Marie Stopes published her controversial sex manual, Married Love, in 1918, revolutionising how the world understood desire, sexuality and sexual health.

A century on, this new chamber opera by Alex Mills explores a fascinating snapshot of society’s sex life using extracts from thousands of emotionally-charged letters Stopes received in response to her book, which feel just as powerful and relevant now as they were 100 years ago.

The opera was first performed at Wellcome Collection museum as part of the Tête à Tête opera festival in 2018. This production brings together the original team with new staging conceived specially for Kings Place.

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The Access MBA and EMBA Tour is visiting London to guide the most ambitious business professionals to their dream MBA or EMBA degree and professional fulfillment.

Sign up for the Access MBA & EMBA One-to-One event to benefit from:

• Professional profile evaluation and coaching
• One-to-One meetings with top international business schools
• Individual consulting sessions with Access MBA experts
• More than EUR 2 million worth of scholarship opportunities

Date: September 24^th, 2019

Time: 16:30-21:30

Place: Royal Garden Hotel, London

Places are limited for One-to-One meetings and early registration is recommended.

To receive your free invitation, register here today.

Careers Club & WeAreTheCity would like to invite you to join them for an evening of learning and networking, Accelerate Your Earning Potential – Add value, gain recognition, reap rewards with Kay White, Coach, Author, Mentor – Way Forward Solutions

• Would you like to be more strategic and focussed about where your career is heading?
• How do you own AND use the value and wisdom of your skills and experience?
• How do you stick to what’s important to you without upsetting others?
• Learn the use of a certain subtle word which changes how people respond to you
• Build and maintain professional relationships in a clear, intentional way for mutual benefit
• Learn and use the 8 Principles of Your Career Success Cycle – they’re in play all the time and Kay will show you how to be more purposeful and clear as you navigate the twists and turns of your own unique career journey.

Smart Career Moves Mentor Kay White knows how frustrating it can be when your career priorities fly out of the window (or you don’t have a clue what they are in the first place) and you find yourself at the mercy of everyone else’s career goals instead. This has serious implications on your success at work and at home and your overall sense of well-being.

It means it’s time to take the steering wheel and Drive Your Own Career Bus.

Drawing from her recently-released book “It’s Always Your Move – Purposeful Progress for Corporate Career Women”, during her interactive talk, Kay will share tips, strategies, mind-sets and exact words and phrases for you to use straight away, all designed to enable you to naturally steer and navigate the choppy waters of your own career path.

Location

Tuesday 24 September 2019, 5.45pm – 8.30pm at Man Group, 1 Angel Lane, London, EC4R 3AB

Agenda

17.45 Registration & pre-networking

18.30 Welcome and Speed Networking with Vanessa Vallely OBE, Managing Director, WeAreTheCity

18.40 Keynote session – Accelerate Your Earning Potential – Add value, gain recognition, reap rewards with Kay White, Coach, Author, Mentor – Way Forward Solutions

19.40 Q+A

19.50 Networking and canapes

20.30 Event close

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About our speaker 

Kay White is known as The Smart Career Moves Mentor for Corporate Women and is the Author of two Number 1 best-selling books (The A to Z of Being Understood AND It’s Always Your Move). Kay shows experienced corporate career women how to own and leverage their skills and experience so they more confidently navigate their career paths towards promotion, more recognition and more rewards (all without losing themselves along the way).

Drawing upon the highs and lows of her own +20-year corporate experience in insurance broking at Willis, London (starting as a Secretary and leaving as a Divisional Director) Kay brings her passion and experience for the energy of language, the art of influence and persuasion and making strategic, considered career moves to her clients.

Kay and her husband live close to London with 3 rescue Lurchers and much of Kay’s inspiration comes from walking the hounds, early in the mornings, in the local countryside. Playing the drums (occasionally guest-spotting in a heavy rock band) and Water-skiing, Kay keeps herself flexible with Yoga and Pilates.

Website: www.kaywhite.com

This session is free for individual Careers Club members, corporate members of Careers Club and WATC Rising Star and TechWomen winners.

Britain has had two female heads of government and women make up a third of the total number in the House of Commons, a number that has been steadily rising with each election.

Women, some say, will soon have equal political power in the UK. But many would beg to disagree. Britain sits 39th in the world rankings for the proportion of women sitting in the national legislature, and it was not until 2016 that the total number of women ever elected to the Commons surpassed the number of male MPs in a single parliament.

Women MPs have passionately fought for and won many of the gains we take for granted today – equal pay, better childcare provision and child benefit. But the fight for laws that benefit women has often been made in the face of fierce opposition from male MPs. And today, women parliamentarians face a new challenge – increasing levels of abuse and threats of violence on social media. Labour MP Diane Abbott, the first black woman elected to parliament, receives so many racist and misogynistic threats every day that her office sends them in weekly batches to the police. This revolution, many women say, is far from finished.

On September 26 the MPs Rachel Reeves and Priti Patel join celebrated classicist and broadcaster Mary Beard on the Intelligence Squared stage to discuss how women negotiate political power in what remains in many ways a man’s world. Reeves will talk about some of the pioneers who feature in her acclaimed book Women in Westminster, including Eleanor Rathbone, Barbara Castle, Harriet Harman and Tessa Jowell, who all battled for change despite the sometimes misogynistic atmosphere in the House of Commons. Nancy Astor, the first sitting woman MP, was physically obstructed by some male MPs from taking her seat on the green benches, while Shirley Williams used to have her rear routinely pinched by male colleagues in the division lobby.

Our speakers will also discuss the very nature of power and how even women often conceive it as male. As lifelong feminist Beard acknowledges, ‘What do even I see when I shut my eyes and try to imagine a prime minister? Answer: a white man in a suit.’ When, our speakers will ask, will there be a female prime minister of colour? Or a woman chancellor of the exchequer, a job Reeves has said she aspires to? When and how will the revolution be finally won?

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The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning is Macmillan’s biggest fundraising event.

People all over the UK host their own Coffee Mornings and donations on the day are made to Macmillan. We are counting up the pennies and pounds for this year’s event as we speak, and hope to raise over £27 million again this year, to help everyone living with cancer to live life as fully as they can.

How did it all begin?

The first ever Coffee Morning happened way back in 1990. It was a rather small affair with a simple idea: guests would gather over coffee and donate the cost of their cuppa to Macmillan in the process. It was so effective, we did it again the next year – only this time nationally. Since then, Coffee Morning has raised over £200 million for Macmillan.

Why we do it

Join women’s cancer research charity, The Eve Appeal, as we Go Red and trek 25km (approx. 15.5 miles) on Saturday 28^th September through the stunning Cotswolds to mark the end of Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month.

Every day in the UK 58 women are diagnosed with one of the five gynaecological cancers – womb, ovarian, cervical, vulval and vaginal – and 21 will die. That’s 21 mothers, daughters, sisters and partners every day. The Eve Appeal is determined to change these shocking statistics but they need your help.

By taking part in this incredible challenge you can help to raise funds for The Eve Appeal’s ground-breaking research which is focused on developing effective methods of risk prediction, earlier detection and screening for these women-only cancers – whilst also taking in this truly beautiful Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the charming villages, stunning countryside and breath-taking views at every step.

Athena Lamnisos, Chief Executive of The Eve Appeal said: “The Go Red Trek is a charity hike that’s both a stretch and a joy. Walking through glorious countryside, sharing stories and raising life-saving funds. It’s a brilliant event to take part in with friends, family and colleagues and also brilliant if you come along on your own. Raising sponsorship when you’re taking on a 25km challenge with a fair few hills along the way is great fun too!”

Go Red and sign up today: https://www.globaladventurechallenges.com/challenge/go-red-trek

This trek brings together the charity’s supporters, employees, people who have had cancer and their families, and anyone who likes to take on a new challenge and raise money in the process. The Eve Appeal’s Specialist Gynaecological Cancer Nurse Tracie Miles, who runs our Ask Eve service, will also be taking part this year – so it is the perfect opportunity to walk, talk and learn about gynae health.

Go Red Trek Route

We will meet in the early morning on Saturday 28^th September in the beautiful Bourton-on-the-Water, also known as the ‘Venice of the Cotswolds’ – a truly beautiful location to start our challenge. Here you will register, receive your bespoke t-shirt and have an event briefing.

The trek then heads out onto the Monarch’s Way where we will walk alongside the River Windrush, passing Clapton-on-the-Hill and Farmington before reaching Northleach.

After passing through Northleach, we join the Macmillan Way passing through small villages of Hampnett and Turkdean, continuing our trek to the Cold Aston. The final leg of our trek will join the Gloucestershire Way before moving onto the Windrush Way and then heading back into Bourton-on-the-Water for a triumphant finish – where you can enjoy some fizz and a hot snack!

Sign up today by visiting https://www.globaladventurechallenges.com/challenge/go-red-trek or if you would like more information contact the Eve Team: email [email protected] or phone 020 7605 0109.

An Amazon Stept Out is a one-off evening with one of history’s unsung heroes: the pioneering rebel, Mary Wollstonecraft.

Anita Rani and Jude Kelly and a star-studded cast will bring to life the inspirational story of the ‘original suffragette.’

Wollstonecraft was an Enlightenment icon and human rights champion. She reported from the front lines of Revolutionary Paris, and travelled to Scandinavia in search of lost silver, toddler in tow. Why were her life and legacy considered so dangerous? This unique production is your chance to experience her world-changing words as they’ve never been heard before.

An Amazon Stept Out is written by Bee Rowlatt, directed by Honor Borwick with musical contributions assembled by Harriet Houghton Slade.

“I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves”

For one night only and in aid of the human rights education charity The Wollstonecraft Society.

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