Wow, what a fab evening at Cinema & Co last night, celebrating International Women’s Day in style, with art, films and lashings of home-made cake. Here’s the lovely Laura Niehorster, a Swansea designer and entrepreneur, talking about her amazing product “Proud Pads”. Laura is also a campaigner against period poverty.
It’s International Women’s Day and Cinema & Co is hosting an exhibition and event to celebrate. Over 30 Swansea-based women artists will be exhibiting and we also have performances and films throughout the evening –
• Short film ‘Shattering’ featuring Leila Bebb
• Music with Niki Stitch and Patti
• “Sixty years and three minutes (of not being an artist)” – a short film from Aida Garton
• Dance, music and rap from Unity and Rufus Mufasa, Rachel Pedley and Tommy Boost from Avant Cymru
• Short film ‘Wolf Eye’
• Short film ‘My Muses’ from Rosie Scribblah
• Laura Niehorster reprises her TED talk featuring ‘Proud Pads’
• Short film ‘Dance’ by Leanne Vaughan-Phillips
• “Ripping” with Claudia Mollzahn – ripping and recycling, an active conversation relating to art and creativity throughout the evening.
Musician Niki Stitch
• Goggi’s Cuisine – a popup kitchen with Pakistani food for sale throughout the evening
AND THERE WILL BE CAKE!!! So bring your friends and have some lovely food in a great venue with fab art and groovy performances.
By Alyson Williams
I have been putting together an exhibition for International Women’s Day at Cinema & Co and I’m honoured to be working with so many talented, creative and enterprising women. I’ve focused on creativity in a broader sense, including entrepreneurs Anna Redfern, who runs the unique cinema, Goggi Shazi who is providing a pop up kitchen and Laura Niehorster who has designed and is marketing Proud Pads. And applied arts are represented by Claudia Mollzahn, Tina Wisby and Alyson Williams. Although I think that there’s often an artificial distinction between Fine and Applied arts. Tomorrow, I’ll talk about the talented performers who are coming along to the opening of the exhibition on Thursday (March 8th) from 18.00.
Above: Laura Niehorster, Tina Wisby, Claudia Mollzahn.
I spent a lovely morning helping fellow Swansea artist and designer, Laura Niehorster, in her new enterprise, Proud Pads. Laura needed a hand cutting out the material to make a new batch of her eco-friendly re-usable sanitary pads. I think it’s a brilliant idea and they look really fun and funky too.
You can catch up with what Laura is doing here and click here to find out about market testing Proud Pads.
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