The Dundee Women’s Festival is a 2-week event and this year the festival has the theme – ‘A Vote For The Future’. The festival, running from 4th to 17th March, celebrates 100 years of women’s right to vote, given first to some after years of campaigning for equal voting rights for women and it will be celebrating the International Year of the Young People also.
Throughout the 2-week festival, there are many free events too, with talks and events planed at over 40 venues, throughout Dundee city. However, organisers of the festival urged potential attendees to get tickets quickly, as there is high demand and some are already sold out.
Highlights of the festival include a number of special walks, screening of Angry Inuk, a Inuit film and some eclectic workshops, like a class for self-defence. Other events to be held are a forum by councillors on female representation in local government and the Scottish Dance Theatre’s dance workshops. There’s also walking tours with Dark Dundee and Dundee International Women’s Centre hosting sewing classes.
Administrator for the event, Alison Powrie, said they look forward to the festival, as they have throughout the 2 weeks, a wide variety of functions and there really is something for everyone. Prue Watson, at the chair of Dundee’s Women’s Festival, said that she is really looking forward to the opening event and to learn more about the suffragette movement, but the response has been fantastic with people already expressing interest in the next year’s event.
