International Women’s Day Sydney 2013 is being run by a different collective this year. A new website and domain name has been launched at www.sydneyiwd.com
Find out more details at the new website:
Sydney IWD in 2012
From the f-collective:
This year for International Women’s Day 2012 we are holding a community picnic in First Fleet Park on March 10 at 12pm.
After last year’s great success we wanted to have a new format and focus for the 101st IWD. The theme for this year is Re-generation: Shaping our Feminist Future. We are focused on getting the community together with a special emphasis on the next generation of feminists. As such the speakers and performers at the event will all be young women.
We will not be having stalls this year but we are welcoming all community groups to bring a picnic blanket down with their flyers, t-shirts, badges and information and we are going to set up a special area where people can find out about all of the great organisations out there. Having a presence at IWD will not cost anything but we would ask that you email us and let us know that you’re coming so that we can make sure the community area is big enough for all of us. F Collective (who is organising IWD) will not be organising a march this year.
Please find attached the Poster 2012 and Blurb 2012 info. Please forward these on to your members and networks.
You can also find us on Facebook under Sydney IWD and the F Collective also have a group on Facebook that you’re welcome to join.
If you would like to assist in organising IWD please feel free to join us at 6pm Monday evenings at Level 1, 87 Myrtle St, Chippendale.
If you want any further information please feel free to get in touch.
IWD 2012 in Sydney
The IWD celebrations in Sydney are being organised by the ‘f Collective’. There will be a picnic in First Fleet Park on Saturday 10 March 2012.
For more information, or to join the collective organising the celebrations go to: http://fcollective.wordpress.com/f-events/
Information on other events can be found:
or on the UNWomen website: http://www.unwomen.org.au/Content%20Pages/Events/attend-an-event
Happy IWD!!
Magnificent Day!!! Thank you to everyone
What a great day – marchers turned out in their thousands, lots of colourful banners and fantastic chants – followed by great artists in Martin Place. Hope you didn’t miss out on this, the 100th anniversary of IWD.
We have LOTS more photos, go to: https://picasaweb.google.com/118160293071849047809/InternationalWomenSDay2011#.
With thanks to the M.U.A. for this videoclip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_qEA-6AZfk
and more photos on the CFMEU website: http://cfmeu.asn.au/your-union/photo-galleries/rallies/12-03-2011
Eva Cox: Big changes not small change2_Eva Cox_IWD2011
About IWD in 2011 from the International Women’s day _ IWD collective
Hope you enjoyed the day.
IWD ‘wonderwomen’ at Mardi Gras
The IWD Collective and friends marched and rode at the Mardi Gras parade last night. Despite the occasional heavy shower of rain, spirits were high and we danced and shimmied along Oxford Street.
Before the march ..
While some of us rode in peda-pods ….
… BIG changes – not small change
riding in Mardi Gras 2011
Come, JOIN US – Saturday 12 March at 12 noon at Town Hall. Marching to Martin Place. Lots of stalls and fantastic performers.
Equal pay: big changes not small change
2011 is the centenary of International Women’s Day. The first march in 1911 was asking for equal pay for women and improved conditions – and in 2011 the demand is for equal pay. Assemble at Sydney Town Hall at 12 noon on Saturday March 12 and march to Martin Place.
Click here IWD Flyer 2011 to download a copy of the flyer. Please distribute through your networks, or send on the link to this site.
IWD has a stall at Fair Day 2011
Did you visit our stall at Fair Day in Victoria Park today? We handed out flyers about the march on 12 March and the theme of equal pay – we also had postcards for sale.
The IWD Collective is organising to march in Mardi Gras on 4 March – contact us if you want to join the group.
Church tells women’s march to find new spot
St. Andrew’s Church (which holds 2/3rds of St. Andrews’s Square next to Town Hall) has told IWD organisers that approval for the use of the grounds will NOT be given next year.
For more info. see Adele Horin’s article: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/church-tells-womens-march-to-find-new-spot-20110116-19slu.html
Make sure you put the date of Saturday March 12 in your diary to come and march.
IWD 2011 March and Rally – 100 years
Join us in the Sydney CBD on Saturday March 12, 2011 for the IWD march and rally. 2011 will be the centenary of IWD and there will be many celebrations around Australia, including an exhibition during March at Parliamentd House, Macquarie Street.
The IWD Collective is meeting weekly on Monday at 6.00pm at 1/79 Myrtle Street, Chippendale. Come along and be involved
2010 march and rally
What a fantastic day – hope you were able to join us. If you took some great photos and would like to share them – please send them to us.
Sydney International Women's Day 