SA Bluestocking Dinner 2016
July 27 2016
SA Bluestocking Dinner 2016
It’s on Again- SA Bluestocking Dinner 2016
Following the huge success of our previous Blue Stocking Dinners, the SA NTEU are doing it again this year! Once more we are supporting the important work of the SA Working Women’s Centre, which, due to funding cuts from the federal government, is more in need of your support than ever.
Dinner Details:
Thursday 18th August: 6.30 arrival for 7pm dinner
Lemongrass Bistro (upstairs), 289 Rundle St Adelaide
Featuring guest speakers Khadija Gbla and Anne Morris, hosted by Janet Giles, Campaign Manager, Australian Services Union.
Tickets $45 (Banquet meal and first drinks)
Booking essential –Only 70 seats available so get in quick!
We will again be holding a raffle, and accepting donations for the Essentials 4 Women drive at the dinner.
Please order tickets online here* where you can pay via direct deposit or credit card
Alternatively you can contact the NTEU SA office on 8227 2384 or sa@nteu.org.au or for further details or to arrange cash payment of a ticket via the office.
If you are unable to make the dinner, but would like to donate to support the Working Women’s centre anyway, you can do so via this link
*Please note: If ordering online, once you have selected the number of your tickets, and any special food requirements, click on the “checkout” in the blue banner, or the white suitcase in the top right corner to go to payment options- for some reason it defaults to a $5 delivery charge, which does not apply, so be sure to tick the free delivery option).
“Bluestocking Week is named for the first generations of university women of the 19th century who used the term and wore it as a badge of serious scholarship. The term originates from the latter part of the 18th century as women started organizing literary societies in their homes and began campaigning for women’s access to university and more generally for women’s rights to equality in work, under the law and for access into parliaments. Many of the middle and upper class leaders of the suffragist and suffragette movements started out in, or were influenced by, these literary societies as were some of the male supporters of women’s rights. Indeed, the term “blue stocking” is often attributed to a male member of the circle who arrived at meetings in his every day worsted wool blue stockings rather than white silk ones usually worn by men when meeting with men. This was taken up as distinguishing the women’s initiative.”
– Jeannie Rea, NTEU National President.
