Revolutionary Women Walk March 16, 2013

Saturday 16th March
Start: Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, SE5 8AZ
Ends: Feminist Library, SE1 7XW
Times: 11:30 – 4:30pm
Cost: free/voluntary donation

Join CoolTan Arts Largactyl Shuffle for the ‘Revolutionary Women Walk’, designed to celebrate International Women’s Day and encourage mental and physical wellbeing, through art, exercise, humour and history.
Walk through Ruskin Park and Myatts Fields and across boroughs for talks on local suffragettes and revolutionary women from Southwark and Lambeth.

It is a century since the suffragette activist Emily Wilding Davison was killed by the King's horse at the Derby. Stopping for talks on the suffragette and Britain’s first professional landscape gardener, Fanny Wilkinson; the writer, philosopher and advocate for women’s rights, Mary Wollstonecraft; and Alice Chapin, a suffragette who poured chemicals into ballot boxes to disrupt a Southwark by-election.

Also be talks on Olive Morris, who set up the Brixton Black Women’s Group, and two pioneering nurses, Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole.

A day to fight for our equality. We will be placing Revolutionary Women’s sites' 'Blue Plaques' along the way. The walk will start at 12.00 at the Maudsley Hospital and end at The Feminist Library at approx. 4.30pm.

The walk is free but voluntary donations will be appreciated. CoolTan Arts Recomends comfortable shoes and bring your own water. Walk accessible to wheelchair users and other disabilities. Walk leaders wear orange high-viz vests and rucksacks.

Call CoolTan Arts on 07985 658443 if you cannot find the group of walkers on the day.
Check www.cooltanarts.org.uk for more details or email/call [email protected] 020 7701 2696 or 0798 565 8443 on the day. All contributions are much appreciated www.justgiving.com/cooltanarts

All Welcome!

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