Queens Public Library honors female trailblazers for ‘A Century of Courage’
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Children at the Jackson Heights library branch at an event last summer. Eagle photo by Victoria Merlino
By Victoria Merlino
The Queens Public Library will celebrate the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote during a month-long campaign that honors suffragists and other female leaders.
Called “A Century of Courage,” the campaign will feature author talks, film screenings and civic-engagement activities, such as creating signs for gender equality, and workshops throughout the month of March.
Some of the highlights of the campaign include:
March 9 at 3:30 p.m. and March 11 at 1 p.m.
Ridgewood at 20-12 Madison St.
Kids will explore the labs of Marie Curie, Jane Goodall and Grace Hopper through a virtual reality headset.
March 10 at 4:30 p.m.
Langston Hughes Library at 100-01 Northern Blvd. in Corona
Students and younger library patrons will discuss the work of female Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. They will compare the art of self-portraiture to the art of selfies, and also paint their own portrait.
March 11 at 10:30 a.m.
East Elmhurst Library at 95-06 Astoria Blvd.
Vocalist Roz Brown will pay tribute to the women of Motown, singing the hit songs of The Supremes, Mary Wells, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Gladys Knight and more.
March 25 at 5:30 p.m.
Central Library at 89-11 Merrick Blvd.
The library will host a screening of the 1985 documentary “What Sex Am I” and a conversation with its Emmy and DGA award winning director, Lee Grant, who for a decade was blacklisted under McCarthyism.
March 26 at 6 p.m.
Douglaston/Little Neck Library at 249-01 Northern Blvd.
The library will screen the film "The Thinking Heart Cantata," about Etty Hillesum, a Dutch, Jewish author who was sent to Auschwitz during the Holocaust. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with composer Robert Perretti.
March 28 at 2:30 p.m.
Hunters Point at 47-40 Center Blvd.
Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass Executive Director Lindsy Parrott will lecture on the women working for the artist Louis C. Tiffany, who was the first design director of Tiffany & Co.
To learn more about QPL’s “A Century of Courage” events, visit queenslib.org/centuryofcourage.
