UPCOMING VOTE100 EVENTS
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January 2018
Pankhurst Centenary Launch Party
Kicking off 2018 in style with a house party to launch the centenary year with special guest actress Julie Hesmondhalgh, in collaboration with Girl Gang Manchester. The event will include the unveiling of a brand new sculpture of Emmeline Pankhurst, the launch of a limited edition empowering t-shirt by Everything's Sweet Threads, live music, fizz, nibbles and a special suffragette cocktail!
Find out more »February 2018
Helen Pankhurst’s Open House Party and Book Launch
Celebrate the launch of Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women's Rights - Then and Now. The book charts how women's lives have changed over the last century and offers a powerful argument for the way forward.
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Feminist Takeover and Wonder Women 2018 Festival Launch at Manchester Art Gallery
Feminist takeover and festival launch at Manchester Art Gallery, Chinatown, 1 March 2018, free entry - Visit now Celebrate the launch of Wonder Women 2018 with a feminist takeover at Manchester Art Gallery, featuring artist interventions, performances and activities designed to destabilise the status quo. Led by Instigate Arts, the event is inspired by the work of the radical, Manchester-born artist and feminist campaigner Annie Swynnerton (1844–1933), whose first retrospective in over a century is on display nearby. Swynnerton had a…
Find out more »March 2018
Lost Voices Exhibition Quarry Bank Mill – Launch
Lost Voices Launch Event at Quarry Bank, Cheshire, 3 March 2018, from £0.00 (Free event - admission charges apply) - Find Out More 1918 is widely celebrated as an important milestone in the battle for democracy and gender equality in Britain, this being the year that women first gained the right to vote under the Representation of the People Act (thanks largely to the passionate campaigning of the Suffragettes). Yet the new law only extended suffrage to women over the…
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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 »Feminism and Museums Live!
Take part in a discussion with researcher, writer, curator and artist Dr Jenna C Ashton about how museums are responding to the many challenges faced by women and girls around the world today. For full Wonder Women listings, please visit CreativeTourist.Com
Find out more »December 2018
Emmeline Pankhurst statue unveiling!
Programme for the day: The unveiling of Hazel Reeves' 'Rise Up Women' statue of Emmeline Pankhurst will take place in St Peter’s Square, Manchester on Friday 14th December 2018 at 1pm. Marchers will be rallying at two iconic locations 10.30 a.m. Gather at The Pankhurst Centre and The People’s History Museum 11.00 a.m. Marchers set off with others joining singing Suffragette anthem 'March of The Women', and 'Nana was a Suffragette'. 11.45 a.m. Marchers arrive in St Peter’s Square Meanwhile……. 11.15:…
Find out more »March 2019
Launch – Radical Locks banner
Join artist Lynn Setterington and help celebrate International Women's Day with the launch of a community focused banner. Radical Locks is a stitch-based initiative celebrating the women of Tameside. This diaphanous hand-sewn textile is a visual and tactile marker of identity, one that is both inclusive and unexpected. By entrapping wisps of hair within the cloth, the project pays homage to diversity of women in the borough today who are literally and metaphorically intertwined within the tactile outcome. The exquisite…
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