The Evening Brach of the Women's Alliance (EBWA) October program is: Banned Books: Not In My Backyard, presented by Charity Thorne, Executive Director of the Schenectady County Public Library. Intellectual freedom is one of the core values of librarianship, and the current surge in challenges to the valuable access libraries provide is unprecedented in the … Continue reading Banned Books: Not In My Backyard

Speaker:  Wendy Roberts, Associate Professor of English, University at Albany Phillis Wheatley is often referred to as the Mother of African American literature, the first Black person, and therefore also the first Black woman living in British North America to publish a book, and, because it was a book of poetry, the first to publish a book of … Continue reading Phillis Wheatley’s Presence: Getting to Know One of America’s First Black Poets

From Baseball to Broadcasting, featuring Wanda Fischer, Host of WAMC's Hudson River Sampler When the Evening Branch of the Women's Alliance (EBWA) Steering committee contacts prospective speakers each spring for the following year, we usually have particular topics in mind. Sometimes a speaker wants to talk about something different, and often we agree to the … Continue reading From Baseball to Broadcasting: EBWA program for December

For its May 23rd program, the Evening Branch of the Women's Alliance is hosting speaker Patricia Nugent, author, retired school administrator, and Reiki master. Call it prayer, meditation, visioning, mindfulness, or wishful thinking, what we put out into the Universe has the power to change our lives. Because we attract what we think about. Patricia … Continue reading My Canine Master Teacher: Lessons on the Power of Intention (May EBWA program)

Join the Evening Branch of the Women's Alliance group on June 13th at 5:30 pm for a tour of the Mabee farm. Mike Diana, Education Director of the Schenectady County Historical Society, will offer a guided tour of the oldest farm in the Mohawk Valley (1705).  We will explore the family home, barn and educational … Continue reading Tour of the Mabee Farm (EBWA’s June program)

“My Story About Two Revolutions in Iran”—September 26, 7-9pm, in the church dining room Speaker: Elahe Gol Pari, Multimedia Cross-Cultural Documentarian Elahe Gol Pari is a native of Iran and a U.S. citizen the Capital Region.  She will share her experiences and observations from two significant revolutions in Iran. One took place during her childhood in … Continue reading EBWA September program: My Story About Two Revolutions in Iran