International Women’s Day
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Meet our local Women in Business
To celebrate International Women’s Day this week, our special feature invites you to meet the women behind the local businesses in our community.
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Celebrate women through song
Incomparable Irish-Australian singer/ songwriter Maggie Jackson, has curated an international concert to be held at the Phee Broadway Theatre for International Women’s Day on March 8.
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Who was Shere Hite?
Castlemaine Documentary Festival will screen The Disappearance of Shere Hite at the Theatre Royal in March.
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Charity lunch at Trentham
The Cosmopolitan Hotel will host an inaugural International Women’s Day Charity Lunch in Trentham on Friday March 8.
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Showcase of female musical talent for IWD
In celebration of International Women’s Day, a group of local performers will be hosting an evening of entertainment at the Northern Arts Hotel in Castlemaine on Wednesday, March 8. Now in its third year, the event showcases some of the terrific female musical talents in the local area, with this year’s event shaping up to…
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Royal and C-Doc to celebrate IWD
To celebrate International Women’s Day on Wednesday March 8, the Theatre Royal Castlemaine and Castlemaine Documentary Festival will be joining forces to present two sensational films. The films to feature will include All The Beauty and The Bloodshed at 5pm followed by Miúcha, The Voice of Bossa Nova at 8pm. With film introductions and a…
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Bringing voices together
Eve Lamb International Women’s Day will be celebrated in Castlemaine with an evening of live entertainment on Tuesday March 8. The event is being hosted at the Northern Arts Hotel and will feature plenty of live music with a lineup of talented local musos on the evening’s program that will get started from 7pm. Those…
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Celebrating IWD in a new way
In keeping with the purpose of International Women’s Day, which is a global day created to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, Castlemaine’s Cate Mercer has invited local female musicians, singers and songwriters to come together to share words and song. “In the past few years, Kavisha Mazzella organised a coffee…
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Women of Steel to raise vital funds
Castlemaine’s Theatre Royal is teaming up with its partners at the Castlemaine Documentary Film Festival to hold a special fundraising screening of Women of Steel. Theatre Royal operator Felicity Cripps said they were opening the venue especially for International Women’s Day on March 8 to hold the screening, which aims to raise funds for the…
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Out in force
The role of women in policing was celebrated with a special International Women’s Day event at Castlemaine Police Station on Sunday. Inspector Donna Mitchell, local area commander for the Goldfields, gave one of our journalists and a couple of Castlemaine Secondary College students the opportunity to join her on a behind-the-scenes tour of the station…
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International Women’s Day: Rise, unite, resist gender inequality
International Women’s Day on March 8 is a day to celebrate women’s achievements, raise awareness of gender-based bias and take action for gender equality. The theme for IWD 2020 is ‘I am Generation Equality: Realising Women’s Rights’. This year Mount Alexander Family Violence Prevention Network and Macedon Ranges Family Violence Network are organising a collective…
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Let’s celebrate – New women’s group forms in Macedon Ranges to celebrate diversity
A new group has formed in the Macedon Ranges that aims to celebrate women and their cultural origins. Women Of Macedon Ranges Equality Network (WOMEN) was born from a conversation between three Kyneton locals from culturally diverse backgrounds. Terry Morley from the Philippines, Maryla Korinfsky from Poland and Teaote Davies from Kiribati saw a need…