Set against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvel Studios’ ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ introduces Marvel’s First Family—Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Johnny Storm/Human Torch and Ben Grimm/The Thing as they face their most daunting challenge yet.

Join us in The Island House Cinema as we host special screenings of Marions Bethels’ Womanish Ways, a film which chronicles the Women’s Suffrage Movement in The Bahamas from 1948 to 1962, spotlighting the five pioneering leaders at its helm. It explores the social and political obstacles they confronted in their determined fight for the right to vote.

The screening on Saturday will be hosted by Maria Govan and the filmmaker Marion Bethel who will take part in a post-screening Q&A and discussion.

The Sunday screening will be hosted by the filmmaker Marion Bethel who will lead a Q&A and post screening discussion.

Five Bahamian women – Mary Ingraham, Georgiana Symonette, Mabel Walker, Eugenia Lockhart and Dame Dr. Doris Johnson – led the Women’s Suffrage Movement in The Bahamas. The journey to female enfranchisement spanned more than a decade. It took place against the dramatic backdrop of the Burma Road Riots of 1942 and the Contract of 1943, gaining momentum during the General Strike of 1958 and the quest for Majority Rule. The suffragists were greatly influenced by the Declaration of the Atlantic Charter, Sir Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech, and the UN Convention on Human Rights of 1948. Bahamian women voted for the first time on November 26th, 1962.

This film narrates the story of the Women’s Suffrage Movement with special attention to its 5 leaders and the women and men who supported the suffrage for women.