The Power of Friendships with NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 | 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. | Virtual
You are invited to an intimate conversation with Nina Totenberg as she talks about her nearly fifty-year friendship with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her book Dinners With Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships. Nina Totenberg is NPR’s award-winning legal affairs correspondent. She appears on NPR’s critically acclaimed news magazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition, and on NPR podcasts, including The NPR Politics Podcast and its series, “The Docket.”
 
Four years before Nina Totenberg was hired at NPR, where she cemented her legacy as a prizewinning reporter, and nearly twenty-two years before Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court, Nina called Ruth. A reporter for The National Observer, Nina was curious about Ruth’s legal brief, asking the Supreme Court to do something to declare law that discriminated “on the basis of sex” to be unconstitutional. In a time when women were fired for becoming pregnant, often could not apply for credit cards or get a mortgage in their own names, Ruth patiently explained her argument. That call launched a remarkable, nearly fifty-year friendship.

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2024 Winter/Spring Concert Series: Barbara Scheidker, piano - Composing Women: Five Centuries of Keyboard Music
Sunday, March 10, 2024 | 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Central Library, 1st Floor Neil Morgan Auditorium
San Diego pianist Barbara Scheidker presents a program of music written by women composers from the time of Louis XIV to the present, prefacing the music with a discussion of the composer's unique and often difficult journey toward recognition. 

Our first concert offerings of 2024 will highlight a special component of the Series since its earliest days—our Steinway B! In recognition of our piano's 100th anniversary, this Series will feature some of San Diego's favorite pianists and ensembles and will explore this instrument’s versatile sound in genres from Classical to Boogie-Woogie!

Cats Don't Eat Yarn - A Collection of Short Plays by Carla Navarro - Riot Productions
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 through Saturday, March 16, 2024 | 7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Black Box Theatre at City Heights Performance Annex
“Cats Don’t Eat Yarn,” a collection of short plays by Carla Navarro, celebrates and speaks on the many complex and intersectional experiences of Woman, from suddenly becoming the caretaker of a difficult parent to conversations around not wanting to have a baby; finding a purposely absent parent; dealing with addiction. Carla Navarro’s poignant illustrations of female stories are layered over BIPOC and LGBTQ and immigrant experiences for complex, heart breaking portraits of complete women in each of these short pieces. 

Riot Theatrical Productions has a mission to tell stories of intersectional feminism and support representation for women, the LGBTQIA+ community, and the BIPOC community. Riot supports inclusion for women of all gender spectrum, sexual identity, body shape and ableness, and ages. 

“Cats Don’t Eat Yarn” is directed in pieces by Martie Clark, Elizabeth Arellano, Carla Navarro, and Alicia Gonzalez. This play stars Jennifer Scibetta, Andrea Garcia Roebuck, Katee Drysdale, Adriana Cuba, Jenette Allen, Pamela Basurto, and Robert Allegria. Run time: 80 minutes.

Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Women's History Month
Monday, March 25, 2024 | 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. | San Diego Central Library, 4th Floor Wells Fargo Technology Learning Center
Wikipedia is the largest online encyclopedia in the world. With millions of articles, thousands of editors, and decades of research, it has become a trusted resource for getting first-look information in dozens of different disciplines. Yet fewer than 20% of Wikipedia's biographical articles feature women. 

Learn to edit Wikipedia pages and contribute to making knowledge more accessible and to help correct this disparity. All experience levels are welcome. It is highly recommended that participants create a Wikipedia account ahead of time.  Light refreshment will be provided.

"Her Story" Toddler Storytime
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 | 10 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. | North University Community Library
Join in as we read, sing, dance, and play at Toddler Storytime!  Come and build essential early literacy skills and foster a love of reading. Designed for children ages 1-3. 

With March being Women's History Month, we will be incorporating this theme into the program.  Please join us as we pay tribute to women everywhere by sharing some unique and inspiring stories.

Create-it Thursday: Women in Aviation Craft 
Thursday, March 7, 2024 | 4 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. | Skyline Hills Library
March is Women's History Month! Join us to celebrate and learn about female pioneers in aviation! We'll have a presentation, and you’ll have the chance to build and decorate your own airplane! This is a family-friendly event. Registration required.

Dance It Out! Bilingual Storytime: Celebrate Selena!
Monday, March 11, 2024 | 12 p.m. - 12:45 p.m. | Logan Heights Library
Join our Dance it Out storytime with the music of Selena! Enjoy a story about her life, a craft, and sing and dance in English and Spanish!