TALKS / IWD 2019
TALKS / IWD 2019 FOLKESTONE MUSEUM PRESENTS
FOLKESTONE WOMEN’S FORUM PRESENTS
Thursday 24 January, 7.30pm
Sunday 10 March, 7.30pm
Tickets £5
Tickets £3
100 years after the tragic death in WW1 of Folkestone-born Walter Tull – one of the first black professional footballers – we ask what is Walter’s legacy? How has the game changed for footballers of colour; do they still face racism and do institutional barriers to career progression still exist for players, coaches and managers?
When you were growing up did you talk about froo froos, tuppences, or lady gardens or were vaginas and vulvas more commonly referred to? And what does it mean that when we say the C-word we’re conjuring up generations of shame and taboo?
Walter Tull His Footballing Legacy
Emma Rees Vulvanomics
Emma Rees is Professor of Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Chester and Director of the Institute of Gender Studies. In Vulvanomics, an informative, sometimes light-hearted talk based on her acclaimed book, Emma considers the often surprising origins of how we talk about vaginas, and why people have such a problem doing so in a candid way. If we confront the taboo, she argues, we can also confront the real-world abuses it currently masks.
A series of presentations and a panel discussion as part of Walter Tull: His Life and Legacy at Folkestone Museum supported by Shepway Sports Trust. Distinguished ex-players will be joined by key campaigners working in the field of equality and diversity in sport from FIFA, Manchester United, the PFA and sports journalism.
International Women’s Day 2019 26 February to 10 March Folkestone Women’s Forum, Women UnLtd, Quarterhouse and Folkestone Fringe present a programme of events to mark International Women’s Day with films, talks, workshops, performances and an exhibition plus a Female Beat disco celebrating women in music across the decades and Pop-Up Cafes from Sistahintheraw and Custom Folkestone. Full programme at www.quarterhouse.co.uk/ festivals/IWD2019 There is an open call for the art exhibition to women and gendernonconforming artists. Please email internationalwomensday@ folkestonefringe.com for submission details. Box Office 01303 760750
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Danny Dorling Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of the Empire Thursday 14 March, 7.30pm Tickets £10 / £8 concession Danny Dorling, a leading thinker on inequality in Britain argues that sorting ourselves out post Brexit, is going to require a great deal of introspection, that what we see may not be pleasant, and that Brexit – however it comes – may be part of the cure. Professor of Geography at University of Oxford, Danny Dorling is a leading thinker on inequality in Britain. Author of Peak Inequality and increasingly heard on TV and radio, his work is authorative, insightful and entertaining, revealing the shameful and widening gap between rich and poor in contemporary Britain. He is that rare university professor: expert, politically engaged and able to explain simply why his subject matters. The Guardian 17
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