Your East End guide to Women’s History Month 2025
Street art workshops, queens of pop music and reproductive health talks in east London to honour Women’s History Month 2025 and International Women’s Day.
Women’s History Month is a time for us all to celebrate and highlight the histories, celebrate the contributions and hear the stories and experiences of women in the East End and beyond.
This year’s theme is ‘Moving Forward Together! Women Educating and Inspiring Generations’ and recognises amazing women worldwide who are pushing forward the elimination of gender based bias and discrimination.
From street art workshops to panel talks and pop music, here’s a roundup of events to keep you busy throughout Women’s History Month.
Workshops
We Are Heard! Street Art Workshop at Richmix Cinema
This two-part workshop brings the hopes, struggles, and unheard voices of women facing mental health challenges into the public space through street art. In a society that often overlooks women’s experiences, this workshop will use paste-up street art to co-create an artwork that reclaims public space. The workshop will be led by critically acclaimed Latina street artist, Paloma Rodríguez and the artwork made will be displayed on one of Rich Mix Community Garden’s walls.
Saturday 8 March 2025, and Sunday 9 March 2025, 2 pm – 6 pm.
Free, ‘Pay What You Can’ basis. Book via Rich Mix.
Rich Mix Cinema, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
Talks
Insights from the Black Women’s Reproductive Health Project
This talk hosted by Queen Mary University will highlight the experiences of Black and Black-mixed women with female reproductive systems, menstrual and reproductive health needs. Key findings, recommendations, and future steps from the Black Women’s Reproductive Health Project (BWRH) will be discussed. The project aims to address systemic racism, unconscious bias, and biases within healthcare.
Thursday 20 March 2025, 1 pm – 2 pm.
Free but register on Eventbrite.
Online
Feminist and women’s history archive collection at Bishopsgate Institute
Bishopsgate Institute Archive Library has been collecting records of women’s participation in the public life for a century, including protest and campaign materials, papers, and records of women’s organisations.
The institute also holds the archives for ‘Women Activists of East London’, a collection of thirty-four interviews with women in Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Waltham Forest, focused activism in the areas of gender violence, the labour movement, racism, environment and peace movements between 1888 and 2016.
Open Monday – Friday, 10 am – 5 pm.
Free. Look out for occasional archive tours.
230 Bishopsgate, City of London, London EC2M 4QH
Art and Exhibitions
Women’s Spring Open Exhibition 2025 at Brady Arts & Community Centre
The Women’s Spring Open Exhibition 2025 at Brady Arts & Community Centre will celebrate the creativity of local women artists with a diverse range of mediums and work from artists of all ages and experience levels.
Now until 29 March 2025. Open Monday – Friday 9 am – 7 pm, Saturday 10 am – 4 pm.
Free.
192-196, Hanbury St, London E1 5HU
East End Women’s Museum
Explore the history of women online with the East End Women’s Museum. Their recent exhibition ‘Back behind the bar: pub landladies of east London’ features owners such as Pauline Forster of the George Tavern. Plus explore a wealth of fascinating information on the Suffragettes, Mary Wollstonecraft, and other key female figures in the area.
Free.
Online.
Wonderful Women Exhibition at St Margaret’s House
This exhibition will celebrate female artists working producing work across a range of mediums but that all represent the theme of ‘wonder women’ from portraits to protest images and mothers to mermaids.
Opening event is on Friday, 7 March 2025, 6:30 pm – 9 pm. Exhibition runs Saturday 8 to Sunday, 9 March 2025, 10 pm to 6 pm.
Free but you must register online.
21 Old Ford Rd., London E2 9PL
Walks
Working Women of the East End Walking Tour
Take a guided walking tour that highlights the history of working women in east London, from the Suffragettes to victims of the Whitechapel Murders. The tour lasts between 2.5 to 3 hours and ends near Liverpool Street Station.
Multiple dates throughout March.
£15/£12 concession.
Starts at: Tower Hill Underground, EC3N 4DJ
Music
Queens of Pop at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club
This International Women’s Day, celebrate the history of female pop music at the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, ‘Queens of Pop’ night. Dance to the bangers from best-loved female chart toppers, with performances from eight amazing drag artists.
Saturday 8 March 2025, 7 pm – late.
£10.
42-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB
