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Monthly Events 09

• HOUSE OF THE HOLY AFRO by Third World Bunfight Conceived and directed by Brett Bailey. 5th-8th Aug /
  Early Bird offer now on more
• The Institut for Cultural Diplomacy Spring Programs 2009 more
  
• Black Women Resistance Leaders 1600-2000
  Sunday 27th September 1pm-4.30pm more

Ongoing Events 09

• THE RISE OF WOMEN ARTISTS. From 16th century to present day - Walker Art Gallery. Works by some of history's most celebrated women artists are featured in a compelling new exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery. 23 October 2009 to 14 March 2010 more
• A Sweet Life: Fashion in a Liverpool sugar merchant’s family 9 April 2009 – Spring 2010 at Sudley House more
• Imperial War Museum London
  ongoing Events and Exhibitions view
• Between the Covers
  Women’s Magazines & their Readers. New exhibition at The Women’s Library Castle St E1 more
• London’s Burning
  The Great Fire of London 1666 more
• Diana, Princess of Wales
  at the National Portrait Gallery, London more

Articles, tributes, and areas of interest to Women + news updates from other sites...
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Old News Archive by date
Old News Archive by category

• New: HRW 13th International Film Festival: Tapologo Film Review, South Africa/Spain. more
  Back Home Tomorrow, UK Premiere more
• New: Make every day International Women's Day read more
• New: Do you know the "Sisters in the HOUSE"? more
• Una Marson Southwark Blue Plaque unveiling more
• Ethnic diversity in schools reduces discrimination more
• Special report on Women & Philanthropy: PDF version | web version
• Mary Peters, born in Liverpool, moved at 11 to Northern Ireland. Through much hard work, and determination, Peters won a gold medal & world record in the pentathlon at the Munich Olympics in 1972... Read On...
• Emma Goldman belonged to a group of artists, writers, & intellectuals, mostly libertarians, some revolutionaries... united by rejection of bourgeois culture & fervour for causes like socialism, labour movement, sexual freedom, anarchism, & feminism. Read On...
• United Nations Development Programme:
  Millennium Development Goals. Read On...
• Louise Michel, French anarchist school teacher, and leader of The Paris Commune. Read On...
• 100 Black Screen Icons is a unique website that sheds light on 100 of the most significant black personalities in film and television and asks visitors to vote on their favorite in four different categories.
  more

Poetry

• On the Pulse of Morning by Dr. Maya Angelou read

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• This was a speech made by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Anna Quindlen at the graduation ceremony of an American university where she was awarded an Honorary PhD. more

• PATH National Ltd Management Development Programme (MDP)
• Nubian Natural - Staff needed
  

Details of opportunities, funding, competitions, "call for papers", appeals for volunteers, and much more...

• New: Inspire MA (RCA) Curating Contemporary Art. From October 2009, the Royal College of Art’s Curating Contemporary Art Department will offer a new MA for aspiring curators from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds. This development of Arts Council England’s Inspire initiative will offer a vocational and academic curriculum more Closing date for completed applications: Monday 13 July 2009
• New: Film London in partnership with Imperial War Museum and Yorkshire Film Archive, supported by Skillset, invite you to attend the Black Screen Heritage Conference. Friday 31 July more
• New: Five Minutes of Fire Short Film Competition
  Calling all fanatical and passionate film producers, flamboyant cultivators of the moving image! Five Minutes of Fire challenges you to create and submit short films around the theme of Desire. more
• New: WAPPY (Writing, Acting and Publishing Project for Youngsters) is getting even closer and places for the summer sessions are almost fully booked! more
• Following the publication of the £42.5 million action plan ‘Real Help for Communities: Volunteers, Charities and Social Enterprises’, the Office of the Third Sector is holding 9 free regional roadshows for small and medium frontline third sector organisations to provide a practical understanding of how to access the support available. more
• bfm International Film Festival is the largest and longest running platform for Black World Cinema in the UK. We are now welcoming submissions for the 11th International Film Festival. The festival will take place in venues across London from 6th – 10th November 2009more
• The National Black Women’s Network is collaborating with GLE oneLondon to launch the free Women’s Home Based Business workshop. info
• CSAS Alert: Escaping Victimhood – 2009 workshops for those bereaved by gun or knife crime more
• BT Community Connections is now open for you to apply for a free laptop and a year’s broadband connection. more
• Scottish Storytelling Centre: Storytelling has the ability to unlock creative potential, to improve speaking and listening skills, to enable the sharing of memories and experiences, to encourage understanding, awareness and inclusion, and to strengthen professional and local communities. more

• Various Grants and Funding opportunities more
• SOUTHALL BLACK SISTERS NO RECOURSE FUND more
• Defra launched its 3rd sector strategy on Monday and this included the launch of a new Greener Living Fund which is aimed at 3rd sector organisations who can delivery programmes at a national scale but with local reach. more
• O2 It’s Your Community Awards. Grants to local groups and individuals for anything that can be shown to benefit the community, including cultural, environmental and rebuilding and restoring projects. more
• Nominations for the CHANGEit Awards are now open The awards are for young people between 11-18 years old that have made a positive impact on their local communities. more
• The ASDA Foundation Trust was set up in 1988 to support local good causes chosen by employees, which is funded by profits from the mid-week national lottery. more
• Futurebuilders England has launched a new website and revealed it no longer offers application forms more
• Lewisham Way Youth & Community Centre are working in conjunction with The Bridge and are now able to offer the following range of courses within our organisation. more
• Some more excellent funding opportunities more
• The Funding News from SYFAB website has regular news and updates about funding opportunities for community and voluntary organisations. more
• The BBC Children in Need website has now been updated. Visit the website to view the new online grant application form and guidance information. visit site | Grant application deadlines
• The V&A's Create! programme for young people runs activities and events to explore and create design. Now we'd like to involve young people's ideas in planning our activities and in producing content for the V&A website more
• Kush Community Arts & Media Development in association with Collage Arts is looking for organisations more
• Various Funding Opportunities more
• The Centre for Caribbean Studies is offering a relatively new post graduate course - the -'MA Caribbean Literature and Creole Poetics'.
• OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS & FILMMAKERS more
• Computers are being given away to people over 50 under a new scheme. more
• JDYA: A newly formed youth group would like to get in contact with students of Jamaican descent within Nottingham and the wider UK. more
  
• Kelly Dooley Questionnaire: I am conducting research to support a Masters degree I am working towards in Creative and Media Education. more
  
• AJAMU is a self funded organisation that is currently in its second year of organising. It consists of members of the public who live in North and East London, these members have taken it upon themselves to make a positive change within Haringey. read more
• YPF 2 Local Grants Programme Open
  The Young People’s Fund 2 local grants programme will make available £38 million to support projects lead by young people across England. read more
• Naomi Watson, a PhD student at Leicester. Ms Watson would like to dialogue with people involved or with family members in nursing. more

Details of various training opportunities.
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• New: Hearts to Africa have help to put together a day called “Unlimited Voluntary Community Commitment” when the minimum of 1000 people will help in the Improvements of their villages, public buildings, build eco waste sites and clean drinking water. more
• New: Paul Mountain All Age School, Fundraising Project. I am looking for 100 individuals to contribute £10 (more if you wish) to an appeal to raise £1000 to purchase a photocopier for my old school in Paul Mountain, St Catherine, Jamaica. And I want to raise this money by the end of March! Can you help? more
• Family petition over NHS sickle cell drug ban
• "HELP SAVE TOMI AGE 4"
  In March 2006, he was diagnosed as suffering from T-Cell Leukemia a cancer of the white blood cells. We need as many people as possible to come forward and join the bone marrow register to give Tomi and many other sufferers a better opportunity to save their lives. More info

Women's Health, Women & Work, Women & the Law, and much much more... Go to Links

• Forum for Black Women Entrepreneurs, Mompreneurs, and Authors... more info
• Mia Morris: The search for the truth
  A must read
• More Women's Centres
• Anti-Bullying Events for Young people
• WIMFEST Liverpool is Liverpool’s own Women’s International Music Festival.

Workshops from Wellplaced Consultancy. Speakers, experts, presentations, resource lists, and workbooks (for schools) and more ... Go to Workshops

• School and College Presentations - Can include "creative animateurs" - writers, filmmakers, poets etc; Can include "themedays" - e.g. citizenship, first impressions count, work experience preparation day, Black history and experience workshops; etc...
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• "Mia Morris is one of the most energetic and passionate speaker on a topic which is boundless - the search for truth of the past."
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History of IWM, About the IWM website, Profiles, Contacts & so on...
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• Like our sister site, Black History Month, the International Women's Month website is year round, not just for the month, and aims to support campaigns in the community. This site is developing, so please bear with us. There will be plenty of updates, and new events, and we hope to build this site into an exciting new resource.... Read more

What people say about IWM & Workshops ...
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• "Thank you very much for the lovely afternoon. I thoroughly enjoyed myself, I felt very much part of it. I went home so much happier than normal day. I felt part of myself telling me I should get to do something for myself like going back to studying. Also talked about the whole afternoon to my grown up children"