2008 Schedule of Events
Convention Days 2008 will be held July 17th - July 27th.
Thursday July 17
- 5:00pm — Seneca Arts Council Juried Show, 109 Fall St.
- 5:00pm — Community Service Award Presentation honoring
Robert and MaryEllen Kernan, Heritage Area Visitor
Center, 115 Fall Street
- 7:00pm — Community Band Concert, People’s Park
Friday, July 18
- 7:00pm — Sojourner Truth Speaks, by Bridgette Houston of
Colonial Williamsburg, Women’s Interfaith Institute,
140 Fall Street
Saturday, July 19
- 10:30am — A Living History Presentation with Eleanor Stearns as
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, Washington
Street
- 11:00am — Priscilla Porter’s Astonishing Ladies: Old Time Baseball Game, People’s Park
- 11:30am — In Stanton’s Footsteps, a WRNHP Ranger-guided walking
tour from the Wesleyan Chapel to the Elizabeth Cady
Stanton House, one hour/one mile; encore at 2:00pm
- 1:00pm — Meet Coline Jenkins (great, great granddaughter of
ECS) at the Elizabeth Cady Stanton House
- 1-2:00pm — Women’s History Trail Riders’ Arrival, People’s Park
- 2:00pm — Judge Elma Bellini, Acting Supreme Court Justice, discussing women and domestic violence, People’s Park
at the Gazebo
- 2:30pm — Book Signing with Ellen Carol DuBois, WRNHP
Visitor Center
- 3:00pm — A Living History Presentation with David Anderson as
Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton House
- 4–7:00pm — Laura Black and El Kabong Concert featuring Steely
Dan-style music with Latino trends
- 4-4:30pm — 10th Anniversary of the Founding of Friends of the
WRNHP; Presentation of the In Her Footsteps award to
the stars of the Moondance Film Festival winner, Heroic
Girlz, WRNHP Visitor Center
- 4:30pm — WomEnchant, a musical presentation, WRNHP Visitor
Center
- 5:00pm — Commemorative Ceremony at the Wesleyan Chapel
marking the 160th Anniversary of the First Women’s
Rights Convention and the 100th Anniversary of the
placement of the bronze commemorative plaque in May
1908. Featured speaker Ellen Carol DuBois
- 7:00pm — One Voice Alliance Film Festival: Down to the Bone,
Sundance Award Winner and highly acclaimed film,
Women’s Interfaith Institute
Sunday, July 20
- 8:30am — March to the Chapel, Commemorating the orignal march to the Wesleyan Chapel by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and other foremothers; join dignitaries and citizens alike, along with the Village of Seneca Falls, Town of Seneca Falls, One Voice Alliance, Women’s Interfaith Institute. National Women’s Hall of Fame and many others...
- 10:30am — Rededication of the Declaration of Sentiments,
Wesleyan Chapel
- 2:00pm — Adi Shakti Dancers, spiritual belly dancing from
many lands
- 3:30pm — One Voice Alliance Film Festival: “Seneca Falls,” taking viewers on a life-changing journey with nine high school girls of Wower Power (a drama group) bound for the birthplace of women’s rights in America; part teenage road trip, part shocking history lesson, the film is an awakening; meet Director Louise Vance at the Women’s Interfaith Institute
- 6:00pm — Heroic Girlz Film Presentation: women of history share their stories with 11-year-old girls of today, who examine and relate their perspective; meet producers Cindy Parish and Meg Agnew and four stars of the film
Monday, July 21
- All Day — Bon Ton Roulet, an annual event comprised of 400+
bicyclists raising funds for the YMCA
- 4:00pm — Wine & Cheese Tasting in People’s Park featuring
Seneca and Cayuga Wine Trail wineries and
The Creamery Ice Cream Shop
- 5:00pm — The Whale Story with Fran Caraccilo and Doris Wolf, People’s Park
- 7:00pm — Community Band Concert, People’s Park
Tuesday, July 22
- 7:00pm — Stories from the History of Seneca County with
Walter Gable, People’s Park at the Gazebo
Wednesday, July 23
- 6:30pm — A Frank Discussion with Elizabeth Cady Stanton
about her days in Seneca Falls, starring
Kathy Jans-Duffy
- 7:00pm — Pam Bryan Players Presents Step Up to the Plate
and WomanSpeak, two short plays that look at
modern dilemmas from our foremothers’ perspectives
Thursday, July 24
- 7:00pm — Community Band Concert, People’s Park
- 8:15pm — Convention Days Presents Speakers’ Corner,
an Open Mike Night
Friday July 25
- 8:00pm — People’s Park Films for Kids Only: Shrek 1, 2 and
3, shown in the Park; bring the kids in their jammies
with sleeping bags and have some popcorn!
Saturday July 26
- 11-4:00pm — Fun Food, Drinks, and Kid-Friendly Treats for sale
at the Village Tent, People’s Park
- 1-4:00pm — Safe Kid Program with Sergeant Mike Petrocci of the
Seneca Falls Police Department, Cowing Street
- 1–5:30pm — Playland in the Park, fun activities for kids of all ages,
People’s Park and Cowing Street
- 1-5:00pm — Classic Car Show featuring 100+ on display along Fall
Street; free giveaways and trophies awarded, including
the Bill Povero Memorial Trophy
- 2–5:00pm — Laura Black and El Kabong Concert featuring Steely
Dan-style music with Latino trends
Sunday July 27
- 11–3:00pm — Fire Apparatus Muster – The Homecoming; see
fire equipment built in Seneca Falls in the 1800’s by
Silsby, Downs, Cowing, Rumsey and Gould’s; watch Ms.
Daisy draw and spray, and the Seneca Tug in the canal
harbor
- 11-5:00pm — “911 Quilt” on display for signing, People’s Park
- 11-5:00pm — Regional Art Show, featuring local artists, People’s
Park
- 2:00pm — Savannah Cellarsavers Brass Band Concert,
People’s Park
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