This is the evening session for International Women’s Day, open to all.

The celebrations start at 7.00pm with a performance by the hugely popular women’s choir Werca’s Folk, directed by Sandra Kerr who will also be leading the singing workshop.

at 7.45 the performance will be followed by the premiere showing of a short film Night of Years by Alysoun Sharpe of Shadowcat Films, featuring the life of Victorian social reformer Josephine Butler (who is buried in nearby St. Gregory the Great Church churchyard in Kirknewton).

The showing will be followed by a short Q&A with Alysoun and Jane Jordan. Dr Jane Jordan is a lecturer at Kingston University where she teaches undergraduates on courses on the Victorian Novel, Dickens and British Literature 1880-1914 and runs a course on Sexuality and Gender for the Nineteenth Century MA. Her books include the acclaimed biography of the Victorian campaigner Josephine Butler.

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Donations to Rape Crisis Tyne & Wear and Northumberland.