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Older Women's Network NSW

From the Margins to the Centre

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Thursday 6 March from 1:30pm to 3pm

The Older Women's Network NSW invites you for an afternoon of listening, enjoying, thinking, sharing and celebrating the resilience of older women. This event is organized to commemorate International Women's Day and Seniors Festival. The program is as follows:

  • Acknowledgment of Country

  • Welcome

  • "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou

  • Cuc Nguyen's story

  • "I worried" by Mary Oliver

  • "At Seventy" Crones in Cabaret

  • Ageing with purpose, Q&A with Beverly Baker

  • Extract from Arundhati Roy’s "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness"

  • Extract from Maggie Smith's "A Simple Life"

  • Lulu's story

  • "We are Feisty Older Women" by Crones in Cabaret

  • "Warning" by Jenny Joseph

  • Open microphone for sharing

  • Light refreshments to be served

If you would like to share a poem, bring it along!

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