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 [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘2008 03 09’
12 March 2008
National tour of Palestinian Women 2008
6 March 2008
Tongues on Fire: 10th Annual Asian Women’s Film Festival – experiences beyond bollywood
Saturday, 08 March 2008
18:00 Opening Gala Premiere : Hope and A Little Sugar
Followed by Q&A with Special Guests Director Tanuja Chandra and Actress Mahima Chaudhry
Sunday, 09 March 2008
19:00 Opening Gala Special Screening : The World Unseen
Followed by Q&A with Director Shamim Sharif and Producer Hanan Kattan
Monday, 10 March 2008
08:00 REEL WOMEN: Reflections from 10 [...]
5 March 2008
Cornton Vale IWD Demonstration
9th March at 11:30
SSP activists will return to HMP Cornton Vale on Sunday 9 March for the annual International Women’s Day protest outside the prison.
The number of women in prison in Scotland has increased by 90 per cent in the last decade – the vast majority of them women serving short sentences for crimes of [...]
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
Mad Chicks: Losing It
Sunday March 9th 2008, 7pm to midnight, £5 / concs £2
Corsica Studios, Unit 5, Elephant Road, London SE17 1LB
Elephant & Castle Tube, Rail & Buses
Mad Chicks – the women’s movement within Mad Pride – present a wild night of live music, film & performance, celebrating cultural and psychological diversity for International Women’s Week in Southwark.
Performing [...]
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 [...]
28 February 2008
Brighton & Hove International Women’s Day Events
A week of events for celebrating IWD in Brighton & Hove
6th – 12th March 2008
International Women’s Day (IWD) group is a non-profit organisation working to celebrate and support the diversity and achievements of women. This is done through the arts, workshops, talks, networking, debate, participating projects and organisations. IWD has been celebrated on
8th March since [...]
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, [...]
21 February 2008
9th March Feminist Gathering in London
Building on the energy of International Women’s Day 2008, we are bringing together feminists from many backgrounds and political positions for one exciting and thought-provoking day of workshops, discussions and network building.
FEMINIST GATHERING: Sunday 9th March
12:00-1:00pm
1) Fem/mes talk: consciousness-raising and coffee session
2) Open discussion on feminist childrearing
3) Feminist and queer movements in Belarus
1:15-2:15pm
1) Sex [...]
