Friday 26th September – An evening of Art, Music and Poetry

Live art and music, poetry, spoken word…all in the name of prochoice activism!
7.00pm – 00.00pm LARC – 62 Fieldgate St, London E1 1ES
Join us on Friday at the London Action Resource Centre for a fun, disobedient, feminist evening!

The plan is to dance and transgress, and the aim to raise some funds for feminist organisations working to uphold the to safe abortion and to decriminalise it, such as the Central America Women’s Network (CAWN) and  the Abortion Support Network

We ask an entrance fee of £5 waged /£3 unwaged offering you the following:
DRINKS! It’s Friday, we know what you need
lovely little snacks and sandwiches

Artists
The Festival of Choice is honoured to present to you these wonderful artists and performances

BodyWords by Alexandra Unger and Emily Beart-Albrecht
Being the first collaborative performance between Alexandra Unger and Emily Beart-Albrecht, BodyWords is the eternal battle between body and mind.

Songs and poetry by Isabel Ros from Spain and Mabel Encinas from Mexico

Spoken word by Leyla Josephine
Leyla is a performance artist and poet from Glasgow, all of her poems are based on feminist issues and herself. She made a recent video about abortion which has had about 80 thousand views

I Think She Was A She

Exhibition Naked In Africa & We Are Not Chicks by Sarah Peace
Sarah Peace is a visual art activist producing work in a range of mediums including photography, film, sculpture and site-specific installations often interlinked by themes of gender, subjugation or freedom of choice.

Raffle
Win a CAWN t-shirt, No going back T-shirt or the HYESTERIA reader ‘A collection of feminism’.

Pictures for the 17s campaign
In solidarity with the ‘We are all the 17‘.campaign we are taking pictures for their flower campaign

Artist websites

http://www.alexandraunger.com

alexandraungersblog.blogspot.co.uk

drawwiththerightside.blogspot.co.uk
http://www.sarahpeace.co.uk

Saturday 27th September: Film Screenings, Performance and Discussion

Irish and Spanish Prochoice Activism in London from the 80s till Present

Ann Rossiter, writer and prochoice activist, at a recent My Belly is Mine protest

12.oo pm – Amnesty International UK – 17-25 New Inn Yard, EC2A 3EA London

Join us for a film screening, performance and Q&A celebrating Irish and Spanish prochoice activism in London in the 80s and at present. We will be screening three short movies focusing on the issue of abortion and prochoice activism in Spain and Ireland. This will be followed by a short performance by direct action feminist performance group challenging the ongoing problem of I.M.E.L.D.A. – Ireland Making England the Legal Destination for Abortion. We will end the event with a conversation with Irish and Spanish activists and Mara Clarke, founder of Abortion Support Network.

12:00 – 12:05: Introduction by Cristina, from My Belly is Mine

12:05 – 13:15: Film Screening

“The Christening” directed by Oonagh Kearney

“Repeating Histories” – A short film on Irish and Spanish prochoice activism in London in the 80s and at present

“The Freedom Train” (English subtitles) – A film on the prochoice demo in Spain in February, 2014. Introduced by CIMA, Association of Women in Film and Audiovisual Media (via Skype)

13:15 – 13:35: IMELDA performance

13:35 – 14:00: Q&A (chaired by Cristina)

Film director and prochoice activist Oonagh Kearney, current member of Speaking of Imelda

Isabel Ros, activist and poet, former member of the Spanish Women’s Abortion Support Group

Mara Clarke from Abortion Support Network

Event on Facebook

Sunday 28th September – Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion

2.00pm – Southbank, London

Join us on Sunday 28th September to speak out for safe and legal abortion!

Bring something to make noise (whistles, tambourines, maracas, castanets… banging pots and pats is also welcomed!)

#choicefest #Sept28

On September 28, WGNRR calls on her members and allies from all over the world to end the stigma against abortion and demand for women’s right to control their bodies without putting their lives, health and freedom at risk. Along with their global and regional partners they call for a unified effort to demand our governments for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion as a Human Right by observing September 28 Global Day of Action.

Originally being a Day of Action for Decriminalization of Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean, September 28 was taken global by WGNRR after a 2010 consultation meeting with LAC partners.