International Women’s Day Celebrations
Brighton Dome and Museum, Church Street, Brighton
10am to 5pm, Saturday 7th March, 2020
Brighton Dome, Brighton Women’s Centre and Brighton Museums join forces to present their annual celebration of International Women’s Day.
This year’s theme is Women and the Climate Emergency. Join Green MP Caroline Lucas and a panel of experts and activists as they discuss how gender inequality leaves women more vulnerable to climate change and how women are leading the way to tackle the crisis.
There will be talks on sustainable fashion and eco-anxiety, fun climate-themed experiments – including the Ice Cream Melting Challenge – with Brighton Science Festival, a Green Magic Show to save the planet with Megan Swann, plus environment-themed crafts, children’s activities and stalls.
If you like to try new things there will be pay-as-you-feel workshops throughout the day. You can sing your heart out with Aneesa, dance the Charleston with Brighton Lindyhoppers, do a stage fighting workshop with Alison de Burgh, have a go at comedy writing, discover the Power of Trees, folk-dance with Morris women, relax with yoga, or learn about Brighton’s hidden suffragette.
In Brighton Museum discover and celebrate 100 pioneering women of the 21st century in a major exhibition by acclaimed photographer Anita Corbin. Her striking images capture an impressive record of female achievement, from beatboxing to bomb detection, computing to cricket, blast furnaces to boardrooms. These iconic portraits include seventies rocker Suzi Quatro, Olympian Boxer Nicola Adams OBE, Lady Brenda Hale of the Supreme Court and football manager Hope Powell.
Economist Vicky Pryce, author of Women vs Capitalism, joins experts from the Women’s Budget Group, the Fawcett Society and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to discuss Women and Poverty.
In Kate Darach’s award-winning show, Moon Tales, twelve female characters are revealed through beautifully written monologues, each spanning different times and places and inspired by the names of full moons.
Around The Dome you can book a chair massage, browse our market place of stalls, take a women’s history tour and visit the pop-up Brighton Feminist Bookshop supported by Myriad Editions. There will also be a pay-as-you-feel buffet from The Real Junk Food Project and the Network of International Women.
BWC’s Toy Box will provide all-day drop-in arts and craft activities for children and their carers. Come and help them recreate Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave’ from recycled materials. Messy fun with a conscious mind!
International Women’s Day Brighton will take part in Brighton Dome and Museum, Church Street, Brighton from 10am to 5pm on Saturday 7th March. All welcome. Free entry.
For full programme details visit http://brightoninternationalwomensday.org