Friendship Tea 2025
Saturday, November 15
This year’s Friendship Tea will again be a unique time to enjoy with friends and family and is open to women, men, and children! Don’t miss it – put it on your calendar now.
Our Mission: EMPOWERING VOTERS and DEFENDING DEMOCRACY
Our Tea is our major fund raising event that provides us with necessary flexibility to carry out our mission. Some of our efforts in carrying out our mission include:
- Informing voters about Ballot Proposals
- Providing newly registered voters with information on how/where to vote.
- Working to inform students of the voting process and how to register to vote
- Working with Youth to increase understanding and participation in Democracy
- Hosting candidate forums and Meet & Greet the Candidates for local elections
- Collecting information from local candidates to publish on the league’s VOTE411 website
- Talking with people at community events about the importance of voting
- Making presentations to local groups and organizations on Voting Rights
- Volunteering as election workers
- Observing the work of the Board of Canvassers
- Observing local governmental meetings
The photos on this page and in our Gallery show some of the Friendship Tea festivities including the wonderfully decorated tables set by the hostesses. Our photo gallery includes photos in chronological order from 2023 back to our first tea in 2019 including our 2020 virtual tea.
Entertainment over the years has included:
- A delightful and moving singing presentation by our own member, Rosemary Edgar
- Going back in time to a classic Burns & Allen Radio Show: Gracie Runs for President put on by several members of Center Stage
- Noted Jackson Historian, Linda Hass delighted us with some unusual and overlooked stories about Jackson
- An inspiring visit from Alice Paul who shared a bit about her life and struggles in the women’s suffragist movement of 100 years ago
- Ann Green delighted us with a moving reading of the classic holiday poem, A Cup of Christmas Tea