Monday: California Women Suffrage Centennial: a 2-day Celebration in Sacramento

PROGRAM

Monday, October 10, 2011 - experience the victory!
(Voters registration all day at the California Museum and 12-3 pm outside Capitol)

9:30 am Gather at the California Museum – 1020 “O” Street
Site to assemble for the stroll and craft corner.
Sign making and storytelling for all ages.
“American, the Beautiful” with alternative lyrics song by Rev. Janice Steele

10:30 am Celebration Stroll – Stroll in a lively procession on the sidewalks down 10th Street to the North Steps of the Capitol (L Street side) with banners, signs and lusty voice.

11:00 am Capitol Steps program –
Welcome – Centennial Co-Chairs
“Star Spangled Banner “ song by Belinda Liu
Elected officials and invited guests and California Suffrage Singers

12 Noon All Activities inside the Capitol must enter “L” Street security doors

12:15, 1:15, 2:15 Intermittent Living History Presenters –California Suffragists (Cynthia Arella as Maud Younger, Linda Milliken as Caroline Severance, Leslie Ragsdale as Clara Shortridge Flotz, Andrea Riggs as Selena Solomon and Chuck Arella as John Braly)

12:15 & 2:15 “The Girl from Colorado or the Conversion of Aunty Suffridge,” a short play.
(Peter Bassford as Reverend, Alida Hinton as Constance, Kiki Arnaudo as Aunty Suffridge and Chuck Arella as Professor)

1 pm Suffrage Singers – Ground Floor Rotunda (Katie Riggs, Kiki Arnaudo, Elsa Schafer, Cathy Foxhoven and Jan Robertson)

1-3 pm Have your photo taken if dressed in period clothes or suffrage colors (free in Eureka Room in the Capitol basement cafeteria)

1; 30 & 2:15 Dramatic Reading of Proposition 4 – (for and against permitting women to vote)
Presented by law students from McGeorge School of Law

2:30 – 6 p.m. Meet the Authors & Book signing - California Museum in the Secretary of State Complex– Robert P. Cooney, Claire Rudolph Murphy Claire Noonan and Mae Silva

4-5 p.m. Presentations – “The Sixth Star Suffragists” with actors in earlier roles and Valerie Purnell as Naomi Talbert Anderson and Jim Holmes as Senator A. Sargent
Encore: performance: “We Did It for You!”

4 - 6:30 pm Reception and Closing Ceremony with Secretary of State Debra Bowen. Official half-hour program starting at 5:30 pm include remarks from Secretary of State Bowen and elected officials reading of SCA 4 pro and con. Program concludes with passing of banner to the next state.