Deal International Women's Day meeting 8th March

Deal Town Council is holding a free event for International Women’s Day 2016. It will take place on Tuesday 8th March at 2pm in the Town Hall.

There will be a talk by Local Historian Gregory Holyoake, music by pianist Neil Wright and an exhibition by Pat Smith, a member of the Deal Branch of the Kent Family History Society.

I would very much appreciate it if recipients could pass on this email to other local organisations they know who may be interested in this event.

As space is limited, please collect a free ticket from Deal Town Hall reception before the event to guarantee entry.

Please contact the Events Manager, Joanne Harper, by phone on 01304 361999 or by email at joanne.harper@deal.gov.uk if you have any queries.

International Womens Day 8th March Astor

The Astor Theatre Proudly presents, for International Women’s Week, The Sistren on Saturday 8th March at 8.00pm, Tickets, £12.

Three extraordinary women are drawn together to help a woman in this compelling, funny and moving new play.

The Sistren features the three in a fight for women’s rights.

Three extraordinary women depicted in one powerful new play, touring this year, in celebration of Women’s History Month!

This March, Gazebo Theatre, whose previous shows include the ‘outstanding’ “Jamaica 50” and “Sorry! No Coloureds, No Irish, No Dogs”, are presenting “The Sistren” which features the incredible characters of Claudia Jones, Mary Wollstonecraft and Emma Lloyd Sproson.

Written by Therese Collins and featuring Pamela Cole-Hudson(Gazebo, Catcher Media) as Mary and Tonia Daley-Campbell(Jamaica 50, Black Hill, Araba’s Song- A  Slave’s Story) as Claudia, and Therese (Women & Theatre, Foursight ,Talking Brids) as Emma, this play is set to be compelling, powerful and very funny.

The three stalwarts are drawn together, in their afterlife, to help another woman in her hour of need, in the modern age.  Drama, comedy, confrontation, grief, honesty and comradery follow in another exciting offering from Gazebo, which will appeal to both women and men!

 

Claudia Jones was a political activist and feminist, deported from the US as a communist ‘political radical’, and gaining asylum in Britain, where she worked tirelessly as a community leader and founded and edited the West Indian Gazette, the first Black British weekly newspaper. One of Claudia’s most famous legacies is the Nottinghill Carnival, the predecessor of which she helped to found, in the wake of the murder of Caribbean carpenter Kelso Cochrane and the Nottinghill riots.  This was to be an annual event to present Caribbean culture to the British people and help promote cultural diversity. 

Mary Wollstonecraft is widely regarded as the founder of modern feminism, through her most famous book “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792)  Mary caused a sensation with her revolutionary and controversial ideas, declaring that both women and men were human beings with the same rights. She particularly championed the education of women. Mary defied expectations of what a woman should do, at that time, leaving home to work, rather than getting married; enjoying a career as a professional writer; travelling to France during the French revolution, being an unmarried mother and arguing against the status quo.  Mary’s youngest daughter, Mary Shelley, wrote “Frankenstein”.

 

Emma Lloyd Sproson (‘Red Emma’) campaigned for women’s rights, as a key player in the Suffragette and Suffragist Movements, serving time in prison and undertaking a hunger strike, as part of the movement for women to have the right to vote. During the First World War, Emma devoted her time to social welfare work, and in 1921, became Wolverhampton’s first female councillor. When she received the news, she waved a red flag from the balcony of the Town Hall, earning her nickname ‘Red Emma’.

The show is the latest offering from Gazebo Theatre who have been producing inspiring theatre and arts programmes for the last 35 years.

“The Sistren” is touring nationally throughout March 2014 and in June 2014. 

Tickets are available now.  Gazebo are also delivering workshops exploring the issues raised in the play, for secondary schools.

Follow Gazebo on twitter: @gazebotheatre

and facebook : www.facebook.com/gazeboarts

or email admin@gazebotie.org

Deal 1Billion rising - 15th Feb 2014: Noon

 

Deal's 1 Billion rising event will be on Saturday 15th Feb at 12 Noon - Meet at Deal Pier.

1Billion Rising is a world-wide set of events against violence to women 

For more info see http://www.onebillionrising.org.uk/

ONE IN THREE WOMEN ON THE PLANET WILL BE RAPED OR BEATEN IN HER LIFETIME.

THAT IS ONE BILLION WOMEN.

IN 2013, ONE BILLION WOMEN AND MEN SHOOK THE EARTH THROUGH DANCE TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.

THIS YEAR, ON 14 FEBRUARY 2014 WE ARE CALLING ON WOMEN AND MEN EVERYWHERE TO HARNESS THEIR POWER AND IMAGINATION TO RISE FOR JUSTICE.

IMAGINE, ONE BILLION WOMEN RELEASING THEIR STORIES, DANCING AND SPEAKING OUT AT THE PLACES WHERE THEY NEED JUSTICE, WHERE THEY NEED AN END TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS.

JOIN US!

RISE. RELEASE. DANCE!

Happy IWD !

Happy International Women's Day to you all - remember that the Deal IWD Event gets going at the Astor today at 2pm....

If you cannot see the Leeds Union Vid from last year  video click here



and this year's Oxfam one:

International Women's Day @the Astor March 8th

Celebrate IWD in Deal in 2013

There is a full celebration of International Women's Day at the Astor Community Theatre on Friday 8th March from 2:30pm to 5pm

Music, Stalls, food - all welcome!

Deal International Women's Day - 8th March

Join us to celebrate the

100th  Anniversary of 

 International Women's Day in Deal 

Meet at Deal Town Hall on Tuesday 8 March 2011 at 10.00 a.m

A great chance to wear those Suffragette colours of Green & Purple...

Followed by a Fair Trade coffee & biscuits..

International Women's Day at the Pines Calyx - March 8th

This event has been cancelled ... sorry


Come to the Pines Calyx and Gardens on March 8, and be part of history.

Celebrate women and their achievements - March 8 is the centenary of International Women's Day


Just some of the women who will be there: -

Trudy Thompson, Bricks and Bread - Trudy is an ex racing driver. She has designed and built her own Eco-houses, and then created a Sustainable Living Centre in Aldershot, which is a one stop shop for people from all backgrounds to come and find out about Sustainable products and services. She has 18 franchises across the country, and growing. www.bricksandbread.com

Chiara Vagnarelli - Regional Director of "Fresh Ideas" www.freshideas.org.uk. Fresh Ideas helps organisations, communities and individual set up and run their own food initiatives.

Bernie Morgan, CEO of the Community Finance Development Association www.cdfa.org.uk. I just love this one-liner on Bernie Morgan's website: "She inspires, informs and entertains her audiences by drawing on her own experiences of transforming herself from a housewife to the CEO of a sector worth £¾bn. In under eight yearswebsite" www.bernie-morgan.co.uk

Stephanie Hayman - a serial entrepreneur, who set up "Wholeschool Meals" and now supplies 21 schools, with an ambition to see this model replicated across the UK and to see all schools in control of what they feed our children as well being shareholders in the company.

Yvonne Fuchs - Co-founder of Brilliant Women www.brilliantwomen.org Yvonne is a Branding and Marketing Professional www.thebrandingworkshop.co.uk and also runs a Business Support group in both Whitstable and Islington.

The event has a cost of £49 ... more details from  stephanie@pinescalyx.co.uk

Happy International Women's Day! - 8th March 2010

Great video from ActionAid! http://www.actionaid.org.uk -
'The Girl Effect'