Workers Education Association
Workshops
SASH MAKING workshop – Thursday 24th September 2009 at Riddles Court 10am to 4pm – free event with £5 donation towards materials but book with WEA on 225 2580 or e.bryan@weascotland.org.uk
A Gude Cause: The History of Women’s Suffrage in Scotland – 21st october 10.15 – 4pm. Will include a visit to the exhibition at the Museum of Edinburgh but also archive materials at the NLS. Also a free event but booking as above. While this is after the Procession it may be of particular interest to people who become inspired at this later stage and have not been much involved before.
Scottish Women’s Aid
September Conference
The theme for this year is Paying the Price: The Social and Economic Cost of Domestic Abuse and the keynote speakers are:
- Sylvia Walby, UNESCO Chair in Gender Research and Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University
The cost of domestic violence
- Nicola Sturgeon MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing
- Ailsa McKay, Reader and Gender and Economics at Glasgow Caledonian University
Do Women Count: A Question of Values?
- Beatrix Campbell, writer and broadcaster
The brochure and booking form can be downloaded here:
http://www.scottishwomensaid.org.uk/assets/files/forms/SWA-Conference%20flyer.pdf
Museum of Edinburgh Exhibition
The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Edinburgh
31 July 2009 – 9 January 2010
One hundred years ago women (and some men) were not
allowed to vote. This exhibition charts the long struggle
to win the vote which was eventually granted to all women
in 1928. At the height of the campaign to win the vote,
a grand historical pageant was held in Edinburgh in
October 1909. A re-enactment will take place on
10 October 2009 and this exhibition is being staged
to complement this event. The exhibition will
examine the Women's Suffrage Movement in
Edinburgh and will include photos and
artefacts from that period.
For more info see Museum of Edinburgh
Article on BBC website
Banner Making
We have lots of banner-making workshops coming up over the next few weeks.
Everyone is very welcome to some along, please contact the person listed if
you are intending to come along so we can organise enough materials, teas and coffees etc.
Glasgow – Sat 15th August, 12-5pm
Unison offices
18 Albion Street, Glasgow
Please email Valerie Wright V.Wright@dundee.ac.uk
Dundee – Thur 20th August, 5.30-8pm,
Unit 9, Manhatten Business Park,
Dundonald Street, Dundee, DD3 7PY
Please email Christine Lowden ChristineLowden@number10.org
Edinburgh – Sat 26th Sept, drop in session from 12-5
Part of the Ladyfest Edinburgh weekend programme
The Bowery
Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh
Festival of Politics
(http://www.festivalofpolitics.org.uk/2009day4.htm)
A Gude Cause – Women, Peace and Scottish Politics 17.30 (18.30) Committee Room 1 FREE*October 1909 witnessed a ‘grand pageant’ for women’s suffrage, in Edinburgh’s Princes Street. With reduced female representation in the Scottish Parliament, Gude Cause has been formed to re-enact the event and inspire renewed action for gender equality. Here an expert panel discusses how devolution can continue to improve the position of Scottish women, and bring less confrontational politics, as favoured by early suffragists such as Chrystal MacMillan. Book A Gude Cause – Women, Peace and Scottish Politics online
Ways of Seeing the Suffragettes
A 15 minute film documenting a project exploring issues around women’s
suffrage undertaken by the Ways of Seeing Group.
Made in association with National Museums Scotland and the Ways of Seeing
Group, City of Edinburgh Council, Community Learning and Development, Forth
Neighbourhood.
Sun 11th October 2009 – 12:45, 13:45, 14:45
Dunfermline Room, National Museums Scotland, Chamber Street
AND showing later at
Museum of Edinburgh as part of the Votes for Women exhibition
Mid October onwards
