Music! Comedy! Stand-up Poetry! DJ's and Dancing! Date: Saturday 19 March 2016 Time: 7.30pm-12.30am Venue: Exeter Phoenix (Voodoo Lounge).
As International Women's Day approaches, it's time to celebrate some of the incredible women who make music in Devon. Creative, Assertive and Diverse is the talent of our musical madams. And yet, year after year women struggle to top the bills at shows, events and festivals, with only 14% of acts beng female led at ALL major festivals in 2015. Now I dont know about you ... but theres something wrong with that picture.
We shall be holding our Ladies’ Networking Group Spring “Get together” at Marco’s, next to The Hampton by Hilton, Exeter Airport on Friday 18th March 2016.
As usual this will be an informal lunch for any Ladies’ networking groups so all are welcome. Please do pass on these details to anyone you think may be interested in coming along. Lunch will commence at 1.00 p.m. Please arrive between 12.00 p.m. and 12.30 p.m. at Marco’s. Marco’s have again offered us a superb menu which will be at £12 per person.
If you would like to join us on the 18th then please email Jane.Chanot@...
An event for families to share the meaning of ‘Women & Peace’ with their children, and to talk about women who have inspired our generation. With presentations from the Middle East. Part of the City’s celebrations for International Women’s Day
12th March 2016 3.30pm – 6pm
The Barnfield Theatre team up with Suaad George, Devon United Women, Centre for Human Rights and Social Equality and Exeter City Council to bring you this family event
Interested to take part to share your story? Please email duw2007@yahoo.co.uk
An exhibition of inspiring art and photography to celebrate International Women’s Day (8th March). Created with support from Exeter Barnfield Theatre, Devon United Women, Centre for Human Rights and Social Equality and Exeter City Council
Award-winning Devon businesswoman and journalist Alexis Bowater has announced that she will be standing down as Leading Women UK Champion to concentrate on organising the prestigious Venus Awards in Devon and Cornwall this year. Alexis, who runs Bowater Communications and is well known in the west country having presented the ITV news here for almost a decade, launched networking group Leading Women UK in Plymouth in 2013 and has acted as an unpaid ambassador for the organisation and for promoting women in business ever since. She is now regional parter for the Venus Awards, dubbed 'The...
January is traditionally a bumper month for active resolutions and the Sport England national campaign This Girl Can in association with Active Devon will be encouraging women of all shapes and sizes to try out lots of different ways of getting active.
During a whole month of visits, workshops and other celebratory activities, Active Devon the County Sports Partnership whose emphasis is on grassroots informal community sport & informal activity are especially keen to ensure that local classes and active sessions are really tailored to the needs of women who may be starting out...
A consultation reviewing how school crossing patrols should be funded and provided in the county is being launched by Devon County Council.
The authority is exploring ways to maintain the service while looking to save £250,000 from the service’s budget in the coming financial year. It is part of £110 million of savings required over the next four years.
Councillor Stuart Hughes, Devon County Council’s Cabinet Member for Highway Management, said: “We know how highly school communities value the crossing patrols. The County Council holds them in equally high regard and we...
It’s back! Exeter’s highly successful Ladies Do Lunch re-launches next month with a glorious Christmas celebration.
The new look luncheon club is now being run by renowned after dinner speaker Sally Sedgman who previously hosted Ladies Do lunches at the Royal Clarence Hotel on Cathedral Green.
"There’s no better time to launch the new club than at Christmas," said Sally (pictured) who is known all over the South West for her many television and radio appearances as well as speaking engagements.
She even won a whole ITV series, Hurrah It’s Sally Sedgman, on the...
A powerful “talking heads” film launched last week to mark the annual Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) conference, is instigating an “open, candid discussion” across the engineering industry about why it fails to attract a wider pool of creative talent, particularly women. The “Engineering Change” film, produced by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), see’s leading industry figures such as – Michele Dix from Crossrail 2 and Anne-Marie Tuck Principal Engineer for Black and Veatch in the South West – share their experiences, set out what they think is blocking change and what...
A group of women from Devon are planning the city’s largest gathering against sexual violence on the streets this autumn.
The Reclaim the Night events are designed to promote public awareness about the levels of violence and harassment experienced by women and girls on our streets. Two events are planned; a preparation day of creativity on Saturday 21st November and the March itself on Thursday 26th November.
Devon Rape Crisis Service, SAFE, Exeter Feminists and the University Femsoc have joined forces to make this year the most visible protest yet about sexual violence....
