Tickets are available here
https://forgottenwomenwake.com/difficult-women-buy-tickets/
All profits from the two shows will continue to fund our Forgotten Women of Wakefield Blue Plaque Parity Project.
DTC were pleased to participate in the first two of this year’s Artwalk around the city.
We were delighted to be hosted at both events by Theatre Royal Wakefield Cafe on Westgate.
In January, DTC showcased Edith Grace Mackie and were joined by staff and students of Mackie Hill School who read some of their poems in response to “What Mackie Means to Me”.
We exhibited Edith’s life through photographs, paintings, letters. We also exhibited Jessica Rowbottom’s collection of photographs from now derelict Clayton Hospital, where the team visited in honour of Edith, who’s adult life was spent at the children’s ward, visiting and caring, both emotionally and financially and whom the wing was named after.
In March, we showcased just some of the women that DTC has secured Blue Plaque funding for and had a creative blue plaque and card making workshop.
DTC were honoured to host stitcheduptheatre@gmail.com from Brighton during their visit to Wakefield this Spring.
They are basing a whole creative project around a Forgotten Woman of Wakefield~
Mary Francis Heaton.
The future holds an Opera written by the creative team, and hopefully more expressive embroidery workshops to highlight the life of a women imprisoned at Wakefield’s Women’s Asylum her whole adult life for pursuing monies owed to her by a vicar for his daughter’s piano tuition.
Many thanks to Red Gray, Luan Taylor, Zoe and embroidery artist Nicole Chui for spending the week in our city!
DTC invites Women of Wakefield to come along to our new Red Tent Group.
http://redtenttemplemovement.com/
#redtent
Our facebook group is
https://www.facebook.com/Wakefieldsredtent/
DTC worked closely with Mackie Hill School in Crigglestone to look at Edith Mackie, now Blue Plaqued!
Year six students were creative, talented and are now well aware of the role that the Mackie Family has had on their school and community to this day.
Mackie Hill during this time has been fighting against plans to become part of an academies trust.
Dream Time Creative and our Forgotten Women of Wakefield project enjoyed the whole weekend celebrating International Women’s Day at the Mechanic’s Theatre.
The play, Difficult Women written by Steve Williams was sold out!
Wakefield’s Mayor, Stuart Heptinstall and MP Mary Creagh unveilled two more of our Blue Plaques after the performance, Florence Beaumont and Gertrude McCroben.
It was officially announce that Wakefield will be the first city in the UK to achieve Blue Plaque Parity for women.
The Forgotten Women of Wakefield Team set out in the crowds gathering for Wakefield’s Rhubarb Festival this year to promote #blueplaqueparity and our amazing historical women for our city!
Dream Time Creative have so many events happening through until next year, please scroll down the page to see all of the events, the women that we plan to Blue Plaque, free workshops and everything that is happening, or click on the facebook link below.
Our dedicated website to the growing project is here!
twitter @forgottenwomenw
#blueplaqueparity
#FWW
March 8th A new play for our historical women!
March 8th at Westgate Unitarian Chapel- Clara’ Clarkson’s Women and catacomb tour
An incredible opportunity to hear performance readings by the Cuckoo’s Egg cast dressed in period costume of Clara Clarkson’s diaries and other extracts from other historical documents that tell the story of these incredible women and how they are linked to the chapel and to Wakefield.
A visit to the catacombs will follow with further readings from Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. Mary was a frequent visitor to Wakefield to visit the influential women from our city.
Keep scrolling down!
Interested in learning about Forgotten Women from Wakefield’s Past?
Do you have a story to share or tell about a woman from Wakefield?
DTC has secured funding to continue this amazing arts project; research, story telling, spoken word, talks, marches, community events, workshops, blue plaques, and more!
A series of workshops from May until February are now posted so that you can join in all of the dates, or as many as you wish. Pay as you feel donations will go towards Civic Society Blue Plaques.
Here’s the link to our facebook page, and below, the flyer of workshops and events.
https://www.facebook.com/events/629206057413244/
for more information email forgottenwomenwake@gmail.com
facebook Dream Time Creative
PDF FWW events Springs, library carers TAB
DTC goes to the Houses of Parliament, June 20th, 2018!
Rachel Reeves MP commissioned the Baroness Bacon Rhubarb Pale Ale brewed by Five Towns Brewery, Wakefield for The Strangers Bar, Houses of Parliament.
Below is some of the media coverage from the day. Rachel also went on the Daily Politics yesterday to discuss it. We’ve clipped it from her twitter https://twitter.com/RachelReevesMP/status/1010114393378643969
Yorkshire Evening Post: Raising a glass to Baroness Bacon
BBC News: Baroness Alice Bacon beer unveiled at Westminster
Pontefract and Castleford Express: Raising a glass to Baroness Bacon
Normanton Town Hall Baroness Alice BaconEvent- Strawberry Cream Tea
Friday 1st June- Photos by Steve Williams and Shannon S. Wishon
Baroness Alice Bacon’s legacy continues in an afternoon tea event, hosted by The Alice Bacon Trust, Normanton Town Council and Dream Time Creative. Held at Normanton Town Hall, where her Blue Plaque will be placed, the Friday 1st June event, held between 1pm and 4pm will include an official welcoming of the plaque with an unveiling at 3pm.
Guests from the local community will be invited to share their memories and stories of Alice and the Forgotten Women of Wakefield project will be performing poems about her set against the backdrop of an exhibition dedicated to her life and legacy.
The Broadsheet of Alice Bacon is produced by the whole team but special thanks must go to Steve Williams for his design and main article writing. Sarah Cobham provided the editorial comment and the initial ideas/design whilst the photographs of the artifacts have come from the archive collection put together by Sarah and gifted from Valerie and David Box, of Altoffs.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2071182483142178/
Interested in learning about Forgotten Women from Wakefield’s Past?
Do you have a story to share or tell about a woman from Wakefield?
DTC has secured funding to continue this amazing arts project; research, story telling, spoken word, talks, marches, community events, workshops, blue plaques, and more!
A series of workshops from May until February are now posted so that you can join in all of the dates, or as many as you wish. Pay as you feel donations will go towards Civic Society Blue Plaques.
Here’s the link to our facebook page, and below, the flyer of events.
https://www.facebook.com/events/629206057413244/
