A Damsel Not In Distress - Untamed Tales for International Women’s Day
Sat, 08 Mar
|Zoom
Stories where women do not need to be rescued or told what to do. In these stories there is humour, in these stories there are no guarantees, in these stories there could be love, in these stories there should be freedom. 50% of all proceeds will go to Women for Women International
Time & Location
08 Mar 2025, 19:30 – 21:00
Zoom
About the Event
You may have grown up with Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella, but do you know the oral versions of the stories, that were likely told by women to their communities around fires whilst spinning, kneading bread and working ?
Join me for Mara Pepelashka, a Bulgarian Cinderella story which explores the grief and loss of growing up of a girl into a woman. This is no Disney version, here there is complexity, wonder, injustice, and fierceness.
Does Little Red Riding Hood wear a red cloak? Or is the cloak representative of blood? Join me to listen to a French coming of age story, where a girl does not need to be rescued by a hunter as she is more than capable of that herself. A story that explores the life of a woman from puberty to menopause through symbolism and hidden wisdom in plain sight.
Tatterhood is a wild…
Tickets
General Ticket
50% of proceeds will go to Women for Women International Charity whose mission is to “invest where inequality is the greatest by helping women who are forgotten— the women survivors of war and conflict. We help them learn the skills they need to rebuild their families and communities.”
£12.00
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