National Lottery Heritage Fund - Working Lass Project.
About the Project?
Working Lass is a National Lottery Heritage funded project facilitated by Pink-collar Gallery. Our goal is to find, highlight, and elevate the role of North East women in the liberation movement. We’re inviting members of the public to attend our workshops with a woman they’d like to nominate as someone who made a big impact on their community in the liberation movement (from 1960s-1990s). The criteria for community impact are any forms of political activism, involvement in social movements, charitable work, and cultural influence. During the workshop series, a scrapbook will be made documenting these amazing women and their impact from which a panel will select a final 10 women who impacted their communities. The contributions of these women will be memorialised in specially designed museum panels, as well as being archived in an online exhibition.
How does it work?
If you or someone you know have a woman you’d like to nominate, or maybe you’d like to nominate yourself, then feel free to attend one of our scrapbooking tea parties. The workshops are open to anyone regardless of age or gender, we believe that anyone can celebrate the amazing women of the North East. Come in for a cuppa and a sweet treat and tell us all about your nominated woman. If you have any photos, documentation, or anything else you think should go in the scrapbook then bring it along! (Don’t worry, we have a photocopier.) Our assistant artist and volunteers will help you craft a beautiful scrapbook page dedicated to your nominee. The workshops are drop in sessions, you can pop in for a quick visit or you can stay for as long as you like.
Online Nomination.
If you can’t attend our workshops, you can nominate someone digitally using our online form and we will make the scrapbook page for you.
Just CLICK HERE for more details.
Workshop Dates.
Saturday 18th January 2025
Darlington Library (in the Art Gallery)
Darlington Library, Crown Street, Darlington, County Durham, DL1 1ND.
11-am - 4pm
Thursday 23rd January 2025
The Oriental Museum (Deelman Classroom)
Elvet Hill Rd, South Rd, Durham DH1 3TH, Durham
11am - 4pm
Thursday 6th February 2025
Seventeen Nineteen - Holy Trinity Church
Church Street East, Sunderland SR1 2BB
11am - 4pm
Sunday 16th February 2025
The Customs House (Art Gallery)
Mill Dam, South Shields, NE33 1ES
10am - 4pm
Sunday 27th February 2025
The Customs House (Art Gallery)
Mill Dam, South Shields, NE33 1ES
10am - 4pm
3rd March 2025- Palace Green, Durham 11am - 4pm
Monday 3rd March 2025
Palace Green Library, Learning Centre
Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RN
11-4pm
MORE DATES COMING SOON!
