Women's Suffrage Centenary Calendar

October to December 1994, and an appendix of other events subsequently planned

OCTOBER

11 Country Women's Association State Conference
The conclusion of the Country Women's Association Centenary tour. Venue: State Club Dequetteville Terrace, Kent Town.

7 (until November 1) Adelaide Central Gallery
Two female artists from each of the Australian States will contribute works reflecting the progress of the Women's Movement in Australia since the time of Suffrage to the present day.

8-11 International Conference 'Women Power and Politics'.
The conference will be one of the major showpieces of the celebrations, with speakers of international standing including Oscar award-winning actor, Glenda Jackson MP (United Kingdom); Nicola Kutapan, Chair of the 300 Group, the all-party campaign for more women in politics and public life(United Kingdom); Margaret Winberg ( Sweden); Gemma Hussey ( Ireland); Marilyn Waring (New Zealand). The 4 day Conference will feature the following sub-themes—The Rights of Women, Women and Learning, Women in Government, and Women and the Economy.

12 & 13 National Women's Forum
Meeting of the Co-ordinators.

26-29 University of Adelaide Theatre Guild
The performance of the revised script of 'Ring The Bell Softly, There's Crepe on the Door', incorporating further research into lives of women characters, and refining performance requirements. Venue: Union Hall Theatre, University of Adelaide, Victoria Drive.

October-November YWCA Historical Project.
A historical two dimensional display on the contribution that the YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) has made to South Australian women during its 113 year history. Venue: Old Parliament House, North Terrace, Adelaide.

October-December Women's Involvement with the Army 1894-1994
A coordination of projects and activities covering the topic of Women's involvement with the Army. These activities and events will run through the months of October, November and December.

Ministerial Conference of Status of Women
A National Conference of Ministers responsible for the Status of Women from Australia and New Zealand will be especially held in Adelaide to coincide with the Centenary. A major discussion paper which is being prepared in Adelaide on the low numbers of women entering Federal and State Parliaments will be presented at this conference as a contemporary initiative.

Two exhibitions
'Lifeworks' -.An exhibition of works by Aboriginal women photographers which will provide a perspective on the scope and vision of their own work, as well as that of other Aboriginal women and their work in different fields. Proposed venue: Kaurna Gallery at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute.

Mirror Image: Creative Partnerships
An exhibition of works focusing on four South Australian and Northern Territory Aboriginal women in conjunction with four South Australian and Northern Territory Aboriginal men working in the same media. The focus of the exhibition is the work which is being produced by women which was once the province only of men, or, in one case, work by a male weaver in a medium associated with women's work.

Women's Electoral Lobby Forum
The theme of the forum will be 'into the second century of women's suffrage-strategies for recreating the Parliament towards effective equal participation'. The forum will launch the establishment of an electronic bulletin board specifically for women, to discuss politics and the issues they think should be enacted in law, and the laws they think should be changed.

NOVEMBER

1-26 Vitalstatistix Theatre Company
The performance of an enthralling theatre production exploring the struggle for Women's Suffrage in SA and the history of prostitution and the movement for its decriminalisation, as well as celebrating women's experience, resilience, humour and strength.

2-5 University of Adelaide Theatre Guild
The performance of the revised script of 'Ring The Bell Softly, There's Crepe on the Door', incorporating further research into lives of women characters, and refining performance requirements. Venue: Union Hall Theatre, University of Adelaide Victoria Drive.

5 Harness Racing Club.
Centenary Suffrage Trotting Carnival. Venue: Globe Derby Park.

8 Asian Women's Consultative Council.
Evening event to link Asian women to the granting of voting rights to South Australian women.

15-21 Australian Institute of Sport.
Open Women's Tennis Championships. Venue: Port Pirie Tennis Club.

DECEMBER

14-17 S.A. Women's Bowling State Championship Singles.

17 Street Parade.
Culminating in an imaginative theatrical re-enactment of.the historic parliamentary debates.

17 Grand Suffrage Centenary Picnic.
Family picnic focusing on the women of SA to be held at Elder Park. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the passing of the legislation which gave women in South Australia the right to stand for parliament, (the first in the world) and the right to vote!

28 S.A. Athletic League—Bay Sheffield Women's Gift
An annual event organi msed independently of the Steering Committee and accredited as a Suffrage Centenary event. Women have won the recognition to participate equally in the events with the highlight of the women's events being the Women's Gift 120 metre sprint. Venue: Colley Reserve, Glenelg.

OTHER EVENTS BEING PROGRAMMED
Appendix to Calendar of Events

Murray Park Theatre Company
Theatre production-dramatisation of the story of Elizabeth Woolcock, a woman hanged for the murder of her husband in SA in 1873.

State History Centre
Presentation based on the debate surrounding passage of Constitution Act Amendment Bill, 1894.

Archipelago
Two separate events—a singing workshop for women and a performance of a capella songs.

Booner Bami Surfing Association
Leaflet depicting the history of women surfers and their achievements. Package including the leaflet targeted at schools, secondary, country and metropolitan. Participation days, 'Have a Go' surfing clinics for women and girls in the community.

Konanda Aboriginal Resource & Welfare Centre Inc.
Ruby Hammond's story told by family members and advisory groups.

Leith MacGillivray
Article/talk about the lives and experiences of the women who came to SA in 1836.

Tailem Bend Community Centre Craft Group.
A 6 x 4 quilted wall hanging/ banner depicting railway women of yesterday and today.

Port Augusta Women Prisoners Support Group
Representing aspects of women's lives and concerns in prison in a mosaic of individual women's paintings. To plant and nurture a herb and flower garden within the women's prison complex.

Acacia Women's Community Health Service.
Cross cultural and generational women's camps to be held in remote areas to celebrate and enhance the understanding between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women.

Desma Kastanos
'The Sirens' A choir of women sing Greek songs about working life, love and hope. Traditional and contemporary Greek music including a local composition. Fifteeen songs for women and children. Ten weeks of singing workshops culminating in a public performance.

Port Adelaide Girls High School
Aboriginal Women's Voices production of a book featuring prominent Aboriginal women by students of Port Adelaide Girls High School.

South Australian Medical Women's Society History.
Publication of the life histories of approximately 45 medical women who have graduated or worked in South Australia.

Alana Zerjal-Mellor.
Printing of book Women's Liberation, Adelaide to 1974 by Sylvia Kinder.

Model Parliament-re-enactment of suffrage debates.

Women's Marathon-a national / international event.

Bahai Regional Office-a travelling display project.

Exhibition of Political Cartoons.

Fashions Over the Ages

Youth Conference

Women's Suffrage Centenary Oral History
To record women's political activities by researching and conducting interviews with women who are or have been involved in political activity in South Australia.

Political History leading to the voting rights of women.
To raise awareness of women's political history and current issues by developing a resource kit of information about the introduction of women's suffrage in South Australia with the specific emphasis towards the kit's value to schools.

Major exhibition of sa ignificant South Australian woman artist during the 1994 Festival of Arts.
To obtain maximum public access to an exhibition of works by a significant South Australian woman artist, during suffrage celebrations and increase the profile of women artists during suffrage celebrations.

Collation and exhibition of works by three women artists.

'Yes, They Really Said It'
Production of a pamphlet on the 'outrageous sayings of men who felt women'should not get the vote.

Printed debate on women's suffrage for students to re-enact in the former House of Assembly.
Audio debate on women's suffrage to use in the former House of Assembly. Scripting, recording,'burning' information into microchip.

A two woman'show 'Grand Old Woman of Australia' based on the life and works of Catherine Helen Spence.
Written and performed by Vicki Moore.

The publication of Jeanne Forster Young's novel 'Jennifer'.
Jeanne Forster stood for Parliament on a non-party ticket in 1918.

A 'living museum'
Visitors listen to characters relating events from their past life, each lasting 10-15 minutes.

Worker's Educational Association of South Australia.
Displays and a special telephone messages relating to Women's Suffrage when the caller is on hold.

Elizabeth Women's Community Health Centre
The launch of the documented history of Women's Health Centre in South Australia in the form of a video 'A piece of cake' accompanied by 'discussion starter' handbook.The project will focus on the feminist women's health movement and community management of women's health.

Solo art exhibition by Frances Phoenix exploring issues of growing up and aging as women.
Venue: Greenaway Gallery, 39 Rundle Street Kent Town.

Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement Archive Collective
The production of an annotated catalogue of the Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement Archive to render such material accessible to the community. The Archive consists of materials such as periodicals, minutes of meetings, letters, posters, press-cuttings, financial records and so on.