Join us this month for a lively celebration of Women's History Month and International Women's Day with our event theme, 'The M Words - Menstruation, Motherhood, Menopause'. We're sharing stories about the ups and downs and everything in between when it comes to the moments that touch women's lives.
Our performer line-up:
TEAM 20S - Taylor Griffiths is a playwright, performer and director in improv and sketch comedy. She was recently nominated for Best Comedy at the 2023 Melbourne Fringe Festival and debuted her solo show 'No Thoughts' at The Malthouse Theatre during the 2023 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Team 30s - Kit Richards is a comedian and musician from Naarm/Melbourne. She has written and performed 3 solo shows for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and is mounting her 4th in 2024. She has written for TV Programs Hard Quiz and The 1% Club.
Team 40s - Nandita Chakraborty, an Indian-Australian author, disability advocate, and keynote speaker, was born in Kolkata, India. She overcame a traumatic brain injury from a rock climbing accident to become a best-selling author, winning numerous awards for her work. Currently based in Melbourne, she continues to inspire through her writing and advocacy efforts.
Team 50s - Dr Celia Torres-Villanueva leads parallel lives across multiple universes. She juggles careers from molecular immunologist to lawyer, board director to social entrepreneur, and more. With a PhD in molecular genetics, she's a lawyer and founder of a social enterprise empowering women of color. Across three countries, she's a lawyer in Australia and the Philippines, raising three children while pursuing her dreams. Now, with two fur babies, she dreams of more parallel universes yet to explore.
Team 60s - Glenna Thomson. After a successful corporate career, Glen moved to a 500-acre cattle property and blueberry orchard in northeast Victoria. She’s a mother and grandmother. In her 60s she’s published three novels with Penguin Random House. The latest novel is titled Gone, and was released last month.
Team 70s - Anita Roleff, decided to pursue art at the age of nine. She graduated from Swinburne Art School in 1961. In addition to raising six children, she continued her artistic journey, exhibiting solo, teaching various crafts, and joining artistic societies. She co-designed and published "Southern Star - Mercedes-Benz in Australia" with her husband, Paul.
Generation Women is an award-winning cross-generational storytelling night founded in New York in 2017, Sydney in 2018, and Melbourne in 2020. Each month, six women of note read an original piece on a theme. Of those women, one is in her 20s, her 30s, her 40s, her 50s, her 60s, and her 70s+.
Hosted by Rebecca Lister. Produced by Donna Logue, Hopepunk Productions. Created by Georgia Clark.
7-11 DAWSON ST, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056
DOORS AT 6.30 PM, SHOW AT 7 PM
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