The cast and crew of a new play opening shortly at Leeds Playhouse visited the FAN office recently to look at feminist posters and other materials from the 1970s. There Are No Beginnings focuses on the lives and relationships of four women during the time of the Ripper, including how the Reclaim the Night movement started. It opens on 11 October, and Feminist Archive North will … [Read more...]
Get your tickets for the Filia Conference 2019
Feminist campaigners, activists, artists, academics and revolutionaries will be descending on Bradford for this year's Filia conference, which takes place on 19 and 20 October. The conference brings together sisters taking down patriarchy, fighting injustices across the world, fighting violence towards women, pay disparity, discrimination against refugees, racism, classism... … [Read more...]
Lesbian Strength March and Rally in Leeds
Leeds, Saturday 7 September March leaves City Square 2pm, Rally at Millennium Square A march for lesbian women and a rally afterwards for lesbian women and all their female supporters will take place in Leeds on Saturday 7 September. The purpose of the rally is to celebrate all lesbians past and present from all walks of life, to draw strength and inspiration from a rich … [Read more...]
Were you at Greenham Common?
Leeds Playhouse has been in touch with Feminist Archive North for help in making contact with women who were at Greenham Common. The Playhouse is supporting writer Grace Barnes in her early research for a play about Greenham Common and specifically about women from Leeds and the wider north who were part of the protest. Grace is coming to Leeds in the week starting 4 November, … [Read more...]
There Are No Beginnings at Leeds Playhouse
One of the opening plays in the new revamped Leeds Playhouse looks at how women living in Leeds in the 1970s lived with the knowledge that a murderer was at large in the city. But this is not a play about the Yorkshire Ripper; instead, it explores the solidarity that formed amongst women, leading to the birth of the Reclaim the Night movement. The Feminist Archive North has … [Read more...]