Postcards to Ourselves

Celebrating International Women’s Day at Tribe Porty

International Women’s Day is a moment to reflect on how far we’ve come in the journey toward gender equality and how far we still have to go. Back in 1911, only eight countries allowed women to vote and equal pay for equal work was unheard of.

Today, barriers to true equality remain and our rights grow increasingly precarious. This year’s theme, Accelerate Action, is a global call for increased momentum and urgency in addressing the systemic barriers and biases that women face. According to data from the World Economic Forum at the current rate of progress, it will take until 2158, which is roughly five generations from now, to reach full gender equality. 

While we recognise the day, it’s essential to acknowledge that achieving gender equality is not just about improving the lives of women but coming together collectively to generate change.

“The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.”–Gloria Steinem

 

International Women’s day provides the perfect marker to collectively come together. This year, we wanted to take the opportunity to celebrate International Women’s Day by focussing on ourselves as individuals and helping each other reach the next level. 

You are invited to an evening of creative reflection. We hope that by taking a moment to tune into what truly matters to us and the values we hold dear you will leave feeling replenished and focused.

Collage: The Art of Letting Go

Collage is an accessible and freeing form of art, it encourages letting go, embracing imperfection, and trusting the process. Through collage, we can explore what’s important to us and what holds us back. By doing so we can discover where we want to place our energy moving forward.

Creating art that is guided by existing images, words, choices of color, shape, and movement keeps us present and engaged in the moment. It allows us to quiet the noise, release expectations, and simply create without judgment.

“Creative practices help us to see the world differently, to offer ourselves calm and to bring joy and pleasure.”– Ellie Hutchinson

 

Join Us for a Creative IWD Celebration

In this interactive session, we’ll create postcards to ourselves. You will be encouraged to explore how we can recentre our work and lives around our values. Expect creative reflection, cutting, and sticking, no prior experience in collage is needed. There will be no pressure to share your work. This is a judgment-free zone, embrace the DIY aspect in all its messiness!

We will be guided by creative practitioner, researcher and facilitator Ellie Hutchinson. Ellie specialises in using creative tools to explore what the future could look like. She is the co-founder of The Collective and the founder of The Dots. Ellie works on issues relating to social justice and wellbeing. A key part of her process is acknowledging that we can’t imagine new spaces and places without having the space to think, reflect, learn and come together in community.

While Tribe Talks are usually free to attend, our IWD event will have a suggested donation of £5. All of your materials will be provided. There will be delicious cakes and refreshments available for purchase, with all proceeds going to Edinburgh Women’s Aid.

Join us in celebrating, reflecting, and creating as we continue the movement toward gender equality. 

Find out more and book your space.

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