Celebrate International Women’s Day at The Riverfront!
Each March we celebrate International Women’s day at The Riverfront with some fantastic free performances and taster sessions all with a female focus. International Women’s Day 2025 takes place on 8 March 2025 and this year the theme is #AccelerateAction.
On Saturday 8 March from 10am – 4pm we will be hosting our annual International Women’s Day event. Throughout the day there will be performances from celebrated musicians, community groups and panel discussions from inspiring local women. Delicious refreshments and food will be available to enjoy whilst meeting and chatting with like-minded people.
There are also opportunities for children and adults to craft and create, as well as a range of creative, expressive workshops to take part in.
Guests are welcome to stay all day and enjoy a variety of events or come and go at their own leisure. All events, which will run from 10am-4pm, are free, and no booking is required!
timetable
Foyer: Sparkle Troop Hoola Hoop (10:30am & 12:40pm), Nu Wave Dance (10:45am), Operasonic Presents Young Musicians Live Performances (11:30am & 1pm), Age Alive Choir (12pm), Kizzy Crawford (12:15pm), Vernesta Cyril OBE (12:40pm), Poetry by Kay Sharp (2:20pm), The Active Angels Dance (2:30pm). Creative crafts with Artists Lucilla Jones and Naz Creates! invite you to create with them. (10am - 4pm)
Raised Platform: Stress Less workshop: Coping strategies to help deal with stress and anxeity with Afsana Morgan(11:30am), MK Dancers (1:30pm), Break free and Sore: Relaxtion through Mindfulness (2pm), and Moomal Bollywood Dancers (3pm)
Studio Theatre: The launch of the Womens Bursary (11am), Cyffanol Women's Aid song (11:50am), Nketchi Allen Dawson presents "Antiracism Hair and Beauty" with a Q&A to follow (12pm), Women of Newport discuss involvement in creative Homelessness project (12:40pm), Voices of Strength: Collective Storytelling and Empowerment (1pm), Mackenzie Steed presents "Celebrate Your Wins" an interactive session encourage participants to embrace personal victories (1:45pm), From Words to Action - Disability, Literature and Activism workshop (2:30pm), Sparklettes Supersonic Disco (3:15pm).
Gallery: Artist Alice Marie invites you to create your own work or join in a group piece, and Beth Wilks will lead Newport themed craft making. (10am - 4pm)
Fun With Femigami- feminist origami workshop embrace your body though the art of paper folding. (12pm - 4pm)
Dance Studio: Sonic Sing-Along with Musicians (11am), Salsa and Qi Gong with Carmella (12pm & 1pm)
Basement: Pop up skate park with skate boarding workshops (1-3pm)
Workshop 1: Tote bag print making sessions with Stephanie Roberts (11am & 1:30pm)
Workshop 2: Oh Susannah Sewing Workshops (10am - 4pm)
Stalls:
Amanda Bowden Transitional Coach (Manifesting sessions, oracle card reading, and books for sale), Beechwood Women's Institute, Cakelab (Cakes, brownies, samosas), Cheryl's Crafty Creations (Costume jewellry, lucky dips), Custom Culture (Mugs, tumblers, tote bags, greetings cards), Cyfanol, Fair Treatment for the Women of Wales, Gem Wear, Gwent Police, Hollistic Reflexology, Inner Belief (Hollistic therapised for fetility, reflexology and hypnotherapy), NG GlitzyBitz (Handmade earrings), Newport Womens' Institute, Sakura (Japanese inspired art and notebooks) and Soroptimist Interntaional Cwmbran and District.
What does International Women's Day mean to you?
We asked our collegaues, friends, supporters and partners what International Women's Day means to them.
''International Women's Day means celebrating all of us, in all our different experiences of womanhood, equally. It means recognizing the love and beauty in us all!''
Krystal Lowe, Artist.