We are very excited to give you the first details of our weekender, raising money for two amazing local charities we are supporting this year- Survivors Of Depression In Transit and Young Womens Housing Project.
We will be making lots of announcements as the time gets closer, but to give you a bit of an idea what is coming up we can tell you the following:
Friday Nov 2nd – We will be hosting an event as part of the Off The Shelf literary festival alongside a LaDIYfest Sheffield opening party. This will be at Harland Cafe from 7pm until 11pm and is open to all. We will be collecting donations for our charities on the door instead of tickets.
Saturday Nov 3rd – We are holding a day of workshops at the Quaker Meeting House from 10am – 4pm. Following this there will be an evening of live music and djs at Penelopes, from 6pm until late.
Sunday Nov 4th – There will be a vegan lunch social from 1pm with acts and activities from 3pm until 9pm all at Harland Cafe.
A range of tickets will be available for the Saturday and Sunday events operating on a similar basis to all our events whereby everyone is able to attend on a ‘donate what/if you can’ basis.
Lots more details will be available nearer the time on the event page and also posted to the blog and Facebook group. If you have any ideas or suggestions please contact us and if you want to get involved you can join our mailing list or please come along to one of our meetings or drop us an email.
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About ladiyfestsheffield
LaDIYfest (noun) (pron; lay dee aye why fest)
LaDIYfest Sheffield is an inclusive, DIY, anti-capitalist, community-based feminist collective involved with local activism and a range of events and activities, culminating in a weekend of festivities at the end of the year. In 2012 we will be running a series of discussion groups and practical workshops discussing feminist issues whilst continuing to organise socials and fundraise for local community groups.
We want to create a celebration of women with an emphasis on the artistic, the creative and the political. We oppose the part that capitalism plays in the oppression of women. We want to raise awareness of women’s issues and engage local women with local women’s organisations to create a more equal society for everyone. We will do this by providing a platform to highlight feminist and LGBTQ art, projects and activism through music; performance art; spoken word; films; discussion; art exhibitions and practical workshops, promoting social change in a non-discriminatory environment.
LaDIYfest Sheffield is part of a global movement which grew out of the DIY and Riot Grrrl scenes. Since the first Ladyfest, which was held in Olympia USA in August 2000, feminists worldwide have adopted the name and organised Ladyfests in their own towns. We salute you for inspiring us to continue making this happen.
LaDIYfest Sheffield is organised by a collective of volunteers and led primarily by self identified women but anyone who shares our goals is welcome to get involved.
We hope people of all genders, abilities, ages, ethnicities and sexualities will feel welcome to participate!
