Alternative arts programme plan to regenerate new unity house, former home of suffragettes.
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New Unity Meeting House is widely hailed as ‘the birth place of feminism’ due to its connections to Sylvia Pankhurst and Mary Wollestoncraft.
The women made up part of the East London Federation of Suffragettes. The Alternative Arts, plan to restore this building to its former glory in its project The Women’s Hall.
Events run over the next few weeks and the public are welcome to visit and learn more about the project.
Volunteering opportunities include helping create the programme of events, helping run the cost price kitchen and showing visitors around the exhibition. There are many ways to engage in the event that are all pioneered to celebrate these suffragettes.
One of the highlights of the project is the exhibition of Nora Smith’s photographs of Sylvia Pankhurst, she was able to keep a detailed record of the trials of the Suffragettes.
Maggie Higgins, the director of Alternative Arts, told City News that while this project is about remembering and serialising the struggles of the East London Federation of Suffragettes, this is important because it’ll also highlight the issues that women are facing today. She notes that equal pay and affordable childcare are issues that troubled both the Suffragettes and women now.
Both men and women are welcome to come visit and volunteer. The project started at the beginning of the month and will work to complete the Women’s Hall project in May.
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New Unity Meeting House is widely hailed as ‘the birth place of feminism’ due to its connections to Sylvia Pankhurst and Mary Wollestoncraft.
The women made up part of the East London Federation of Suffragettes. The Alternative Arts, plan to restore this building to its former glory in its project The Women’s Hall.
Events run over the next few weeks and the public are welcome to visit and learn more about the project.
Volunteering opportunities include helping create the programme of events, helping run the cost price kitchen and showing visitors around the exhibition. There are many ways to engage in the event that are all pioneered to celebrate these suffragettes.
One of the highlights of the project is the exhibition of Nora Smith’s photographs of Sylvia Pankhurst, she was able to keep a detailed record of the trials of the Suffragettes.
Maggie Higgins, the director of Alternative Arts, told City News that while this project is about remembering and serialising the struggles of the East London Federation of Suffragettes, this is important because it’ll also highlight the issues that women are facing today. She notes that equal pay and affordable childcare are issues that troubled both the Suffragettes and women now.
Both men and women are welcome to come visit and volunteer. The project started at the beginning of the month and will work to complete the Women’s Hall project in May.
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