In collaboration with the Mayor of London's Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm, the East End Women’s Museum is hosting a free, online discussion about how women are and should be represented within London's statues, memorials and street art.
The event will begin with an introduction to the work of the Commission from the team at the Greater London Authority. We will then hear provocations from Museum co-founder Sara Huws, and Ayahs Home founder Farhanah Mamoojee, on their vital work to improve women’s representation, as well as the challenges and opportunities it presents.
We will then have facilitated discussion to hear your views, looking at questions such as:
* which London women’s stories would you like to see (better) represented in the public realm?
* what does excellent representation of women in the public realm look like? Is it important that women are represented as much as men in ‘traditional’ means (e.g. statues, plaques) or should we look for other ways altogether (e.g. contemporary art, guerrilla interventions)?
* which people / organisations / initiatives are doing this work, and can we link up and support?
* what do we ultimately want to achieve with this shift in representation?
The purpose of the Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm is to lead a London-wide conversation on how to practically achieve greater diversity of representation across the public realm and heritage sites. This will have a focus on increasing presence and visibility of underrepresented groups including Black, Asian and minority ethnic, women, LGTBQ+ and disabled groups and will include consideration of representation of socio-economic diversity.
Discussions from this event will feed directly into the first meeting of the Commission in late January 2021. This will be the first of many community events and there will be further opportunities to engage with the work of the Commission throughout the two-year length of the project.
The event will take place online via Zoom. Book your place here.
Please note the event date is Thursday 21st January. This has changed the date was previously advertised in the e-newsletter. Apologies for any inconvenience.