Curator’s Floor Talk
Canberra Museum and Gallery (ACT)

Contemplate the incredible etchings and woodcuts in The Legacy of Ruth Prowse exhibition with Curator Deborah Clark.

More info: Canberra Museum and Gallery

Trailblazing Women
West Terrace Cemetery (SA)

Discover the stories of some of South Australia’s many fascinating and influential women of the 19th and early 20th centuries on this guided walking tour of West Terrace Cemetery. Amid the elaborate headstones and monuments you will encounter the graves of women such as trade unionist Augusta Zadow, suffragist Mary Colton, reformer Caroline Emily Clark, and pioneer Mary Thomas.

The tour will commence at 11.30am on Tuesday 6 March.

To book, telephone (08) 8139 7438 or email eventswtc@aca.sa.gov.au. Tours cost $5.50 per person and booking are essential.

More info: http://www.aca.sa.gov.au/

International Women’s Day Lunch
National Convention Centre, Constitution Ave, Canberra 12.30 – 2.00 (ACT)

UN Women Australia are hosting the International Women’s Day Lunch in Canberra on Thursday March 8th 2012 to help to raise funds for programs to provide assistance to women at risk all over the world.

Guest speaker, Sally Sara, well-known ABC correspondent will give the key note address.

Individual tickets and corporate tables are available

For more information visit UN Women or you can visit the event organisers DKC or phone them on 02 8218 2912.

WE WIN – Women Empowering Women In Need
ninefold venue Allianz building, Level 20 2 Market Street Sydney
New South Wales 2000 Australia (NSW – Sydney)

You are invited to attend WE WIN, a celebration of International Women’s Day presented by Women as Entrepreneurs (WomenAsEntrepreneurs.com.au). This is an awareness event – a celebration of successes of women with a focus on enabling change for women as entrepreneurs, both here and in the third world. Profit will go towards empowering women living in poverty in developing countries.

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Florence Taylor: Architect, editor, businesswoman
‘The Great Lady of Sydney Town’

Surry Hills Library, 6.00 – 7.00pm
405 Crown Street Surry Hills
Sydney, NSW 2010

Dr. Bronwyn Hanna will describe the humble beginnings, courageous career and mixed legacies of Florence Taylor, Australia’s first professionally qualified, practising woman architect. Taylor was also an engineer, town planner, journalist, publisher, social climber and rightwing feminist.

This event is held in conjunction with Women’s History Month. Free event, bookings essential. Telephone: 8374-6230

Dr Hanna, an architectural historian has published widely in her field, including two co-authored books: Women Architects in Australia 1900-1950 (2000) and Florence Taylor’s Hats (2006).

Cooking Program: Jams and Preserves
Calthorpes’ House (ACT)

It’s harvest time in the garden. Visitors are invited to learn the tricks for making a range of juicy preserves and jams crafted by Canberra Country Women’s Association. Presented in association with Women’s History Month.

More info: Calthorpes’ House, Museums and Galleries ACT

‘Muldoon’s Guest House AKA Vatican City’
Stuart Terrace, Alice Springs, NT

A family focussed theatrical tour of HM Gaol & Labour Prison, Stuart Terrace, Alice Springs led by Mrs Muldoon, the first gaol keeper’s wife. Exploring the boundaries between fact & fiction, history & heritage, architectural possibilities and construction realities.

Sun 11th March 4pm

Proudly sponsored by the NT Government.
More information about the gaol on the National Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame website

Walking Tour: Australian National University
Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University (ACT)

Join Deborah Clark, Curator Visual Arts at Canberra Museum and Gallery, for a gentle walking tour of public art at the Australian National University. Meet outside the Drill Hall Gallery (ANU) at 11.45am for a 12.00pm start.

More info: Museums and Galleries ACT

Women, Children and Welfare History in the Archives

1.00-2.30pm, Victorian Archives Centre
99 Shiel Street, North Melbourne, VIC

The Public Record of Victoria and the Australian Women’s Register Project extend an invitation to a seminar to commemorate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month.

The seminar aims to raise the profile of the Australian Women’s Register and to highlight the richness of the PROV in locating records about women and their contribution to Victorian society.

It will take place in the Seminar Room, the Public Record Office, 99 Shiel Street, North Melbourne, 1:00 – 2.30pm.

Panellists
Shurlee Swain – ‘Making their case: archival traces of mothers and children in negotiation with child welfare officials’
Charlie Farrugia – ‘The wardship records in the PROV Collection’
Nikki Henningham – ‘What’s New with the Australian Women’s Register’.

Professor Shurlee Swain is a professor of Humanities at the Australian Catholic University. She specialises in Australian social history, including religious, women’s, children’s and welfare history.Charlie Farrugia is Senior Collections Adviser at PROV.

Dr Nikki Henningham is the Executive officer of the AWAP, a committee of the National Foundation for Women.

Refreshments are available from Café 99 located within the Victorian Archives Centre.

Queries: Charlie Farrugia: Charlie.Farrugia@prov.vic.gov.au or
Rosemary Francis: landrfrancis@bigpond.com 0A

More info: www.prov.vic.gov.au

10 x 10 Building Canberra
Canberra Museum and Gallery (ACT)

To celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, CMAG and the ACT Office for Women present ten prominent architects, historians, artists and town planners who will each talk for 10 minutes, reflecting on different aspects of Canberra’s built environment from its history to its future.

More info: Canberra Museum and Gallery

The Least House Necessary – Interactive Design Workshop

6-7pm, Cairns City Library Meeting Room 151
Abbott Street Cairns (QLD)

Interactive Design Workshop with Dr Shaneen Fantin Director People Oriented Design. The workshop focuses on how to develop a concept for your house.

Bookings 07 4044 3720. For more information check outhttp://www.cairnslibrary.com.au

Margaret Hendry Oration
‘Sex & the City: what part of it do we not get?’

6.00-7.30pm
Albert Hall, Commonwealth Avenue
Canberra, ACT

The speaker at the Margaret Hendry Oration 2012 will be Elizabeth Farrelly, Sydney-based author, architectural critic, essayist, columnist and speaker. This event is free and open to the public and there will be non-alcoholic refreshments.

RSVP through the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects web site www.aila.org.au or AILA office (02) 6248 9970.

Elizabeth, who contributes a weekly opinion piece on a range of topics in the Sydney Morning Herald, has been invited to stimulate thoughts as well as attract a range of interested people and to signal that there is an opportunity for Canberra’s communities to be engaged with a different approach to the planning, design and development of the city.

A History of Active Citizenship:
the Australian Women in Leadership Project

5.30pm, Public Village Roadshow Theatre
State Library of Victoria, Entry 3 via La Trobe Street
Melbourne, VIC

The seminar is being held as one of the Making Public Histories Seminars, offered jointly by the Institute for Public History at Monash University, State Library of Victoria and the History Council of Victoria.

Find out more about the Australian Women in Leadership Project

Four Great Women of Architecture in conversation

Starts 6.30pm sharp
Tusculum, 3 Manning Street
Potts Point, Kings Cross
Sydney, New South Wales

Four inspirational women with extraordinary careers come together in conversation. Don’t miss this very special evening with four leaders in their field. Louise Cox is joined by Diane Jones and Joan Domicelj for an evening of discussion, hosted by Anne Higham, to talk about the highs and lows of a life considering architecture.

Louise Cox AM is the UIA Immediate Past President; Diane Jones is the Principal Director of PTW architects and Adjunct Professor FBE UNSW; Joan Domicelj is currently on the World Heritage Reference group for ICOMOS; and Anne Higham is immediate past heritage consultant for the Australian Institute of Architects and the Institute’s Honours committee member.

Australian Institute of Architects members are free.
Pay on the night.
Non members $10
Students $5
Train, 311 Bus Service
Please note: There is no parking at Tusculum