*In Person* Women Warriors, Women’s Voices

Women from across New England share their experiences as service members and veterans.

This event will take place at the Athenæum in front of a live studio audience and will be simulcast via Zoom, as well as recorded.

This is the IN-PERSON event. Tickets are free for members and non-members. They include access to a pre-program reception from 5-5:30pm. To register for the virtual simulcast, please click here.

Local women share their experiences as service members and veterans through poems, stories, essays, and readings. Watch last year’s powerful program here.

Women Warriors Women's Voices 2026 is presented by the Providence Clemente Veterans Initiative (PCVI), which has provided free humanities programming to RI, MA and CT veterans since 2019. For this year's event the PCVI received a grant from the RI State Department of Veterans Affairs."

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During the past decade, a million veterans have returned from deployment overseas. Many of them face physical and emotional challenges that make transitioning back to civilian life particularly daunting.

Established in 2015, the Clemente Veterans’ Initiative (CVI) invites students to renew their sense of purpose through deep engagement with the humanities. Exploring questions of war, civic duty, family, and sacrifice, CVI offers veterans a chance to place their personal experience into a broader perspective, one that helps them connect their military experience with their civilian lives.

The Athenæum's Spring 2026 Season is generously sponsored by the following friends and partners:

Please note that we are piloting new waitlist procedures this season. If we receive cancellations, available tickets will be offered to waitlisted members in the order they registered for the waitlist. Two days prior to the event, any remaining tickets will be offered by email to all waitlisted members on a first-come, first-served basis.