Celebrate International Women’s Day
BRIGHTON: Saturday 9 March: Week of celebrations finishes with Grand Finale at Dome. Free crèche. More at http://internationalwomensday.wordpress.com/./> BRISTOL: Friday 8 March 7pm: All our Lives (De Toda La Vida). Presentation of 1986 documentary telling story of Mujere Libres, the first independent women’s organisation in Spain. Bristol YHA, 4 Narrow Quay, Bristol, BS1 4QA. Free but donations welcome. More at http://www.solfed.org.uk/events/bristol-solidarity-federation-present-all-our-lives-de-toda-la-vida-a-film-about-mujeres./> Friday 8 March, 6pm: Women, honey and chocolate. Celebration with Agueda Ordenana, Nicaraguan women’s development worker and fairtrade honey producer, music from Shanta and fair trade chocolate tasting. Tickets £8 or concessions £6. Booking essential. Mshed Museum, Harbourside. Call Mshed shop on 0117 352 6914 to book. CAMBRIDGE: Tuesday 5 March 5.30pm. IWD Lecture: Can the word feminism be reclaimed for universal good? University of Cambridge, McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College. With Jude Kelly, Artistic Director of Southbank Centre and historian Dr Rachel Holmes (Fifty Shades of Feminism). To book tickets and further info call 01223 332286. Saturday 9 March 7.30pm. Peace Unveiled. Film with Q&A about women’s rights in Afghanistan. Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT, Lord Ashcroft Building. To book tickets and more information call 01223 332286. CARDIFF: Sunday 3 March from 4pm. Birkenstomp – Live music, poetry slam, exhibitions and DIY feminist magazine launch at Gwdihw, 6 Guildford Crescent, Cardiff, CF10 2HJ DORCHESTER: Saturday 9 March 10.30 – 4pm Dorset Women’s Day. Dorford Centre, Dorchester. Free crèche. IPSWICH: Wednesday 13 March 10am to 2pm. Free event for women to celebrate diverse traditions and cultures of women living in Suffolk. Organised by Suffolk Refugee Support and Karibu African Women’s Support Group in partnership with Oxfam. Burlington Baptist Church hall, Burlington Road, Ipswich, IP1 2EU. LEEDS: Thursday 7 March 6.30pm. Leeds Oxfam Group holds panel discussion on Meeting the challenges of gender equality in a world of crisis. Quaker Meeting House, 188 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds. LIVERPOOL: All month 1 – 31 March: Retrospective exhibition of Clare Campbell’s artwork inspired by 20 years working internationally with women’s empowerment and sexuality. Baltic Creative, Jamaica Street, Liverpool. LONDON: Saturday 16 March: Nunnery Gallery, 181 Bow Road E3 2SJ Bow Road tube/Bow Church DLR. Sylvia Pankhurst, Edith Cavell & Minnie Lansbury were all active in the East End and the Nunnery Gallery is arranging a special history walk around the Bow area. 2pm-3.30pm £5 – Meet at the Gallery Café at 1.45pm prompt. Bookings www.womenofbow.eventbrite.co.uk. In the gallery the ‘Strike’ exhibition is inspired by Annie Besant who led the Match girls protest in 1888. www.nunnerygallery.org. 14 – 19 March: Laura Provost winner of The Max Mara Prize for Women is exhibiting at the Whitechapel Gallery, www.whitechapelgallery.org and an exhibition entitled A Room of One’s Own is at the Espacio Gallery in Bethnal Green Road: www.espaciogallery.com. A final chance to see the Women’s Library before it moves to the LSE this year. The Long March to Equality: Treasures of the Women’s Library: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary//> Thursday 7 March: TUC, 6pm. Congress House. The struggle for Arab women’s rights’ . Free but registration essential. Guest speaker will be Jalila al-Salman, trade unionist and vice president of the Bahraini Teachers’ Association, recently freed from jail after a global union campaign with Suzanne McCarthy, chair of the Ethical Trading Initiative. Also speaking: TUC president, Lesley Mercer and TUC general secretary, Frances O’Grady. Entertainment and food. To register, email Pat Brown at pbrown@tuc.org.uk. 4-8 March: Women’s Week at the Stephen Lawrence Centre, 39 Brookmill Road, London SE8 4HU. More info at http://www.stephenlawrence.org.uk/get-ready-for-womens-week-in-march-2013. Friday 8 March: 2pm to 7pm. Southwark International Women’s Day event. Amigo Hall, Southwark Cathedral, Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HY. More info at http://www.internationalwomensday.com/slan./> MANCHESTER: Friday 8 March 10am to late. A day to create and celebrate for women in Old Trafford. St John’s Centre, St John’s Road, Manchester M16 7GX. More info at http://www.stjohnscentre.org/./> Wednesday 6 March, 9.30 – 2.00 Women’s Domestic Abuse Helpline holds a celebrationof women’s diversity to raise awareness of domestic abuse and vital services the helpline provides. Manchester Deaf Centre, Crawford House, Booth Street East, Manchester M13 9GH. Includes workshops and some Mahabat-style dancing. Lunch provided. Call 0161 636 7525 Monday 4 March 12.30-1.30pm. Snapshot on women. People’s History Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields, Manchester M3 3ER. Go behind the scenes and delve into the museum’s photo collections. Free but booking advised and donations welcome. More info at 0161 838 9190. OXFORD: 4 March – 2 April. Our Creative Voices exhibition at 8th Day Café Gallery, 111 Oxford Road, MI 7DU PORTSMOUTH: Wednesday 6 March, 6pm. The struggle for women’s suffrage in Britain 1865-1928: an illustrated talk. University of Portsmouth, Portland Building, Portland Street, Portsmouth PO13AH. Free but registration required. More at http://www.port.ac.uk/lookup/events/eventtitle,171499,en.html./> SOUTHEND: Saturday 9 March 10am: Purple Parade from top of Southend Town Centre. Meeting at Victoria Station wearing at least one item of purple clothing. Parade ends in Royal Square. Talk and buffet after at Cultural Centre, Southend Pier. SCOTLAND -EDINBURGH: Friday 8 March 6.30pm. Tea Dance Stomp. Celebrate women in an evening of light-hearted frippery, dancing and cakes featuring Edinburgh’s Belle Star all women dance band. Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SR. Tickets £6 or £5 concessions. More at http://www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk/events/event_display.asp?id=5188./> GLASGOW: Thursday 14 March 12 noon. Illuminated letters: unwind with a book special. Bring your packed lunch and share your favour extracts from books and poems in the form of letters. Gallery of Modern Art, Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow G1 3AH. IRELAND DUBLIN: Tuesday 5 March 11am. Suffrage and Struggle: How women shaped their future. Theresa Moriarty explores the place of women in trade unions and their role during the 1913 lockout. Ballymun Library, Main Street, Ballymun, Dublin. More at http://www.dublincity.ie/RecreationandCulture/libraries/Events/Pages/IWD_2013.aspx/> Wednesday 6 March 2012 3pm: Women’s Lives in the Dublin Tenements. Dr Enda Leaney uses photographic collections to examine conditions of Dublin women in early 1900s. Cabra Libray, Navan Road, Dublin 7. Free but booking recommended. T. 8691414 Throughout March. Hanna and her sisters. Exhibition on display at Pembroke Library, Anglesea Road, Dublin. Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington was a suffragette and Irish nationalist. She co-founded the Irish Women’s Francise Leagure in 1908 and was later a founding member of the Irish Women’s Workers’ Union. She was also one of women working to provide meals in Liberty Hall to striking workers during the 1913 lockout. On March 4, the Action on X campaign will host a rally marking 21 years of inaction since the X case ruling, which upheld the right to abortion in Ireland when a woman’s life is at risk, including at risk of suicide. The rally, which leaves the Central Bank plaza at 6pm on March 4 for Dublin Castle, is supported by the National Women’s Council of Ireland, Union of Students in Ireland and Terminations for Medical Reasons, among others. On March 6 in 6.30-8pm Copperhouse Gallery, Dublin the Abortion Rights Campaign will host a panel discussion and workshop on Image & Language: Reclaiming Life incorporating presentations by artists Emma Campbell and Leszek Wolnik and an input by NUJ member Therese Caherty on the life, times and many political activism of feminist publishing house Attic Press. On March 8, feminist historian Margaret McCurtain launches a plaque by sculptor Jackie McKenna to mark the considerable achievements of the Irish Women Workers Union. Along with the union’s last serving general secretary Padraigin Ni Mhurchu, many feminists, trade unionists and other assorted lefties will gather to remember these brave women – who fought for and won two weeks’ paid holidays for all Irish workers. This initiative by the IWWU Commemorative Committee is part of the 1913 calendar of events. DUN LAOGHAIRE: 6-9 March 8.30pm. Dalkey players present the Irish premier of “Love, Loss and What I Wore”. Kingston Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin Tickets booking line 0879919261. KILKENNY: 8 March 8pm. Project Women present “The Monologues”. Original works created by women. Watergate Theatre, Parliament Street, Kilkenny. More info at https://www.facebook.com/ProjectWomen?fref=ts/> BELFAST: Tuesday 5 March 10am to 13.30pm. Ulster Hall, 34 Bedford Street, Belfast BT2 7FF. “Unionism, nationalism and women’s fight for the vote: understanding different views through discussion and debate.” Illustrated talk. More info at http://www.wrda.net/./> NEWTOWNARDS: Friday 8 March 8.3pm: She-nanigans in the Square – All female comedy variety show. Headlined by Niamh Marron headlines. Hosted by BBC’s Find Me the Funny, Gemma Hutton.Tickets £8 in aid of North Down and Ards Women’s Aid. Ards Arts Centre, Conway Square, call Newtownards. Tel 028 9182 4021. REEL REBELS RADIO www.reelrebelsradio.com 020 8800 0881 Reel Rebels Radio is an online community radio station run by women. This includes redressing the under-representation of women in media by actively encouraging women to DJ, make programmes and get involved in all aspects of broadcasting, engineering and production. Tune in Friday March 8th, 8pm, for an International Women’s Day Special where local women from different ages and backgrounds celebrate women’s contribution to the music industry by presenting their favourite female artists.
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