Launch Day

Saturday 5th March 10.30am – 4pm International Women’s Festival Launch CMTM Millenium Place,
Celebratiing a 100 years of International Women's Day
Information Stalls, Entertainment – International dance and choirs, Women of Achievement Awards, Beauty treatments, History Trail – Highlighting womens roles during the second world war Costumed guides lives in the second world war – fashion and clothes, rationing, make up and hair, food and kitchen, make do and mend. Children’s stories and face painting.

Guest apprearance by Paven Virk, the writer of The Usual Auntijies, and Jasvir Kang,

Jasvir is also a poet and a writer and is integral to the story of The Usual Auntijies as it was adapted from one of Jasvir’s short stories called Geji.

approximate entertainment times

10:00 Freemans Dance School
10:50 The Usual Auntijies - poetry reading
11:20 Wyken Croft
11:40 Yoga exhibition join in if you want
12:00 Street Dance
12:30 Adriana Atkinson - Learn to speak Spanish
14:00 Talk by novolist Sue Wheeler on her book
"Do I look like I have Breast Cancer"
14:10-16:00 Women of Achievement Awards hosted by
Kirsty Leahy
15:00 Anna Lewis - Talks about her amazing designs


Workshops

Well Now - Launching a book club for health at every size
Belgrade Theatre - Theatre workshops
Coventry Womens Voices - Share your journey in life with us to make a stream become a river, highlihting the events that have changed the direction of your life.

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