Women's History Month 2023
Previous Events and Highlights from the 2023 WHM in Haringey Programme
Highlight Events
Take part in talks, exhibitions, craft, performances and activity days - all celebrating a whole host of women who have made their mark on the borough and beyond.
- Join a messy morning at Wood Green Library and create a paper astronaut to celebrate Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space
- Take a walk around Tottenham with tour guide Avril Nanton, as she looks at the history of some of the women of Haringey
- Take part in an Activity Day at Broadwater Farm Community Centre where you can try out taster sports, wellbeing and creative sessions delivered by women in Haringey
- Join a bite-size gallery talk with a Young Curator as they tell us more about a chosen painting in the Beatrice Offor exhibition at Bruce Castle
With lots of events and activities to take part in visit our Women’s History Month 2023 listings below to find out about women from Haringey, past and present - and be inspired!
These pages will be updated regularly with new events and activities happening in Haringey.
Check with venues in advance of attending events in case of changes.
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| 1 March to 1 April Exhibition: Sisters, Sirens and Saints: Imagining the Women of Beatrice Offor Bruce Castle Museum | 1 March to 1 April | Wednesday 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 March Tottenham Hotspur Health Checks Wood Green Library |
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Wednesday 1 March | Wednesday 1 March Story Time: 'ABC What Can She Be?', by Sugar Snap Studio St Ann's Library | Thursday 2 March Theatre: Rowena Gander: Barely Visible (16+) Jacksons Lane (Image courtesy of Noel Jones) |
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Thursday 2 March | Friday 3 March | Saturday 4 March |
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Sunday 5 March | Monday 6 March Story Time: 'Little Feminist', by Emily Kleinman and Lydia Ortiz St Ann's Library | Monday 6 March |
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| Monday 6 March Children’s Craft: A ‘Jane Goodall’ Ape Puppet Muswell Hill Library | Mondays 6, 13, 20 and 27 March Rise Projects: Fab, Fit and Fun Physical Wellbeing (16+) Sky City Community Centre | Tuesday 7 March Children's Craft: Make Your Own Paper Microphone Wood Green Library |
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| Tuesday 7 March Haringey Girls Football Match New River Sports Centre | 7, 14, 21 and 28 March Reading Group for Women’s History Month Jacksons Lane | Wednesday 8 March Story Time: 'The Girls', by Lauren Ace St Ann's Library |
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Wednesday 8 March | Wednesday 8 March | Wednesday 8, 15 and 22 March Rise Projects: Yoga and Relaxation (16+) Sky City Community Centre |
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| Wednesday 8 March Story Time: Ella Fitzgerald Wood Green Library | 8 March 2023 | Wednesday 8 March Talk: Haringey Circle for International Women’s Day Hornsey Library |
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| Wednesday 8 March Living Under One Sun: Celebrate International Women's Day Downhills Park | Wednesday 8 March Theatre: Lighthouse (12+) Jacksons Lane (Image courtesy of Earl Wan) | Thursday 9 March Book Launch: Imperfect Beginnings by Viv Fogel Hornsey Library |
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| Thursdays 9, 16, 23 March Rise Projects: Sisters United (16+) 15 Clyde Road | Saturday 11 March Children’s Craft: Make a Dinosaur Skull Coombes Croft Library | Saturday 11 March Theatre: Nothing Happens (Twice) (14+) Jacksons Lane (Image courtesy of Pau Ros) |
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| Sunday 12 March Walking Tour: Tottenham Women’s History Walk – High Road to Bruce Castle Meet at Costa Coffee, 261 Tottenham High Road | Monday 13 March Children’s Craft: Make a ‘Julia Child’ Decorated Plate with French ingredients Muswell Hill Library | Monday 13 March Children’s Craft: Create a Suffragette Rosette Stroud Green and Harringay Library |
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| Monday 13 March Children’s Craft: Create a Quetzal Headdress St Ann's Library | Monday 13 March | Tuesday 14 March Children’s Craft: Mother's Day Craft Wood Green Library |
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| Tuesday 14 March Reminiscence Café at the Castle: From PE knickers and plimsolls – to designer shorts and trainers Bruce Castle Museum | Tuesday 14, 21 and 28 March | Wednesday 15 March Mother's Day Story Time: Bloom Wood Green Library |
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| Wednesday 15 March Keesha’s Place Event Northumberland Park Resource Centre | Wednesday 15 March Keesha’s Place Event; Sewn Together – Recycling Pop Up Shop Northumberland Park Resource Centre | Wednesday 15 March Talk: Local History of the Women’s Institute Stroud Green and Harringay Library |
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| Wednesday 15 March Story Time: 'Dreams for Our Daughters', by Ruth Doyle and Lindsay Ashling St Ann's Library | Thursday 16 March | Thursday 16 March Interactive poetry with Haylee Venus: Still I Rise Hornsey Library |
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| Friday 17 March Talk: Menopause, Haringey Circle Wood Green Library | Saturday 18 March | Saturday 18 March Walking Tour: Haringey Women’s History Walk – Pioneers and Pleasure: Crouch End Women Meet at Hornsey Library |
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| Saturday 18 March Creative Craft and Upcycling Morning Workshop with Siân Dorman (for adults) Bruce Castle Museum | Saturday 18 March | Saturday 18 March Children’s Craft: Make a Native American Tepee Coombes Croft Library |
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| Sunday 19 March Family Art and Craft Activities: Penny Piggy Pots Bruce Castle Museum | Monday 20 March | Tuesday 21 March Children’s Craft: Make a Paper Astronaut Wood Green Library |
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| Tuesday 21 March Children’s Craft: Scrapbook Making Hornsey Library | Wednesday 22 March | Thursday 23 March Bite-Size Gallery Pick: Young Curator’s Pick – Sister, Siren or Saint? Bruce Castle Museum |
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| Thursday 23 March Adults Book Club: Women’s History Month ‘Sunlight on a Broken Column’ by Attia Hosain St Ann's Library | Friday 24 and 31 March | Friday 24 March Haringey’s Women’s Empowerment Summit: Enterprise & Employment for All (18+) Winkfield Resource Centre |
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| Saturday 25 March The Lupus Hub by Celena Wood Green Library | Saturday 25 March | Saturday 25 March Children’s Craft: Make a Paper Aeroplane Coombes Croft Library |
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| Saturday 25 March Author’s Talk: Forged in Fire by Oby Grace N Hornsey Library | Sunday 26 March | Monday 27 March Munch and Listen: Sarah, Tottenham’s only Duchess 1631-1692 Bruce Castle Museum |
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| Monday 27 March Children’s Craft: Make an Elsie Inglis Medal Muswell Hill Library | Tuesday 28 March | Tuesday 28 March Broadway Brunch: WHM Tea Party (55+) Bigbury Close |
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| Tuesday 28 March WHM Social Lunch Jacksons Lane | Tuesday 28 March | Wednesday 29 March Story Time: Anna Pavlova Wood Green Library |
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| Thursday 30 March Bite-Size Gallery Talk: Curator’s Pick - Outcast, Foreigner and Artist – the Lady of the Manor, Henrietta Townsend of Bruce Castle Bruce Castle Museum | Thursday 30 March Children’s craft: Make a Paper Mobile Hornsey Library |
