Women Movers & Shakers: 150 Years of Influential Lower East Side Women
The East Village Visitor’s Center Lecture Series presents:
Women Movers & Shakers: 150 Years of Influential Lower East Side Women
Saturday, July 18, 2009
12:00 P.M.
308 Bowery
New York, NY
From breaking new ground in arts, entertainment, fashion and medicine to great advancements in labor and women’s rights, the historic women of the Lower East Side have played an invaluable role in shaping politics and culture in America and around the globe for over 150 years.
At noon on July 18, the East Village History Project will offer a multimedia presentation and lecture on such “movers and shakers” as Susan B. Anthony, Emma Goldman, Lilian Wald, Margaret Sanger, Victoria Woodhull, Evangeline Corey Booth and Dorothy Day, to name just a few – as well as explore some of the lesser-known individuals whose innovation and bravery contributed to historic changes in such fields as social service and workers rights.
The lecture is presented by East Village History Project educator and Director of Outreach, Andrea Coyle. Andrea is a native New Yorker, licensed tour guide, member of the Guides Association of New York City and the Municipal Art Society, as well as a Big Apple Greeter for the City of New York.
The East Village Visitor’s Center monthly lecture series is organized by the East Village History Project, a network of local historians, educators, researchers and preservationists whose mission is to document little-known history of the greater Lower East Side. EVHP aims to educate the public and raise awareness of the East Village/Lower East Side’s historic significance and influence in world history – and to nurture community self-awareness and sensitivity to historical struggles of immigrant communities, unions, outsider political, countercultural and community-based fledgling art movements.
All lectures are held at the East Village Visitor’s Center at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012. By subway: F/V to 2nd Ave or 6 to Bleecker/Lafayette. For more info: (212) 614-8702 or www.eastvillagevisitorscenter.com