Greenham Women Everywhere

Turning Point - Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp
2024-06-08 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, Paices Hill, Aldermaston, RG7 4WP, United Kingdom
The world is spinning, the future is uncertain but we have power to change it.
Using a rotating stage, Feet off the Ground blend contemporary dance with poetry and an evocative sound scape to unravel women’s stories of protest, climate, community and hope.
“In 2022, we collaborated with Greenham Women Everywhere during the research and development phase…It was truly an honour to share the space with such inspirational women and this symbiotic experience significantly influenced the work and enhanced our creative process.”
Show dates:
1). Green Hustle Festival in Nottingham
Saturday 1st June: 11:30am & 3pm
2). Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp
Saturday 8th June: 2pm
3). Riverlight Festival in Sleaford
Saturday 22nd June: 11am & 2pm

Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp
2024-06-07 - 2024-06-09, 2024-05-10 - 2024-05-12, 2024-04-12 - 2024-04-14, 2024-03-15 - 2024-03-17, 2024-02-09 - 2024-02-11 | Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, Paices Hill, Aldermaston, RG7 4WP, United Kingdom
Join women at Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp for a weekend of peace, solidarity, workshops, and anti-nuclear discussions!
Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp runs on the 2nd weekend of every month. Find out more on their Facebook page.

Peace Education Network Meeting
2024-06-05
The Peace Education Network meets regularly to exchange ideas and practice.
Meetings usually include a “skillshare” workshop to learn from others’ expertise, and a business meeting for join projects, discussion. The skillshare is suitable for educators either in the formal education sector or working through third-sector organisations.
Upcoming dates
Summer PEN | Wed 5 June 2024 (in person – venue TBD)
Autumn PEN | Thurs 7 Nov 2024 (online)
More info here.

Turning Point – Green Hustle Festival
2024-06-01 11:30 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Green Hustle Festival, NG1 2HU, United Kingdom

International Conscientious Objectors' Day
2024-05-15
Every year on May 15th we remember conscientious objectors both past and present.
Around the world many people are imprisoned or forced to flee their home countries for refusing to join the armed forces. On May 15th we stand in solidarity with them, as well as celebrating the memory of those throughout history who have resisted conscription.
Read more from Peace Pledge Union.

Peace Education Network Meeting
2024-03-12
The Peace Education Network meets regularly to exchange ideas and practice.
Meetings usually include a “skillshare” workshop to learn from others’ expertise, and a business meeting for join projects, discussion. The skillshare is suitable for educators either in the formal education sector or working through third-sector organisations.
Upcoming dates
Spring PEN | Tues 12 March 2024 (online)
Summer PEN | Wed 5 June 2024 (in person – venue TBD)
Autumn PEN | Thurs 7 Nov 2024 (online)
More info here.

A say in the end of the world: solidarity and nuclear defence in the cold war
2024-03-04 - 2024-09-15 | LSE Library, 10 Portugal Street, London, WC2A 2AE
Thoughtfully curated by guest Gareth Bryant (PhD student, Open University), this exhibition explores networks of solidarity between groups campaigning on peace, nuclear weapons and national self-determination.
More details here.
This exhibition presents a variety of photos, posters, leaflets, and other archive materials from CND, CAAT, and Women for Defence. CAAT donated our documentary archives to LSE Library in 2022, in preparation for moving to our new office. The full archives will be made public by LSE in the near future. CAAT’s role in the exhibition forms part of the marking of CAAT’s 50th anniversary in 2024.
The exhibition is open 09:00 – 19:00 Mondays-Fridays, and 11:00 – 18:00 Saturdays and Sundays.
Entry is free, and no advanced booking is required.

LSE Library Late: Celebrating The Women's Library
2024-02-06 18:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | LSE Library, 10 Portugal Street, London, WC2A 2AE
Join us on Thursday 7th March from 6pm until 9pm for an LSE Library Late, a free and public celebration of the 10-year anniversary of The Women’s Library Reading Room!
The Women’s Library is the oldest and largest library in Britain devoted to the history of women’s campaigning and activism.
Greenham Women Everywhere will have a stand at the event and alongside seeing us there’s a whole range of exciting things to do…

archives on display from The Women’s Library collection
behind-the-scenes tours of LSE Library Archives
behind-the-scenes tours of LSE Library Digitisation Suite
a drop-in art activity with Nadina Ali inspired by the archives
a drinks reception and opportunities to meet our partner organisations

There’s also a great list of other partner organisations to meet on the day.
We look forward to meeting you in the LSE Library, Portugal Street, London WC2A 2AE!

Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp
2024-01-12 - 2024-01-14 | Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, Paices Hill, Aldermaston, RG7 4WP, United Kingdom

Common Ground: Craftivism & Memory Share
2023-08-23 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Riverside Cafe, Abergavenny, SA38 9AD, United Kingdom
Drop in to the Riverside Cafe for a relaxed session sharing memories and stories from Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp.
We will be joined by local Greenham Women, Greenham Child Rebecca Mordan and will be running a craftivism session making badges and radical bunting.
Come along and have a brew and some cake on us!

Common Ground: Memory Share & Film Screening
2023-08-21 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | The Melville Centre, 4 Pen-Y-Pound, Abergavenny, NP7 5UD, United Kingdom
We’re bringing the inspirational story of the first all-female peace camp of Greenham Common, told from the inside by the women who were there to The Melville Centre
In an evening of cutting edge documentary making, we bring you Women Against the Bomb, Sonia Gonzalez’s prize-winning look at the impact of the Greenham Women, reflected through interviews and footage from women who took action and never looked back.
Framed by guest speakers who feature in the film and artists from Scary Little Girls and Greenham Women Everywhere, this evening will be a chance to see the Greenham movement in all its glory, grim, grit and enduring grandeur.

Common Ground: Book Talk and Film Screening
2023-07-31 18:00 - 20:30 (Europe/London)
Join us at Thimblemill Library for an evening hearing all about life at the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp. Hear songs and stories that bring the camp to life as we reflect on the impact of the camp 40 years on.
Greenham child and author Rebecca Mordan will introduce her book ‘Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices 1981 – 2000’ sharing the impact her early experiences of the camp have had on her life. There will be chance for you to ask any questions during a Greenham Q&A.
Following this there will be a screening of Carry Greenham Home as we transport you back to the early days of Greenham with Beeban Kidron and Amanda Richardson’s fly-on-the-wall masterpiece was shot whilst they lived at Greenham in 1982-83.
About Common Ground
Common Ground is a series of events bringing the legacy of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp to local communities across the UK. It is part of a project created by Scary Little Girls in collaboration with Greenham Women Everywhere CIC to map the impact of the Peace Camp on the women who inhabited it and the communities they returned to. This project has been made possible thanks to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
About Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp
Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was an enduring and iconic protest spanning 19 years from 1981 – 2000. Whilst the occupation of the common began with the aim of forcing out the US nuclear warheads from Berkshire, the protest became a focal point of feminist history and has left a legacy of women’s liberation around the world. You can view our archive of oral histories, photographs and ephemera from Greenham here.
Inclusion and Accessibility
Common Ground strives to be an inclusive and welcoming space which celebrates diversity in all its forms. Our approach is to learn from and value each other’s lived experience.
This venue is wheelchair accessible.
If you have any access needs you’d like to speak to us about please email us.

Common Ground: Family Activities Day
2023-07-31 13:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London)
Scary Little Girls and Sandwell Central Library join forces to bring you a pop-up exhibition and activities day celebrating Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp.
We’ll have lots of family friendly activities for you to join in with including:

Craftivism
Sing-along session
Memory sharing
Pop-up Exhibits

All activities FREE!
In the Children’s Library at Sandwell Central Library
About Common Ground
Common Ground is a series of events bringing the legacy of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp to local communities across the UK. It is part of a project created by Scary Little Girls in collaboration with Greenham Women Everywhere CIC to map the impact of the Peace Camp on the women who inhabited it and the communities they returned to. This project has been made possible thanks to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
About Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp
Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was an enduring and iconic protest spanning 19 years from 1981 – 2000. Whilst the occupation of the common began with the aim of forcing out the US nuclear warheads from Berkshire, the protest became a focal point of feminist history and has left a legacy of women’s liberation around the world. You can view our archive of oral histories, photographs and ephemera from Greenham here.
Inclusion and Accessibility
Common Ground strives to be an inclusive and welcoming space which celebrates diversity in all its forms. Our approach is to learn from and value each other’s lived experience.
This venue is wheelchair accessible.
If you have any access needs you’d like to speak to us about please email us.

Common Ground: Activities Day
2023-07-30 11:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London)
Scary Little Girls and the Sumac Centre join forces to bring you a pop-up exhibition and activities day celebrating Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp.
We’ll have lots of family friendly activities for you to join in with including

Vegan Brunch
Craftivism
Memory sharing
Pop-up Exhibits

All activities FREE!
Vegan Brunch served by Veggies 11-2pm, more info here!
Talks from 2pm – 4pm
About Common Ground
Common Ground is a series of events bringing the legacy of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp to local communities across the UK. It is part of a project created by Scary Little Girls in collaboration with Greenham Women Everywhere CIC to map the impact of the Peace Camp on the women who inhabited it and the communities they returned to. This project has been made possible thanks to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
About Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp
Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was an enduring and iconic protest spanning 19 years from 1981 – 2000. Whilst the occupation of the common began with the aim of forcing out the US nuclear warheads from Berkshire, the protest became a focal point of feminist history and has left a legacy of women’s liberation around the world. You can view our archive of oral histories, photographs and ephemera from Greenham here.
Inclusion and Accessibility
Common Ground strives to be an inclusive and welcoming space which celebrates diversity in all its forms. Our approach is to learn from and value each other’s lived experience.
This venue is wheelchair accessible.
If you have any access needs you’d like to speak to us about please email us.

AWEA - Anarchic Women Embrace Aldermaston
2022-12-09 12:00 - 2022-12-11 12:00 UTC
The spiders and crows are gathering on the 40th anniversary of Embrace the Base when 30,000 women joined hands in solidarity, protesting against the siting of American nuclear weapons on Greenham Common.

Join the Anarchic Women Embracing Aldermaston at any point during the monthly Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp from Friday 9th – Sunday 11th December 2022 in resistance against UK nuclear weapons at AWE Aldermaston.

Women will be weaving webs, celebrating the spiders and crows and resisting nuclear weapons through co-learning, connection and creativity.

Friday afternoon

Embrace the Tower! The Control Tower, Greenham Common
Combining photos and soundscapes, talks by women who lead or attended the Embrace, performances from Scary Little Girls, mulled wine and a singalong from the Greenham Song book!
Herstorians chatting to people and recording memories.
2pm, Meet, Greet and Memory share – grab your glass of mulled wine and add your photos, fliers or other memories to our Embrace table, and have a chat to the Herstorians hosting it.
2.30pm – 3pm Guest Speakers, readings and songs inspired by Embrace the Base by Scary Little Girls and female artists who were part of the action.
3pm, Embrace the Tower! Head outside where we’ll use hands and wool to embrace the tower and raise a cheer for peace and solidarity!
3.15pm – 4pm, Head back inside to warm up with more mulled wine, and enjoy more readings and songs, finishing with time for a Q&A for all your burning Embrace the Base Questions.
Saturday
Workshop 1 – Making crows, spiders and jar lanterns (for evening Lantern parade) to encircle the base with webs, spiders & crows and expose the web of connections that enable nuclear weapons and AWE Aldermaston to exist (uranium mining, militarism, financial interests, etc.).
Workshop 2 – The Web of Resistance. Weaving the web of resistance to nuclear weapons and nuclear colonialism. What we need to resist, both in terms of personal energy, commitment and resilience, and possible/feasible actions.
Workshop 3 – Visions of a good society. What a world without nuclear weapons would look like.
After dark – Lantern parade
Site-specific performance by local Movement Artists (this will last approx. 20 mins and will also happen at 10am and 1pm)
Crows & Spiders shadow puppet show
Wintry spider & crow party (bring your own crow/spider costume or make one at Camp)

Sunday
10.30 am – 12 pm Workshop – Movement Building: Militarism. Links to the Climate and Nature Crisis

The programme will be updated here on the Facebook event page and is subject to change. All accessibility and travel info is also available on that Facebook page. We are supporting and attending this event but are not running it so we advise you to check the Facebook Page for the most up to date information

From Greenham to Faslane and beyond
2022-11-26 13:00 - 15:00 UTC | Glasgow Womens Library, 23 Landressy St, Bridgeton, Glasgow, G40 1BP, United Kingdom
As we approach the 40th anniversary of Embrace the Base, the iconic action that brought Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp to international notoriety, Glasgow Women’s Library are excited to host social archivers Greenham Women Everywhere and activists from Faslane Peace Camp in a day of banner making, information sharing, memory recording and song!
The session will begin with a chat about the impact of Greenham and Embrace the Base told through images, animations and music, then members of Faslane will share their current campaigns and invite us to create banners with messages to take to the Peace Camp.
Enjoy chats, craftivism and cake as we create a space for the change we want to see in the world!

Walk, Talk, and Protest at Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp
2022-10-08, 2022-08-13, 2022-06-11 | Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, Paices Hill, Aldermaston, RG7 4WP, United Kingdom
Join us to walk, talk, protest, and camp at Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp!

Walking from Greenham Common to AWE Aldermaston every couple of months for the rest of this year: 11 June, 13 August, 8 October

More details TBC, keep up to date via our Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Weaving the Web/inars: No fixed Abode Travellers Speak Out
2021-10-21 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/London)
When ‘Women for Life on Earth’ walked to Greenham Common and decided to stay from September 1981 onwards, they were helped by Travellers who traditionally visited and camped close to Greenham airbase and nearby Crookham Common in Berkshire.
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As the Greenham Women’s Peace Camp developed over the years, there were many supportive exchanges with women of the Traveller communities, from whom Greenham women learned a lot, including how to make beautiful benders that kept the rain out (until evictions)!
This Greenham 40th webinar carries on these connections with women from ‘No fixed Abode Travellers and Supporters’ (nfATS) talking about their lives and challenges today, including the 2021 Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. In their own words:
“We are three women travellers living in trucks in the UK, and we are part of nfATS, a collective of mostly travellers. We are diverse, living in vehicles, boats, benders and tree houses, travelling horse-drawn and with handcarts. We include those who now reside in houses and members who have never been nfA but support the nomadic life.
Our culture has always been under attack (you may remember the Peace Convoy at Greenham and Molesworth and the Battle of the Beanfields) for we have chosen to live outside of the system searching for a better way, living off grid, valuing our communities and a return to a more sustainable way of living.
Currently we face the proposed Police Crime Courts and Sentencing Bill. If it passes, it will criminalise trespass and threaten our very existence as travellers. Our nfATS Collective is campaigning against this threat to the nomadic way of life, whilst also campaigning for the continued freedom to access the land. Otherwise, in 2026 all unrecorded rights of way will be lost when the definitive maps are redrawn, putting all of us at risk of losing access to even more land.
We work with many other groups to highlight these issues and oppose the prejudice against Travellers. There is so much creativity and beauty in our way of living that we want to share. By showcasing some of this we hope people will understand and help us to continue our way of life without further legal barriers and prejudice.”
SPEAKERS

Lou (NFATS) nfATs Collective
Amy ( I Choose the Road Podcast and nfATS) ‎I Choose The Road Podcast on Apple Podcasts
Jelly ( Author of ‘Thoughts of Freedom’ and nfATS)

Including interviews with:

Sherry Smith and Daughters (Drive 2 Survive -Traveller Coalition to fight the PCCSBill) Drive2Survive (@drive2survive2021) • Instagram photos and videos
Hedge-u-Cation
Bristol Van Dwellers Movement
HAC

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Bloody Wimmin
2021-09-30 19:30 - 2021-10-01 19:30 (Europe/London) | Greenham Common Control Tower, Bury Banks Road, Newbury, RG19 8BZ, United Kingdom
Script in hand performance of play by Lucy Kirkwood, Booking via Eventbrite

@ Greenham Control Tower

Weaving the Web/inars: Greenham 40th: Western Shoshone Speak Out Against Nuclear Colonialism
2021-09-27 20:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London)
Nuclear Weapon ‘Test’ on Shoshone Land 1951
From 1958 to 1992, the UK conducted 24 underground tests at the US Nevada Test Site, on the ancestral lands belonging to the Western Shoshone people. This Web/inar is coordinated by Juley Howard and explores the impacts of nuclear colonialism with Ian Zabarte, who stands alongside Chief Raymond Yowell (ret’d) as Principal Man of the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation of Indians in their continuing struggle for true sovereignty and justice.
Map of Newe Segobia, as recognised by the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley
On 14 November 1990, four activists, including three Greenham Women who were also part of the Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp(aign), halted a British nuclear test for new warheads for the Trident nuclear weapons system. Jane Gregory, Juley Howard, Lorna Richardson and Michael Terry from local American Peace Test group had been given permission by the Elders of the Western Shoshone Nation to walk on their sacred ancestral lands to stop nuclear testing. Following their arrest and subsequent trial in Las Vegas, the Greenham and Aldermaston Women returned to Britain and organised meetings for Western Shoshone women to speak directly about British-American nuclear colonialism, environmental contamination and violation of their land, rights and sovereignty. In July 1993, 13 Greenham/Aldermaston Women were arrested for gate-crashing a Buckingham Palace Garden Party with visual materials that highlighted British nuclear testing and abuses against Western Shoshone rights and lands. When the women stood trial in Bow Street Court, they were supported by Western Shoshone Elder William Rosse Sr., who travelled to London and gave powerful testimony on this issue.
Ian Zabarte (our main speaker) is a long-term political activist by necessity of being a member of the Western Shoshone Nation. From Duckwater in Northern Nevada Ian has spent decades working with Western Shoshone elders to preserve the Western Shoshone territory – Newe Segobia. Through organisations such as the Native Community Action Council, the heart of Ian’s work is to maintain the Western Shoshones’ Treaty Rights from the agreement made with the US government at Ruby Valley in 1863. This work encompasses fulfilling the treaty agreements, environmental and social justice demands of the Shoshone Nation, as well as their rights to conserve and use the land to support the traditional Shoshone lifestyle and to protect Western Shoshone cultural heritage.
Ian has carried on the struggle to stop nuclear waste dumping at Yucca Mountain in the heart of Newe Segobia. He was part of the campaign to successfully end nuclear bomb tests in North America, above and below ground. Today he stands alongside Chief Raymond Yowell (ret’d) as Principal Man of the Western Bands of the Shoshone Nation of Indians in the fight for true sovereignty and justice.
Ian Zabarte
This Webinar is coordinated and facilitated by Juley Howard, Greenham Common campaigner, who took part in actions to stop the UK’s penultimate nuclear bomb explosion in 1990, along with Greenham/Aldermaston campaigners Lorna Richardson and Jane Gregory, Michael Terry from the American Peace Test action group, plus Rebecca Johnson, whose post-Greenham work with Greenpeace enabled this and other nonviolent activism at many nuclear test sites, which contributed to the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).

Explore the Repository at University Nevada Reno relating to the lives of the Dann sisters and the Western Shoshone Defense Project dedicated to maintaining the Shoshone tradition of respect for and life in harmony with Mother Earth.
Yucca Mountain on Shoshone land, Nevada

Drawing towards Peace
2021-09-09 10:00 - 2021-09-10 13:00 (Europe/London) | The Base, Greenham Business Park, Communications Road, Thatcham, RG19 6HN, United Kingdom
workshop for adults, booking via Corn Exchange

The Base, Greenham Business Park

Cabaret on the Common
2021-09-05 16:30 - 17:30 (Europe/London) | Greenham Common Control Tower, Bury Banks Road, Newbury, RG19 8BZ, United Kingdom
4pm – 5.30pm: Cabaret on the Common To finish things off, and reaching all those who can’t be there in person via the world wide web, a cabaret with music, poetry, readings, games and high-jinks from Greenham Women artists and the next generations of feminist creatives they’ve inspired. This is a Greenham Women Everywhere and Scary Little Girls event
Please book your free spot here on Eventbrite – it really helps us report to our funders!

Gateway to Greenham
2021-09-05 13:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | Greenham Common Control Tower, Bury Banks Road, Newbury, RG19 8BZ, United Kingdom
1pm – 3pm: Gateway to Greenham An afternoon of interactive family activities inspired by the Greenham Peace Camp Gates and hosted by Scary Little Girls artists and Greenham Women who made the camp their home. Explore the common around the Control Tower to find all the sites! Don’t miss dropping in at Red Gate for a singalong! Joining Orange Gate for cake and bender making! Having your say at the discussion circle at Yellow Gate! Partying at Bloo Gate! Stencils and spirituality at Green Gate! Finding out what’s going on today at the Aldermaston Gate! This is a Greenham Women Everywhere and Scary Little Girls event
Please book your free spot here on Eventbrite – it really helps us report to our funders!

Living Theatre Peace Camp
2021-09-05 12:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London)
Living Theatre peace camp An improvised re-enactment creating the atmosphere of the Peace Camp – it’s supporters and opponents! This is a Greenham Control Tower event
Please book your free spot here on Eventbrite – it really helps us report to our funders!
