Auckland Museum Presents All About Women Satellite Event

Auckland Museum Presents All About Women Satellite Event

SUNDAY 6 MAR, 2.30PM – 6PM

Auckland War Memorial Museum is excited to announce the Museum’s Auditorium will be the venue for a live stream of select talks from Sydney Opera House’s All About Women festival.

Beginning with the panel What needs to change? a remarkable group of prominent women discuss what they would do if they had the power to make change overnight. Following the panel is Orange is the New Black, a talk with the real life Piper Kerman on what she’s learnt about women during her incarceration and the lessons she carries with her now as an advocate for the rights of prisoners.

Guerrilla girls, quiet subversives and fledgling feminists will be invited during the interval to write the most pithy, substantial and challenging ‘museum label’ they can muster for a specially selected group of objects from the Museum’s collections on display.

Join us in the Auditorium for an afternoon of invigorating discussion on important issues and ideas that matter.

The Sessions

What needs to change?

PANEL DISCUSSION, 3PM - 4:10PM

Masha Gessen, Crystal Lameman, Mallory Ortberg, Ann Sherry & Anne-Marie Slaughter

If you could change the world overnight, what would you do first? Sometimes, it can seem like women are stuck as second-class citizens: devastating domestic violence statistics, the lack of women in leadership everywhere, the number of mothers living on the poverty line or beneath it. Yes, the situation for women has improved dramatically, but there are still seemingly immovable obstacles to real equality.

What needs to change? We ask our panel to tell us what crucial levers they would pull if they had the power to change things overnight.

Feminist takeover: A change-makers trail

INTERVAL, 4.10PM - 5PM

You and Auckland Museum

Guerrilla girls, quiet subversives and fledgling feminists will be invited during the interval to write the most pithy, substantial and challenging 'museum label' they can muster for a specially selected group of objects on display.

Orange is the new black

5PM - 6PM

Piper Kerman

Meet the real life Piper Kerman, otherwise known as inmate #11187-424. You may know the story from the Netflix series based on her bestselling memoir, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison.

How did a well-educated woman from Boston with a thirst for travel and adventure become embroiled in a money laundering operation – and how did her criminal past inspire a cult television series? From her first strip search to her final release, Piper reveals the lessons she learnt ‘doing time’ and how the generosity and acceptance of the women she met inside inspired her to become an advocate for the rights of female prisoners.

Booking information

Adults $10, Institute Members $7.50, Students $7.50 (with valid student ID).

Ticket price includes one complimentary beverage and light snacks. Bookings recommended. Book at ticket desks, +64 9 306 7048, or online (select 'Book now'). A booking fee of $3 applies to each phone or online transaction. Door sales subject to availability.

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