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.

🌟Join us for an entertaining and inspiring evening sharing words of wisdom and stories of courage from local heroines past and present!  

🌟Guest speakers will give a brief speech about a woman with an east London connection who inspires them, including pioneering journalists, doctors, community leaders and activists.

🌟We'll have a couple of 'open mic' slots for 5 minute lightning talks, if there's a woman from east London history that you'd like to shout about! Sign up on the night, first come first served.

🌟You'll also have the opportunity to find out more about the East End Women's Museum, tell us what you'd like to see in it, and find out how you can get involved in our Heritage Lottery-funded project Working For Equality this summer.

Here's the Facebook event.

Refreshments and creche 🍷🥤🍏👶

Some free refreshments will be provided, and we hope to provide a creche facility if there is enough interest. If you'd like to attend and a creche would make that easier for you please let us know in the comments or in a message so that we can get a sense of how many people are interested! 

Getting here 🚇🚌

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

The Learning Centre (the library) is on the Town Square, 8 minutes walk from the station. Map: https://goo.gl/maps/D5zMRbXnWhn

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

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