Dear Friends
Monday, 4th March 6pm-7.30pm
Screening of ‘Lady of No Fear’
Room 109, 30 Russell Square
Co-organized with Birkbeck’s Amnesty International Society.
This 2010 documentary offers an in-depth portrait of Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. A tribute to an inspiring leader whose commitment to non-violent resistance has remained unwavering, despite many personal sacrifices.
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Monday, 4th March 7.45pm-9pm
Million Women Rise Banner Making
Room 102, 28 Russell Square
All materials provided at this banner making session for the upcoming march on March 9th. Refreshments and music too!
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Friday, 8th March 6pm-7.30pm
Women in Enterprise
Co-organized by the SU Enterprise Network
We will be joined by Amanda Jones, social entrepreneur and winner of a Cosmopolitan magazine ‘Woman of the Year’ award and
Jessica Rose, Birkbeck Student, winner of NatWest everywoman Awards 2012 and director of Europe’s largest Jewellery training centre.
Followed by Q&A and semi-structured networking over wine and nibbles.
– Russell Square #8 Pankhurst residence (now part of the Russell hotel)
#56 – Mary Russell Mitford home- Tavistock Place (where Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Ward debated women’s suffrage in 1909)- Tavistock Square #52 Virginia Woolf residence (one of). T. hotel stands there now
– Monument to Dame Louisa Aldrich Blake
– Bronze statue of Gandhi by sculptor Fredda Brilliant- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital
– Gordon Square #46 Home of Vanessa and Virginia Woolf
#50 Plaque commemorating Bloomsbury Group
#51 Strachey family home (Lady Jane and Ray)
– Torrington Square – home of Christina Rossetti
– Gower St. – UCL (students and achievement) – I think we can add Birkbeck to this!
#2 Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett home