Omena, one of our feminist webs young women features in this fun and uplifting music video… so check it out

(its the soundtrack to the vimto advert too!)

We are planning a conference open to women who are young, old and every age in between!

The theme is resilience!

It will be 12-4pm on Saturday 12th November.

If you would like to come along to participate, run a workshop or have a stall, then please contact us feministwebs@yahoo.co.uk or download the details Carnival Information and Application

We are making a book of our work under the main theme of resilience! We are looking for ideas for content and for people to contribute fun and exciting things, can include text as well as cartoons, pictures, mind maps.

It is very early stages, but if you have ideas, please come to our event on 10th September (see previous post) or email feministwebs@yahoo.co.uk

Some Feminist Webbers are keen to develop the archive we have at MMU, Didsbury (Room 101! in the admin building) and we are proposing a meeting there on 14th October.

It wil start at 1pm, so bring your own lunch! We will be discussing creating a collection policy, deciding what to exhibit in March at the People’s History Museum, updating the website pages, and we might also catalogue some new donations.

New people welcome, so do come along, no previous experience necessary either!

Unemployment figures out today (August 17th) show that women’s unemployment is now at its highest in more than 20 years – 1.05 million women are now unemployed,  the highest figure since May 1988. More than half a million women  – 512,700 – are now claiming job seekers allowance -  the highest figure since April 1996. Read more..

Melanie Byan has won Britains Real Role Model 2011 award

Full details can be found at: http://bit.ly/kBEYOB

This award is championed by Amway and came about in response to surveys that demonstrate that people, (and in particular young people), struggle to identify real role models. Melanie says:

“This is a huge and very unexpected honour and one that I feel a tremendous responsibility to live up to. There are so many amazing inspirational people out there to aspire to, that I find it very sad when people, and particularly young people, struggle to name anybody outside of celebrity circles as a role model. Over the years I have been inspired by many real people, including my primary school teacher, Mrs Stephenson who encouraged me to be incessantly curious and who taught me that nothing but my personal best is ever acceptable; and my Nana who showed me what  ‘giving back’ means in practice, and who embodied the saying that ‘if you want something doing, ask a busy person’. As my favourite African proverb says: if you think you’re too small to make a difference, you’ve never been to bed with a mosquito. We can all make a positive difference in our own way. I very much want this award to be a springboard for positive change, and will be actively exploring with Amway how we can work together to achieve this.  I look forward to an exciting year!”

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PART 3- ReCreation

Artists: Miri Segal, Gazira Babeli, Anne-Marie Schleiner, Helen Carmel Benigson

Curator: Philippa Found, ROLLO Contemporary Art

27^th November 2011 – 6^th January 2012 New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge

20^th January – 2^nd March 2012 ROLLO Contemporary Art, London

“Compelling”, “Art-History in the making” (TCS)

“It is Impossible not to get excited by this exhibition” (TCS)

“Not to be missed” (Posterous),

The Body in Women’s Art Now: Part 3-ReCreation, curated by ROLLO Contemporary Art Director Philippa Found, explores the shifting experience and status of the female body in relationship to new technologies and cyber worlds.

The third instalment of the critically acclaimed exhibition series brings together video and performance-video works by some of today’s most cutting edge artists, who by using new technologies and utilizing the internet as a source material in their art – using sites such as Second Life, Google, Twitter and Facebook – create artworks that comment upon the shifting status of the body in a technologically driven world.

To date the exhibition series has included works by internationally acclaimed artists – Tracey Emin, Cecily Brown, Nathalie Djurberg, Sigalit Landau, Regina Jose Galindo – alongside young up and coming artists –  Sarah Lederman and Helen Carmel Benigson – who have both been tipped as Artists To Watch in national press. The Body in Women’s Art Now Part 3 propels the exhibition series into the future showing cutting edge works by Miri Segal, Gazira Babeli, Anne-Marie Schleiner and Helen Carmel Benigson.

Please see the attached press release for further details

For further details about the exhibition, for images or to arrange interviews please contact Emily Johnson, ROLLO Contemporary Art on +44 (0)207 580 0020 or emily@rolloart.com