Women's History Month events

Book clubs: Songbirds by Christy Lefteri

Children's crafts: Bachué, Suffragette rosette, Ada Lovelace paper doll, Wanjiru, mural for International Women's Day, Harriet Tubman, Mother's Day card, Julie Felix dancing ballerina, biography poster, Mulan, Afternoon Tea at Keesha's Place, Mary Shelley, Ruth Bader Ginsburg inspired collar, Frida Kahlo, scrapbook making,  Make a sword for Boudicca, Wilma Rudolph, flower special card.

Events: Women's Health Event: International Women's Day 2024, Women Thrive - dance and wellbeing event for women and girls, , Seed festival: Wolves Lane, International Women's Day: "Celebration, Community, Conversations", Celebrating food and fashion from former British colonies (over 50s), Make space for the Women and Girls Park Take Over!

Exhibitions: 'Land of Laundries' by Al Johnson, Sisters, Sirens and Saints: Imagining the Women of Beatrice Offor, Photo exhibition: Women Who Grow. 

Films: Precious, Ammonite, Persepolis, Roma.

Performances: Still Hungry: Show Pony, Rengin Women's Choir.

Talks: Curator's Pick: 'Land of Laundries' with Al Johnson.

Training: Domestic Abuse in the Deaf Community.

Walking tour: Haringey women's history walk 'Pioneers and Pleasure: Muswell Hill women'.

Workshops: Las Witchas Collective: song, drumming, art and craft workshop for families, zine workshop (ages 11 to 17), Creative craft and upcycling morning workshop (for adults) with Siân Dorman, Writing Workshop 'Quotes for Women', 'Building New Worlds' with Kym Oliver.

Children’s Craft: Inspirational Women Writers Biography Poster, Astronaut Suit, Alphabet books, Jane Goodall ape puppet, Paper Microphone, ‘Women First’ Mural for International Women’s Day, Telling Their Story, Dinosaur Skull, ‘Julia Child’ Decorated Plate with French ingredients, Suffragette Rosette, Quetzal Headdress, Mother's Day Craft, Aeroplane, Native American Tepee, Penny Piggy Pots, Dolly Parton Paper Guitar, Scrapbook Making, Elsie Inglis Medal, Paper Ballerina, Broadway Brunch: WHM Tea Party, WHM Social Lunch

Exhibition: Sisters, Sirens and Saints: Imagining the Women of Beatrice Offor

Events: Culture Bubble: The Contemporary Stage, Women's History Month Edition, Tottenham Hotspur Health Checks, Rise Projects: Fab, Fit and Fun Physical Wellbeing (16+), Haringey Girls Football Match, Yoga and Relaxation (16+), Living Under One Sun: Celebrate International Women's Day, Sisters United, Rise and Shine Coffee Morning, Keesha’s Place Event, Keesha’s Place Event; Sewn Together – Recycling Pop Up Shop, These Girls Do – Haringey Women of the World, Caribbean Dance, Re-enactment: Football Match of 1895

Films: Black Lens – International Women’s Month Triple Bill, A message to you: The Ballad of an African Oasis

Literature:  Imperfect Beginnings by Viv Fogel book launch, Adults Book Club: Women’s History Month ‘Sunlight on a Broken Column’ by Attia Hosain, Author’s Talk: Forged in Fire by Oby Grace N

Performance: Rowena Gander: Barely Visible, Julia Masli: Choosh!, Lighthouse, Nothing Happens (Twice)

Storytime: 'ABC What Can She Be?', by Sugar Snap Studio, 'Little Feminist', by Emily Kleinman and Lydia Ortiz, 'The Eagle and the Wren', retold by Dr. Jane Goodall, 'The Girls', by Lauren Ace, 'Ella Fitzgerald',  'A Dress with Pockets', by Lily Murray and Jenny Lovlie, 'Bloom', 'Dreams for Our Daughters' by Ruth Doyle and Lindsay Ashling, Mae Among the Stars

Talk: Haringey Circle for International Women’s Day, Reminiscence Café at the Castle: From PE knickers and plimsolls – to designer shorts and trainers, Local History of the Women’s Institute, Menopause - Haringey Circle, Bite-Size Gallery Pick: Young Curator’s Pick – Sister, Siren or Saint?, The Lupus Hub, Munch and Listen: Sarah, Tottenham’s only Duchess 1631-1692, Bite-Size Gallery Talk: Curator’s Pick - Outcast, Foreigner and Artist – the Lady of the Manor, Henrietta Townsend of Bruce Castle

Walks: Tottenham Women’s History Walk – North Tottenham from Bruce Castle, Tottenham Women’s History Walk – High Road to Bruce Castle, Haringey Women’s History Walk – Pioneers and Pleasure: Crouch End Women

Workshops: Interactive poetry with Haylee Venus: Still I Rise, Creative Craft and Upcycling Morning Workshop, Haringey’s Women’s Empowerment Summit: Enterprise & Employment for All 

Children's crafts: Frida Kahlo Flower Headband, Wonderful Women in History Mural, Women's History Portrait, Queen Elizabeth 1 ruff, Butterfly Mask, Paper Rocket,  International Women’s Day Card, Portrait Drawing, Chameleon Mask, 'Every Women Is' flower, Monkey Paper Puppet,  Women’s Football Collage,  Famous Women in History Bookmark, Moomin Character Greetings Card,  Ichthyosaurs mask, Frida Kahlo Flowerpot, Mother’s Day Card, Wooden Peg Airplane,  Let’s Make a Robot with Witty Ditty  Mother’s Day Flower, Telescope and Space Scene, Queen Elizabeth crown,  Imperial State Crown         

Exhibitions: We’re in Business: Art, Trade & Business of West Green Road - the Windrush Generation's Legacy, Sisters, Sirens and Saints: Imagining the Women of Beatrice Offor 

Events: Culture Bubble: The Contemporary Stage, Women's History Month Edition, Family Trail @ The Castle for Women’s History Month, WHM Roadshow, Scavenger Hunt - Women’s History Month, International Women's Day Fusion HITT, International Women's Day Fusion Zumba Gold Class, International Women Day Fusion Pilates, International Women Day Fusion Body Sculpt, International Women Day Fusion Aqua Class, International Women’s Day Event Break the Bias,  These Girls Do International Women’s Day,  Women Who Have Left Their ‘Stamp’ on History         

Films: Hidden Figures, Early Women Filmmakers - Short Films, Misbehaviour, Make More Noise: Suffragettes in Silent Film, On the Basis of Sex, Rosa Luxemburg, Vera Drake, Varda by Agnes, Radioactive, Bombshell, Mulna, On The Basis of Sex, Brave, Frida, Ammonite, Respect, Nomadland, The United States v Billie Holiday, Little Women

Literature: WHM Book Club: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo, Children’s Author Reading: I love Being Me by Tarjae Greene, In Conversation with Lorraine Brown, Tina Baker, Caroline Khoury and Meera Shah   

Performances: Oddly Moving: Atlas, H2 Dance: Duet,  Tangle… In the Womb of a Juggler  

Storytimes:  ‘Wangari Maathai Planted Trees' by Kate Coombs, ‘Jane Goodall is a Friend to All’ by Kate Coombs, ‘Georgia O’Keeffe Loved the Dessert’ by Kate Coombs, ‘In Emily’s Garden’ by Kate Coombs, ‘Beatrix Potter Wrote Stories’ by Kate Coombs, ‘The Water Princess’ by Georgie Badiel, Peppa Pig: ‘I Love You Mummy Pig’, ‘Yayoi Kusama Covered Everything in Dots and was not Sorry’. By Yayoi Kusama, ‘The Queen’s Lift Off’, by Steve Antony, Frida Kahlo by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara,  Georgia O’Keefe by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Audrey Hepburn by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Aretha Franklin by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara,  Jane Goodall by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Maya Angelou by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Amelia Earhart by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Ada Lovelace by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Zaha Hadid by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Evonne Goolagong by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara     

Walks: Haringey Women’s History Walk 

Workshops: Stress management, We are beautiful and strong, Monoprinting 

Talks: Bite-size Gallery Talk: - Young Curator’s Pick: Sister, Siren or Saint?, ‘A spontaneous, sincere Pre-Raphaelite’: The life and work of artist Marie Spartali Stillman, who spent her early years in Tottenham, Women's Health, Fitness and Wellness, Munch & Listen: It’s All in the DNA: Althea McNish and Stories from the Archive, History of Women’s Football by Tottenham Hotspurs, Women’s History Month Talk by Cathy Tyson, Talk & Tea:  The Curator’s Pick in the Sister, Siren or Saint Exhibition      

Exhibitions: Open Out Gallery and Little Open Out Gallery: Celebrating Althea McNish

Online event: Lockdown Lunch: Women's History Month and Me, Become a VAWG Community Champion or Safe Space in Haringey, Women with a Voice, Care to Challenge

Online talk: Talking Textiles: Celebrating the Crafting Genius of Althea McNish, Munch and Listen: She who Dared... Women of Haringey, Haringey Women's History Walk, United Black Women's Action Group (UBWAG), Culture Bubble: The Contemporary Stage (Women's History Month Edition), History of Women's Football with the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation

An exciting programme of events and activities designed to celebrate Haringey’s women past and present was due to take place throughout March 2020, but unfortunately this was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic.