UPCOMING VOTE100 EVENTS
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March 2018
Generations of Activism: Celebrating Girls Work Launch
Join with women of all ages and backgrounds for a day of conversation, creativity and banner making inspired by the objects and themes within the Feminist Webs Archive. The Feminist Webs archive, housed now in the People’s History Museum, Manchester, and partially digitised, is one aspect of the Women’s Movement of the 1970s and 1980s. The archive is a 'women and girls work space' and a resource for practitioners, volunteers and young women involved in youth and community work with young…
Find out more »June 2018
Pankhurst in the Park – Women Hold up Half the Sky
On June ninth, 2018, to celebrate the close of Ekua Bayunu’s 8-week AIR project, “Women Hold up Half the Sky”, you are invited to participate in a day of events presenting and reflecting on the work. Bayunu’s work will expand beyond local concerns to build on the themes of global women’s leadership and consider culture, the arts and creativity as tools for active citizenship of central significance. The 8-week project incorporates elements of sculpture and film, and will include the…
Find out more »July 2018
Suffragette Sleepout in aid of Emmeline’s Pantry
Join Emmeline's Pantry for a night under the stars with a difference! A sponsored sleepout to fundraise for Emmeline's Pantry, a local women's food bank that supports struggling and vulnerable women across Manchester. The evening will include entertainment, live music and food. Register for your sleep out by the 20th June or pop along for the evening activities and buy a ticket at the door. To register contact emmelinespantryparlour@gmail.com or find Emmeline's Pantry on facebook.
Find out more »September 2018
MMU Suffrage Symposium: a convivial discussion in words and music
As part of our 2018 programme to celebrate the centenary of the partial enfranchisement of women, the Sylvia Pankhurst Gender and Diversity Research Centre is happy to host this exciting event. Scholars, activists, students and friends of the Centre will come together to share knowledge on the struggle for women’s suffrage. The day will feature presentations from women working on the suffrage movement with the opportunity for plenty of audience participation and debate. Acclaimed Manchester singer-songwriter, Claire Mooney, will also perform her…
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