Dear Supporters, Jazz legends Claire Martin and Liane Carroll are to perform in a benefit concert for the Mary Clarke Statue Appeal. Please support this event, come along if you can and publicise the concert through your own networks. You can book tickets for the event here. If you can help on the night, please contact information.mcsa@gmail.com. Hope to see you there. Jean Calder, Chair,…
Tickets are now on sale via Eventbrite for our 4th March benefit concert. Double Standards – an evening of jazz and joy! will include songs by Waits, Mitchell and Bennett skilfully mixed with stylish re-workings of lesser known classics and new original material. Join these two friends for some seriously swinging music. Not to be missed! Support from members of Siren and Women of Note. This…
Jude Winter, Debs Trethewey & Emilia Ballardini (@ballardinix) from feminist post-punk band Siren (@sirenbrighton) met this weekend to record Jude’s new “Song for Mary”, a tribute to Mary Clarke. It will go public on 12th December, which is General Election Day – and also Mary’s birthday. She was born in 1861. We think it is fitting that this tribute song should be launched on Election Day…
Mary Clarke was the first suffragette to give her life for women’s right to Vote but, there is no public memorial to her anywhere in the UK. Brighton, where she lived and worked, has few memorials for women and no statues other than of Queen Victoria. The Mary Clarke Statue Appeal was set up in late 2018 to fund a statue of Mary Clarke, as…
As seen on Brighton and Hove News by Frank le Duc More than 500 people have signed a petition calling for the return of an historic banner to Brighton. The Brighton and Hove Women’s History Group want the return of the banner which dates from when women were campaigning for the vote in the early 20th century. The banner, which is currently in a museum…
As seen on Brighton and Hove Independent by Clare Calder Politicians of all colours have come out in favour of a Brighton statue in memory of suffragette Mary Clarke. The latest supporters follow in the footsteps of Green MP Caroline Lucas and Conservative MP Maria Caulfield who expressed their backing of the project earlier this month. On Friday (April 26) more politicians posed for photographs at the…
As published on waterstones. We are delighted to be hosting this fundraising evening for the Brighton Suffragette Blue Plaque Campaign. The main event will be a panel discussion with Helen Pankhurst (writer, women’s rights activist and great granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst), Jean Calder (former Brighton councillor, journalist and community activist) and Frances Stenlake (author and historian), chaired by Caroline Lucas (Green Party MP for Brighton Pavilion, author and campaigner). Helen Pankhurst Dr Helen Pankhurst…