A new play inspired by an imagined meeting between two great leaders of the women’s suffrage campaign is coming to the Barbican Theatre Plymouth as par of a tour of the South West.
The Cause depicts the explosive meeting of minds when Millicent Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst come together at a time when campaigns for women’s rights were at their most revolutionary & embattled....
Young people are being urged to vote in this year’s election to find the city’s new UK Youth Parliament (UKYP) representatives.
Seven candidates are set to battle it out to become one of four young people to represent the city’s youth at a local, regional and national level. The successful candidates will act as the voice of young people from 11 to 18 years old on topics like...
Residents in Plymouth have three weeks left to register to vote so that they can have their say at this year’s local elections in May.
Everyone that is registered before Friday 7 February will be included in the next Register publication. Individuals that do not register will not be included in the Register and will not be able to vote.
As they continue their journey in celebration of the centenary of The Great Suffrage Pilgrimage, Dreadnought South West Association will be performing free Episodes from a new play in Plymouth city centre’s Piazza at 4pm on Thursday 27 June 2013. The play, Oxygen, looks at how women’s rights have changed in the last 100 years, how protest has changed and seeks to examine if there has been any...
A new play by Natalie McGrath celebrating the centenary of The Great 1913 Suffrage Pilgrimage, which saw thousands of women march across Britain to Hyde Park. The play looks at how women’s rights have changed in the last 100 years, how protest has changed and seeks to examine if there has been any realistic shift in power to ensure that women’s voices are heard in society. Oxygen will be performed at many of the stopping places along the original South West route from Land’s End to London. For more information see www.dreadnoughtsouthwest.org.uk
