Telling the stories of ordinary extraordinary women (mostly) on the canals.
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Part of a September double bill in Welshpool Rose's War is about working boat women keeping vital supplies going in WW2. #canal #ww2 #theatre #welshpool Tickets £10(£7) jumblebee.co.uk/playroseswar
ALT Promotion for our show Rose's War Saturday 12th September 5.30pm supported by Arts Council of Wales. Image of a working boat women in clothes from the 1940s on a background graphic of a working narrow boat.
We are on the road again telling the story of Isobel, a WW2 trainee on working narrowboats For one night only Welshpool Town Hall #welshpool #canals #theatre Tickets £10(£7) jumblebee.co.uk/playidlewome…
ALT Promotion for Idle Women of the Wartime Waterways show in Welshpool Friday 11th September 3pm and 7pm supported by Arts Council of Wales and part of The Longest Yarn Exhibition. Black and white photo of young women in working clothes on an orange background.
#CrickBoatShowvirtualFringe
Saturday will celebrate boatwomen's lives. Join us for the launch, a Stokie boatwoman, a wartime trainee and a tribute to the late great Alex Bennett. bit.ly/4wJN0lK @CrickShow @waterwaysworld @CRTBoating
The Crick Boat Show (virtual) Fringe!
We can’t be at the Crick show this weekend sharing stories of women living, working and saving the canals. So, we’re running an impromptu online fringe event.
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Kate's final show at IWA Cavalcade Sunday May 3rd 6pm canal-side in the marquee Rembrandt Gardens She will be joined by Polly Boccongelli (Sprig O Willow) for stories and songs of women of the inland waterways through the decades New pieces and old favourites #canals #cavalcade
It's our new show. Coming up in Stoke-on-Trent a canter through 350 years of Stoke canal history told though words and music with local community actors and singers. Booking essential (free/pay what you can) bit.ly/42JuAUJ we only have 40 tickets per show!
We're joining the festival this weekend thanks to Harborough DC Come find us (4 shows from11.30am) iwaharborough75.org/contact-… Celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first ever waterways festival, hear stories of women who worked and restored the waterways The battle to do so goes on
ALT A women in blue dungarees holds the tiller on a brightly coloured narrowboat. The caption is Storytelling theatre IWA Harborough 75 Sunday 8th June
Delighted to return @CrickShow 2025 @CrickWharf We will be storytelling by the historic boats. 12noon to 4.30pm daily Saturday-Monday 24-26 May Bank holiday weekend Thanks for having us @CanalRiverTrust #Storytelling #theatre #canals See your there @CRTEastMidlands
Well we have a Blue Sky account! But also we are @canalcavalcade this weekend with two shows. Come find us canal side in Rembrandt Gardens 6pm both Saturday and Sunday. For landlubbers address is Warwick Ave W2 1XB waterways.org.uk/support/way…
New blog post celebrating women who worked, campaigned, helped save, found romance... on the waterways #IWD2025 @IWA_UK @CanalRiverTrust @DCTtrips @heatherwastie @NB_MorningMist @JoannaMary bit.ly/4ceku1P
#internationalwomensday on the waterways #3. Sonia Rolt talks to Lorna Yorke in 2011 about her time as a trainee youtube.com/watch?v=WaNMS8Iu…
#internationalwomensday #2 Today we're celebrating the wartime women trainees with @heatherwastie Idle Women and Judies. Created in 2015, a year later it led to starting our journey telling the stories of ordinary women doing extraordinary things!
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#InternationalWomensDay So many amazing women have made the #canals what they are today, we're making a week of celebrating them. Today: Angela Rolt and Ray Aickman, there at the start of the campaigns to save the #inlandwaterways. Listen to their story bit.ly/3DqqaJ2
Thank you! Alongside the stories of #women in the #BlackCountry, you'll find three very important women who were there at the start if saving the canals: Angela Rolt, Ray Aickman and Elizabeth Jane Howard .
Wonderful to welcome @AlarumProd to the #FundBritainsWaterways campaign!
If you haven't watched I Dig Canals and heard the stories of women who helped to save #Birmingham and #BlackCountry canals, visit alarumproductions.org.uk/por…
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We've joined the #FundBritainsWaterways campaign @IWA_UK. Looking forward to joining events.
Gearing up for #RosesandThorns: celebrating a century of women born to the boats or drawn to the boats. With @NB_MorningMist @heatherwastie & @perriwillow #Historicboatrally @Braunstonmarina @CanalRiverTrust #Braunston #Daventry #waterways #GrandUnion bit.ly/45iD4SY
We're looking forward to it! #TitfordPumphouse is such an iconic building, the highest point on the #Birmingham #Canals. Thank you @BCNSociety for hosting and @ace_national for supporting the R&D of our lovely new show about real events a century ago.
It's tonight! Tickets still available. Have heard great things about this new show. Wish we were closer as we'd love to see it. Don't miss Rats, Ropes and Revolution with @AlarumProd
Friday 17th 7.30pm Titford Pump House @BCNSociety #sandwell Our new show about the impact of the 1923 Boatmen's strike on women and children. Storytelling on the canal plus Phil Clayton Q&A @CRTWestMidlands @CRTBoating @towpathtalk @BCT_Touring Tickets alarumproductions.org.uk/sho…
