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Women’s Cultural Exchange
celebrate international women’s
day celebration was a rolling
success By Edith Lucky-Uweh
Women’s Cultural Exchange (WCE) had a rolling
success in celebrating the 2017 International
Women’s Day this year.
New Art Exchange was kind enough to offer us their
premises to hold our event. We’ve hosted International
Women’s Day with Central Library since 2012 but this
year was our first year to host the event on our own and
we loved the opportunity to share our creative skills and
different cultures.
It kicked off with African Cultural group, present a
Nigerian dance procession. This was an opportunity to
bring out the audience to join in the fun. Luckily, we had
enthusiastic members from WCE willing to show the
moves. We organised the event with inspiring women
in mind and this was why we had invited Rachel Quinn-
former Chief Executive of One East Midlands and now
Active Inclusion Officer at D2N2 to do a presentation to
be our keynote speaker; Mandy Pride from Nottingham
City Council from the Community Cohesion Team and
Steff Webber also from the Community Cohesion team,
Boseda Olawoye from New Art Exchange who was also
part of the planning for the event.
We also took the opportunity to launch our Sanctuary
for FGM Survivors.
Our intercultural fashion parade was the highlight of the
event, with Ms Nigeria taking the prize.
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