Thursday 14^th March 2019 – 12:00 until 20:00 – The Venue@DMU.

Come and join us in celebrating the strengths, creativity, unity and wit of women across Leicestershire.
*Stop Press* New artists just confirmed:
Abena Bediako: poet and singer, Ishi Khan-Jackson: comedian,
Sarah Davies: writer, poet and comedian,
Rosa Fernandez: poet, Leonie Dubarry-Gurr: musician,
Sandra Pollock: poet, author and singer.

Hear local inspirational women speakers:

• Glynis Wright, Heather Savigny and Daisy Richards: See It Be It: Media Representation and Role Models
• Zinthiya Ganeshpanchan: Barriers for BAME Women’s Empowerment
• Sue Grogan: Setting Up a Business – Passion, Pressure and Pitfalls
• Councillor Elaine Pantling: The Life and Work of Alice Hawkins, Leicester Suffragette
• Sandra Pollock: Being Black and Female in Business
• Julie Fish: Queerying LBTQ -Women’s Activism in Everyday Life
• Glynis Wright: The Development of a Family Law Practice
• Bertha Ochieng: Developing Solutions for Addressing the Health and Social Care Needs of Women
• Farhana Sheikh: Women Building Skills for Business
• Ulrike Kubatta: Shaping the Powerful Woman –Transformation and Documentary Storytelling.

Stroll around stalls from various women’s groups across Leicestershire including:

• Women’s Equality Party,
• WALL and UAVA,
• Zinthiya Trust,
• Sharma Women’s Centre,
• Clare Walker Consultancy,
• Victim First, C
• LASP Carers Centre,
• Police and Crime Commissioner.

Visit our FUn Living Library: chat one-to-one with people like you who want to give voice to a part of their life story; an aspect which is often stereotyped and stigmatised.