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What’s on locally and nationally
Check out the very latest news on what’s happening with the WI around the county and nationally:
Appear on Eggheads
Details of how you can apply to be on this popular programme hosted by Jeremy Vine: Eggheads, May 2016
Resolution night and craft night
A reminder that our next meeting is on Wednesday 25 May. We’ll be looking at WI Resolutions for 2016. For the craft activity, please bring along an old book and some buttons.
Calling gardeners and art lovers
The WI – inspiring women
National WI have just announced details of 2 exciting new events for gardeners and art lovers: Sustainable Gardening Day with Bob Flowers of BBC Radio Gardeners’ World fame in September and a day looking at Women in Art at the National Gallery in November (follow the link at the top for posters and booking forms).
Wannabe a cover girl?
WI Life are on the lookout for member profiles for the ‘Inspiring Women’ slot in the 
magazine. Please could you kindly circulate the following with your WIs:
New Talent Sought for WI Life
Cover girl
We’re looking for new faces for our cover girl/member profiles– if you’re a member with a great story, perhaps an unusual job, hobby or journey through life, send a few words about yourself and a recent pic to wilife@nfwi.org.uk. We want people of all ages and from every corner of the country. You’ll need to be available for an interview and photographic shoot. Thanks!
Feel free to share this any way you like – on social media for example, or in your newsletters – as we’d love the spread the message as widely as possible.
Many thanks,
Hattie
Hattie Parish, Editorial Assistant, WI Life
National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI)
104 New Kings Road, London SW6 4LY
T: 020 7731 5777 ext 217
@WILifemagazine
Keep up to date with events locally and across the county
Do check out these pages for new events planned and make sure the dates are on your calendar:
Help with Canary Girls
Your help is needed, please, with the Mikron Theatre’s performance of Canary Girls on Friday 10 June, so that we can make it as much of a huge success as last year’s event. Please email: marketharboroughwi@gmail.com if you can help with any of the following:
- help on the night setting out chairs
- serving refreshments
- help at the end tidying up
- 2 parking attendants between 6.30 to 7.30 pm (the Evangelical Church is on Bath Street close to the the industrial area, so if you can help direct cars, or have a partner who can do this), let us know
- 5 more cakes needed
Craft fair success
Thank you to everyone who supported this event: making items, having a stall, helping to plan and run the event and by just popping in on 16 April. We made £150 for MHWI funds.
We hope this will be just the first of our craft fairs. We learned some things, too, and will be working on these for the next one.
Again, many thanks everyone!
Last chance to buy tickets for Canary Girls
There’s just a few days left to buy tickets for you, friends and family to see a performance of “Canary Girls”, a play written by Mikron Theatre. Mikron Theatre wrote, produced and performed the specially written “Raising Agents” show last year in honour of our centenary celebrations.
Full details are on the attached flyer. Canary Girls Poster If you are interested, please let us know how many tickets you would like by 15th May 2016: ticket requests to mhwimikrontickets@gmail.com (not the usual MHWI email!)
Friday 10th June at 7.30pm. Harborough Evangelical Church, 121 Bath Street, Market Harborough, LE16 9JL
Tickets are £12 full price, £10 concessions (student/retired/unemployed). Hot Drinks and Cakes will be on sale.
Just to tempt you even further, here is a little more on the storyline:
CANARY GIRLS:
Summer 1914.
Sisters Rose and Lizzie work as maids, a world of deference, bed-making and poor pay. When war breaks, adventure-seeking Rose becomes a shell worker, persuading her procedure loving sister Lizzie, to follow her to a world offering more money, exciting work and union activity. It seems like a new start.
But as the sisters discover the dangers of shell work, they realise their dreams are pulling in opposite directions.
As old and new worlds collide on the factory floor, each sister must ultimately decide, which takes more courage – following your dreams, or giving them up for the ones you love?
Funny, heartfelt and tender. Mikron presents a tale of two sisters well and truly at war.
Market Harborough WI 