These words are not the lyrics of a song. Neither are they a verse from a poem. Rather, they are a description of how a young mother feels day after day. She lives in County Mayo and is a medical doctor.
Last Friday afternoon, along with a number of other women, she addressed an audience in [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘2008 03 07’
12 March 2008
“I feel like a bird in a cage, with broken wings. I feel I am in an open prison, though with no bars.”
12 March 2008
National tour of Palestinian Women 2008
10 Palestinian women coming to Britain to talk about their lives for International Women’s Day
Women from all over the Palestinian West Bank bring their stories to enrich twinning links all over England
The Britain Palestine Twinning Network is organising an exciting speaking tour at the time of International Women’s Day in March 2008. The first of [...]
7 March 2008
Two intimate preview performances in honour of International Women’s Day 2008 in the Babylon Gallery, Waterside, Ely.
Virginia Woolf Gets a Makeover, a new play by Paola Trimarco, starring Nicola Hollingshead and Lynne O’Sullivan. Turning Point Productions.
The Philosopher’s Life reflections on the life of Dorine Gorz., written by Jean Rees, Clare Crossman , music by Natalie Catren.
Limited tickets available. Book your tickets ADeC, Babylon Gallery, Waterside, Ely.
Cash Bar.
Friday, 7th [...]
5 March 2008
International Women’s Day : Successful Women In The Media
Friday 7 March 1.30pm – 3.30pm at Showroom Cinema
In celebration of International Women’s Day, Showroom is proud to host a panel of successful women from different areas of the media. They will talk about their work, routeways and aspirations for the future and there will be an opportunity for discussion and questions from the audience.
We [...]
5 March 2008
International Women’s Day Events in Cambridge
Gender and History
Friday 7th March
The Umney Theatre, Robinson College, Cambridge. 10am – 5.30pm.
All welcome! Free Entrance.
Centre for Gender Studies, 11th Annual Symposium
Talks by Linda Colley, Polly O’Hanlon, Tanika Sarkar, Harry Cocks, Rebecca Flemming, Karen Adler, Lyndal and Clare Midgley.
Download a full Agenda here. Pre-registration would be helpful please contact Deborah Thom and Lucy Delap [...]
5 March 2008
LeicestHERday Conference 2008 International Women’s Day
It’s a Woman’s World
Don’t Waste WOMEN POWER
Friday 7 March 2008
Walkers Stadium
10.00am to 3.00pm
Conference Programme
10.00 – Registration opens. Visit stalls and exhibitions
11.00 – Welcome – Maureen Milgram, LeicestHERday Founding Chair
11.10 – Welcome – Cllr Manjula Sood (High Bailiff, Leicester City Council)
11.15 – Welcome – Cllr Mike Jones (Chairman, Leicestershire County Council)
11.20 – Women and [...]
5 March 2008
International Women’s Day Events in Southampton
International Women’s Day is celebrated all over the world on 8th March.
It is a global day connecting all women around the world and inspiring them to achieve their full potential.
International Women’s Day celebrates the collective power of women, past, present and future.
Below are a few events taking place in the city as part of the [...]
4 March 2008
IWD events in Southwark
Keep smiling through: Black women in wartime Britain 1939 to 1945
Tuesday March 4 from 6.30pm to 8pm
Peckham Library, 122 Peckham Hill Street, SE15 5JR
Free
Southwark historian Stephen Bourne will give an illustrated talk highlighting the wartime experiences of black African Caribbean women in Britain. Among those featured will be writer and broadcaster Una Marson, and servicewomen [...]
3 March 2008
More IWD events in Haringey
Pandora Project Film followed by discussion with speakers in Greek and English
Thursday, 6th March 2008, 10.30-13.30
Friday, 7th March 2008, 17.00-20.00
Film followed by discussion with speakers in Greek and English “Sleeping with the enemy”. A Hollywood film that depicts the realities of domestic violence.
A Domestic Violence phone help line in both Greek and English will [...]
3 March 2008
International Women’s Day 2008 – LB Islington
International Women’s Day (IWD) on 8 March gives us the opportunity to celebrate and support the diversity and achievements of women. In coming together on this day, we can look back over at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development for women on all continents.
The United Nations commemorates the day [...]
3 March 2008
Protest against toff’s sexist remarks about nurses and women
Tory Lord Mancroft attacks ‘grubby, drunken’ nurses – and says we’re all the same!
Join our protest to say outrageous sexist remarks like this are not acceptable!
Protest against this attack on the NHS!
Protest at the House of Lords
Called by the Socialist Party
Old Palace Yard, SW1, nearest tube Westminster
Friday 7th March 1-2pm
to mark International Women’s Day
A Tory [...]
28 February 2008
International Women’s Day 2008 City University
7 March 2008, 12 – 14.30
Free Complementary Health Taster Sessions:
Back by popular demand, 20 minutes complementary therapy sessions will be offered to staff. Come and try Indian Head Massage, Hot Stone Massage, Acupuncture, Reflexology, and Reiki.
To book a free 20 minute slot for one of these therapies please see contact details below. [...]
28 February 2008
International Women’s Day 2008 in Bradley Stoke, Bristol
International Women’s Day is an occasion marked by women’s groups around the world. It’s a day when women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate their Day.
Friday 7 March 2008 – 7pm to 9pm
SPRING FASHION SHOW at the Bradley Stoke Community [...]
25 February 2008
The Gathering – Bodies and Memory Festival 7-9 March 2008
Celebrating International Women’s Week
Autobiography and personal memory runs strong through women’s storytelling. This weekend of strange revelations, physical protestations, secrets revealedand declarations bellowed, brings together an unprecedented line-up of distinctive female voices in music, live art, visual art, spoken word, film, fashion and literature for cross cultural explorations and mind body expansions.
Bernie Grant Arts Centre, [...]
