Women's Suffrage Centenary Calendar

July to September 1994

JULY

1-10 International Women Playwrights Conference
(Organised independently of the Women's Suffrage Centenary Committee). The third International Women Playwrights Conference will bring together around 500 women and men from 50 countries to see and hear about the work of women playwrights. Conference themes explore the relationships between ritualised, traditional performances, modern narrative drama and contemporary multi-discipline plays. Respected national and international women playwrights will address the conference, lead forum discussions and present reading of their work. Concurrently, plays and performances by women will be staged throughout Adelaide in a mini-festival of women's work.

1-10 `Heartbeat of the Earth
The performance of an Aboriginal playwright, Eva Johnson's play Heartbeat of the Earth by young women in the Port Adelaide Area. The play deals with a group of young women deciding about their future. They must confront issues of Aboriginality, gender and identity. The play will tour to Port Augusta during the July School Holidays.

4 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Murray Bridge.

6 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Meningie.

8 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Millicent.

9-10 Young Women's Suffrage Camp.
The camp will be held over two days and one night. It will be open to 190 women aged 12-30 years from South Australia. The theme of the camp will be the participation of women in all areas of life, celebrating the centenary of women's suffrage in South Australia. Each day there will be workshops, recreational and educational, covering a wide range of areas and issues relevant to young women. Venue: Rymill Conference Centre, Woodhouse.

11 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Mount Gambier.

11-22 Girl Guide Association
A static display of photographs depicting guiding past and present. Venue: Girl Guide Headquarters 278 South Terrace Adelaide.

13 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Penola.

15 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Kingston SE/Robe.

18 Coaching Female Athletes-Nutrition and Eating Disorders for Young Female Athletes.
One of a series of seminars to be held in conjunction with Women's Recreation Weekends. Sponsored by the Division of Recreation, Sport and Racing.and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Venue: SA Sports Institute, 27 Valetta Rd, Kidman Park.

18 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Naracoorte.

20 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Keith.

22 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Bordertown.

25 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Pinnaroo.

25 Women's Electoral Lobby SA Inc
Celebration Dinner and guest speaker.

27 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Lameroo.

28 (until August 27) South Australian Women Visual Artists 1990–2000.
An exhibition, curated by Erica Green, Director of the Art Museum, examining the work of a selected group of South Australian artists, Fiona Hall, Bronia Iwanczak, Michelle Nikou, Bronwyn Platten, Jyanni Steffenson and Linda Marie Walker. This exhibition will demonstrate the range and nature of concerns typically engaged in contemporary South Australian women artists' practice, including characteristic gender issues. Venue: University of South Australia Art Museum, Holbrooks Road, Underdale.

29 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Tailem Bend.

July (until October) Womantrek 94
A combined walk/ride of the Heysen Trail. Ride is to be interpreted as cycle, horse and buggy, horseback and wheelchair travel. The start will be at Mt Babbage in the northern Flinders Ranges, and will take approximately 4–4 1/2 months to walk/ride the 1,000 kilometres to the end at Cape Jervis which is at the bottom of South Australia near Victor Harbor. The walk/ride is continuous, made up of many groups of women and girls who complete sections of the trail at a particular time and place. Particular sections will be designated for cycling, horse and buggy etc. Organised by the YWCA of Adelaide in conjunction with Women of the Wilderness Australia.

Photographic exhibition by three women artists, Susan Clark, Mary Hill and Claire Bockner, portraying South Australian women living bold and powerful lives. It will provide a vision of women which challenges and contradicts the limited ways women are represented in mainstream media, to redress the absence of images in particular areas of life such as sport, politics, science, technology, and acknowledge and celebrate South Australian women's lives.

Mothers Union in Australia.

Diocese of Adelaide: Provincial Conference at Victor Harbour.

Christies Beach Women's Shelter
Collection of oral and written historical material in relation to the founding of the first Christies Beach Women's Shelter in the 1970s and the associated services for the women of the Noarlunga area which developed from the Women's Shelter. The material will be compiled by Helen Oxenham and will form a part of the archival material available at the Mortlock Library in relation to women's services and the Noarlunga district.

State Library of South Australia
An oral history of the political activities and achievements of South Australian women through a pilot program of 18-24 hours of in-depth interviews with about 10 women.

Radio 5UV
The broadcast of a series of programmes celebrating the Centenary of Women's Suffrage through the National Community Radio Network. This series will be produced by Nicky Page of 5UV Radio. Pieces will be primarily historical, providing in broad scope and anecdotal detail the story of women's entry into parliamentary representation. The series will broadcast on Australian community radio between July through December 1994.

July-September Behind the Wall: the women who lived in the Destitute Asylum.1860-1927
The research and publishing of a monograph about the women who lived in Adelaide's Destitute Asylum 1860-1927. Prepared by the Migration Museum.

AUGUST

2 to December 17 Community Liaison Officers Salisbury North West
Aboriginal women and women of non-English speaking backgrounds will share their traditional skills and learn new skills to create a series of vibrant Multicultural textile panels. The panels will reflect their migration experiences, their contributions to this State and their aspirations for the future. These panels will be rotated around four local schools and will form part of a touring exhibition which will commemorate and celebrate the shared experiences of women.

2 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Ardrossan.

4 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Port Vincent.

8 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Yorketown.

9–23 Australian Archives
To promote and display selected records created by and pertaining to South Australian women in the 20th Century. Venue: Myer Centre in conjunction with State Records of SA.

16 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Kadina.

18 Women as Survivors
A Playback Theatre production highlighting the strengths of women overcoming violence, abuse and prejudice.

19 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Clare.

23 Suffrage Petition.
Display of the historic petition containing 11,600 signatures, which represented a significant proportion of the South Australian population in 1894 (the largest proportion of the SA community ever to sign a petition). The petition was presented to the House of Assembly by G C Hawker on 23 August 1894.The petition will be displayed along with other supporting documentation. An index to the petition will also be presented, allowing visitors to the exhibition to search for any names of ancestors from among those who signed the historic document.

23-26 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Balaklava/Mallala.

31 Playback Theatre Adelaide Incorporated.
A series of performances as a vehicle for community-based organisations.and local government to raise the profile of women's suffrage in their communities.

IOOF Australia Trustees.
Financial Management for Women Conference to be held over 2 -3 days in August.

Three exhibitions.
Three exhibitions to run simultaneously each thematically emphasising different perspectives of celebrating the Suffrage Centenary. Exhibition Co-ordinator Larissa Hjorth. One exhibition which has been confirmed is `Returning from Exile .which will include the work of female artists Victoria Straub, Rachel Hancock, Ayravaine MacLacklan, Ruth McDougall and Larissa Hjorth. It will be an exhibition of photography, textiles and installations. Venue: Artzone, Adelaide.

August (until October) Women and Science at the Waite Institute 1920s to the 1940s.
Launch of a travelling exhibition highlighting the work of some of the women who worked at the Waite Institute from the 1920s through to the 1940s. This splendid exhibition acknowledges and celebrates how a past generation of spirited women were able to pursue scientific careers regardless of institutionalised discrimination and the conservative social mores of the day

SEPTEMBER

Two exhibitions of Pam Harris's work, a South Australian artist who died in 1992.
A catalogue will be produced documenting her work, which covered printmaking to video and performance work, and will accompany the exhibitions. Both exhibition and catalogue will be curated by Di Barrett. Venues: Experimental Art Foundation and the Adelaide Festival Centre. The Experimental Art Foundation will represent the performance and video exhibition of her printmaking while the Adelaide Festival Centre will show a survey exhibition of her printmaking.

1 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Elizabeth Shopping Centre.

3. Non-English Speaking Background Women's Conference.
A one day conference to highlight Non-English Speaking Background (NESB) women's achievements especially in the area of professional and occupational excellence. There will be high profile keynote international, national and local speakers from NESB. Dinner and entertainment (concert performance) will follow the conference. Venue: Norwood Concert Hall.

5 (until November 26) Parks Community Centre
A multifaceted visual performing arts project with disabled women as its central focus. Working towards community education and integration for the Western community. Music and design will be a dominant feature of the project. Venue: Parks Theatre 1, Parks Community Centre, Regency Park.

6 (until October 23) Matrilineage.
An exhibition of Jan Irvine's work titled 'Matrilineage' in textiles and that of the previous three generations of women's textile work in her family. This work will be shown in relation to her own work but will act also as a metaphor for generational inheritance in land care.

8 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Tea Tree Plaza Shopping Centre.

12 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Prospect Town Hall.

15 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-West Lakes Shopping Centre.

17-24 Frames
The presentation of a Women's Suffrage Centenary Award for $1,500, for outstanding achievement by a woman filmmaker Frames will be hosted by the Media Resource Centre. Venue: Media Resource Centre.

17-31 The Politics of Film Making—the Hidden (A)gender
A series of seminars and screenings focusing on women as the subject and makers of film since 1894. The following sessions are proposed; Documentaries, Women Film Makers and Their Influences, Women and Politics, On The Domestic Front, Women's History-A Multicultural View and Through Women's Eyes. Organised by the South Australian Film and Video Centre and the Media Resource Centre.

18 (until October 8) Feminist Lives
An art and craft exhibition of individuals. A rectangular wall hanging titled 'Feminist Lives' composed of individual designs worked by art and craft persons in any suitable medium on allocated shapes composed together to form a completed article. Venue: Noarlunga Community Arts Centre, 22 Gawler Street, Pt Noarlunga.

22 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Colonnades Shopping Centre.

29 CWA Centenary Tour. A one day seminar on Women's Suffrage. Location-Marion Shopping Centre.

Women's Week—UTLC
A series of skills and information workshops for women unionists. Women will be able to attend as many or as few workshops as they wish. Entertainment is being organised for the lunch breaks and the grand finale on Friday night. High profile speakers are being invited together with our recognised achievers. Venue: TUTA Centre, 46 Greenhill Road, Wayville. It will be decorated with women's banners, artwork and flowers.

Older Women's Speak-Out

1- 30 The Many Hats that Women Wear
An exhibition of millinery and three dimensional textile arts depicting changes in society's attitude to women. The exhibition will be the culmination of workshops held during the year by Annette Pattison with women from both city and metropolitan areas. Venue: Studio 20, Blackwood.

September-October Women's Week
A week of skills workshops for women trade unionists; ranging from communications skills, to the history of suffrage, to self defence skills. Organised by the United Trades and Labor Council of South Australia. Venue: United Trades and Labor Council.SA, 11 South Terrace Adelaide.

September-October Coalition for Women's Right to Choose
Panel display on history of establishing safe, affordable, accessible abortion services for women. To be subsequently adapted as a mobile display for metropolitan and country areas. Proposed Venue: Speakers Corner, Old Parliament House.