HAPPY IWD 2023 #EMBRACEEQUITY

Hello everyone, and we hope you are all having a wonderful International Women’s Day. It is a day for celebrating each other and highlighting women’s struggle across the world.

We are enjoying Embrace Equity events today, and then will be holding our own lunch event this Friday at Belfast City Hall, kindly hosted by the Lord Mayor of Belfast Cllr Christina Black, and supported by U105, the NUJ Belfast branch, Jawbox Gin, and Schweppes.

We will share some more details about our celebration with you on Frank Mitchell’s U105 programme on Friday morning and across our social media channels.

Our 2023 IWD event includes:

Lord Mayor of Belfast Cllr Christina Black

NUJ Belfast branch chair Anne Hailes

Members of Belfast’s Syrian community

Trócaire’s David O’Hare

Journalist Amanda Ferguson

Women Now Lebanon centre manager Rola Rukbi

Éadach designer and artist Sara O’Neill

Women’s Aid chief executive Sarah Mason

Belfast Telegraph reporter Niamh Campbell

Belfast Asian Women’s Academy

Dancer Amrutha Medhi

PA Media reporter Claudia Savage

Academic Veronique Altglas

Irish news columnist Patricia MacBride

Another World Belfast’s Becky Bellamy and Connor Kerr

Photographer Lu Cro

Student and journalist Claire Dickson

And our guests are drawn from across the media, politics, the third sector and beyond.

We are still working out the rest of our programming for 2023 so if you are interested in collaborating with us, sponsoring us, or have ideas for a public or ticketed event then please do get in touch.