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Celebrate Women's History Month In The Bay Area

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Now in its 35th year, Women's History Month involves a month of activities and events that shine the spotlight on women and their achievements. Here are some great celebrations and organizations throughout the Bay Area that honor women and their contributions.

Renaissance Entrepreneurship Group
1848 Bay Road
East Palo Alto, CA 94303
(650) 321-2193
www.rencenter.org

Dream and launch, plan and start, grow and grow. Renaissance is about inspiring and supporting Bay Area entrepreneurship within a diverse community by providing free and inexpensive professional advice through classes to help low-income small business owners. Instruction in English and Spanish covers business credit, business law, financial planning, accounting, marketing, tech training and human resources. Men are also welcome to register. Locations are in Daly City, East Palo Alto, Redwood City and Richmond for Peninsula-based entrepreneurs. Now in its 30th year, Renaissance recently incorporated programs and services offered by Women's Initiative due to its closure.

High Style: The Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection
Legion of Honor
100 34th Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94121
(415) 750-3600
www.legionofhonor.famsf.org
Date: March 14 - July 19, 2015

Pull on some comfortable leggings and head over to the museum for this new exhibition on the evolution of women's 20th century fashion from 1910 through 1980. On loan from the Costume Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art residing at the Brooklyn Museum, the galleries open on March 14, 2015, continuing on show through July 19, 2015. A retrospective on how far we've come in a century in respect to attire is one way of looking back.

Hyde Street Living History Players
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
Hyde Street Pier
2905 Hyde St.
San Francisco, CA 94109
(415) 447-5000
hydestreetlivinghistory.org
Date: March 7, 2015

Period-costumed living history actors bring the pier and its historic sailing vessels to life for visitors as they re-enact scenes from a 1901 Women's Suffragette March. They'll be stirring up the crowd, bringing up important issues "of the day" around women's right to vote, which took another 19 years for passage in this country. Everyone is invited to join the free event, beginning at 12 p.m., which includes a 2 p.m. tea salon on the Lewis Ark houseboat. The event repeats at 3 p.m. and is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, March 7, 2015. Additional opportunities to learn more about women's maritime history in the age of sail are staged aboard the 1886 square-rigger Balclutha on weekends throughout March.

Commonwealth Club of California
555 Post St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 597-6700
www.commonwealthclub.org
Date: March 16 and 26, 2015

Adrienne Mayor, Research Scholar, Classics and History and Philosophy of Science at Stanford University, presents "The Amazons" to examine the question: were these ancient warrior women fact or fiction? Love stories and war stories will emerge as Mayor digs into her subject and archeological evidence. Hear from this scholar on March 16, 2015 at 6 p.m. at the club's interim San Francisco location on Post Street. At the Commonwealth Club in Silicon Valley, author Gretchen Rubin presents "Happiness and Habits," discusses her theories on personal growth on March 26, 2015 at 7 p.m. at Mayer Theatre, 500 El Camino Real at Santa Clara University.

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California St.
San Francisco, CA 94118
(415) 292-1200
www.jccsf.org
Date: March 9, 2015

Meet poet Jynne Dilling Martin as the National Science Foundation's Antarctica Artist-in-Residence takes to the stage at the JCCSF. Find out about what she learned and how the overwhelming experience on that continent exploded into words. Martin will share remarkable images and read her startling dispatches from the South Pole from the just-published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press book, "We Mammals in Hospitable Times." The event takes place on March 9, 2015 at 7 p.m.

Laurie Jo Miller Farr loves walkable cities. A tourism industry professional and transplanted New Yorker by way of half-a-lifetime in London, she's writing about the best of the bay and beyond for Yahoo, USA Today, eHow, and on Examiner.com.


 

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