Sat 1st April

Saturdays meeting is going to be a corker with Anne Beswick talking to you about Women of Manchester! Lots of news to fill you in on too! 

Unfortunately neither vice-President Helen or myself can be there so we are leaving you in the very capable hands of the rest of the committee with Jan & Elizabeth leading the meeting!

Look forward to seeing you all in May & have a great meeting! I'll miss you all x

Sam
President

FREE Picture Stockport Creative Workshops

Take part in a Picture Stockport Creative Workshop at Stockport Central Library to be in with a chance of seeing your work exhibited alongside Stockport's top eight paintings at a special exhibition at Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery later in the year.

Find our more about Picture Stockport, a project that is bringing the known and hidden artworks of Stockport to life and see the top eight paintings as voted by the public at picturestockport.com

Creative Workshops with Louise Wallwien

Friday 7th & Saturday 8th April, 11am to 1pm

As part of BBC Get Creative join Manchester Histories for a Picture Stockport workshop with award winning writer and poet Louise Wallwien.

FREE. Venue: Stockport Central Library, Minor Hall Wellington Rd S, SK1 3RS. Age – 14 years and over. BOOK HERE 

Creative Workshops with Helen Conway

Saturday 22nd April & Saturday 13th May, 10:30am to 12:30pm

Join Manchester Histories for a Picture Stockport creative workshop with mixed media artist Helen Conway. Be inspired by urban street art and graffiti writing.

FREE. Venue: Stockport Central Library, Minor Hall Wellington Rd S, SK1 3RS. Open to all ages but any children under the age of 14 must be accompanied by an adult. BOOK HERE

The special exhibition featuring works created during the workshops will take place at Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery from 23rd June 2017.

Picture Stockport is a partnership between Stockport Council and Manchester Histories, funded by Greater Manchester Arts, AGMA.

Crafternoon for Comic Relief on Fri 24th March

Hi lovelies - I'm thinking of running a crafternoon for comic relief along with Helen on Friday 24th March 1-5pm as a drop in! 

We are hoping to hold it at Walthew House and it will be open to anyone (kids & adults!) wanting to come in:-)

There will be a £1.50 charge on the door and we will (hopefully with your help!) be selling cakes with a brew! 

Anything anybody makes they can either take with them for a voluntary contribution or we will sell at the next meeting and donate the proceeds to comic relief. 

This is not a WI event but an event me & Helen are doing hopefully with some support from you guys!

So what we need to know is...
1. Who would be interested in coming along
2. Would anybody like to contribute time and/or craft materials
3. Who would be willing to bake?
4. Could anyone give up some time to make & serve teas/coffees?

We have nothing set in stone yet as it's just putting feelers out to see if this is something you'd like to do and get your friends/family involved in! 

No idea on craft stations yet but there will definitely be a variety! Ideally it would be lovely to have somebody 'womanning' each station but this is not essential.

Thank you 

Sam

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Easter Chick Appeal

Against all the odds (i.e. Me & boys eating them!) all 100 Creme eggs & 25 Easter Chicks made it to Francis House.

Thanks to my lovely hubby (honorary WI member!) taking them in my sleep deprived absence! 

So proud of you women -thank you 

Sam x

8th March - International Women's day

For International Women's Day 2017 is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.

The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.

 #BeBoldForChange

Call on the masses or call on yourself to help forge a better working world

- a more inclusive, gender equal world.


Submit your #BeBoldForChange action via the IWD website.

International Women's Day as a vehicle for change, is it possible?

Last year, organizations and individuals around the world supported the #PledgeForParity campaign and committed to help women and girls achieve their ambitions; challenge conscious and unconscious bias; call for gender-balanced leadership; value women and men's contributions equally; and create inclusive flexible cultures. From awareness raising to concrete action, organizations rallied their people to pledge support to help forge gender parity on International Women’s Day (IWD) and beyond.

But the World Economic Forum predicts the gender gap won't close entirely until 2186. This is too long to wait. Around the world, IWD can be an important catalyst and vehicle for driving greater change for women and moving closer to gender parity.

What if the world truly stepped up to take bold action?

Will you #BeBoldForChange on International Women's Day 2017 and beyond by taking groundbreaking action that truly drives the greatest change for women.

Each one of us - with women, men and non-binary people joining forces - can be a leader within our own spheres of influence by taking bold pragmatic action to accelerate gender parity. Through purposeful collaboration, we can help women advance and unleash the limitless potential offered to economies the world over.

We have urgent work to do. Are you ready to #BeBoldForChange this IWD 2017 and beyond?

Sat 4th March: March Meeting

We are lucky enough to have local historian and all round nice guy Phil Catling coming to give us a talk on the role of women during WWII.

We also have cake, news, chat and name badge making so why don't you join us? 

We love meeting new people and will make you very welcome!

Saturday 4th March 5-7pm Walthew House on Shaw Heath. 

£4 for visitors!

Sam
President
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