WEEKEND OF WONDERFUL WOMEN
Hebden Bridge has been long famed for it's vivacious history of politics, feminism, and the wonderful inspirational women that have lived, and continue to live in this town. Over the weekend we will be celebrating wonderful women. Past, present and future. Join us for a series of events happening through the town. Expect music, installations, readings, discussions, and some new surprises and additions to our programming.
The weekend will also include a screening of 'I'm No Bird', a short film comprising images of local women at work at play throughout the 20th century taken from the Yorkshire Film Archive and accompanied by a soundtrack by Todmorden-based musician Magahi (Alison Cooper). Alison will also be performing two specially commissioned songs inspired by local suffragettes.
Pampiric, a work in progress sharing of a piece around older women and the secrets of eternal youth, 'All the things they never told you' by Kate Radford, and immersive installation which reveals the truth about your potential as a woman, and the world that you deserve to live in.
Join Lucy Pankhurst to sing the Suffragette Anthem!
Look out for the Suffragette pumpkin in the garden of Hope Baptist church!
The weekend will also include a screening of 'I'm No Bird', a short film comprising images of local women at work at play throughout the 20th century taken from the Yorkshire Film Archive and accompanied by a soundtrack by Todmorden-based musician Magahi (Alison Cooper). Alison will also be performing two specially commissioned songs inspired by local suffragettes.
Pampiric, a work in progress sharing of a piece around older women and the secrets of eternal youth, 'All the things they never told you' by Kate Radford, and immersive installation which reveals the truth about your potential as a woman, and the world that you deserve to live in.
Join Lucy Pankhurst to sing the Suffragette Anthem!
Look out for the Suffragette pumpkin in the garden of Hope Baptist church!
WHO INSPIRES YOU?
We want to know which amazing women have informed your life, living or otherwise, personally or famously. We want to hear stories about how they've inspired you and why to be part of our Wonderful Exhibition.
We will be welcoming submissions from the community if they bring an image, and up to 250 words as to why they inspire them. They can be living or otherwise, famous or family and friends. We want to celebrate wonderful women and the influence they've had on our lives.
We will be welcoming submissions from the community if they bring an image, and up to 250 words as to why they inspire them. They can be living or otherwise, famous or family and friends. We want to celebrate wonderful women and the influence they've had on our lives.
INSPIRATIONAL WOMEN DIGITAL EXHIBITION
JOCELYN BELL BURNELL
Jocelyn Bell Burnell is the astrophysicist who, this year, when she won the prestigious Breakthrough Prize for Science (worth $3 million), immediately gave it to a fund that helps disadvantaged science students while they’re writing their PhDs.
In 1999 I interviewed Jocelyn for my book Living in Godless Times – tales of spiritual travellers. I wanted to ask how her spiritual path (she’s a Quaker) fits with hard-nosed scientific experiment. I also wanted to know how she viewed being passed over for the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physics, awarded to her two male colleagues when she’d actually been the one to discover pulsars.
On faith and science, her answer was simple. “Both science and faith start with a hypothesis, a model, a picture, which you revise by experiment in the case of science, by life experience in the case of faith. If it works, you go with it. If it doesn’t, you go back to the drawing board.” How inspiring is that? With complete clarity, she solves the problem between science and faith.
And the Nobel? “It’s incredibly demanding to win that prize. I couldn’t have coped with it as a shy young woman in 1973. And, let’s face it, if you win the Nobel in your 20s, after that it’s downhill all the way! I’ve had much more fun by not having won it.”
Jocelyn is gentle, humane, with a lovely twinkle in her eye. And – you’ll hardly believe this – she failed the 11-plus exam. Totally inspiring.
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LISA GRAHAM
She is the woman that you can utterly rely on. She is a great listener and would never betray a confidence. She is totally calm in an emergency and fills you with confidence that she is in control.
Four years ago she decided that the time was right to change her life. She made a brave move and gave her notice in, packed her bags and found herself an apartment in Hebden Bridge. She didn't know anybody, left her friends behind and was determined to start a new life. Within two weeks she had unpacked her suitcase, found a job and began to explore the town.
Since then she has thrown herself into creating a life that she now loves. She has done voluntary work in the community; she has astonishing energy which enables her to carry out her work duties with excellent results.
She made another bold decision twelve months ago and decided that Hebden Bridge is the place where her future lies. She bought a house and is busy managing the project, updating the property, dealing with all that entails.
She is truly a remarkable woman who makes her own decisions. I think she is inspirational to others in that she has proved that women can make life choices and succeed and be successful if they believe in themselves.
I admire her and her attitude to life; continue to be astonished by her forward thinking while she still retains empathy and consideration for others.
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