UPCOMING VOTE100 EVENTS
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April 2018
Generating Routes for Women’s Leadership (GROWL): A Toolkit To Address Your Gender Pay Gap
Addressing the U.K.'s gender pay gap is complex but vital. Join the Sylvia Pankhurst Gender and Diversity Research Centre for the launch of the 'Generating Routes for Women's Leadership' (GROWL) toolkit that will enable you to engage with research evidence and best practice, in a lively network, to address your gender pay gap. GROWL offers six free 'Evidence-Led Enquiry Tools' to help you reflect on your context and address barriers specific to your organisation. We've also built an emerging 'Ideas…
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 »September 2018
How to use your voice to have presence and impact with Patsy Rodenburg OBE – Workshop
Women in the Law have organised a workshop with Patsy Rodenburg, OBE. Who should attend? Anyone who uses their voice and wants to know how to use their voice to have impact. Practical tips Fun Men and women welcome Non Lawyers welcome This workshop is numberdependent min of 24 people required.
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Suffrage in the City – Live Theatre
Suffrage in the City is an event being hosted by the Co-operative Heritage Trust in partnership with the Co-operative College, Manchester for Heritage Open Weekends 2018. We are celebrating the hundredth year of Women being made eligible to vote under the Representation of the People Act of 1918. The Co-operative movement has always supported the development of rights and opportunities in the UK and around the world. To celebrate the centenary, and to raise awareness of our presence in the…
Find out more »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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Words to Our Daughters – Workshop
Women, girls and those who identify as female are invited to The Pankhurst Centre on Sunday 30 September for a cuppa, conversation and creative activities to celebrate and explore our experiences of living as women, to contribute to a new piece of theatre. Words To Our Daughters is an inclusive, intergenerational project inviting women, girls and those who identify as female to celebrate and explore our female identities together to contribute to a new piece of theatre. Artists from The Wednesday Collective and…
Find out more »October 2018
SheSays Manchester – Putting Women in the Lead
As part of the Spirited Exhibition at the Portico Library, Vimla Appadoo introduces SheSays Manchester, an open sapce for discussion where women take the lead. It also matches mentors and mentees, creating opportunities for women to inspire other women.
Find out more »November 2018
What can we learn from IC Change?
IC Change is a volunteer-led campaign that called on the UK Government to ratify the Istanbul Convention (IC) which sets minimum standards for tacklin violence against women. They celebrated victory in December 2016 when 135 MPs voted in favour of ratification (although two voted against). We'll hear from its leaders and get an update on where the campaign is now.
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In Conversation; Vote vs Voice
Whilst Members of parliament have fought for change within political systems, activists throughout history have fought outside of democratic processes and some times outside of the law. On this special Radical Late opening at PHM, Baroness Janet Royall will be in conversation with Shami Chakrabati MP, Niku Archer from activist group Sisters Uncut, and suffragette historian June Purvis to debate the most effective methods of campaigning. This event with be BSL interpreted. Part of our year long programme exploring the…
Find out more »February 2019
Have Your Say: How far have we really come in 100 years?
There have always been ideas worth discussing. Have your say or sit back and listen as current issues are explored, linking to the museum’s collection. Suitable for 11+ As the Represent! Voices 100 Years On exhibition comes to a close, People's History Museum invites you to a special Have Your Say. After a year long celebration of representation and gender equality, has anything changed? What has the Represent! exhibition meant to you? This is your opportunity to speak up, or…
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