Sugar & Spice 4: Women in Action!
When:
Where: Lesbian & Gay Foundation, 3rd Floor, Princess House, Manchester, M1 6DD / Sackville Garden’s, Manchester / Vanilla, Richmond Street, Manchester
Sugar & Spice is back, and this year we want lesbian and bisexual women to take action ahead of International Women's Day.
March in March
For the first time in its four year history, Sugar & Spice will be heading out of the Lesbian and Gay Foundation and on to the streets of Manchester. Come and join us, as we march through the streets of the city, suffragette style, raising awareness of your issues and demanding equality for women.
The march route highlights the invisibility of women in Manchester - apart from Queen Victoria no other woman of note warrants a statue in the city - despite it being the home of Emmaline and Christabel Pankhurst and the suffragette movement. It's ironic that the only statue should be that of Queen Vic - who famously denied the existence of lesbians!
The march starts at the Lesbian & Gay Foundation at 11am on Sunday 7 March, we'll be taking in Thomas Street in the Northern Quarter (the proposed site of a Emmaline Pankhurst statue, where there now stands a statue of a broom! Female domestic oppression anyone?), Market Street, and Queen Victoria's statue in Piccadilly Gardens, our final destination will be Manchester Town Hall. We will be marching with sashes, banners and placards; proclaiming what lesbian and bisexual women across the world want and need.
Speak out in Sackville Gardens
After the march, we head to Sackville Garden's from 2 till 4 for an afternoon of action and empowerment. We encourage you to voice your opinions alongside the Sugar & Spice guest speakers in 'Speaker's Corner', find out about registering to vote in the 'Take Action' booth, or simply enjoy the range of activities that are on offer, including: the craft tent, poetry, free food, info tents and much, much more.
Rock out at Vanilla
We'll be rendevouzing at Vanilla (Richmond Street, Manchester) from 5pm till 7pm with the best grrrl bands in town; The Lonesome Georgina's and Sappho's Apostles will be plugging in and rocking out.
So come on girls lets make the Pankhursts proud - and take action!
Sugar & Spice 4 is completely free, and takes place on Sunday 7 March 2010 (11am-7pm), contact Annie Emery on 0161 235 8035, or email her on annie@lgf.org.uk for access enquiries and more information on the event.