Women On Fire

Here is some up to date information regarding the Women on Fire event in April, which promises to be a very inspiring day! I have included a detail from one of the paintings I will be exhibiting. Please join us if you can.


23rd April 2011 WOMEN ON FIRE at CENTRAL HALL, WESTMINSTER, LONDON SW1

The world today can seem grim. We are drowning in stories and images which testify to the arrogance and greed of politicians and corporations, the brutality of war and destruction of communities.

As International Women’s Day celebrates its centenary, hope for a better future comes from bold, clear sighted women taking the lead. This remarkable event on Easter Saturday brings many of them together, and will give all the opportunity to ignite their own optimism and power.

Women on Fire is not a conference, symposium nor a talking shop. It’s a one day community. A day for all, regardless of age or background, to learn new skills, gain fresh insights, share experiences, and take away more wisdom and serenity than they came with.

INSPIRING SPEAKERS
Some are famous, others virtually unknown. All are wise and feisty women. They include

CAMILA BATMANGHELIDJH is the remarkable founder and director of two charities, The Place 2 Be (now national) and Kids Company, which transforms the lives of some of the most traumatized children in London. Camila and her team have raised over £60 million for Kids Company. She has received numerous awards as businesswoman and social entrepreneur.

Fellow of both the World Wisdom Council and World Business Academy, ELISABET SAHTOURIS is an evolutionary biologist and futurist who informs governments and large organizations. She shows how we’re at the adolescent stage of aggressive competition before maturing into the cooperative diversity that’s found, for example, in a mature rainforest.

Environmental lawyer POLLY HIGGINS was voted by the Ecologist as one of the “Worlds Top 10 Visionary Thinkers” for advancing the Universal Declaration of Planetary Rights and nominated “The Planet’s Lawyer” by the 2010 Performance Awards. She is currently campaigning to make ecocide a crime in international law.

SCILLA ELWORTHY founded the Oxford Research Group to develop dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers and their critics, and Peace Direct to work with peace-builders in conflict areas. Three times nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, she advised Peter Gabriel, Desmond Tutu and Richard Branson in setting up “The Elders”.

UNEARTHING THE UNEXPECTED
Far from a listening event, Women on Fire is fully interactive, including discussions with speakers and a shared firing up of creative energy led by Women on Fire founder Judith Seelig. The purpose is to inspire “Me too, I can” - a more daring, playful approach to life.

“Women as decision makers are our one underused resource in addressing all the crises of our time: ecological, economic, social and spiritual. Women on Fire encourages women to develop self-confidence without feeling challenged by patriarchal certainties. We want to offer instinctual wisdom as a partner to reason, wise women to accompany wise men.” Judith Seelig

HIGHLIGHTS
• One minute silence for all the women in the world who have no voice, no choice in how they live

• Everyone gets a free copy of the book Be The Change by Trenna Cormack (normally £12.99), a collection of interviews with inspirational women and men

• Event includes exhibition of contemporary women artists, all work for sale as originals, prints or postcards

• Women on Fire knickers hand made by couture lingerie designer Emma Kidd from up-cycled t-shirts (new life for unloved clothes) for sale, or sew your own from a hand-tailored kit (£12 per kit plus p&p)
• Influential women are invited to sponsor a seat or elect a representative. Ticket price, £55, goes to Kids Company.

• Light the fire Firing up creativity by ”plugging in” to the fire at the earth’s core (no fire at the earth’s core, no life on earth, for together with the rotation of the planet it creates the atmosphere that deflects out into space most of the ferocious solar heat)

WHEN
23rd April 2011 is when Easter Saturday coincides with St George’s Day, a rare event. The springtime celebration of renewed vitality in the earth (easter time) occurs on the day when England commemorates its patrons saint St George, who famously killed the dragon that in many cultures symbolizes the very same life force in the earth.

Ticket prices max £55 (concessions £35).

Women on Fire is a not for profit organisation promoting and developing confidence in female intelligence, instinct and leadership without the loss of tenderness.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
Judith Seelig judith@womenonfire.co.uk
020 8450 2723 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              020 8450 2723      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              020 8450 2723      end_of_the_skype_highlighting / 07583 426 693
or
Diana Eder admin@womenonfire.co.uk
07770 267 626

Speakers are available for interview, some before the event