Discussion Panel on Inequality and Gendered Violence 🗣️🧠

Join us for an evening of enlightenment with One Play at a Time: Panel Discussion on Gendered Violence and Bold Theatre, presented by Catrina McHugh, the Baltic and Northumbria
University.

As the Baltic declares:

‘We are in the midst of unprecedented public and political attention to forms of gendered violence such as intimate partner violence, coercive control, sexual abuse, and digital gendered violations.

Violence against women - particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence - "is a major public and clinical health problem and a violation of women's human rights" (World Health Organization).

It calls for revolution. One play at a time.

Please join us.’

The ongoing Franki Raffles exhibition - which some of us have already explored in an event together! - addresses the topics of inequality, gendered violence and disability. It emphasises the value of activism and sisterhood.

In this upcoming event, trailblazer Catrina McHugh will be joined by curators and academics to discuss issues emerging from the exhibition.

An inspirational and award-winning playwright, Catrina McHugh is the founder of Open Clasp, whose aim is to create bold theatre alongside marginalised women, trans and non-binary people, to bring about personal, social and political change.

McHugh has worked in partnership with criminologists to train police officers and agencies involved in working with domestic violence and abuse, using theatre and creativity. Her plays have been influential in debates on multiple government White Papers and independent reviews.

The discussion panel begins at 6pm, with doors opening at 5.45pm. Meet us in the foyer before it starts, and we’ll head in together. Alternatively, duck in at the last minute on your own, if you’re pushed for time, post-work 😉. Once the panel concludes at 8.30pm, we can reconvene in the foyer, to continue the discussion amongst ourselves alongside drinks and a bite to eat at a nearby bar.

Entry is free, but you must reserve a ticket here.