NEWSLETTER
A week filled with women-empowering events across the Finger Lakes
Auburn, N.Y - Brave Women FLX is thrilled to introduce the first-ever Brave Women Week, a week, Mar. 3-10, filled with local events and activities meant to celebrate women, past and present. Brave Women FLX is a tourism campaign made up of the tourism offices in Cayuga, Monroe, Ontario, Seneca, and new this year - Onondaga and Cortland counties, which honors the female pioneers that once called the Finger Lakes region home and highlights the brave women that continue to pave the way for others.
Encompassing International Women’s Day on Mar. 8, Brave Women Week will feature over 30 themed events and programs, as well as shopping specials at women-owned businesses. The lineup includes performances, art exhibits, community classes, museum exhibits and more, taking place within the counties in the program. These events include:
- Brave Brews Festival (Cayuga County): a celebration of women in the craft beverage industry.
- A bloomer-making class (Cortland County) in honor of feminist fashion icon, Amelia Jenks Bloomer.
- Fearless Female Pioneers Curator's Tour (Monroe County): a guided tour of the women artists in the Memorial Art Gallery’s collection.
- Women's History Month Concert for Winds and Piano (Onondaga County): a concert by the Alliance Classical Players at St. David’s Episcopal Church.
- Naples Women’s Weekend (Ontario County): a weekend of pampering, music, workshops and art focused on nurturing and empowering women.
Revolutionary Roots: The 1848 Convention (Seneca County): a ranger-led perspective on the history of the Women’s Rights Convention in the same church where the event was once held.
A complete list of events can be found on the Brave Women FLX website here.
Events during Brave Women Week are for women of all ages to come together and feel empowered while honoring the region’s female trailblazers. This week-long celebration is part of the larger Brave Women FLX campaign, which acknowledges the accomplishments of ten historic women, who supported causes from abolition to women’s suffrage to health activism:
- Amelia Jenks Bloomer
- Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Emily Howland
- Frances Seward
- Harriet Tubman
- Jikonsaseh
- Marth Coffin Wright
- Matilda Joslyn Gage
- Susan B. Anthony
More information about the festivities and the historic women can be found on the Brave Women FLX website.
About Brave Women FLX
History tells us that it takes a brave woman to thrive in a Finger Lakes winter. Trailblazers like Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the Iroquois matriarchs carved out a new future for all of us in this fiercely beautiful region. As the epicenter of the women’s rights movement, the Finger Lakes region applauds women both past and present. What began in 2020, the monumental year that marked the centennial of the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote, continues as an annual celebration. Come honor their bravery and experience their stories on a visit to the Finger Lakes region. While you’re here, you can also support the innovative and creative women who are blazing their own trails in business.
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Colleen Senglaub
Break the Ice Media
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