Category Archives: Exhibition

26 May 2016 19:00 ~ East End Women: The Real Story Launch – East End Women’s Collective

We were promised a museum celebrating the achievements of East End women but got a Ripper museum instead.  So we decided to set up our own.

Come to the launch of our exhibition celebrating the achievements of East End women and their incredible impact on social and political change.

Speakers:

  • Jess Philips MP
  • Josephine Knowles – Co-Director, Beyond the Streets

We regret that the venue is not wheelchair accessible.

  • Thursday, May 26, 2016 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
  • St George In The East Church – 14 Cannon Street Road, London E1 0BH

Free but please register online at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/east-end-women-the-real-story-launch-tickets-24805366519

See also http://www.eewtherealstory.com/

May 26, 2016

27 May 2016 ~ Celebrating East End women leading social and political change – East End Women the Real Story – London – until 9 July 2016

Opening times:
Mon – Thurs: 9:30 – 20:30
Fri: 9:30 – 17:00
Sat: 10:00 – 17:00
Sun: 12:30 – 17:00

East End Women: The Real Story is an exhibition celebrating women’s involvement and leadership in social and political change. The exhibition tells stories of just some of the amazing women who have shaped the history of the End East and beyond.

Women like Sylvia Pankhurst, who led the East London Federation of Suffragettes; the Bow Matchwomen who went on strike in 1888 to demand better working conditions; and the unsung heroes who transformed living conditions for many within the East End through the introduction of early forms of social housing.

Their stories, and many more like them, demonstrate the richness and diversity of the area.

We support the establishment of a permanent resource of women’s history in the East End, and are working with those from the East End Women’s Museum and hope that this exhibition is just the beginning of something that they will continue.

http://www.eewtherealstory.com/

May 26, 2016

East End Women’s Museum

When a proposed women’s history museum on Cable Street in East London turned out to be an excuse to cash in on the popularity of a misogynist serial killer, we decided to make the missing museum a reality.

Crass Jack the Ripper tourism is nothing new, but the new museum on Cable Street represents a huge missed opportunity.

East London has an incredibly rich social, political, and cultural history and women were part of all of it although their voices are seldom heard. Those are the stories we want to tell; stories that illuminate the lives of East End women, not only their deaths.

We’re making the museum that should have been. If you’d like to keep up to date with the project, please join our email list: Sign Up

Our aims

The East End Women’s Museum will record, represent and amplify women’s histories from the East End.

We’ll present these histories in a way that’s accessible, relevant and interesting. We will plan for the future, to make sure that this resource stays available and updated.

We will make a space for women who experience different forms of discrimination to tell their stories. We will do our best to increase the visibility of women from traditionally marginalised or excluded groups. For example, women who are black, asian, lgbt*, or working class, who are older, who have disabilities, are from a migrant or an itinerant community, or working in the sex industry.

We want to showcase the histories of women from the East End so that they are relevant to life in the East End today. We will share what we learn, to help people in other places make women’s museums of their own.

If you’d like to get involved, please join our email list: Sign Up

Events http://eastendwomensmuseum.org/events/

See also http://eastendwomensmuseum.org/east-end-women-the-real-story/

May 26, 2016

Building Our Future – Glasgow Women’s Library

We are bursting with excitement!

Exactly a year after relocating to our beautiful new Bridgeton home at 23 Landressy Street, we are overjoyed to announce the start – at last – of building works to further transform our premises.

It has taken longer than we thought to move on to Phase Two of this project and has involved a lot of hard work, but the successful raising of just under £1m, with the invaluable support of Clyde Gateway URC, means that on 24th November our Contractors, Maxi Construction, will begin on site.

The project involves significant internal refurbishment works to create an exciting new venue space with a dedicated archive, museum showcases, new learning zones, a small café and exhibition spaces. There will also be significant external structural works, including the installation of a lift.

These major works will take approximately seven months, due for completion at the end of May 2015.

During building works GWL will still be open with a full programme of events and activities, so please do come and see us.(*)

And there is further good news – while the building works are in progress, GWL will remain OPEN and delivering our usual wonderful smorgasbord of events, workshops, learning projects and other activities. Access to the Library, Archive and Museum collections will continue but a large proportion of the Archive materials remain in external storage until completion of the works.

We would like to thank our committed and talented Design Team: Collective Architecture, Arup, E. C. Harris, CDM Project Safety and Ken Boyle Partnership; and also thank hub West Scotland, the Project Managers.

We also thank our funders for this project: The Heritage Lottery Fund, The Scottish Futures Trust, The Scottish Government Regeneration Capital Grant Fund, Glasgow City Council, Creative Scotland and Museums Galleries Scotland.

In addition to the support of the above funders, we are grateful to the hundreds of wonderful people who have sponsored Library books, shelves and sections as part of our Women on the Shelf initiative – we will be honouring your dedications in the very fabric of the building soon.

Building projects often involve an element of ‘Value Engineering’ and ours is no different. This means making savings to enable the most important elements of the project to be delivered within the set budget.

Consequently we still need to raise funds for remaining fittings and furniture. You can still help us through supporting the Women on the Shelf initiative – every penny raised will go to the building fund and you dedicate a book, shelf or entire section to a woman of your choice – a perfect gift at any time of year!

We will keep you up to date with developments – sign up to our mailing list or join the Library to get regular news from GWL. In the meantime, thank you for your ongoing patience – it will all be worth it!

Thank you for all your support and please do come to see us soon in our beautiful new home.

Source: http://womenslibrary.org.uk/2014/11/06/building-our-future/
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November 10, 2014

12 October 2014 14:00 ~ Hackney Flashers Exposed: 40th Anniversary of a Women’s Photographic Collective 1974-1980 – London

Until 5pm at Chats Palace, 42-44 Brooksby’s Walk, London E9 6DF

The Hackney Flashers Collective was active as a feminist agitprop group in London 1974 -1980. The group produced two photographic/graphic exhibitions addressing complex ideas about women’s lives as workers and as mothers, inside and outside the home:  Women and Work and Who’s Holding the Baby.

To mark the recent launch of the Hackney Flashers website the group are calling a meeting of the generations: how did they work as a collective in the 1970s? How is the struggle for the most basic of women’s rights being carried on now, forty years later?  A rare chance to see some of the exhibition panels from  the time and to discuss work still to be done. Free and open to all. Should be exciting!

The event is part of the East London photography festival Photomonth and will take place at Chats Palace Community Arts Center, a venue which has a history of radical community arts involvement.

More at http://hackneyflashers.com/2014/06/21/coming-soon-40th-anniversary-event/

History

The Hackney Flashers collective was set up in 1974 and created influential agitprop material in the 1970s and 1980s.[1] The women in the group, described themselves as broadly socialist-feminist and most of them engaged in the creative media as photographers, cartoonists and writers.

The Flashers productions were always published as the work of a collective. Individuals were not named; specific images or writing were never credited. This was a conscious, political decision and has led to some misunderstandings about who the members of the Hackney Flashers were, who collaborated on which projects and where the copyright for their work lies. (It lies with the collective.)

Read more at http://hackneyflashers.com/history/

September 26, 2014