CRYSTAL LAKE – March is Women’s History Month, and McHenry County College is offering events to celebrate “Women Inspiring Innovation through Imagination,” with free lunchtime lectures, a Women’s Expo, the eighth annual Women’s Film Festival and more.

Women’s History Month kicks off at 1 p.m. today with the eighth annual Women’s Film Festival featuring two films by and about women. Shown in the Luecht Conference Center (Building B), the films include “Water Children” by Aliona van der Horst and “No Job for a Woman: The Women Who Fought to Report WWII” by Michele Midori Fillion.

A discussion will follow both films, and the event concludes at 4 p.m. Admission is $5 and free for MCC students. Refreshments provided. Admission fees go toward enhancing the collection of women’s films in the MCC Library. For details about each film, visit www.mchenry.edu/filmfest.