Linked to International Women's Day: In aid of Mary on the Green. This project aims to erect a memorial sculpture, here on Newington Green, to Mary Wollstonecraft who many consider to be the 'Mother of Feminism'.
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Linked to International Women's Day: In aid of Mary on the Green. This project aims to erect a memorial sculpture, here on Newington Green, to Mary Wollstonecraft who many consider to be the 'Mother of Feminism'.
Workshop with Hilary King MSTAT
Come and find out about the Alexander Technique and how you can learn to move around more freely, reducing aches and pains whilst improving your sense of well-being - plus help yourself avoid problems from developing in the future.
Susan Brennan MSTAT has kindly volunteered to assist Hilary
Small Group so please enrol in advace.
£20 Minimum - all fees will be donated to Mary on the Green. Cheques may be paid directly to 'M W Memorial'
Gift Aid it! Registered
Many thanks to Rev. Andy Pakula, who is kindly allowing us to use the upper schoolroom at Newington Green Unitarian Church for this event.
This is an appropriate venue in which to hold the workshop because, in Mary Wollstonecraft's time, the Church and the minister Dr Richard Price were so important and influential in her life - and it is still possible to see her pew there.
INFO & APPLICATION FORM: www.hilaryking.net
Date: Saturday 10th March
Time: 10.30am - 1.00pm
Venue: Newington Green Unitarian Church, N16 9PR
Buses: 73, 141, 236, 241, 476
Train: Canonbury
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26 November 2011
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The Snooty Fox, one of our local public houses and a member of the Newington Green Traders Association, ran a fundraising evening for Mary on the Green on 26 November.
Altogether, they raised a fantastic £506 which has been donated towards our Mary on the Green project to erect a memorial sculpture to Mary Wollstonecraft on Newington Green.
There was a special Mary Bar for the evening, the proceeds of which came to £320. This was made possible because wines and beers were kindly donated by some of Snooty Fox's suppliers: Redemption Brewing Company; St Austell Brewery; Windsor & Eton Brewery and Majestic Wines.
Customers donated £136 and The Snooty Fox also donated £50 to Mary on the Green.
There was a whole evening of back-to-back female DJ sessions whilst everyone enjoyed some great wines and real ales!
Music from:
You can download a great poster from the attachment below
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Bring friends and family to picnic on the Green and enjoy
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Bring friends and family to picnic on the Green and enjoy
FREE event - donations are always welcomed
Venue: Newington Green N16 ~ Accessible venue
Date for your diary
Details to be confirmed - Watch this space!
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Our projection of Mary Wollstonecraft onto the Houses of Parliament even reached the BBC News 'Day in Pictures' on the internet. Our Mary on the Green campaign was not mentioned by name but the fact that we wish to erect a sculpture 'in honour of her contribution to equality and human rights' was stated.
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Our projection of Mary Wollstonecraft onto the Houses of Parliament even reached the BBC News 'Day in Pictures' on the internet. Our Mary on the Green campaign was not mentioned by name but the fact that we wish to erect a sculpture 'in honour of her contribution to equality and human rights' was stated.
You may see the brief but very welcome mention here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-15771704
Further information about the Mary on the Green campaign and how to DONATE
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The festive season will start with the turning on of Christmas lights at Newington Green by the Leader of Islington Council, Catherine West.
The festive season will start with the turning on of Christmas lights at Newington Green by the Leader of Islington Council, Catherine West.
The lighting-up event will lead nicely into the Newington Green Christmas Cheer Week which runs 1-7 December and the lights will add to the festivities for our Carols by the Green, 6 December.
The Newington Green Traders' Association have arranged and paid for this event and if you would like to make a donation towards the lights, just visit one of the shops who are participating in the Newington Green Christmas Cheer Week.
Venue: Newington Green
Date: Monday 28 November
Time: 6.30pm
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Mary on the Green has received a lot of good publicity lately!
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Mary on the Green has received a lot of good publicity lately!
The latest article is in Jane Martinson's Women's Blog which shows an image of Mary Wollstonecraft which we had projected onto the Houses of Parliament on 16 November 2011. Jane Martinson discusses the fact that there are so few sculptures to women and she calls NGAG's Mary on the Green project, a 'campaign to honour one of our most radical and important writers' .
Martinson says she hopes 'the not insignificant sum can be raised by Mary on the Green' for the sculpture - as indeed do we - can you help?
16 November 2011
Mary Wollstoncraft's image was projected on the Speaker's House at the Palace of Westminster, in order to promote NGAG's Mary on the Green project and to kickstart our fundraising towards a commemorative sculpture to her on Newington Green N16.
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Mary Wollstoncraft's image was projected on the Speaker's House at the Palace of Westminster, in order to promote NGAG's Mary on the Green project and to kickstart our fundraising towards a commemorative sculpture to her on Newington Green N16.
Please help us to do her justice, with a memorial that befits her importance as an influential thinker and writer.
Photo: Neil Wissink
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As Mary Wollstonecraft looks out over the River Thames from the front of the Houses of Parliament, we are reminded that there is no proper memorial for this remarkable woman and that she deserves one for all the ground-breaking work she did promoting human rights, women's rights and education - particularly the education of girls.
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As Mary Wollstonecraft looks out over the River Thames from the front of the Houses of Parliament, we are reminded that there is no proper memorial for this remarkable woman and that she deserves one for all the ground-breaking work she did promoting human rights, women's rights and education - particularly the education of girls.
Please support our Mary on the Green Project and help us erect a sculpture to Mary Wollstonecraft on Newington Green N16.
16 November 2011
Photo: Neil Wissink
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It was great to have the support of Jeremy Corbyn MP at the event in which we lit up the Speaker's House with an image of Mary Wollstonecraft. There are many more supporters of Mary on the Green within both Houses of Parliament (inside in the warm), 75 of whom have already signed a letter of support for our campaign earlier in the year.
NGAG volunteers and friends were there for a couple of hours on a very chilly Westminster Bridge, handing out leaflets and publicising our Mary on the Green campaign.
Please help us to put Mary on the Green and to give this remarkable woman the memorial that so many people agree she deserves.
16 November 2011
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Newington Green Action group illuminated the Houses of Parliament with an image of Mary Wollstonecraft!
We were given permission to do this in order to highlight our Mary on the Green campaign and to kickstart our fundraisng towards erecting a memorial sculpture to Mary Wollstonecraft on Newington Green.
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Newington Green Action group illuminated the Houses of Parliament with an image of Mary Wollstonecraft!
We were given permission to do this in order to highlight our Mary on the Green campaign and to kickstart our fundraisng towards erecting a memorial sculpture to Mary Wollstonecraft on Newington Green.
The image was projected onto on the Speaker's House, Royal Palace of Westminster, overlooking the Thames. (It was very hard to obtain a good photo because there was so much light coming from other sources but this gives some idea of the event.)
NGAG volunteers and friends were on Westminster Bridge, along with Jeremy Corbyn MP handing out dozens of leaflets, talking to people about Mary Wollstonecrft and about our campaign to raise an memorial sculpture to her on Newington Green.
Would you like to support Mary on the Green?
16 November 2011
Photo: Neil Wissink
]]>Bee Rowlatt has been busy supporting NGAG's Mary on the Green campaign again and has written a great article in The Times about Mary Wollstonecraft. Rowlatt describes Wollstonecraft's action-filled life as a campaigning single mother in the1700s and says
'Mary Wollstonecraft was a trailblazing troublemaker'
Mary Wollstonecraft was a social reformer and educationist who worked very hard to change the world. She was a powerful and fascinating woman that we wish to commemorate with a sculpture to her on Newington Green where she lived, taught, worshipped and debated social and political issues, with influential people such as Dr Richard Price who also lived and worked here.
If you would like to read the full article - and it is worth reading! - just click on the image to enlarge it.
Further Info:
DONATE: http://maryonthegreen.org/
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Please support us too ~
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Please support us too ~
DONATE towards a commemorative sculpture to Mary Wollstonecraft.
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Time once again to check out the birds in your local area, your garden, or on Newington Green.
What will you find? The usual garden birds you can see from your window - or possibly some interesting migrants such as the waxwings that visited the Newington Green area last winter?
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Time once again to check out the birds in your local area, your garden, or on Newington Green.
What will you find? The usual garden birds you can see from your window - or possibly some interesting migrants such as the waxwings that visited the Newington Green area last winter?
All you have to do is make yourself a hot cuppa, find a pencil and paper to note down what you see, let the children join in, look out of your window and have some fun!
Put some food out
Birds need our help in the winter and they will come to you garden or balcony if you help them with food. Most birds love sunflower seeds and eat all sorts of other seeds, nuts and grains. If you put out too much food, or lots of bread, you may well get a flock of feral pigeons rushing in to eat everything, which often keeps away other birds.
Birds need to feed soon after sunrise, which is at about 8.0am at the moment. That is often the best time to see any birds that are around, as they are very hungry after the long cold night. Other times are 12 noon and late afternoon (well before dusk at 4.30) when they often flock together to come to feed.
Join us in this annual survey.
We would love to hear what you find, so that we can add them to our information about local species. You may Contact Us Here with your results, just stating the road and postcode you live in.
Further info about bird species, Big Garden Birdwatch and a Counting Sheet can be downloaded from the RSPB.
Time: Just one hour of your choice - or join us at 8.00am on Newington Green
Date: 28 or 29 January 2012
Venue: The view from your own window - or on Newington Green
Free
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Good news!
The newly refurbished Mayville Community Centre has picked up the Best Public Building 3R (Refurb, Rethink, Retrofit) Award 2011.
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Good news!
The newly refurbished Mayville Community Centre has picked up the Best Public Building 3R (Refurb, Rethink, Retrofit) Award 2011.
Designed by local architect and NGAG member, Justin Bere, the Centre is built to Passivhaus Standards and is an exciting new building that will be available for the local community to use for activities, events, meetings and functions.
Be one of the first people to visit the Centre
Come along to NGAG's Friends' Evening on 22 November and you can see around the Mayville Centre then.
Or you can visit the Centre if you attend the Wildlife Gardening Forum Conference on 23 November.
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NGAG would like to thank all those people who voted for our Mary on the Green project in the recent NatWest CommunityForce award competition.
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NGAG would like to thank all those people who voted for our Mary on the Green project in the recent NatWest CommunityForce award competition.
Our Mary on the Green project received the most votes in our section of North London, so there will soon be a very welcome £6,275 addition to our fundraising towards a memorial scultpure for Mary Wollstonecraft on Newington Green.
This is very good news, particularly in this difficult financial climate. The fact that so many people in the local community voted for Mary on the Green not only means that we have received this award but will hopefully make it easier to apply for further funding and donations in the future.
So once again, a very big 'Thank You' to all who voted for Mary on the Green!
Watch out for Mary Wollstonecraft lighting up the Speaker's House, the Royal Palace of Westminster, 4.0 - 6.0pm, on Wednesday 16 November.
Would you like to help? DONATE to Mary on the Green
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