Thursday 8th March 2018
The top 5 Manchester events for International Women's Day
International Women's Day is a perfect day to get together with others to celebrate the achievements and overcoming of Women, and what a great year to celebrate as its been 100 years since Women got the vote. See the page below to check out my top 5 picks of events on Thursday 8th March in Manchester.
1. If this is the last thing I say?
Preview & Premiere at Castlefield Gallery, Hewitt Street 2, M154 Manchester.
Ruth Baker provides a unique performance in response to voicelessness, traumatic childbirth, and the rapidly changing, brutal political of the present.
The Event is free and you can find out more here
2. The Ongoing Nakba
People's History Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields, Manchester M3 3ER
Listen to the stories of Palestinian refugee women who experienced the 1948 exodus, and visit an installation that considers the ongoing plight of female refugees from Palestine and around the world.
The Event is free and you can find more information here.
3. Suffragette: Charity Film Screening
Whitworth Art Gallery
Don't miss the very special charity screening of 'Suffragette (2015)', held less than a mile away from where the Suffragette movement began, and a century after women first won the partial right to vote.
The film itself features a strong cast of Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter.
The Event is being run by The Pankhurst Trust (incorporating Manchester Women's Aid), alongside the Village Screen. There will also be a wine tasting prior to the film commencing.
Tickets for this event are £21.55 and can be booked here.
4. Film Focus: Hooligan Sparrow
Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Market buildings, Thomas Street, Manchester, M4 1EU
CFCCA presents a special one-off screening of Hooligan Sparrow (2016) – a powerful documentary about China’s most prominent women’s rights activist, exposing the levels of fear and oppression inside one of the world’s most powerful nations.
Tickets are £4 and can be purchased here.
5. SHE PWR
Gorilla, 54-56 WHITWORTH STREET
MANCHESTER
M1 5WW
Aimed at supporting and inspiring female collaboration, this showcase at Gorilla celebrates the talented women of Manchester in all their ways, shapes and forms.
There’ll be live music from female-fronted bands and DJs in the main bar, along with comedy, cabaret and spoken word performances in collaboration with Pen:Chant in the club space next door.
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A female makers market will also have stalls in the bar, selling clothing, jewellery, embroidery, screen prints, ceramics, illustrations and photography.
Free Entry to the bar and studio, but entry to the stage requires tickets that are £8-12 with profits will go to Women Asylum Seekers Together, tickets can be found here.
