910, fought, spoke out, and organized to pass an amendment to the State Constitution giving women permanent voting rights—a full ten years before the United States would do the same. But we know the battle didn’t end there, and this compelling book also details women’s continuing struggle for equal rights over the past century—from advocating for the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 to current struggles to achieve equality in education, politics, and the workplace.
This timely tour of Women’s Votes, Women’s Voices is made possible through support from 4Culture.
GRADES: 6 – Adult
TOURS: Sept – Nov 2010
THEMES: Women’s History, Suffrage Movement
EVENTS: 100th Anniversary of Washington State passing suffragist laws
Booking Details:
Each performance runs between 25 and 45 minutes and can be performed in venues as small as a classroom or as large as an auditorium. In conjunction with each performance, Book-It offers workshops for children and young adults to reinforce what they have seen. Students can use voice, body, and imagination to create characters and explore environments, or develop a play in the Book-It Style™ from their own story. These workshops allow young people to make the leap between seeing art and creating it.
Workshop Choices: Themes in Motion (Grades K-2, 45 min) Based on the story presented, the teaching artists use creative dramatics to take the students through different themes. Storytelling Standing Up (Grades 3-12, one hour) 30 students write a seven-sentence story, adapt it into the Book-It Style™, are cast and directed by the teaching artists, then perform their literary creation.
Cost: Touring Story $575, includes performance, book, study guide, and workshop
Additional Workshops: $125 each, additional travel fees apply.
To book Women’s Votes, Women’s Voices for your school or community center call 206.770.0880 or email education@book-it.org. Click for more information about Book-It All Over.
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