CRCC Firewalk
Posted: 10 March 2013 Filed under: Charity Fundraising, Events | Tags: cambridge rape crisis centre, charity events, firewalk, raising money Leave a comment
Would you skip barefoot over 20ft of hot coals to raise money for our local rape crisis centre?
CRCC has helped so many women in our region- maybe you or maybe someone you know has been listened to and believed. We need funds to increase our helpline opening hours and launch a new email support service.
If you would like to do a daring, fear conquering challenge and raise money for the centre at the same time this is one for you…
We invite you to take part in our first ever
FIREWALK
Thursday 11th April from 5.30pm Scotsdales Garden Centre
An unmissable opportunity to conquer your fearsand walk barefoot across 20ft of burning embers unharmed!
On the night of the firewalk, participants will undergo a two hour training session which will prepare them for the challenge of taking their first step onto embers burning at around 1200 degrees fahrenheit!
Dare you walk across burning coals?
To guarantee your place in this spectacular event, simply register by visiting www.everyclick.com/crccfirewalk. Registration is just £25 and we ask you to raise a minimum sponsorship of £125. Once you’ve registered we’ll send you a fundraising pack full of ideas and sponsorship forms to get you started – and you’ll get a t-shirt to wear on the night!
For more info, please email crccfirewalk@gmail.com
Million Women Rise in London this Saturday 9 March
Posted: 5 March 2013 Filed under: Events, feminism Leave a comment
(Trigger warning for discussion of violence against women)
Million Women Rise is a march and rally which takes place anually in London (not to be confused with Billion Women Rise, which is a completely different thing). MWR was founded in 2007 by Sabrina Qureshi, a campaigner and former womens’ sector advocacy worker. The event’s organisers are grassroots campaigners, without corporate endorsements or ties to large charities or NGOs.
From the Million Women Rise website:
This year we have already seen the rape of millions of women throughout the world and we are only in February. We have heard the German authorities apologies to a teenage girl for sending her to a brothel to get work… The Gang Rape and murder of a 17 year old girl in South Africa and the protest from our sisters in South Africa… Many of you have been at the ongoing protests supporting the voices of women of India after the gang rape in India of a young woman who is now dead… We have witnessed the Irish government commit murder of a woman who was denied her human rights to an abortion…Women in Egypt have spoken out against state sponsored Violence Against Women…
And we will not ignore the ongoing rape and genocide of our sisters and children across the world from Easten Congo to Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Palestine, Ivory Coast, Mali, Pakistan, Bangladesh, London, Bradford, Bolivia, Brazil, fromTamil women to Wales, East Europe, western Europe to the Americas to name a few.
Male violence against women is pandemic, it is organised and systematic, ENOUGH is ENOUGH!
This year’s event will take place on Saturday 9th March, meeting at 12pm Oxford Street (Outside Selfridges). Oxford Street and Regent Street will be closed as women march through the West End, ending with a rally at Trafalgar Square.
The one concern I have about this event is that the website makes no mention of whether trans women are welcome to take part, and the slogan “One Woman, One Body, One Song, One Love” sounds like it could exclude trans women. I hope that in future years the organisers will make it clear that all self-defining women are invited to come together for this important event, to rally against the misogynistic violence which hurts us all.
Million Women Rise official website
Million Women Rise donations page
International Women’s Day- BOOK NOW!
Posted: 13 February 2013 Filed under: Events 1 CommentYo, info and bookings for IWD can be found here:
Book places at the conference and other events ASAP! It will be a great and inspiring day.
More fundraising!
Posted: 5 February 2013 Filed under: Cambridge, cambridge rape crisis centre, Events Leave a commentSo Cambridge women are skilled and talented and generous and resourceful and generally wonderful. You hopefully already knew this, but as further evidence I present not one but two events coming up in the next few weeks showcasing their talents AND raising money for Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre (which is in itself a great organisation run by a pretty amazing group of women).
On Friday Women’s Work: a celebration of female performers is happening at 8 pm at The Fountain.
From the Facebook event – “A night of eclectic and bombastic music, dance, poetry and visual art from Cambridge’s finest female performers and creative types.
Held in The Fountain’s cosy and welcoming function room on the top floor 🙂 Doors open at 7.30pm and the entertainment starts at 8. There will also be a merchandise table with work from some of the performers, and the proceeds from this will be going to CRCC.
This extraordinary event boasts the talents of 8 incredible women doing the very simple thing of standing up and being heard – come along and show your support for a very worthwhile cause.
£4.50 on the door (student £3.50)”
And next week at the ADC Theatre, a production of The Vagina Monologues is being put on – “This episodic ensemble by Eve Ensler presents a series of testimonies, ‘Vagina Interviews’, conducted with women from all over the world back in the 90s. The women’s various perspectives provide a delicate blend of comedy and tragedy which will have you both rolling in your seats and moved by the stark reality of the violence women face every day.
This all-female empowering speak- out hopes to raise both money for Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre and awareness for V-Day, Stop Violence Against Women Day, founded by Eve Ensler herself.”
Both events are the culmination of lots of hard work, and I feel a possibly unjustified vicarious pride in the achievements of my Cambridge sisters.
Charity Zumbathon!
Posted: 4 February 2013 Filed under: cambridge rape crisis centre, Charity, Events | Tags: cambridge rape crisis centre, charity fundraiser, feminist events, zumba, zumbathon Leave a comment
Charity Zumbathon in aid of Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre
Sunday 3rd March:2 – 5pm (doors open at 1.30pm) at Netherhall School, Queen Edith’s Way, Cambridge
Tickets £10 in advance or £12 on the door (book early to reserve your place by contacting camzumbathon@gmail.com)
FAC Discussion: Feminism and Class
Posted: 28 January 2013 Filed under: Events | Tags: Events, feminism and class Leave a comment
Wednesday the 27th of February
20:00
Friends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane, CB5 8GA
Cambridge Reclaim the Night, 28th January
Posted: 20 January 2013 Filed under: Events, Uncategorized | Tags: Events, Reclaim the Night Leave a commentReclaim the Night is happening on 28th January, organised by CUSU Women’s Campaign.
Info from the Facebook event –
Women have the right to live free from fear. Women have the right to walk free from fear. We want to claim this right. So join us on 28th January to demand an end to street harrassment and violence against women. We will be meeting at 8pm at the lamppost in the centre of Parker’s Piece and marching down Regent’s Street, through the market and ending up and King’s College Chapel where a candlelit vigil and a speaker event will happen.
The route is wheelchair accessible.The march from Parker’s piece is open to all self-defining women and children.
There will be a solidarity demo outside Great St. Mary’s from 8pm for allies.If anyone wants to come just for the vigil in King’s Chapel that is completely fine! It is open to everyone and will begin around 8.45pm.Please join us to demand safer streets!
Contact womens@cusu.cam.ac.uk or g.foreman@angliastudent.com with any questions.
FAC Review: Important Info & Update
Posted: 22 December 2012 Filed under: Events Leave a comment
FAC 2013 Review Meeting: 23rd Jan, 8:00pm @ The Friends Meeting House http://goo.gl/maps/4ME7Y
Festive Feminists! Before the holiday merriment begins – an update prior to our Jan Review.
Please have a good think ahead of our important January meeting as we will be making key decisions that affect the group. Feel free to bring some of your own notes to the meeting if you want, to ask questions in advance by replying to the email sent round on our mailing list, on the facebook event page or here in the comments.
What is this meeting for?
The review meeting in January will be to decide on the direction or aims of the group, try to fix any problems, and to decide on key issues affecting the way the group is run and what it is. It will not be a theoretical discussion meeting, but will be a practical planning and admin meeting. We will try to reach consensus decisions, but votes will also be taken. Unfortunately, we will not be accepting votes from those who do not attend, or suggestions for goals from those who cannot put any work into making those things happen. In short, if you care- attend the meeting. Decisions made at this meeting will affect the whole group and will be binding until the next review or similar admin meeting.
Who is facilitating this meeting?
Two women from FAC [one a long time organiser and one a newer member] will be running this meeting, and they aim to get through all items on the agenda, get final decisions from the group on key issues, allocate tasks and responsibilities if needed and all within a time limit of two and a half hours! Because of this they will be facilitating in a direct way and may have to push for decisions and limit discussion time.
Who is this meeting for?
Anyone can come to this meeting. It is particularly important to come if you care about the group, if you are involved in organising or if you have a particular point of view you’d like to have represented. Because no one person is ‘in charge’ of FAC or responsible for making things happen, if you wish to see changes or certain things happening you will have to help to make this a reality.
What will we be making decisions on?
We will be making decisions on items from the agenda, which has been circulated through the mailing list and on the facebook event page. You can add items to the agenda by editing the googledoc or replying to the email circular, however, we have a time limit for this meeting and some items have been requiring attention for months- so our facilitators will have
to prioritise.
What if we don’t get to talk about everything?
We have enough money from our funding pot to organise an extra meeting if this is needed- this could be in the same place or somewhere else, and could also be on a Saturday or a weeknight. We will decide at the end of the January meeting if this is needed.
Happy Holidays!
xxx
FAC 2013 Review
Posted: 3 December 2012 Filed under: Events | Tags: Events Leave a commentWhat do we want from and for our feminist group in 2013?
FAC 2013 Review Meeting: 23rd Jan, 8:00pm @ The Friends Meeting House http://goo.gl/maps/4ME7Y
This first meeting of the year is an organising meeting for us to talk to each other about how we are finding the group, what we like and dislike about it, how we might like to change it and what we want it to become.
Everyone who is involved with the group on any level can come and share their thoughts and feelings. At this meeting we may also want to take a vote on some decisions.
An agenda for the meeting will be circulating through the mailing list and on the facebook group, and anyone can bring up something to discuss.
If you would like to add something to the agenda you can comment on this blog post about it anonymously, reply to the email from our mailing list, or post on the facebook event [private to the facebook group]. You can also bring something new up at the meeting, or someone could bring your point for you anonymously [ie a written note] but we’d like to gather as many points as possible beforehand so we can try to make sure there is enough time to talk about each one.
Hope to see many of you there, hear your wants and hopes and see the group evolving.
Discussion Evening: Feminism & Men
Posted: 26 November 2012 Filed under: Events | Tags: feminism and men Leave a comment
Our next meeting is on Weds 28th Nov, 8:00pm @ The Friends Meeting House [12, Jesus Lane] and the topic is Feminism & Men.
The event is free, the building is accessible, and we will be heading to the Champion of the Thames pub for drinks afterwards.
This is the last meeting of 2012 [as the December meeting falls on boxing day] so lets make it a good’un!
Don’t forget about the vigil in support of survivors tues 27th in market square and the pro-choice action on dec 15th
XXX
FeministActionCambridge 
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