2224 Utter St.
Bellingham, WA 98225
360.734.7979
Linda Allen is a Bellingham songwriter, performer and educator with a passion for telling the stories of women whose stories may have been lost. She has released seven original recordings and two Northwest songbook collections, facilitates classes on voice and creativity, and directs a women’s choir. Linda has worked with the Washington Women’s History Project, the World YWCA, the Washington Centennial Commission (as Washington’s Resident Songwriter), the Washington Women’s History Consortium, the Cultural Enrichment and Folklife Programs of the State Arts Commission, and the Folklife in the Schools program. Her doctoral dissertation was on The Spirituality of Voice.
Here's to the Women
Both the silencing of women’s experience and the empowering of women’s voices as they struggled for the vote will be showcased in this 45-minute, multi-media presentation, featuring sing-a-long songs, images, stories and readings. We meet Spokane’s Helga Estby who walked across America in 1896, Emma Smith Devoe and May Arkwright Hutton, suffragists instrumental in winning the vote in 1910, Alice Lord who organized Seattle waitresses in the 1930s, Rosie the Riveter, an icon from the '40s, and Rosalinda Guillen, a contemporary activist. Linda offers a window into these and many more ordinary and extraordinary lives.
