Somewhere in Time presents
Votes for Women
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In Votes for Women, the women of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia are gathered at their Richmond headquarters in the spring of 1916. Suffragists Dr. Kate Waller Barrett, Janetta Fitzhugh, Janie Porter, and Adele Clark prepare for a march to the Virginia State Capitol to petition the General Assembly for the third time to grant women the franchise. An unexpected visitor who hopes to upend their plans finds herself on the hot seat about her views on women’s rights and racism.
Event Details
- May 22nd and 23rd, 6:30pm – 7:30
- St. George’s Episcopal Church
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St. George’s Episcopal Church
905 Princess Anne St., Fredericksburg, VA
Playwright
Malanna Henderson is a Detroit native, novelist, playwright, songwriter, singer and Zumba enthusiast. She won two first-place awards in one-act playwriting festivals for the drama A Question of Color and comedy, The Eclipse, sponsored by the Tulsa Library and Fredericksburg’s Stage Door Productions, respectively. Between 2018-2020, Malanna wrote and produced a combination of nine plays for Black History and Women’s History Months that were presented at four downtown churches in Fredericksburg. She earned a Liberal Arts degree from the University of Detroit, and later an MFA from the City University of New York. She won first place for her short story This Just In in the 2022 Golden Nib Contest for the Riverside Writers Club, in the fiction category. She holds the office of Vice President of the Riverside Writers Club and occasionally writes articles for local newspapers and magazines. Malanna performed in several plays in community theaters in New York and Fredericksburg. She lives in Spotsylvania with her husband.