Hidden in History: Suffrage Day Breakfast
Schedule
Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 at 09:45 pm
UTC+12:00Location
1 Tennyson Street, Napier, New Zealand 4110 | Napier, HB
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Join us for a Suffrage Day Breakfast on NZ Suffrage Day. You ticket includes a talk and Q&A session with Hidden in History curator Professor Emeritus Kay Morris Matthews, light breakfast, tea & coffee.New Zealand Suffrage Day is celebrated on the 19 September each year, the day when the New Zealand Women’s Suffrage Bill was passed into law in 1893. As a result, New Zealand women won the right to vote in general elections.
But winning the vote was not easy. Women suffragists had to change the tide of conservative opinion which relegated adult women to domestic roles in the private sphere, home-based and dependent upon men. Their seeking equal suffrage rights with men in the public sphere, represented a direct challenge to traditionally held beliefs in relation to the place of women in New Zealand society. Using a variety of strategies and political actions they worked hard to achieve their goal.
Many of Hawke’s Bay suffragists were trailblazers in their professions and in their communities. Several feature within the MTG’s current exhibition Hidden in History. Join us for a breakfast floor talk where the challenges of the Hawke’s Bay suffragists will be outlined and their collective actions celebrated.
Limited tickets - $20 (MTG Friends $15)
Includes talk and Q&A with curator Professor Emeritus Kay Morris Matthews, light breakfast, tea & coffee.
Please advise if you have any dietary restrictions.
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