Get creative with us in our 2 hour Zine Making Workshop with creator of grrrlzinefair, Lu Williams (they/them).

Explore the activist history of zines, learn about women in the East End, and get the chance to make your very own zine. Materials will be provided, but please bring old magazines and newspapers if you wish.

If you are unable to attend, please cancel your order on Eventbrite, or email us, so we can notify people on the waitlist.

Book a free ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/zine-making-with-lu-williams-tickets-310445570057

Join us for a 2 hour family-friendly feminist cross-stitching masterclass. We will teach you how to cross-stitch and supply you with all the tools you need to create your own fierce memento to take home.

If you are unable to attend, please cancel your order on Eventbrite, or email us, so we can notify people on the waitlist.

Book a free ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/family-friendly-fierce-cross-stitching-tickets-310442139797

Back due to popular demand!

First a fishing and farming parish and then a market town, Barking continues to grow and change. Join local guides on this walking tour to hear about the incredible women of Barking, from the nuns at Barking Abbey to prison reformer Elizabeth Fry who was buried in Barking. 

Meeting point: Outside Barking Station

To book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-of-barking-walking-tour-tickets-296684901527

Get creative with us at our FREE LGBTQ+ Zine Making Workshop with creator of grrrlzinefair, Lu Williams (they/them).

Explore the activist history of zines, learn about queer women in the East End, and get the chance to make your very own zine.

Materials will be provided, however, you are encouraged to bring old magazines and newspapers if you wish.

*Please note, in the interest of keeping this a safe space, we ask that only those who identify as members of the LGBTQ+ community sign up to attend*

Register for a free ticket on Eventbrite : https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/zine-making-with-lu-williams-tickets-219992753247

COVID-19 Guidelines

TICKETS

We are carefully monitoring capacity at our events. We ask everyone to register their attendance through Eventbrite. You do not need to print out tickets.

 We will ask for your contact details when booking your tickets so that we are able to provide them to the NHS Test and Trace team should we be asked. 

CLEANING

We regularly wipe down surfaces and keep spaces clean at all of our events.

SOCIAL DISTANCING

Please be considerate of other visitors, staff and volunteers and keep a respectful distance from other groups where possible. We are carefully monitoring capacity at our events to allow for social distancing.

HAND SANITIZER

Hand sanitiser will be available at all of our events. Please use before, during and after our events. 

FACE COVERINGS

We highly recommend mask wearing at our events. Please wear one if you are able. Wearing a face covering helps protect the people around you. We will provide masks at our events.

Please do not attend if you display coronavirus symptoms or have been told to self isolate. 

The main symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) are:

• a high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)

• a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)

• a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste – this means you've noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal

 Email eastendwomensmuseum@gmail.com if you need to cancel or reschedule.

Get moving with artist Grace Duggan in our drama workshop, themed around women's history and our brand new museum building.

This is a 2 hour workshop.

Grace Duggan graduated from East 15 Acting School with a First Class BA Hons in Acting and Community Theatre. She is an East London based Director and Facilitator.

Suitable for ages 12-18.

Book a free ticket here

Description: Join us for a family friendly day of talks and activities. Discover fascinating Black women from East London, such as Phillis Wheatley, the first published Black woman poet, and Annie Brewster, one of the earliest identified nurses of African descent working in London, and share your own stories with us. 

Sew London Project will be running family friendly upcycling workshops during the day. Please bring your own old t-shirts to give them a new life. Workshops from 12-1 and 2.30-3.30. Booking required.

Free Tickets available through Eventbrite

East End Women's Museum is coming to Barking. Join us at our coffee morning to find out more about the museum, take a look at our designs with some coffee, tea and sweet treats. Share your own memories and tell us what you would like to see and do in the new museum.

Book a free ticket through Eventbrite

To celebrate the East End Women’s Museum coming to Barking, we are hosting a special tea party for local residents- grown ups only! Join us for some tea and parlour games and share your own memories. Tell us what you would like to see and do in the new museum. Hosted by Sadia Ur- Rehman. Booking in advance required.

Tickets can be booked through Eventbrite.  

Photo credits: Sadia Ur-Rehman

We’ll be at the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham’s 7th Annual Youth Parade Festival! The parade aims to celebrate young people’s contributions to the borough, as well as to inspire the next generation.

We will have a stall and would love to meet some of you, to talk more about women’s history, the representation of women and girls, and how we can best empower these voices.

Events and activities:

• line the streets and cheer on the parade

• join the celebratory event at Barking Park

• music and dance

• free inflatables and rides

• family fun and food

• find out about the groups, clubs and activities for young people in the borough

Founder and organiser of Newham Poetry Group, Sonia Quintero, gives a gentle introduction to poetry and creative writing. This workshop explores the power of words and images to re-create our inner world, with the emphasis in free verse.

Register for free tickets here.

Booking is essential. Pen to Print and our partners reserve the right to remove participants who are found not to have booked a place for this session.

Pen to Print and our partners reserve the right to remove participants who are disruptive to a session.

Roundhouse Music Festival is part of the Becontree Forever programme, which celebrates the centenary of the Becontree Estate, the biggest housing estate in the UK. The event celebrates the rich musical history of the borough and the Roundhouse pub home to the Becontree Estate which has played host to some of the world’s most famous rock bands. It will include music, dance, exhibitions, international food stalls, tearoom, arena acts, family fun, rides and attractions.

Our project focuses on the Women and Girls of Becontree, as we explore women’s stories from past, present and future.

Come along and have a chat with us, and enjoy the festival!

Becontree 100 arts and music festival is part of the Becontree Forever programme, which celebrates the centenary of the Becontree Estate, the biggest housing estate in the UK. The festival promotes unity through the power of music and tell the story of the estate both past, present and future.

The free family event will include music, dance, exhibitions, international food stalls, tearoom, arena acts, family fun, rides and attractions.

Our project focuses on the Women and Girls of Becontree, as we explore women’s stories from past, present and future.

Come along and have a chat with us, and enjoy the festival!

Join us for a documentary screening about the 1976 Grunwick Strike, which was led largely by migrant women workers of South Asian origin. The film will be followed by a panel discussion about the often overlooked contribution of WOC in labour history, as well as interactions of race, class, and gender in industrial action and activism.

Thursday 18 October, 6.30– 8.30pm, Barking Learning Centre, Free. Book your place via Eventbrite.

The inspiring story of a team of African-American mathematicians at NASA during the early 1960s who overcome the prejudice and discrimination of their colleagues, the company, and the law to achieve their goals.

Wednesday 3 October, 6 – 8pm, Barking Learning Centre, Free.

In 1926 boxer Annie Newton challenged people who said women shouldn’t box by asking if it was “half as hard work as scrubbing floors? Is it any more risky than working in a munitions factory?”

Our family event celebrates strong women and girls past and present: from Annie Newton to Nicola Adams, the courage of the suffragettes and the ‘munitionettes’, and every woman who has ever scrubbed a floor.

• Watch a demonstration of non-contact boxing from Future M.O.L.D.S Communities 
• Learn about the suffragettes who knew jujitsu and make your own suffragette sash with Eastside Community Heritage
• Test your strength on our strongwoman striker
• See our new Working For Equality exhibition about women factory workers in Barking and Dagenham
• Colour in your own Rosie The Riveter poster

Free, 11am - 3pm Sunday 9 September, Barking Town Hall Square. Facebook event.

Barking Town Square is 8 minutes walk from Barking station. Map: https://goo.gl/maps/D5zMRbXnWhn

The classic 1980 comedy starring Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, and Lily Tomlin as three working women who live out their fantasies of getting even with their sexist, bullying boss.

Wednesday 22 August, 6 - 8pm, Barking Learning Centre, Free.

You might have heard of the ‘munitionettes’ who worked on the assembly line in factories during the First World War, but did you know women worked as scientists too?

Our free family event celebrates women’s contribution to science, technology, engineering, maths and manufacturing then and now, highlighting role models and exciting innovations along the way.

Join us for inspiring talks, games, activities and demonstrations, find out about studying and working in STEM, and visit our mobile exhibition.

Saturday 18 August, 11am – 3pm, Dagenham Library

Dagenham Library is a few minutes' walk from Dagenham Heathway station on the District line. Map: https://goo.gl/maps/vogSr1da7rB2

Join us for a garden party marking 90 years since women won the vote at the age of 21 (and our third birthday!)

We’ll be celebrating the ‘flappers’ who voted for the first time in 1929 and the young women who followed them by dancing down the decades: watch demonstrations of the charleston, the jitterbug, rock n roll, and the twist, and maybe try some steps yourself!

Enjoy some refreshments, make a suffragette sash, and visit our exhibition about women’s fight for equality in the workplace from the suffragettes to the Ford Dagenham strikers. 

Saturday 28 July, 2 - 5pm, Barking Park (7 mins walk from Barking Station) Book a free ticket on Eventbrite and let your friends know you're coming by joining the Facebook event.

Almost 50 years to the day since the landmark sewing machinist's strike at the Ford plant in Dagenham which inspired the Equal Pay Act watch the film of their story, plus archive footage and interviews.

6.00pm Made In Dagenham (2010) Starring Sally Hawkins, Jaime Winstone, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson. "Rousing and entertaining... it should strike a rich seam of rewards from audiences everywhere." 

8.00pm Women's Stories of Ford Dagenham (2017) 30 min documentary using interviews and personal photographs to tell the real story of the strike in 1968 and the forgotten strike of 1984 which brought victory. Created as part of a Heritage Lottery Funded project by Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch.

This event is free and there's no need to book, just come along. Let us know if you're coming on the Facebook event page!

Getting here

Barking Learning Centre is 8 minutes walk from Barking station. Map: https://goo.gl/maps/D5zMRbXnWhn

The film will be shown in the conference room on the first floor of the Learning Centre, there is wheelchair access via a lift.

Barking station is on the Overground, Hammersmith & City, and District lines, as well as c2c rail from Fenchurch Street. 

Here's a list of nearby bus stops and services: https://tfl.gov.uk/maps?Input=Barking+Library%2C+Barking%2C+UK&InputGeolocation=51.53649139404297%2C0.07988429814577103

Refreshments and childcare

Some basic refreshments will be provided. 

A small fund to cover childcare costs is available, please contact Sarah Jackson at eastendwomensmuseum@gmail.com before Monday 28 May if you would like to make use of this.

Rare screening of this 1975 documentary about the landmark campaign to unionise night time office cleaners, led by May Hobbs and Cleaners Action. Followed by a panel discussion.

Wednesday 2 May, 5.30-7.30pm, Dagenham Library. Doors at 5.30, film starts at 6pm.

One of Satyajit Ray’s greatest films, The Big City follows the triumphs and frustrations of housewife Arati and the effect on her family as she goes out to work for the first time in 1960s Calcutta.

Wednesday 18 April, 6-8pm, Dagenham Library, Free

Sally Fielding plays North Carolina factory worker Norma Rae Webster in this Academy award-winning film about a woman who discovers her own strength when she takes on the management.  Wednesday 4 April, 6-8pm, Barking Learning Centre, Free.