The Brave Resilient Women Committee within the Alhambra San Gabriel Branch of the American Association of University Women will present a program highlighting “Brave Resilient Women in the Arts” at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 28.

Artists of dance, literature, music, theater and visual arts will come to life on stage to share their stories.

This is the second program that the group has organized. Director Betty Morin said that the actors, writers and backstage staff have been working hard to captivate the audience and elevate the lives of hardworking women.

“It was just something that I really liked to do and decided that, you know, some time had passed but we’re ready to delve into the second project,” she said. “This time, it’s a little bit different, because we’re adding audio-visual effects.”

The small committee that formed in 2021 to create the first Readers Theater spotlighted “cutting-edge, culturally diverse,” American scientists who are women that contributed to the “fabric of America.”

Morin said that for this iteration the focus is on 10 historic and contemporary creative artists who were “willing to challenge the status quo,” in their quests to success. Notable locals included on the program are science fiction writer, Octavia Butler and Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to be promoted to principal ballet dancer.

The American Association of University Women advocacy efforts go as far back as 1881, when it was founded by Marion Talbot, the Dean of the College of Women at the University of Chicago and Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman to earn degree in chemistry.

At a national level, the American Association of University Women present fellowships and grants to women who are working on postgraduate degrees.

“Our mission is to highlight women and support women in all of their educational endeavors,” Morin said. “(Women) are certainly undeserved, most especially in the sciences, but underserved and unnoticed overall.”

The free presentation begins at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 28, at San Gabriel Methodist Church on North San Gabriel Boulevard in San Gabriel. No RSVP is necessary to attend.