London: Muslim, Jewish and interfaith organisations host women’s event
Tomorrow (27 November 2014), Muslim women’s organisation Rabia’s Garden, together with Jewish community organisation JW3 and interfaith charity Three Faiths Forum (3FF), will be hosting an event for women of all faiths and beliefs. The Female Voices event, to be held at Rumi’s Cave in north-west London, is the first time the Muslim and Jewish organisations have collaborated to create connections between women from different backgrounds.
The event will be part celebration of the talents of female performers and musicians, part a space for interaction and dialogue, and visitors can look forward to an evening of music, poetry and storytelling by women, for women. The female-only evening is one of a series of Female Voices events created by 3FF to give women from all backgrounds opportunities to come together, share cultural experiences and explore how women can be catalysts for change in their communities.
Onjali Rauf, previous Female Voices speaker, said: “The Female Voices event was the very first time I had ever attended a female-only event and met many others who were sharing this experience with me. It was both an eye-opening adventure and felt like a truly safe and open space where conversations that would not normally transpire were free to do so.”
Female Voices gives women from minority communities an opportunity to be heard and to get involved in current discussions. Holly Jones, 3FF’s Urban Dialogues Manager, also noted: "Discussions about feminism and issues facing women today can sometimes tend towards generalisation or stereotypes. Female Voices creates a space for women from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures – religious and non-religious, young and old – to come together, to meet, and to better understand and celebrate their differences, as well as their similarities".
The Female Voices series is supported by Near Neighbours and the Mayor of Camden, Lazzaro Pietragnoli, who has chosen 3FF as his charity of the year. The Mayoress of Camden, Daniela Pears, will be attending the event.
The women-only event takes place on Thursday, 27 November 2014, 6.30 – 9.30pm, at Rumi’s Cave (www.rumis.org), 26 Willesden Lane, London NW6 7ST
For more information see: www.3ff.org.uk/femalevoices