UPCOMING VOTE100 EVENTS
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March 2018
The Drama of the Suffrage Movement at People’s History Museum
The Drama of the Suffrage Movement at People’s History Museum, City Centre, 10 March 2018, from £5.00 - 10.00 - Find Out More The suffrage movement of the early twentieth century was always theatrical. Women took over public spaces to deliver speeches, take part in processions and pageants, wave banners and perform from the new suffrage plays. Public performances were essential to the campaign, and after years of protest and parliamentary lobbying, women over the age of 30 eventually won…
Find out more »Ruth Barker & Hannah Leighton-Boyce – exhibition tour and discussion at Castlefield Gallery
Ruth Barker & Hannah Leighton-Boyce – exhibition tour and discussion (over tea & cake) at Castlefield Gallery, Castlefield, 10 March 2018, from £00.00 - Find Out More Take part in a guided tour of the Ruth Barker & Hannah Leighton-Boyce exhibition at Castlefield Gallery, followed by a discussion of the exhibition’s themes over tea and cake with artist Hannah Leighton-Boyce, Dr Adele Patrick from Glasgow Women’s Library, Castlefield Gallery Director Helen Wewiora and Curator Matthew Pendergast and University of Salford Art…
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Cycle our City with Confidence – Bike Ride
This is a led ride, by women, Eve and Glynis Francis, for women wanting to feel more confidence when cycling in our city. Meet outside Coffee Cranks Cafe in Alex Park, cafe is open if you want a coffee and courage boost before hand and toilets are available. We will use cycle friendly routes in and out of town. We will be stopping to share suffragette stories at some of the landmarks in the city, the main one being the…
Find out more »Cycle our City with Confidence – Bike Ride
Led ride, by women, Ursula Harries and Glynis Francis, for women wanting to feel more confidence when cycling in our city. Meet outside Coffee Cranks Cafe in Alex Park, cafe is open if you want a coffee before hand and toilets are available. We will use cycle friendly routes in and out of town. We will be stopping to share suffragette stories at some of the landmarks in the city, the main one being the Pankhurst Centre. Here you can…
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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 »Cycle our City with Confidence – Bike Ride
Led ride, by women Ursual Harries and Glynis Francis, for women wanting to feel more confidence when cycling in our city. Meet outside Coffee Cranks Cafe in Alex Park, cafe is open if you want a coffee before hand and toilets are available. We will use cycle friendly routes in and out of town. We will be stopping to share suffragette stories at some of the landmarks in the city, the main one being the Pankhurst Centre. Here you can…
Find out more »April 2018
Heritage Schools – Suffrage in Manchester
In celebration of the centenary of the Representation of the People Act, an exhibition has been created by Heritage schools to showcase the work of local primary and secondary school students as they explored key people and historic sites linked to the Suffrage movement in Manchester.
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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…
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Pankhurst in the Park – Artist in Residence
2018 marks the centenary of women’s right to the vote. Alexandra Arts’ Pankhurst in the Park, is proud to honour this historically significant moment by announcing that the position of Artist in Residence for Pankhurst in the Park, 2018, has been awarded to local artist Ekua Bayunu, who will be taking up residence at Alexandra Park between the 14th April and the 9th June. April 14th, 2018, will mark the launch of the 8-week interdisciplinary, community-oriented project “Women Hold up…
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