Honour and Celebrate Women Voices
Every October, Women’s History Month is celebrated to recognize and honour the contributions of women throughout history, and to reflect on the achievements and challenges women face today.
Browse the library for resources and collections that highlight the many voices of women leaders, pioneers, and warriors from a variety of backgrounds and experiences.
Download Female Artists Music Playlist
Celebrate Women's History Month with a curated list of 32 songs by female artists that empower and inspire! Freegal Music is part of our digital resources library, with free access to stream nearly 18 million songs and over 40,000 music videos. Build your own playlists with new songs and classic hits with music from around the world.
Visit Invisible Threads Exhibit at Central Branch
Invisible Threads: Stories of Mothers, Migration & Resilience is an art installation with themes of migrant identities through oil painting, hand embroidery and creative writing.
Created by Indian-born, local artist Par Nair (she/her), her practice focuses on dual identities and fragmented realities of migrants. Visit the exhibit at Central Branch Glass Case Gallery until November 10 and join an upcoming hands-on workshop with the artist.
Watch Powerful Stories of Women on Kanopy
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform that offers films, TV shows, educational videos and documentaries. Available with your library membership. Watch these powerful and inspiring stories of women:
The Vote
The dramatic story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.
https://www.kanopy.com/en/richmondhill/video/10736407
Daring Women Doctors: Physicians in the 19th Century
A real, inside-look at the challenging and illuminating history of 19th century women doctors. https://www.kanopy.com/en/richmondhill/video/11764546
The Girls in the Band: Female Jazz Musicians
The award-winning documentary film THE GIRLS IN THE BAND tells the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, history-making journeys from the late 30s to the present day. https://www.kanopy.com/en/richmondhill/video/236451
Women Make Film
An epic exploration of filmmaking by women offers an essential and celebratory revisionist history of cinema told through the lenses of the world’s greatest female directors.
https://www.kanopy.com/en/richmondhill/video/14169055
The Archivettes
Founded in the 1970s in a New York City apartment, The Lesbian Herstory Archives is now the world’s largest collection of materials by and about lesbians.
https://www.kanopy.com/en/richmondhill/video/11256546
Warriors, Queens, and Intellectuals: 36 Great Women before 1400 (The Great Courses)
Step back and view history through the stories of 36 women that changed the world with their ideas, their leadership, and their sacrifices. In unearthing these stories, you'll rediscover the remarkable contributions of women often lost to time and prejudice. https://www.kanopy.com/en/richmondhill/video/6523047
Explore Curated Lists and Recommended Reads
Sample these staff recommended reads from our catalogue collection, or log in to Overdrive to explore our digital ebook collection for Women's History Month.
