Celebrate International Women’s Day 2018 with a whole day of fantastic free events and activities happening in Southend.
8:30 – 10:00am
International Women’s Day – Networking Breakfast and Career Development Tips
The Hive Enterprise Centre (above the Beecroft Art Gallery)
Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea SS2 6EX
Join Emma Nicholls, the Founder of Your Red Dress Ltd on International Women’s Day and learn five transformational tools that can help women to accelerate their careers to the next level and get ‘unstuck’. Emma takes delegates on a journey of discovery and shares easy to implement tools and insights to help women propel their careers.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS FREE EVENT
Also visit the Essex Feminist Collective’s exhibition ‘The Agency of Visible Women’ at Beecroft Art Gallery.
‘The Agency of Visible Women’ is a fictional institution made flesh for the duration of this exhibition. The institution seeks to make women visible and highlight the myriad ways this visibility is challenged, even within our feminist communities.
With proceeds from any donations and a portion of any sales going towards a zine making workshop for survivors of sexual abuse at Southend-on-Sea Rape Crisis.
12:00 – 2:00pm
International Women’s Day at Southend-on-Sea Borough Council
Committee Room 4a & Civic Centre Foyer
Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea SS2 6ER
Sam Reed (UNISON member), and UNISON Women’s Officers June Dillow and Louise McDermott invite you to take the opportunity to engage with our special guests.
Linda Durant (Unison Eastern Women’s Officer), Caroline Nugent (President, PPMA), Frances Neal (WASPI), Lynsey McCarthy Calvert (Mothering Matters), Debbie Schofield (CEOP rep) and Sharon Houlden will be holding Q&A sessions covering a variety of topics including gender parity, achievements of the past 100 years, mandatory voting, technology and robotics.
Plus visit an array of stalls including UNISON, WASPI, Southend Soroptomists and Rayleigh Red Tent.
2018 is a very special year as it’s the centenary of the Suffragette movement and the partial right to vote for women. Don’t miss the display of some of the Southend women involved in suffrage.
7:00 – 11:00pm
Angel and the Melodyhorns, Molejoy and Petty Phase for IWD
Twenty One, Unit 21, Pier Approach,
Western Esplanade, Southend-on-Sea SS1 2EH
An evening of music led by women artists in celebration of International Women’s Day.
The Essex Feminist Collective will be running the all women playlist between bands and a silent auction will be open for bids.
The night is free, but all donations will go towards Dove and Rape Crisis.
