International Women’s Festival

This year is the 37th Oxford International Women’s Festival. One of the regular festival events is the celebration of International Women’s Day, March 8th. This year this will be celebrated on the evening of March 9th, at the Assembly Room in Oxford Town Hall.

The evening will begin at 7pm with the film ‘Olive Gibbs: A Remarkable Woman’ which will be followed by a Q and A with the filmmakers and the historian, Liz Woolley. This will be followed with light refreshments and music, and a discussion on why we should celebrate women’s lives.

Not long ago, Olive Gibbs would have been familiar to everyone in Oxford. Born and bred in St Thomas’s then a working class area of the city, she was a city and county councillor, twice Lord Mayor  and the first woman chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. She opposed the clearance of housing in Jericho and the building of an inner ring road on Christ Church meadows and was instrumental in the demolition of the infamous Cutteslowe Walls.

The film is directed by BAFTA award-winning producer, Helen Sheppard, and filmmaker Chris Baines.

• Tickets available via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrating-womens-achievements-tickets-1982538638436