Women Celebrate 100 Years of Voting in California

Who’s standing watch over democracy and women’s right – and responsibility – to vote?

For the 100^th anniversary of women winning the right in California, the answer is the League of Women Voters Pasadena Area and seven other women’s organizations: the local units of the American Association of University Women, Delta Kappa Gamma – Omicron chapter, Links, National Women’s Political Caucus, YWCA, and Zonta as well as  50/50 Leadership. Pasadena City College joins them in sponsoring a centennial celebration Oct. 10.

While voting is a serious matter, they are winking at “herstory” with a tickle-the-ribs one-woman show by Amy Simon,”She’s History: The most dangerous women in America – then and now.”

It will be held Oct. 10, 7 p.m., at Creveling Lounge on the PCC campus,

1570 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. A reception with the artist will follow at 8:15, and, of course, there will be registration of voters.

Tickets for the general public are $7. PCC students are free with school ID. Reservations are advised because seating is limited.

Simon keeps everyone laughing with her wry spin on ordinary and extraordinary women throughout history with her wacky impersonations. She engages, educates and entertains as she honors and celebrates American women, hoping to inspire heroines of today and

tomorrow.

Her play, “Cheerios in My Underwear (and Other True Tales of Motherhood),” holds the record as the longest-running solo show in Los Angeles. As a writer and entertainer, she is a frequent guest on local and national radio.

For reservations, please call the League office, 626-798-0965 between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on weekdays.

Creveling Lounge is in Building CC near the southeast corner of Colorado and Hill Avenue on the PCC campus. Parking for $2 is available in student parking lots off Hill and Holliston avenues. Signs and greeters will help guide playgoers.