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Events: 16 – 22 September

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woman-centric events, UKHere are some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK this week.

Brighton:

21 September: Roller Derby: Brighton Rockers vs. Leeds Roller Dolls at Dolphin Leisure Centre, Pasture Hill Road, Brighton, from 2.30pm

The Brighton Rockers’ home bout sees them taking on the Leeds Roller Dolls.

Tickets £10

Bristol:

16 September: The City Council Licensing  Committee will hear the application by Central Chambers lapdancing club to renew their sexual entertainment venue (SEV) licence at City Hall from 11am.

Members of the public can attend the hearing and Bristol Fawcett Society is warmly encouraging anyone who can go to do so.

For those who can’t attend but want to add their support to the online petition for a nil cap for SEVs in Bristol can do so here.

Edinburgh:

20 September: Alan Bissett’s Ban This Filth! at Netherbow Theatre – Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, EH1 1SR, at 7.30pm

Back at the Storytelling Centre after a hugely successful Fringe run for a one-off event raising funds for Edinburgh Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre.

In this show Alan Bissett explores the work of radical feminist Andrea Dworkin, looking at pornography and misogyny. Cautiously walking the minefield of exploring feminism from a male point of view, Ban This Filth! pits Dworkin’s words against Bissett’s life, challenging some of the assumptions we make about gender.

Look out for awkward  questions, laughter, Led Zepplin and the live, on-stage reconditioning of a man who’s had it all too easy.

Tickets £12/£10

21 September: Hollaback! Edinburgh Feminist Day School at McDonald Road Library, 2 McDonald Road, EH7 4LU, from 1-4pm

Go and talk about rape culture, street harassment and intersectionality with some tea and cake thrown in for good measure.

Email to book a place.

23 September: Save Edinburgh Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre Pub Quiz Fundraiser at The Southsider, 3-7 West Richmond Street, EH8 9EF, from 8pm

Want a night to be competitive, test your brain and win some prizes? Well Save EWRASAC are holding a pub quiz and raffle, so grab some friends and get yourself along.

£2 per person

Glasgow:

19 September: Summer Sea, Winter Sea – a talk at Glasgow Women’s Library, Landressy Street, G40 1BP,  at 6.30pm

Joan Eardley’s biographer, Christopher Andreae, talks about Joan Eardley (1921-63) – one of the most influential Scottish painters of her generation, whose paintings and drawings reflect urban and rural Scotland in an expressive visual language unlike any other artist’s.

Free 

Every Thursday until 17 October: Read, Relax, Recharge at Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landressy Street, G40 1BP, from 12noon-2pm

Are you a book lover? Or maybe you want to get back into reading again after a long break and don’t know where to start? This friendly read-aloud group, led by Magi Gibson and librarian Wendy Kirk, offers the perfect chance to relax and recharge for a couple of hours.

Bring along your lunch, and explore stories and poems by a range of amazing women writers from around the world, all washed down with lots of tea and friendly chat.

A small donation of £2 (or whatever you can afford) is requested, to cover the costs of running the group, but free places are also available. Click here to register your interest, or contact the library for more information.

22 September: East End Women’s Heritage Walk beginning at Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landressy Street, G40 1BP, at 2pm

Researched by learners and volunteers at Glasgow Women’s Library, this women’s heritage walk uncovers the hidden heroines of Glasgow’s East End. If you are interested in finding out more about the women who worked in the Templeton factory, Suffragettes who were held in Duke Street Prison, or the woman who set up the Barras (and many more) then this is the perfect way to spend your Sunday afternoon.

Horsham:

22 September: Friendly Stoolball matches, part of the National Ladies Stoolball 2013 season, at Horsham Cricket Club, Horsham, West Sussex RH12 1TE

England Under-21 Girls v Stoolball England President’s Under-21 Girls XI from 11am
and
England Senior Ladies v Stoolball England President’s Senior Ladies XI from 2pm

Free.

London:

19 September: Go Home Campaign Public Meeting at Southall Day Centre, Shackleton Road, Southall, UB1 2QH, from 6-9pm

Following on from the outrage about the Go Home vans and the immigration spot checks at transport hubs around London, a public meeting has been organised in Southall by the Refugee and Migrant Forum of East London (RAMFEL), Migrant Rights Network (MRN), Action Against Racism and Xenophobia (AARX) and Southall Black Sisters to support refugee and migrant activists and interested individuals.

The meeting will provide and update on what has happened; explain the rights of those targeted for immigration checks and stop and search; explain what groups and individuals can do to campaign at a local and national level and explain how to respond to the various national consultations.

The meeting will also look at the issue of the Go Home campaign posters at the reporting centre in Hounslow.

19 September: A charity event featuring the UK premiere film screening of ‘Dark Girls’ at the Museum of London, London Wall, EC2Y 5HN, from 6:30pm – 11pm

Dark Girls is an emotionally hard-hitting film which explores the impact of deep-seated biases and attitudes towards dark-skinned women, outside of and within the African-American culture.

View this remarkable film, have a Q&A with one of its producers/directors D. Channsin Berry, and discuss the important issue of colourism, its impacts upon the Black and Minority Ethnic communities, and ways to remedy some of the negative effects.

The profits from ticket sales will be donated to Make Every Woman Count.

22 September: Anti-porn protest: Pornography is Toxic outside the Raddison Blu Edwardian Bloomsbury Hotel, Bloomsbury Street, WC1B, from 4pm

Join London Feminist Network for a women-only protest against the porn industry outside the Radisson Bloomsbury Hotel.

XBIZ EU, a four-day pornography industry conference, will take place at the Radisson Bloomsbury Hotel from September 22-25. Here representatives will network and discuss ways of spreading their toxic pornographic content onto more accessible devices.

London Feminist Network will protest against the damage pornography does to women and question how a major hotel can play host to this poisonous industry that uses women’s bodies to make vast amount of money.

Until 28 September: The Othello Syndrome at the Drayton Theatre, Drayton Arms, Old Brompton Road, SW5 0LJ, at 8pm

A play focussing on the gender politics of Shakespeare’s original. The tale of a man who kills what he thinks he loves; the fate of a woman who loves stories so much she becomes one. The nature of a world where irrational jealousy is considered a valid excuse for murder.

“Essentially the production provides a contemporary feminist lens with which to look at a frequently performed play.

“It highlights contemporary issues of gender-violence, so-called ‘honour’ killings, and female genital mutilation to shine new light on a classic play.”

£1 from every ticket sold will be donated to Eaves.

Until 28 September: Collagism FREE PUSSY RIOT! at The Vestibule, 81 Redchurch Street, London, E2 7DJ

Collagism and friends present an exhibition of collaged screen prints in support of Freedom for Pussy Riot.

It’s a year since the shockingly unjust trial and imprisonment of Russian Feminist punk rock protest group Pussy Riot. A series of works have been created for exhibition in protest of this atrocity and support for the group. Proceeds from the sales will be donated to the band in aid of their continued appeal for justice. The campaign aims to raise awareness and support for the freedom of speech, equality for women and basic human rights for all.

Until 11 October: Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale at Shakespeare’s Globe, 21 New Globe Walk, SE1 9DY, from 2pm and 7.30pm

It is 1896 at Girton College, Cambridge, and Elizabeth Welsh is preparing for battle. Girton is the first college in Britain to admit women. The girls risk their reputations for their education. They study ferociously and match their male peers grade for grade. Yet, when the men graduate, the girls leave empty handed, with nothing but the stigma of being a ‘blue stocking’ – and unnatural, educated woman – to their names. They are unqualified and unmarriageable.

Principal Elizabeth Welsh is determined to win the girls the right to graduate, whatever the cost. Can they persuade the University? Not if the average fellow or undergraduate can prevent it.

Meanwhile, Cambridge offers far more than merely educational opportunities to the Girton Girls. The battle for the vote, it seems, is the least of Elizabeth’s worries. Blue Stockings follows Welsh and the Girton Girls over this tumultuous year in their fight to change the history of education.

For tickets, click here.

Nottingham:

21 September: Nottingham Women’s Conference at ICCA, Nottingham, from 9.15am

Nottingham Women’s Conference 2013 aims to bring together women in Nottingham and the surrounding areas to look at ways forward on some of the key issues facing women today including the objectification of women, violence against women and girls, and women, power, and poverty.

The conference is being organised by a collective of women under the banner of the Nottingham Feminist Action Network, with support from Nottingham Women’s Centre, and will provide an opportunity for networking, promoting new ways of thinking about women’s rights, and most importantly to reach women who ordinarily would not consider themselves as a feminist.

For details of the keynote speakers, workshops, tickets and other information, click here.

Tickets £10/limited free spaces

Oxford:

25 September: Oxford Feminism Panel Discussion at Blackwell’s Bookshop, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford, from 7pm

What is the role of feminism in today’s society? Panel discussion.

Almost 100 years since women in the United Kingdom were given the vote and over 40 years since The Female Eunuch, the gender gap is still a long way off closing. There is still inequality in pay, women are still underrepresented in the boardroom and casual sexism is still rife, leading to such campaigns #everydaysexism and ‘Why We Need Feminism’.

Despite all this, recent polls have shown that young women are increasingly reluctant to identify as feminists. Why is this and what relevance does feminism have today?

Answering these questions and more will be four feminist scholars and activists.

Tickets £3

Paisley:

20 September: Illuminated Letters Workshop at Ferguslie Library, The Tannahill Centre, Blackstoun Road, PA3 1NT, from 10am-4pm

Part of the Renfrewshire Mental Health Arts and Film Festival. The Glasgow Women’s Library will be holding workshops for women to create illuminated letters to inspiring women in Renfrewshire and around the world.

Glasgow Women’s Library and the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow are inviting women and girls locally, nationally and internationally to create their own illuminated letters to lost heroines: women who are no longer alive but whose histories and achievement are secreted safely in the shelves and boxes of the Women’s Library.

All the letters received will be exhibited on International Women’s Day in March 2014.

The letter can be as long or as short as you like. The Women’s Library has compiled a list of 100 inspirational women but they are also encouraging letters to local women or other women not on the list.

Email to book a place.

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