Women’s Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B. Holtz and guest Jessica Litwak on Creating the Play: 50,000 Mice , the Selena Solomons Story for the Petalulma Museum, available for viewing October 8th, has been uploaded to the web archive. The show was broadcast in the North Bay and streamed worldwide over Radio KBBF 89.1 FM on Monday 10/5/2020 at 11 AM, repeats at 11 PM on KBBF, and then repeat broadcasts in Petaluma and streamed worldwide over Radio KPCA 103.3 FM on the following Wednesday 10/7/2020 at 11 AM.
Read description of the show and bios of the guests, see links referenced on the show and the playlist, on its archive page at:
http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA20/WSA201005.html
—
New as of 1/1/2020: Subscribe for Podcasts of the Show
via this link for iTunes or via this link for Podcasts.com
—-
Featuring Guest
1. Jessica Litwak, RDT, PhD, Writer/Actor/Educator, Artistic Director of The H.E.A.T. Collective
—-
Featured Guest:
1. Jessica Litwak was commissioned by the Petaluma Museum to create a stage production of the life of a pioneering Petaluman Suffragist Selena Solomons for the Centennial of the 19th Amendment. Solomons was active in moving California on October 10, 1911 to become the 6th state to give women the right to vote. The play will be available as an online presentation beginning October 8, 2020, since the pandemic has restricted in person theater. Jessica shares her path to theater and the challenges she had to overcome. She discovered her love for acting and theater and returned to school after failing high school to eventually achieved her doctorate and a Fullbright Scholarship. She tells the story of a teacher who recommended she smoke and drink a lot to age more quickly as she was not pretty enough for younger roles, but had the self-esteem to then proceed to write plays for herself to act. She became a leading advocate of socially Engaged Theater for Healing of soul and society with Activism, and formed The H.E.A.T. Collective. Jessica treats us with a reading from her play: 50,000 Mice , the Selena Solomons Story. She lets us know why she chose this title, so be sure and listen.
About our Guest: Jessica Litwak, RDT, PhD is an award-winning playwright, an actor, a Registered Drama Therapist (RDT), an educator, a coach, a puppet builder, and an International leader in the field of socially engaged theatre. She is the Artistic Director of The H.E.A.T. Collective (www.theheatcollective.org), the founder of Artists Rise Up New York, and The New Generation Theatre Ensemble, a core member of Theatre Without Borders and a Fulbright Scholar. She has taught theatre at universities around the world. Her work has been published by TCG, Applause Books, Smith and Krause, No Passport Press, Amazon, and The New York Times. Her plays have been produced in Europe, South America, the Middle East, India, the UK and throughout the U.S. She is currently working on an international production of The FEAR Project (based on verbatim interviews) a UK tour of My Heart is in the East (a play about Muslim and Jewish relations), and 50,000 Mice , the Selena Solomons Story which was commissioned as a one woman play for the centennial of the 19th Amendment and is being produced by The Marsh Theatre.
Guest Link:
The H.E.A.T. Collective
www.theheatcollective.org
Event Link:
Beginning October 8, 2020, 50,000 Mice , the Selena Solomons Story, online theatre presentation as part of the exhibit Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum, the link will be posted October 8th at https://www.petalumamuseum.com/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/
—-
Herstory
Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women’s History Alliance
Herstory Events:
October 3, 1904 – Mary McLeod Bethune opens her first school for African American students in Daytona Beach, Florida.
October 4, 1976 – Barbara Walters becomes the first woman co-anchor of the evening news (at ABC).
October 4, 1993 – Ruth Bader Ginsburg joins the U.S. Supreme Court as its second woman Justice.
October 8, 1993 – Toni Morrison becomes the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
Herstory Birthdays:
October 3, 1897 (1982) – Ruth Bronson, Bureau of Indian Affairs official who got loans for Indian students, National Congress of American Indians forced authorities to honor treaties (1944), wrote Indians are People, Too.
October 4, 1908 (1995) – Eleanor Flexner, influential author, and historian, wrote Century of Struggle: The Women’s Rights Movement in the United States (1950) and Mary Wollstonecraft: A Biography (1972).
October 5, 1959 – Maya Lin, artist, and architect of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C. (1980-82) and other public sculptures, author of Boundaries (2000).
—-
Annnouncements
Check links in case of postponement, cancellations, or restrictions due to pandemic precautions:
Beginning October 8, 2020, 50,000 Mice , the Selena Solomons Story, online theatre presentation as part of the exhibit Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum, the link will be posted October 8th at https://www.petalumamuseum.com/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/
—-
Sonoma County 2020 Women’s Suffrage Project’s
19th Amendment Centennial Series
has occured with live online presentations from
Tuesday, August 18 to August 26, 2020.
Visit the Project’s YouTube channel main site for the 19th Centennial Series recordings of online presentationss at www.youtube.com/channel/UCqynwJCqhLMtPtjdDdsdQdQ
—-
The Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative is a collaboration of women-centered institutions, organizations, and scholars from across the US, works to ensure that this anniversary, and the 72-year fight to achieve it, are commemorated and celebrated throughout the United States. www.2020centennial.org/.
—-
August 26 – November 8, 2020, Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum The Petaluma Museum Association’s suffrage exhibit has been rescheduled. For details visit
—-
January 25 through (extended!) January 24, 2021, From Suffrage to #MeToo at Museum of Sonoma County. Please note: Fee is required for entry to museum. For more information, also for Covid precautions taken at museum, visit https://museumsc.org/suffrage-metoo/
—-
League of Women Voters of Sonoma County has scheduled candidate debates and ballot measure discussions. See their webpage listing the events at https://www.facebook.com/lwvsonomacounty/ and at http://lwvsonoma.org/
—–
Sonoma County Women’s Suffrage Project https://socowomen2020.org/
with Calendar of related Events at https://socowomen2020.org/calendar
—-
Music Selections:
The Opening and Closing Theme song is with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin:
The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album Living with Lavender Jane (Women’s Wax Works) – www.alixdobkin.com
I Am Woman sung by Helen Reddy from the album Helen Reddy’s Greatest Hits (And More) (Released 1975 – This compilation @ 1087 Capitol Records).
—-
For music purchasing opportunity:
Link for Paul Hawkin’s book Drawdown, 100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming, and the Drawdown Project
