Celebrate International Women’s Day 2015 by joining in one of the following great events! Communities, Sport and Recreation Tasmania International Women’s Day Calendar of Events March 2015 Southern Tasmania
Date Organisation & Event Venue Time Contact details for event Cost Bookings/Other Information information Saturday Dragons Abreast Lindisfarne 8.30 am print Sue Sanderson Free All necessary equipment and February 28 Tasmania, Hobart Rowing Club, Mobile: 0421 601 462 coaching provided. No bookings Invites you to attend a Esplanade, Email: [email protected] are required. Lindisfarne “Come and Try” open day for cancer survivors. The event is for any woman who has had cancer (not just breast cancer) to try dragon boat paddling. The day will offer a great fun sport, camaraderie, and friendship in a non- threatening environment. Come with a smile, a willingness to try something new, and a bottle of water. Sunday The Bahai Centre of Bahai Centre of 3 pm Phone: 6234 7654 Free Great refreshments will be served. March 1 Learning Learning, www.tasbcl.com.au Bookings are not required. Invites you to the Soul (behind the Food program dedicated to ABC building),
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Date Organisation & Event Venue Time Contact details for event Cost Bookings/Other Information information International Women’s 1 Tasman Day to celebrate the Highway, achievements of women Hobart. and call for greater equality. Soul Food is a unique monthly event featuring live music, audio- visual pieces and readings to inspire an understanding of the unity of nations. Wednesday Amnesty International Fullers 5.30pm – Yabbo Thompson Gold coin Drinks and nibbles supplied, and March 4 Australia Tas-Urban Bookshop, 7.00 pm Phone: 0419 325 190 donation for there will also be a raffle on the Group and the 131 Collins Email: [email protected] concessions evening. All women, men and and $5 for children welcome. Bookings are International Women’s Street, Hobart or Development Agency non- required for this event. [email protected] Invites you to their annual concessions.
International Women’s Day celebration. Topics will include Amnesty’s anti- torture campaign plus the particular case of a woman in the Philippines, and how the IWDA is advocating for women’s rights in the Asia/Pacific region. Thursday Hobart Women’s Farrell Centre, 6.30 – Leanne at HWHC: Waged: $10 Bookings for this event are March 5 Health Centre Friends School, 8.30 pm Phone: 6231 3212 Concession $5 required and can be made at: invites you to attend their Argyle Street, Email: [email protected] http://www.trybooking.com/115957 North Hobart IWD Quiz Show “Femmes and Facts”. Come and see two panels of women attempt to answer the impossible in a
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Date Organisation & Event Venue Time Contact details for event Cost Bookings/Other Information information Spicks and Specks inspired quiz night. The event will include light refreshments and a Silent Art Auction. Thursday The Women’s Conference 2.00 pm Hilary Martin, Honorary Secretary Free Bookings are not necessary for this March 5 International League Room, Senator Phone: 6234 4932 event for Peace and Freedom Lisa Singh’s Email: [email protected] Office, Tasmanian Branch invites women interested 152 Macquarie in peace and freedom Street, th issues to its 74 Annual Hobart General Meeting. Friday The Australian West Point 5.30 pm for a Ray Leonard ACS members Bookings are required for this March 6 Computer Society Hotel, 6.00 pm start Phone: 0438 399 431 $20, others event. Please contact Ray Leonard. (Tasmania) Wellington Email: [email protected] $30 a networking event Room, focussing on women in ICT (Wellington Foyer entrance) Sandy Bay Sunday The Multicultural Mathers House, 2.00pm – Sajini Sumar $25.00 per Bookings are required for catering March 8 Women’s Council of (Mathers Lane), 4.00pm Phone: 0400 200 016 head which purposes by Wednesday, March 4. Tasmania 108 Liverpool Email: [email protected] includes food Please contact Sajini Sumar. and invites you to an afternoon Street, Hobart of multicultural cuisine and entertainment. This event is supported by the entertainment. Mary MacKillop Foundation, the Good Neighbour Council, and Hobart City Council. Wednesday The Royal Hobart Tasman Room, 6.30am for a Cath Adams: $50.00 per Bookings for this event are March 11 Research Foundation, Wrest Point 7.00am start Phone: 6166 7049 single ticket, required, and bookings should be supported by the Casino, Mobile: 0418 101 738 or $450 for a made online at table of ten http://www.rhhresearchfoundation. Department of Premier Sandy Bay Road, Email: [email protected] and Cabinet, Sandy Bay guests org
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Date Organisation & Event Venue Time Contact details for event Cost Bookings/Other Information information International Women’s Day Big Breakfast. This year’s guest speaker is Her Excellency Professor the Honourable Kate Warner AM, Governor of Tasmania, and the event raises funds to support local health and medical research. Wednesday The University of Stanley Burbury 6.00 pm – Pat McConville Free Please RSVP to the email address March 11 Tasmania Theatre, 7.30 pm Phone: 6226 2521 provided. International Women’s University Email: [email protected] Centre, Day address presented by Refreshments will be available from pioneering journalist University of 5.30 pm Helene Chung. Helene will Tasmania be speaking about her Sandy Bay The address will be held in Sandy Chinese Tasmanian Bay, but it will also be streamed heritage: Women Past, online at Present and Future. http://new.livestream.com/Universit Helene, a former ABC yofTasmania Beijing correspondent, was the first non-white reporter on Australian TV, Further details about the address and the first female posted are available at abroad by the ABC. Helene http://www.events.utas.edu.au/2015 is the author of Shouting /march/international-womens-day- from China, Gentle John My address. Love My Loss, Lazy Man in China and Ching Chong China Girl. TBA SHE and Speak Out TBA TBA Alina Thomas Free event Bookings are required for catering Advocacy Tasmania Phone: 6278 9090 purposes. Please contact Alina
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Date Organisation & Event Venue Time Contact details for event Cost Bookings/Other Information information Invite you to the launch of Email; [email protected] Thomas. their focus group which will work to raise awareness of, and improve the community response to, violence and abuse against women with disabilities. This event will be the spring board for a year-long campaign, ending on International Day for People with Disabilities December 3, 2015. Sunday The International 11 Union Street, 9.00am – Yabbo Thompson Donation Booking are required for this March 15 Women’s Development West Hobart 12 noon Phone: 62348857 All donations event, and there will be a raffle Agency 0419 325 190 will go to the conducted on the day. Note: This event is for women only. International Women’s Email: [email protected] IWDA Day breakfast for women only to fundraise for the IWDA and raise awareness of the group’s work with women across the Asia/Pacific region.
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Northern Tasmania
Date Organisation & Event Venue Time Contact details for event Cost Booking / Other Information information Wednesday Northern Suburbs Bluebell Court 12.00 – 2 Phone: 63 265 506 BBQ Lunch Bookings Essential March 4 Community Centre Inc. Park, pm provided, feel Call 63 265 506 invites you to Rocherlea free to bring “Make It Happen” along some Free Community Lunch biscuits or BBQ. Training Providers slices to share will be invited to attend to share information on how they can help you “Make It Happen” Wednesday St Helen’s Portland Hall, 1.00 am – Trish O’Duffy This is a free Bookings are required for March 4 Neighbourhood House, St Helens 2.00pm Phone: 6376 1134 event catering purposes. Please contact LINC Tasmania, Break Email: Trish O’Duffy. O’Day Council and the trish.oduffy@neighbourhoodhouse. Healthy House invite you org.au to bruch and a get- together with local community women from a range of backgrounds and age groups as guest speakers sharing their stories.
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Wednesday Northern Suburbs Bluebell Court 12noon – Mary This is a free The Northern Suburbs March 4 Community Centre Park, 2.00pm Phone: 6326 5506 event Community Centre will provide invites you to a free Rocherlea Email: the BBQ lunch, but please feel community lunch BBQ that manager@northernsuburbscommu free to bring along some fruit, will include various training nitycentres.org.au biscuits or slices to share. providers sharing Bookings are required for
information about their catering purposes by phoning role in the community and Mary at the Community Centre. their activities Friday Rotary Club of Tamar Hotel Grand 7 am for Want to get in touch $35.00 each To register go to March 6 Sunrise Chancellor, 7.15 am http://www.tamarsunriseevents.co www.tamarsunriseevents.com invites you to 29 Cameron m/contact-us.html Everybody is welcome! ‘Make it Happen’ Street, Launceston Celebrate social, economic and political achievements and be inspired by a panel of amazing women living and working in Tasmania. MC, Sara Redman from SRA Corporate Change, will be joined by Rebecca King, Natasha Nieuwhof and Allison Clark
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Friday The Rotary Club of Hotel Grand 7.00am for Susan Nolan (Chair of the event) Cost for the Bookings and payment prior to March 6 Tamar Chancellor, 26 a 7.15am Phone: 0447 990 160 breakfast is the event are essential, and can Sunrise invites you to Cameron Street, start $35.00 per be made at either Launceston person and www.tamarsunriseevents.com breakfast with a panel of Caroline Brown (President) prominent successful payment must Or Phone: 0431 010 300 Tasmanian business be made prior www.tamarsunrise.com.au to the event. women. MC will be Sarah Redman from SRA (See payment Corporate Change, and the details in next panel will include Bec King column) from Kingthing Marketing, Natasha Nieuwhof from Goaty Hill Wines, and Allison Clark from Houstons Farm. Thursday Mission Australia’s Mission Australia, 10.00am – Yesenia Ruffin Morning tea is Bookings are required for this March 12 Personal Helpers and 53 Canning 11.00am Phone: 6333 7005 free. event for catering purposes. Mentors Program Street, Email: In-house morning tea with Launceston [email protected] guest speaker Janie Finlay, Alderman, Launceston City Council. This event is not open to the public and is only open for members of the Mission Australia program.
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North West Tasmania
Date Organisation & Event Venue Time Contact details for event Cost Bookings / Other information Information Thursday Devonport City Council Devonport Golf 6.00 – Charmane Sheehan $40.00 per Bookings are required and can March 5 is hosting a “Diamonds of Club, Woodrising 9.00pm Phone: 6424 0549 head, and be made at the Devonport Devonport” Dinner to Avenue, Email: “Diamonds” Entertainment Centre, Rooke recognise women who Spreyton [email protected] free of Street, Devonport. quietly contribute to their charge.
community in some way. A (Price Nominations for a “Diamond” “Devonport Diamond” is includes a 3- open on Monday, February 2, not necessarily a woman course meal, and close on Friday, February 20, who performs the most and drinks 2015. Nomination forms are community service in a available for available on Council’s website: high-profile role – she will purchase) www.devonport.tas.gov.au or be a woman who from the Customer Service continually puts in effort reception desk. often for little thanks or
recognition, or a woman who may have overcome a difficult situation and rebuilt her life in a positive way.
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Friday The Boat Harbour Boat Harbour 10.30am Catherine Fernon A $20.00 fee There will be a raffle of a March 6 Craft Group Surf Club on the onward Phone: 64451484 includes a handmade patchwork quilt and will host another of their beach Email: [email protected] scrumptious highly coveted mosaic pots made morning tea by members of the Boat famous International Women’s Day Morning and a Join Harbour Craft Group. Please Tea’s featuring guest Hands in RSVP to Catherine Fernon prior speaker Diana Butler, Friendship to the event for catering Tasmanian Director of the gift card. purposes. Care for Africa Foundation. The Foundation supports All funds raised from the event development and relief this year will go towards the projects that advance the construction of a water well in health, education and Tarime, Tanzania. wellbeing of communities in developing countries in The theme for this year’s Africa. Diana was a 2012 function is “Join Hands in winner of the Telstra Friendship”. Business Women’s Awards, and she returns to Boat Harbour this year to talk about the Foundation’s work over the past year.
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Sunday Leven Regional Arts Gawler Gallery, 10.00am – Joy Watson $10.00 per Bookings for this event are March 8 group, Ulverstone Ulverstone Civic 12 noon Phone: 6425 1276 person with required for catering purposes, invites the community to Centre, Patrick Mobile: 0400 105 943 all proceeds and tickets are available from: Street entrance, being share their morning tea Email: [email protected] Ulverstone Tourist Information and La Femme Art Ulverstone. donated to Centre, Exhibition. This is an charity. Window on the World opportunity to celebrate Bookshop, the role of women in Small Change, society’s past, present and Under the Oak, future, and to demonstrate the inclusiveness of art in from Joy Watson, the community. Guest at the door on the day. speaker will be Jess Jacobsen, a local young woman with a passion and commitment to human rights and specifically those of women of diverse backgrounds. Jess has worked in women’s rights and international development for six years, being Program Director of the Malighat Community School in India since 2009, and Coordinator with the International Women’s Development Agency. She has also headed up Oaktree’s international development work.
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Tuesday Zeehan Neighbourhood Somer House 12 noon – Mel Crosbie Free Bookings are required for this March 10 Centre (Zeehan 2.00 pm Phone: 6471 6108 luncheon and should be made invites you to an informal Neighbourhood Email: through the Zeehan Centre), Neighbourhood Centre lunch and get together to [email protected] celebrate West Coast Belstead Street,
women. Zeehan Thursday Health West invites you West Coast 1.00pm – The Hub, Queenstown Free Bookings are required for March 12 to Queenstown for a light Community 3.00pm Phone: 6495 1530 catering purposes through The lunch and the launch of the Services Hub, Email: Hub in Queenstown. West Coast Women Driffield Street, [email protected] A light lunch will be served, and Get Active program with Queenstown please wear some comfy clothes guest speakers Pru Lake and flat shoes so that you can and Janene Glover. Pru is a join in the fun on the day. retired health professional whose commitment to a healthy and active retirement is extraordinary. She simply hasn’t got time to do all the things she’d like to do in her retirement years, and her advice for all women is to “get out there and get moving”. Janene will provide suggestions for local activities and programs for West Coast women to become involved with.
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