SHOUT OUT: Barnaby Festival 2018
The Barnaby Festival begins this weekend and I can't wait! More information
The festival runs from 15 to 24 June this year. As part of this year's #Vote100 celebrations, the festival is headlining with a series of women focused events. I will be part of the HEAR HER VOICE site specific performance on Saturday 16 June.
Are you planning to go? It would be great to see you there!
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Above image: Kate Willoughby as suffragette Emily Wilding Davison. Photographer: Trevor Walker.
We are standing on the shoulders of giants - Ordinary, Brave and Extraordinary women, who never gave up the fight for equality and the right to vote - and now it’s our turn.
Never let anyone make you feel that your voice doesn’t matter, but most of all, please don’t silence yourself.
The ballot box is one of the few places where we are truly equal, we all have one vote.
Ordinary Women | Brave Women | Extraordinary Women
#Emilymatters seeks to create a living legacy, by encouraging more young women to Step Up, Vote and Lead.
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Yours in the Cause!
Kate
Actor, Writer & Campaigner
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HEAR HER VOICE information from the Barnaby Festival website:
Hear the rallying cry from women past and present through powerful speeches and writing performed live in St Michael’s Church by the women of Macclesfield and beyond.
- Kate Willoughby performs one of Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison’s speeches.
- Chief Inspector of Police Laura Marler will read Emmeline Pankhurst’s ‘Freedom or Death’ speech, first heard in the US in November 1913.
- Macclesfield councillor Alift Harewood will read the short manifesto of Mary Turpin who stood as a Labour ward councillor in the 1922 municipal elections.
- Elena Brearley will read author Nora Ephron’s Wellesley College Commencement speech from 1996.
- School student Constance Gooda will read Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousefzai’s ‘Education First’ speech, given at the United Nations in 2013.
The event is produced by Jude d’Souza.
More about #Emilymatters
#Emilymatters, is an initiative that draws on the experience of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison to inspire and motivate women as well as young people that they matter and their vote matters.
It's about educating, entertaining and boosting self-worth as a catalyst to create a community of confident, empowered people who know their opinion counts.
