New Sisterhood: CELEBRATION!

Join us for a cheeky midweek party at Teesside Archives, to celebrate the successful conclusion of our New Sisterhood living history project inspired by the women activists on 1980s Teesside!

From 12 noon there will be a buffet lunch and pop-up creative stations in the Dorman Museum education space, where you can make your own badge and mini-zine, and peruse Tees Zine Works' suitacase library of radical zines.

Take a tour through our exhibition downstairs, then drop in to the Archives, where our New Sisterhood podcast will be playing on headphones for you to check out. Featuring new poems from our participants and poets-in-residence, and fascinating interviews with the women who were there during the 1980s fight for women's and LGBTQIA rights. Flick through some vintage feminist magazines while you listen!

Then at 2pm we will hear live performances from poets and learn some Greenham Common protest songs with musician Sara Dennis. Everyone takes away a free copy of our New Sisterhood printed zine anthology, containing poems, artwork, and personal refelctions by members of Tees Women Poets, Hart Gables, Tees Valley Women's Centre, Middlesbrough Voices, and Connect 360.

This project is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

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