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International Women's Day - 8th March 2018 and upcoming events and courses
Build's theme for this International Women's Day is gender disparity in mental health
Gender Disparity in Mental Health - including 'So U Think I'm Crazy?'
International Women's Day is on Thursday 8 March this year. For our celebrations, we are focusing on gender disparity in mental health, with our Wellbeing department presenting a staging of female director and playwright Ekanem Hines' play 'So U Think I'm Crazy?' plus a series of thought-provoking workshops throughout the day.
'So U Think I'm Crazy?' is performed by the cast of Know My Mind (KMM) Community Theatre Group, who raise awareness about mental health from the perspective of service users and carers.
Watch the trailer for 'So U Think I'm Crazy?'
More upcoming courses and events
We also have a wide choice of other courses on and around International Women's Day that celebrate and discuss cultural contributions from women in literature, history, politics, visual arts and music:
Performing arts
- A Celebration for International Women's Day - Wed 7 Mar, 6.00pm. Songs, piano music and readings by women composers and writers presented by students from the School of Performing Arts; Recital Room (101)
History and politics
- First wave feminists & WW1 - HH182; Sat 17 Mar
- Native American culture & women - HH610; Sat 3 Mar
- Suffragette: the making of a movement - HLT64; Sat 9 Jun
Film and literature
- Film evening lecture : Psychological investigations of women in horror films - HF150; Thu 15 Mar
- Women’s lives & literature of the 1950s - HLT10; Tue 16 Jan-6 Mar
- The fiction of Hilary Mantel - HLT134; Sat 10 Mar
Languages
Visual arts
- Women in art: politics of embodiment - VB864; Thu 22 Feb-22 Mar (5 sessions)
- Female archetypes: Inspired by Nancy Spero - VH871; Mon 9 Apr-11 Jun, (8 sessions)
- Women in Art 1400-1800 - VB867; Wed 11 Apr-9 May (5 sessions)
- Women in Art 1800-1900 - VB858; Mon 4 Jun-2 Jul (5 sessions)