Skip to main content
  • Fun, Exploration, Expansion, a day with The Company of Smiles for York International Women's Week
1 of 3

Fun, Exploration, Expansion, a day with The Company of Smiles for York International Women's Week

Sat 8 Mar 2025 9:45 AM - 6:00 PM Friargate Meeting House, YO1 9RL
Select tickets

Fun, Exploration, Expansion, a day with The Company of Smiles for York International Women's Week

Sat 8 Mar 2025 9:45 AM - 6:00 PM Friargate Meeting House, YO1 9RL
Select tickets

Need help?

Manage tickets

A day of Fun, Exploration, Expansion, with The Company of Smiles, for York International Women's Week

This is a FREE event, with the option to make a donation to the charity Survive- North Yorkshire. Book tickets for as many events as you want to attend to enable us to anticipate numbers.

9:45 - 10:00 | Welcome & Registration

  • Morning refreshments available


10:00 - 11:00 | Re-imagining our World: The Wellbeing Workshop

  • Interactive session on womanly wisdom
  • Led by author & coach, Mikyla Limpkin
  • Thinking exercises for positive change


11:00 - 11:30 | Networking Break

  • Refreshments & light bites
  • Opportunity to connect with speakers and attendees


11:30 - 12:00 | Dancing into Now

  • Fun taster session with Lindy Hop teacher
  • No experience needed
  • Movement & joy exploration


12:00 - 12:30 | Community Connection

  • Refreshments available
  • Interactive discussion groups


12:30 - 13:30 | Re-imagining the Past

  • Victorian wives and their stories
  • With Historian Suzanne Fagence Cook
  • Exploring the lives of Jane Morris, Effie Gray & Margaret Cameron


13:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break & Networking

  • Light refreshments available
  • Informal discussions


14:00 - 14:30 | The Write Women

  • Meet some of York's female authors
  • Panel discussion on writing journeys
  • Q&A session


14:30 - 15:00 | Creative Connection Break

  • Refreshments & networking


15:00 - 15:45 | Sensory Sensations

  • With Charlotte Davies, Fit2Learn CIC
  • Understanding sensory impacts on learning abilities
  • Practical solutions to common issues


15:45 - 16:15 | Afternoon Refresh

  • Light refreshments
  • Informal networking


16:15 - 17:00 | Voices of Empowerment

  • Uplifting singing workshop with Rosamund Cole
  • No experience needed
  • Community chorus creation


17:00 - 18:00 | Extraordinary Women - Quaker Stories

  • Closing session
  • A talk by Barbara Windle, retired Principal of The Mount School
  • Historical inspiration
  • Final reflections


There are lots of other events running throughout the week of 3rd to 9th March 2025 - access the programme at www.yorkwomen.org.uk

Location

Friargate Meeting House, YO1 9RL