women

For fuck’s sake.

Celebrating a century of female film makers, BEV 2011 opens today on International Women’s Day.

Do not go expecting six miniature stage versions of The Shawshank Redemption. Charged at Soho Theatre is not Clean Break’s attempt to recreate that heartwarming tale of human dignity and male friendship for women. Instead, these six plays by women about women affected by the …

‘Khanom’: title, term of address, woman, mother, mistress and obedient. Talk about loaded. Iranian-born photographer Nourshin Ourmazd explores these complex themes in her small studio exhibition. Examining the crises of identity faced by Iranian women, she hints at the restrictions placed on women by material …

Launderettes, as Eastenders loves to emphasise, inspire detailed, intimate and unexpectedly honest conversations between people who barely know one another. Artists Clare Qualmann and academic Emily Butterworth are leading Spinning Stories, an unusual walk tomorrow evening, a ‘laundry walk’ that links the Women’s Library, public …

The Temptress Following on from the Birds Eye Film Festival earlier this year, Birds Eye View matches world-class contemporary musicians with classic silent films at Kings Place. The screenings mix excellence in music and film with specially commissioned live scores written and performed by cutting …

The BBC has done a First Time Voters’ Question Time and now women’s charity Eaves is hosting a Women’s Question Time. Anyone would think there was a general election coming up. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown chairs the panel, made up of Vera Baird QC MP (Labour), Theresa …

Image by JudyGr from the Londonist Flickr pool After some seriously high-profile haranguing, Boris Johnson has kept his election campaign pledge to open three new rape crisis centres in London and continue funding the Croydon centre. It’s not the £744,000 a year he promised to …

Oh dear. There we were, all excited by a Women in History talk in Putney next week, when we got news that Waterstones had cancelled. And more fool them, because we saw a similar line-up in Kensington the other week and it was smashing. Anyway, …

Women wanting to learn traditional skills without having an ironic or trendy twist, women wanting to meet people in their local area without having to speed-date them all, women who want to hang out without an emphasis on getting v. drunk… these are the women …