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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Hey cool cats and kittens, Tiger King is back. Well, sort of: the dramatisation of everyone’s favourite lockdown true-crime story and big cat feud, Joe vs. Carole, has arrived. And like the story it’s based on, it’s wilder than a pride of lions.
Here's why you should tune in 👇
🐅The casting is purrfect
Kate McKinnon and Cameron Mitchell have found the humanity as well as the humour in their characters. Mitchell captures Exotic’s hunger for attention. While McKinnon gives Baskin gravitas: her ambition and motivations are underpinned by loss and sadness
Lots of us have thought about making a big move abroad of late. That’s what two years largely confined to your hometown does to you. Still keeping the dream alive in 2022? Well, you should know an entire abandoned village in Canada has just gone up for sale, and it looks amazing
The hamlet of Edelweiss in British Columbia was built in 1910 for the Swiss guides and mountaineers who relocated to help tourists traverse the Rocky Mountains. The town’s buildings were built in a charming Alpine style, designed to mimic traditional European chalets
With its huge thatched atrium, stunning beach location, luxuriant garden and impressive variety of swimming pools, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the Casa Tau in the Mexican resort town of Punta Mita is just a typical – albeit very, very posh – holiday pad
The open fires of the charming cottages are what books are written about, while the entire district offers a conveyor belt of magical hotels. Mosey on the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway for old-fashioned charm before checking in on William Wordsworth's house
📍Isle of Skye
Scotland’s rugged north-west goes about its business as only it can, with alluring villages and medieval castles that create the perfect environment for a spot of romance. Book a night in a yurt for the ultimate back-to-basics experience
“Absolutely awful. Too many French people thought it was funny to throw croissants and pain aux chocolate at me! Not a fun experience”
“They wouldn’t let us in. Even though it was cold and rainy outside. The guards couldn’t even smile for a second. The Queen refused to open the door or even wave at the window”
The Love Island villa is on the move. Well, the villa itself isn’t moving anywhere – but the show is moving from its previous location on the Spanish island of Majorca. So obviously there’s one big question on everyone’s lips: where are the islanders heading?
For now, Love Island bosses haven’t confirmed a new location. They have said, however, that it’s pretty likely the show will stay in Majorca – and simply migrate to another villa. But let’s be honest, that would be boring. Very boring. Why not mix things up a bit?