LWV OF WESTON REGULAR PROGRAMMING

• The Weston League's Annual Speak Up
  This unique moderated event, held annually since 1992, brings together elected town officials, chairs of appointed boards, committees and commissions, the Town Administrator, Chief of Police, Superintendent of Schools, the Aspetuck Health District Director, and occasionally other key officials to answer resident's questions about community and government affairs.
• Women's History Month Event(s)
  These programs explore the history of the fight for women's rights, equality, and related government and cultural issues. Over the past decade they have been co-sponsored with the Friends of the Weston Public Library and the Weston History & Culture Center. Events have included film showings such as Iron Jawed Angels and Miss Representation, the one-women musical show, A Journey, telling the stories of Black women as an integral part of American history by writer and actress Kimberly Wilson, and a program featuring the stories of "Connecticut's African American Heroines" presented by the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame. The League periodically participates in additional Lachat Town Farm activities and other town-wide events as well.
• International Earth Day Celebration
  League members host a booth at the Lachat Town Farm's annual Earth Day event and invite Weston Registrars of Voters to join them to register residents and help answer questions about voting, coming elections, and town government. Members also distribute non-partisan voter information and – in honor of the occasion – offer seed packets of flowering native plants and copies of Tish Rabe's Dr. Seuss-inspired Step-into-Reading book, How to Help the Earth by The Lorax.
• Politics & Pie: A Conversation with Our State Legislators
  This program brings Weston residents together with their elected State Senator and State House Representative in the Connecticut General Assembly. It provides our legislators the opportunity to update the public about the ongoing or, in alternate years, the just-ended legislative session – its dynamics, its challenges, and its accomplishments – and to answer constituent questions. Weather permitting, the event is held outdoors on the Weston Public Library lawn (in the Library Community Room if needed) and sweet and savory pies are available for purchase from Old Mill Market & Café in Georgetown.
• The Betty Hill Forum on International Affairs
  Over the years this event has featured speakers on a wide range of international and occasionally national and state focused issues. Except as interrupted by the COVID pandemic, the Forum has been held in conjunction with the League's annual member meeting and luncheon in June. The lunch and program are open to the public. The first Betty Hill Forum was held in 2000.

  View the story behind this special event in honor of Betty Hill here.

• LWV Voter Services: Candidate Debates/Forums and Voters Guides
  The League organizes non-partisan municipal candidate debates during local election years and collaborates with other area Leagues and the LWVCT in offering candidate debates and forums in national/state-wide election years. These events allow candidates for elective office to speak directly to the voters, articulate their views, and answer voter questions on a range of issues. Election season voter services also include preparation of LWV of Weston Voters Guides and – since 2021 – collaboration on the national League's Vote411.org multifaceted voter resource.

LWV OF WESTON SPECIAL PROGRAMMING

• The League occasionally organizes special presentations and "Community Conversations" on a wide range of issues. These have included programs such as "Connecticut's Fiscal Challenges…" with CT Mirror investigative reporter Keith Phaneuf, a "Local News, Community and Democracy" presentation and discussion with a panel of journalists and communications specialists, a series of programs about assets beyond our schools including one featuring panelists from conservation organizations with extensive land holdings in Weston, and a film showing of Let the People Decide presented by Director/Producer Gavin Guerra.
• The Weston League also periodically collaborates with regional Leagues, for example, by partnering with the LWV of Redding and Mark Twain Library in promoting their multi-year series, Conversations on Truth, Myth, and Democracy and – during election season – by collaborating on voter services; see LWV Voter Services above.

TOWN GOVERNMENT & LWV OF WESTON PUBLICATIONS

• For information about town government visit westonct.gov, Our Town and LWV Publications.