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Home > Shout! Shout! Up With Your Song!

Shout! Shout! Up With Your Song!

By Caroline King - September 20, 2011Posted in : Uncategorised

Shout! Shout! Up With Your Song! With Sandi Toksvig and Velvet Fist, London Met Women's Library

Sandi Toksvig

When: 27th September 2011, 6.30pm (90 mins)

Where: London Met Women’s Library: 25 Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT

£: 10 (includes a drink)

What is it?

Shout! Shout! Up With Your Song! With Sandi Toksvig and Velvet Fist.  Singing has long played an important part in feminist campaigning, from suffragette marches to chants around campfires at Greenham Common.  2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the first performance of Ethel Smyth’s suffragette anthem March of the Women.  To celebrate, join Sandi Toksvig and special guests to discuss the role singing has played in the lives of activists and campaigners.  Hear acclaimed feminist choir Velvet Fist perform songs spanning the century, and perhaps join in a chorus or two!

More info: Women’s Library

Tagged With: London, London events, London Metropolitan University, Sandi Toksvig, Shout! Shout! Up With Your Song!, Velvet Fist, Women's Library

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