RECENT EVENTS
CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY AND STAND UP AGAINST VIOLENCE TO WOMEN WITH SOME OF BRITAIN’S FINEST FEMALE COMICS
Celebrate International Women’s Day with us on Saturday 8th March 2008 at NIVEA Funny Women Stand Up. Now in its fifth consecutive year with another brilliant all female comedy line up featuring Jo Brand, one of Britain’s funniest women, Jo Caulfield, star of BBC Radio 4, Rhona Cameron, award winning comedian, ventriloquist Nina Conti and her very naughty monkey, Bridget Christie, winner of the first ever Funny Women Fringe Award, Joanne Lau, runner up in the NIVEA Funny Women Awards 2007, the musically articulate, Isy Suttie, and the vertically challenged Tanyalee Davis. With added humour from Blind Design and special guests still to be announced.
Our fantasic line up: Jo Brand, Jo Caulfield, Nina Conti, Bridget Christie, Joanne Lau, Isy Suttie, Tanyalee Davis, Rhona Cameron & Blind Design
Box office proceeds raised at NIVEA Funny Women Stand Up will be donated to our two beneficiary charities: ActionAid, which works to protect, empower and inspire women and girls to achieve their full potential and V-Day: Until the Violence Stops, which campaigns to end violence against women as well as supporting key charities such as Women’s Aid and Refuge to help survivors. Visit: www.actionaid.org.uk and www.vdayuk.org for more details.
Funny Women Stand Up is an event supported by the Mayor of London as part of the International Women’s Day celebrations. Funny Women will also be entertaining delegates at CapitalWoman, the Mayor’s annual London Women’s Conference at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre and Central Hall Westminster on Saturday 8th March, between 4.30 and 5.30 p.m. and hosting a special Funny Women Comedy Workshop. See www.london.gov.uk/capitalwoman.
MUSIC AND COMEDY NIGHT IN JANUARY
We're celebrating our 5th Anniversary with a unique night of music and comedy on Wednesday 16th January at The Borderline, Orange Yard. Special guests include singer/songwriter Daniel Rachel; critically acclaimed female blues singer Willis; ‘comic genius’ Terry Alderton and our favourite comedian and regular supporter MC Kevin Day. Daniel Rachel will be performing his debut London headline with the release of his Tender backed single 'Let It Be Mine'.
We would love to see you there and are always grateful for any contribution towards raising awareness of domestic abuse. Our 5th Anniversary celebration just wouldn’t be the same without you. We would also like to take the opportunity to thank you for your continuing support for Tender.
Help us bring domestic violence onto the public agenda!
Blues singer Willis
Funny men Terry Alderton and Kevin Day
Here’s just some of the praise our performers have received…
Daniel Rachel: ‘...there is power here, no little insight, and some very fine songs, too' (MOJO)
Willis: ‘haunting’ and ‘intoxicating’ (The Guardian)
Terry Alderton: ‘…a fantastic comedy mind’ (Eddie Izzard)
Kevin Day: ‘…very classy comedy.’ (Chortle, UK comedy guide)
November - December 2007
BEHIND THE SEEN' PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION
A group of young Londoners will present a series of anti-violence images at City Hall from the 26th November until the 11th December. The exhibition explores young people's responses to issues surrounding domestic and sexual abuse. 'Behind the Seen' was created as part of a 4-week collaboration delivered by Tender, through the TRUST programme, and London Bubble Theatre Company. The project invited young people to work in their own time, after school, to address how violent relationships are allowed to happen. The outcome of their work is an original exhibition to promote healthy relationships based on equality and respect and to mark the international 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence.
TRUST PERFORMANCES BY YOUNG PEOPLE
Young people will be presenting their end of end-of-project performances about healthy and unhealthy relationships in boroughs across Greater London over the next 6 weeks. Tender has worked with 14 groups of young people through the TRUST project this term, a project that works in secondary schools and youth centres for the prevention of domestic abuse and sexual violence. This Autumn, young people have been actively involved in the boroughs of Barnet, Bromley, Camden, Croydon, Ealing, Harrow, Hillingdon, Kensington & Chelsea, Southwark and Waltham Forest.
If you would like more information about TRUST and the upcoming performances, please contact Susie McDonald, Education Manger, at susie@tender.org.uk
Past Events
RECLAIM THE NIGHT
On Saturday 24th November the London Feminist Network will hold their annual women's march against rape and male violence known as 'Reclaim The Night'. The march highlights the fact that all women have the right to use public space both in the daytime and after dark without fear of sexual harassment and asault.
Assembling at 6pm in Trafalgar Square participants will march to the University of London Union for a mixed rally for men and women with speakers, stalls, bands and DJs till late in the evening. Speakers will include Julie Bindel, The Guardian journalist; Jane Gregory, Bradford Rape Crisis; Diana Nammi, Director of Iranian & Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation (IKWRO) and other exciting guests to be announced!
For more information contact the London Feminist Network or email: londonfeminist@yahoo.co.uk
THANKS TO UNDERBLING & VOW
A big thank you goes out to the entire cast of Underbling & Vow's cabaret, who played to a sell-out crowd in support of Tender in Hoxton Hall in October. A grand cockney knees-up was had by all!
