{"id":3281,"date":"2022-03-07T11:50:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T11:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:46:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:46:46","slug":"dundee-womens-festival-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/dundee-womens-festival-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Dundee Women&#8217;s Festival Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every March, Dundee Women\u2019s Festival takes place with events occurring across the city. This year\u2019s theme \u201cToday\u2019s Women Shape Tomorrow\u2019s World\u201d has sparked enthusiasm with University staff and students who have organised a myriad of events.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3285\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-03-07-at-11.39.48.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-03-07-at-11.39.48.png 682w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-03-07-at-11.39.48-297x300.png 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can pick to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>learn about the new creative corner of campus<\/li>\n<li>participate in a panel discussion on a feminist future<\/li>\n<li>chat to women scientists on their soapboxes<\/li>\n<li>borrow a human book from a living library<\/li>\n<li>use forensic anthropology to solve the case of missing Bertha<\/li>\n<li>attend many more\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3282\" style=\"width: 683px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3282\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/03\/Medicinal-Garden-2-crop-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/03\/Medicinal-Garden-2-crop-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/03\/Medicinal-Garden-2-crop-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/03\/Medicinal-Garden-2-crop-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/03\/Medicinal-Garden-2-crop.jpg 1019w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WeeCAIR Medicinal Garden, part of the new creative corner of campus with LifeSpace Science Art Research Gallery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Museum Services&#8217; current exhibition in the Lamb Gallery, Let\u2019s Go Round Again, showcases work by alumni of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art who studied from 1968-72.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3241\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/02\/arts5811a-Utopia-by-Jurgita-Vasiliauskaite-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/02\/arts5811a-Utopia-by-Jurgita-Vasiliauskaite-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/02\/arts5811a-Utopia-by-Jurgita-Vasiliauskaite-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/02\/arts5811a-Utopia-by-Jurgita-Vasiliauskaite-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/02\/arts5811a-Utopia-by-Jurgita-Vasiliauskaite-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/02\/arts5811a-Utopia-by-Jurgita-Vasiliauskaite.jpg 1336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As part of the festival, they are hosting a special event inviting women artists and designers showing in the exhibition to discuss their time at art school and the challenges they faced as women in a male-dominated art world. Taking part in this live in-person discussion are alumni Sheila Mortlock, Anne Skinner, Janet Tod and Dorothy Walker and former staff member Sheila Macfarlane, then Head of Printmaking. The event is on Tuesday 15 March from 6-7 in the D&#8217;Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, places must be booked in advance via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/lets-go-round-again-the-womens-angle-tickets-256051094717\">Let&#8217;s Go Round Again &#8211; The Women&#8217;s Angle Tickets, Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Showing throughout the Festival is Dundee&#8217;s Wonder Women of Science. This eye-catching poster exhibition showing notable Dundee women was created by Museum Services in collaboration with the University Archives and School of Life Sciences with illustrations by DJCAD alumnus James Gemmill. It was first shown at last year\u2019s festival in the windows of the Overgate Shopping Centre and has now been redisplayed in the foyer of the Dalhousie Building where it can be seen throughout the festival.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3284\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3284\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/03\/wws1-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/03\/wws1-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/03\/wws1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/03\/wws1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/03\/wws1-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/03\/wws1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dundee\u2019s Wonder Women of Science exhibition available to view in the Dalhousie Building throughout the Festival.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Festival programme and poster were designed and illustrated by current DJCAD illustration student Ellen Forbes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3283\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3283\" style=\"width: 766px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3283\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/03\/IMG-20220301-WA0033-766x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"766\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/03\/IMG-20220301-WA0033-766x1024.jpg 766w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/03\/IMG-20220301-WA0033-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/03\/IMG-20220301-WA0033-768x1026.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2022\/03\/IMG-20220301-WA0033.jpg 958w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ellen Forbes, a DJCAD illustration student, designer of the programme and poster posing next to one of her posters that are on display around the city.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Festival runs from Saturday 5 until Sunday 20 March in-person and online. The programme is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/dundeewomensfestival.org.uk\/\">https:\/\/dundeewomensfestival.org.uk\/<\/a> with many events bookable through Eventbrite.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Dundee sponsors this year&#8217;s Festival through the Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support Fund awarded to the University of Dundee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every March, Dundee Women\u2019s Festival takes place with events occurring across the city. This year\u2019s theme \u201cToday\u2019s Women Shape Tomorrow\u2019s World\u201d has sparked enthusiasm with University staff and students who have organised a myriad of events. 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