Billed as ‘the world’s biggest, most comprehensive festival celebrating women, girls and non-binary people’, activists, musicians, comedians, writers and other distinguished speakers come together for conversations, workshops and performances
📌The Camera Is Ours: Britain’s Women Documentary Makers
This film season spotlights Britain’s pioneering female documentary makers. It features 10 new film restorations from the BFI National Archive, including works by Ruby and Marion Grierson, Evelyn Spice and Muriel Box
📌SheSays: Breaking into the Industry
If you like the idea of a job in the creative industries, this two-hour event could be for you. Joyce Kremer and Melissa Wong will be joined by illustrator Erin Aniker and social media creative Natalie Narh for a panel and workshop
📌International Women’s Day at The National Gallery
Highlights include a forum exploring how women artists have interacted with the national collection, and a lecture examining the role played by art historian Anna Jameson in the reception of Raphael's work in the 19th century
📌Dear Black Women x CURLYTREATS Festival
This one-day festival features curated panel talks, interactive workshops and solution-oriented seminars, all dedicated to the intersecting identities of Black women. On-site, you’ll find a variety of wellness and business-based events
📌Stand with Hope Exhibition
Drop into the UCL Student Centre to see a lifesize Lego suffragette made from 32,327 bricks. She was originally built in 2018 and put on display in the House of Commons to mark 100 years since some (but not all) women gained the right to vote
📌Working Women of the East End Walking Tour
East End tours often focus on Jack the Ripper, but this one flips the switch by giving a voice to the women whose lives he claimed. Along the way, you’ll learn about East End suffragettes including Mary Wollstonecraft and Eleanor Marx
📌Orbit at Ridley Road Market Bar
Ridley Road Market Bar, the female-run nightspot and cultural venue in Dalston will host free weekly events you can attend virtually or IRL. Look out for live music, DJ sets and visual art pieces and an International Women’s Day closing party
📌Mary Anne Hobbs Presents: All Queens at Fabric
Mary Anne Hobbs is throwing a special party at Fabric with an all-female lineup and all-female staff. The stellar bill includes Courtesy x Laurel Halo, AFRODEUTCHE, Elkka, Jamz Supernova, Jossy Mitsu, Nia Archives and Taahliah
📌Who Owns the City?
This panel event will explore how gendered urban design can create inequalities of access in cities like London. Think public spaces that exclude mothers, toilets that presume a limited number of body types, and byways that prioritise drivers above others
📌International Women’s Day Gala: Happening (L'evenement)
Screening at the Barbican, this powerful, timely and urgent film follows Anne, a French student in the early 1960s who becomes pregnant. Abortion is illegal in France at the time, leading to a seismic life dilemma for her
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London is perhaps the perfect pub city. There’s a boozer for almost every kind of person. We’ve tried and tested inns, taverns and pubs across the city to bring you a list of the very finest.
A wonderful place to take your main (or future) squeeze, @ivyhousenunhead has comfortable furnishings, private booths and Moth Club-esque stage
🍻9. The Salisbury Hotel
A grand Victorian gin palace of some repute, The Salisbury is massive. There’s a hidden ballroom that hosts regular swing-dance nights and comedy shows, but it also has a cosy energy despite its size
An unimaginable tragedy hit west London five years ago when Grenfell Tower caught fire. Against that terrible backdrop, these five men and women have achieved amazing things. Here are their stories 👇
🥊Heavyweight boxer David Adeleye used to train at a gym in Grenfell Tower. In 2019, he turned pro and, eight fights in, he remains undefeated
'I knew people who lived in Grenfell – we’re all connected. We lost Tony in the fire: he was the father of three boys who trained with us, and a big part of the gym. He used to come on trips with us, make sure all the kids were being looked after'
Netflix’s new Marilyn Monroe movie Blonde has been slapped with an NC-17 rating, or an 18 in UK terms, for sexually explicit content, making it the first release on the streamer to be given the adult-only certification
Monroe’s on-screen depictions have typically been fairly chaste (see Michelle Williams in My Week With Marilyn), but the bombshell really goes off in Blonde, which is sure to drive clicks and generate headlines in the run-up to its debut in the world’s living rooms
In another massive blow for London’s endlessly suffering commuters, rail union the RMT has announced three days of train strikes for the capital, on Tuesday June 21, Thursday June 23 and Saturday June 25. Weird days to choose, you might think
Well, in the spirit of the recent threat to disrupt the Platinum Jubilee weekend celebrations, these days have not been chosen at random, but to coincide with people travelling to Glastonbury Festival and to an England v New Zealand test match
Have you ever spotted a small green hut while walking through the city and wondered what it’s all about? These curious little sheds are rare pieces of London history that have survived against the odds
Cabmen’s shelters were first built in the nineteenth century to stop cabbies from getting pissed on the job. Back then the capital’s cabbies drove horse-drawn carriages which meant that while the customer got a seat inside the carriage, the drivers were exposed to the elements
A trip to Oxford Street used to mean getting a blow-dry at the big Topshop, drenching yourself in House of Fraser sample perfume, then CD-browsing in HMV. Not anymore. The once-leading shopping destination is now home to a mish-mash of American candy stores and souvenir shops
Even the iconic His Master’s Voice sign has been covered up and transformed into Candy World. Windows are filled with stacks of Cheetos, super-size Oreos and Jolly Ranchers, while Capital FM blasts obnoxiously into the street