8th March - Lord Mayors Appeal Office - 12 Noon – Great Victoria Hotel – Tickets £20
1/2 hour Drinks Reception/Networking followed by light 3 course lunch with inspirational and motivational speakers.
All ladies welcome. Lady Mayoress will be hosting, Deputy Lord Mayor also attending.
Dame Councillor Margaret Eaton DBE OBE is confirmed as Pre Lunch Speaker, may have a possible 2nd speaker for after lunch Zahida Manzoor CBE Legal Services Ombudsman and Legal Services Complaints Commissioner. Also Asian dance performance.
This is our 6th Annual IWD event. Past speakers have included Lady Lockwood (first Chair of Equal Opportunities Commission), Judith Donovan CBE, Angela Baker & Ros Fawcett (The Calendar Girls), Ann Cryer MP, Georgey Spanswick (Radio Leeds), Nadira Mirza (Dean of University of Bradford)
Tickets available from Lord Mayor's Appeal Office, City Hall, Tel 01274 434965 Email alexis.jenner@bradford.gov.uk
8th March
GUP SHUP Cath Braid & Rolla Khadduri
An Art Project working with Women's Embroidery Collectives in Chitral, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan.
I Want To Be A Pilot
Chai and Chat with Cath Braid and Rolla Khadduri 4 – 5pm, Monday 8 March 2010. Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment!!
Exhibition Launch 5 – 7pm, Monday 8 March 2010. International Women’s Day. Everyone welcome, no booking needed.
The Domestic, The Narrative and Cups of Chai
Discover the private space inhabited by rural women of Chitral through an exhibition of large, contemporary, hand-embroidered textile pieces. The pieces illustrate the ebb and flow of the daily lives of female artisans - the everyday comings and goings, the ventures of child rearing and home-making and the more special events that colour their lives. As their hands are busy making, their textiles tell their tales. Through a series of creative workshops, the women explore their inherent creativity, gaining confidence to translate the rich tapestry of their lives into the visual, using a medium in which they are fluent, embroidery.
This exhibition aims to challenge some stereotypes of rural Pakistani women, giving space for the voice of ordinary women to be heard in a positive way. The exhibition also aims to depict the universality of women's lives… although there are variations within cultures, the concerns that the women have and the emotions they describe show that actually, we are more the same than different.
From Textile to Tote
Cath Braid (a graduate from Central St Martins) and Rolla Khadduri have joined forces to create a unique partnership, called Polly & Me , which operates on two platforms: non-profit art projects, like the Gup Shup project and gorgeously sumptuous top-of-the-range designer bags. The communities they work in are coloured by the language of aid and donor; “female empowerment”, “improved literacy rates for women” and “equal opportunities”. Aspiring to similar ideals, their work and approach does not fit within the conventional box of rural development.
To accompany the textile pieces, Gallery II will also be showing how the original art work was created into the textile pieces and how this has also been taken into the design of their collection of contemporary hand-crafted funky bags.
March 10th - Women Working in Textiles - Manningham Mills Community Centre
For details, see the poster below.
Saturday 13th March - International Women's Day - Community Event - Midland Hotel - 10am - 3pm
City of Bradford District Council will host a day of activities to celebrate International Women's Day. Activities will include performances by Dance for Life, Local young singer/songwriter Anne Drury and lots more.
For more details, see the poster below.
