Punk Suffragette: The story of the Sheffield Women’s Rights Association

What happens when we gather, remember, and raise our voices together?

Join Sheffield City Archives and Chol Theatre for an interactive workshop. Where we will find the fierce legacy of the Sheffield’s Women’s Rights Association. They were the trailblazers who led the first petition to Parliament demanding women’s suffrage.

Chol Theatre will share the research behind their upcoming play titled Punk Suffragette. The play will reveal the stories of the Sheffield women who dared to disrupt, organise, and demand change. Find the local histories that connect the suffragettes to the raw energy of punk music. Which is full of frenzy, freedom, and refusing to be silenced.

This workshop will explore women’s rebellion, rage, joy, and art. Through storytelling, creative writing, and performance.

Rooted in Sheffield’s history of feminism and community activism. We will explore the power of storytelling as resistance. As memory-making. As truth-telling. As collective uprising. We will ask, how can our shared stories become acts of rebellion? and, how can our collective voice effect change?

Come ready to listen.
Come ready to create.
Come ready to incite this meeting into rebellion.

Carpenter Room
Sheffield Central Library
Surrey Street
Sheffield
S1 1XZ