Franki Raffles | Catrina McHugh MBE: One Play At A Time

Doors open 17:45. Event begins 18:00
Pay bar available

The Franki Raffles exhibition at Baltic brings attention to women’s lives, addressing issues of inequality, gendered violence, disability, activism and sisterhood. This event explores these issues in discussion with Catrina McHugh MBE, Hon DLitt, joint CEO, Artistic Director and Writer of Open Clasp Theatre Company, who will be joined for this evening discussion by Baltic x Northumbria University academics and curators (to be announced).
We are in the midst of unprecedented public and political attention to forms of gendered violence such as intimate partner violence, coercive control, sexual abuse, and digital gendered violations. Violence against women – particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence – “is a major public and clinical health problem and a violation of women’s human rights” (World Health Organization).

Departing from the Franki Raffles exhibition, the discussion will talk with and around the work of Open Clasp who co-create plays with women excluded by theatre and society to create bold and urgent theatre for personal, social and political change. This work ignites activism and places theatre at the heart of transforming the lives of women and girls. It calls for revolution. One play at a time. Please join us.

There is no charge to attend this event, and we encourage donation tickets. If you're unable to attend the event, we are unfortuantley unable to refund your donation

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Host or Publisher Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art