Events
Entertainments and special events will include:
- The film Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema will be shown. This recent work of scholarship by Professor Kay Sloan of Miami University has played to international acclaim since its premiere in 2003. The film features satiric clips of nickelodeon melodramas created by early twentieth-century women’s suffrage activists. These important, early films are significant for what they tell us, as contemporary viewers, about ideas of gender roles at the beginning of the last century.
- A Woolf film festival, including The Big Parade and Florida Enchantment, provided by Leslie Hankins, Cornell College
- Leonard and Virginia: Prelude to a Marriage by Roberta Palumbo presents Leonard Woolf and Virginia Stephen the decade (1902-12) before they became Mr. and Mrs. Woolf. Leonard and Virginia, as well as her sister, Vanessa, tell in their own words this little known back story. In this drama of personal relationships, Leonard and Virginia express their thoughts and emotions about love, sexuality, marriage, career. They themselves, speaking lines from their letters and memoirs, present the prelude to their marriage.
- A period dinner
- A Woolf-inspired reading event
- Silent auction of Woolf books provided by the International Woolf Society
- A special tour of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in nearby Cincinnati, Sunday afternoon. (Transportation will be provided for those en route to the airport who wish to attend.)