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INTERNATIONAL
WOMENS DAY
IN BRISTOL
PROGRAMME 2011Designed and printed by Bristol City Council, Bristol Design BD1067
Introduction
To mark the 100th year anniversary of International Women’s Day, Bristol City Council, in support of all the great
work taking place across Bristol, has pulled together this programme of events.
The diversity of celebrations being held by community groups and organisations in 2011 offers women in Bristol a
range of exciting events and activities to participate in.
Around the world, International Women’s Day marks the celebration of economic, social, cultural and political
achievements for women. It is commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a
national holiday, as it commemorates a struggle for equality by women textile workers in New York and by women’s
movements in other countries in the early 1900s. It is the story of ordinary women as makers of history, or shall we
say HER story. Women in every country, often from diverse ethnic, cultural, economic and political backgrounds,
come together to celebrate this important date that represents equality, justice, peace and development.
We are proud to present a programme of events that reflects Bristol’s participation in and contribution to
International Women’s Day 2011 and hope that many people will participate and benefit.
Leader of the Council, Councillor Barbara Janke
If you have any questions regarding this brochure, please contact Shagufta Kasour, either via email:
shagufta.kasour@bristol.gov.uk or tel: 0117 922 2217, mobile: 0782 531 5661 or textphone: 0117 357 4444
1Foreword
2011 is a very special year as it is the centenary of the women’s liberation movement. We look back in admiration at
the very brave women who, in 1911, took to the streets to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with their situation of
having so few legal rights.
A great deal has been achieved in the last 100 years but women still have battles to win. And while we must
celebrate the success of women, Bristol Women’s Forum recognises that we must constantly look at ways improve
the position of women in society.
The Bristol Women’s Forum hopes you can attend and will enjoy the events arranged to celebrate International
Women’s Day.
Co-Chairs
Margaret Gray and Sian Rhiannon
Bristol Women’s Forum
If you would like this for information in another language, Braille, audio tape, large print, easy English,
BSL video or computer disk please contact: equalities.team@bristol.gov.uk, 0117 922 2329
2Event listings:
Power through Education: African Initiatives Annual Fundraising
International Women’s Rights Dinner & International Women’s
Conference Day Celebration
26 February 2011 | 9:45 – 15:15 | 8 March 2011 | 19:00 – 22:30 | African
Broadmead Baptist Church | 13 Colston St, Initiatives | El Puerto Spanish restaurant |
Bristol BS1 5AR | Free and lunch provided 57 Prince Street, Bristol | £25 including tapas
and entertainment
A free conference exploring women’s rights at
home and abroad focusing on topics such as An evening fundraising dinner with food and
refugees, health, domestic violence, girls entertainment to raise money for African
education and fair trade. Contributors include Initiatives work with women overseas in
African Initiatives, the British Red Cross, Ghana and Tanzania.
Refugee Action and the Fairtrade Network.
To register for this event please contact
This is an exciting opportunity to learn Amanda
about the work organisations and individuals e: amanda@african-initiatives.org.uk
are doing across the world to get their t: 0117 915 0001
voices heard.
To register for this event please contact
Christine Whinney
e: info@african-initiatives.org.uk
t: 0117 915 0001Wonderful Women: Guided tour of Where are the women? Panel discussion
Arnos Vale Cemetery 6 March 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Bristol
12 March 2011 | 10:30 – 12:00 | Arnos Vale Feminist Network and Bristol Fawcett |
Cemetery Trust | Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bath The Watershed | TBC
Road, Bristol BS4 3EW | £5/£3 concessions Over the past four years, the Bristol Fawcett
(Guardian angel members, OAPs, children) Society and the Bristol Feminist Network have
Celebrate some of Bristol's many wonderful researched the representation of women in
women and the contributions they made to the media. One of our most startling findings
the city from Victorian times through to the has been the absence of women in our
mid 20th Century – Including Dr. Annie culture and media. From the majority of films
Cornall (pictured). being directed by men, to a lack of women's
voices on children's TV, and no women
This special guided tour marks the 100th appearing on the Bristol comedy circuit, we
anniversary of International Women's Day have always returned to the question –
(8th March). 'Where are the women?'.
For more information please contact We are delighted to invite writer, critic,
Felicia Smith commentator and journalist Bidisha to discuss
e: felicia.smith@arnosvale.org.uk the absence of women in popular culture, and
t: 0117 971 9117 to ask the question - what can we do to
change this. The talk will be followed by a
Q&A session with the audience.
For more information please contact
e: bristolfeminist@gmail.com
4International Women’s Day, progress women in Cuba have made since
the workers and farmers of the country took
a celebration hosted by the Bristol Link power in 1959 and through subsequent
with Nicaragua (BLINC) advances in that country's socialist revolution.
8 March 2011 | 18:00 – 21:00 | Bristol Link Through interviews with women and men,
With Nicaragua (BLINC), supported by the and with girls and boys on the streets, in the
Bristol Cuba Solidarity Group | La Ruca, 89 workplace, and in the schoolyards, the
Gloucester Road, Bristol BS7 8AS | attitudes towards women's equality on the
£10 per person job, sexual mores, divorce, child rearing,
The Bristol Link with Nicaragua (BLINC) is and other questions in Cuba today are
hosting an International Women’s Day event frankly discussed.
with Latin flair. Join us between 6 and 7pm at For more information please contact
La Ruca for a typical Nicaraguan meal and Jessica Randall
music by various Latina artists. Following the e: Jessica.Randall@uwe.ac.uk
meal, BLINC will host two guest speakers.
One of our featured presenters, Jitzy Centeno,
a Nicaraguan Fair Trade coffee producer, will
speak about the lives of women in Nicaragua,
her involvement with the Tierra Nuestra
cooperative, and her mother’s role in serving
as a community leader. We will also be
screening the short documentary, Con la
memoria en el futuro (“With Our Memory
on the Future”). This film examines the
5‘Breathing Fire’ Bristol Women's NO previous drama experience is needed
Playback Theatre Company – Limited places - Book early to avoid
DRAMA WORKSHOPS disappointment.
12 March 2011 | 13:00 – 16:00 | To receive the reduced price - early booking
‘Breathing Fire’ Bristol Women’s Playback will need to be made by Feb 28th.
Theatre Company | St Werburgh’s Primary
School - Willow Studios and School Hall | For more information please contact
£10 / £8 concessions and early booking / Breating Fire ‘Women’s Playback Theatre
Company
£2 for children
e: breathingfire@hotmail.co.uk
• One workshop will be for women only t: 07881 982 032
• One workshop will be for women and
their children - aged 4 and over Women across the decades –
Come and join us for an afternoon of: Bristol Crisis Service for Women
charity collecting day
• FUN and CREATIVITY in a nurturing space
8 March 2011 | 12:00 – 17:00 | Bristol Crisis
• SHARE your stories with other WOMEN Service for Women | Bristol City Centre
or WOMEN and their Children (depending Fountains, opposite the Hippodrome |
on which workshop you attend) No fee. Donations welcome though!
• Try out some DRAMA games To celebrate International Women’s Day and
to celebrate the 25 years Bristol Crisis Service
• LEARN the basics of playback theatre – for Women has been supporting women
and DO IT! nationally, our staff and volunteers will be
6collecting on the streets of Bristol City Centre Celebrating 100 Years
dressed as women from different decades.
International Women’s Day
Bristol Crisis Service for Women provides vital 8 March 2011 | 10:00 – 15:00 | Bushara
support to women and girls who self-injure. Somali Women's Group, St Judes Women's
We provide unique services: a helpline; text Group SPAN, BDA refugee Women's of
and email support; and training to those Bristol , MX Elders, Golden Agers , Chinese
supporting people who self-injure. Women's Group, Somali Women's Group
We recently won the Queen’s Award for Voice, Amana education trust, Malcolm X,
Volunteering, however our support services Humdard, Dhek Bhal, Khaas, Black Carers,
are currently under threat due to a lack Full circle. | No fee. Donations welcome
of funding. though!
Women's groups providing a range of services
Please show your support or visit us online at across Bristol have agreed to come together
www.selfinjurysupport.org.uk. to celebrate international women's day 2011.
For more information please contact The significance of coming together is also
Bristol Crisis Service for Women marked by the fact it is the 100 years
e: bscw@btconnect.com anniversary of international
t: 0117 927 9600 women's day.
We would mark the anniversary by coming
together to acknowledge women's
contribution to making the world a better
place, particularly over the last century.
7We plan a range of activities to celebrate international women's day. A professional
together, including the sharing of diverse crèche will be provided by BUSHARA and
cultures as well as knowledge and information SPAN, with foods and refreshments from
about each other and our respective across the world.
project/organisation's activities. www.selfinjurysupport.org.uk.
The programme involves presentations and For more information please contact
performances: History International Women's Soad Ali
Day, Autism awareness raising, women’s e: bushara1@live.co.uk
spirituality. A fashion show, henna art, cultural t: 07853 208 975
dress awareness session, film show, poetry,
singing and drama. The Dare Devil Divas Gallery of Alter
Transport will be provided for elderly Egos & Super Heroes
disabled, isolated and vulnerable women. 3 – 13 March 2011, Celebration event on
8 March | 8 March, 19:00 – 21:00, Exhibibion
Information stalls will be provided as well as open during Tobacco Factory’s opening
workshops around health, well-being and hours | Drastic Productions | The Green
cultural customs and practices. Women from Room (next to the main café/bar) at the
around the world including refugees and Tobacco Factory, 134 Raleigh Road Bristol
Asylum seekers, lone parents and the elderly BS3 1TF | FREE
will come together to express themselves
share cultures and information, in a fun packed Following the success of ‘Dare Devil Divas’
day of celebration and acknowledgment of Drastic Productions is celebrating Womens
Day in style! The Gallery of Alter Egos &
8Super Heroes depicts the characters created International Art Project – Women of
by the women taking part in all their glittering the Hannah More Primary Community
glory in a lavish and playful photography
exhibition. Meet the likes of Betty Bruiser 8 March 2011 | 9:00 – 15:00 | Hannah More
(Likes being shot out of cannons & has a Primary School | FREE to participants
penchant for needlework) and Titi La Twink We are organising a multicultural, collaborative
(always rides her motorbike in high heels) art event for women of our community,
The work celebrates the women’s celebrating International Women's day and
achievements and depicts the powerful, highlighting the positive impact of women/
unapologetic & fantastical side of the Female mums/grandmothers/sisters on our school
in all of us. community. The event will run on 8th March
2011. During the day we will have an
For more information please contact artist/facilitator who will support us in creating
Liz Clarke, Drastic Productions. a striking series of artworks, which will
e: info@drasticproductions.co.uk form a permanent exhibition in our
w: www.drasticproductions.co.uk community room.
t: 07521 835 429
The collages we create will be constructed
collaboratively and will reflect the diversity of
our community, the journeys and histories of
women within it, and the hopes and ambitions
we have for ourselves and our community.
For more information please contact
Ruth Cochrane
e: ruth.cochran@bristol.gov.uk
t: 0117 3773510 9Commemorating International Women’s Free Film Night – “Shooting the
Day – Women And The Big Society War: Women”
8 – 12 March 2011 | Time TBC | Pax 8 March 2011 | 19:30 | The Pierian Centre,
Productions Ltd In collaboration with SWIG 27 Portland Square, St Pauls, Bristol BS2 8SA
and Somali Women’s Group | Malcolm X | Free (Donations)
Community Centre and Council House Hall To celebrate the global centenary of
TBC | Entry TBC International Women’s Day, award winning
(a) Conference on the theme; Women And director Colin Thomas presents his film about
The Big Society – The arts, education and the experience of women in World War II.
health. The important of equality,
integration and cohesion. First shown on BBC4, Colin’s film uses home
movies shot in Britain and Germany to
(b) A Panel Discussion, Topic; The Role of provide a strikingly different perspective on
women within the big society, a practical women’s roles and experience. From Land
strategy of working. Girls to Spitfire pilots, for many it offered
(c) Creative and Performing arts workshop opportunities they’d never seen in the 1930s.
for Women
(d) Traditional and Variety Performance “Life was better when the war came....
and dance We were looking forward to having
For more information please contact some fun!”
David Dravie-John or Hillary Masilela,
141 City road St Pauls, Bristol BS2 8YH
t: 0117 904 2611/07779 654 257
10We hope to be joined by some of the
women whose experiences are featured in
the film – and the screening will be followed
by feed-back and discussion.
Production company: Available Light.
Entry is free – but must be booked
in advance.
For more information please contact
0117 924 4512 or info@pieriancentre.com
11Women Who Make a Difference
3 March 2011 | 14:00 – 16:00 | Council voluntary sector; women who have been an
House, College Green, Bristol | inspiration to others; women working as
environment champions to improve the
Bristol City Council in partnership with the quality of life for local people; (Community at
Bristol Women's Forum are proud to Heart) voluntary work with the Bristol
celebrate for the 11th year running the Feminist Network; the Knowle West Healthy
Women Who Make a Difference Awards Walking Group; Community Activists; Young
2011 as part of the 100th Anniversary of Carers; Personal Support
International Women's Day.
This list is not exhaustive and many more
Women Who Make a Difference Awards is in women have received nominations
recognition of the invaluable contributions unconnected to organised groups for their on
women are making to improving and going commitment, energy and support.
sustaining our communities.
Margaret Gray, Co-Chair of the Bristol
The award has been popular and nominations Woman’s Forum says:
have increased steadily over previous years,
Bristol Women have excelled over the years! “Many of the people who have submitted
nominations have stated how their ‘women
We have in some years received up to 60 who make a difference’ have supported them
nominations from a good cross section of (and others) and are very positive role models
women living in all areas of the city, in their communities.”
encompassing a wide range of age groups
and cultures. The Bristol Women’s Forum consider this
award very important as it enables local
In previous years women have been women to receive recognition for their
nominated for their dedication to the contribution to their community.Award 2011
The exciting Women Who Make A Difference
Awards hosted by Bristol City Council in
partnership with the Bristol Women's Forum
will be holding an awards ceremony on
Thursday 3rd March 2011, 14:00 – 16:00 at
the Council House, College Green as part of
the 100th International Women's Day
celebrations. All nominees and nominators
will be invited to take part in the celebrations,
and the overall winner will be presented with
an award.
Women Who Make a Difference Awards
2009 received over 40 nominations.
The ceremony has over the years attracted
good press! There was a two page feature in
the Evening Post in 2009, with individual
interviews and positive quotes from all the
women nominated.
We are in 2011 striving to make this year a
memorable event for the women of Bristol!
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