Discovery Nights International Women’s Day

Inspired by International Woman’s Day, this after-hours Discovery Nights: Wonder Women event celebrates remarkable women from the North East, with an evening of talks, activities, live music, historical objects and archives, bar and food.

Be the first to see Discovery Museum’s exciting new acquisition, the costume worn by actor Brenda Blethyn as TV’s eponymous Vera, the North East detective created by author Ann Cleeves – who will also join us for a short reading and Q & A.

With bite-size talks on trailblazing engineer Rachel Parsons and wartime wonder Dr Irene Ighodaro, there’ll also be live music, proggy mat making all topped off with a performance by the The bangshees.

A chance to mingle and meet, or chill and stroll through the museum dipping in and out of activities, to enjoy the museum at night and kick back.

Featuring

• Sketch the costume of TV’s Vera, Discovery Museum’s new acquisition and other iconic clothes
• Ann Cleeves, author of the Vera and Shetland series with a Q & A
• Material from Tyne & Wear Archives and object handling
• Live music with Kirsty Hall
• Dr Beverly Prevatt-Goldstein explores the story of Dr Irene Ighodaro
• Historian Henrietta Heald and Laura Brown of Northern Powergrid will give quickfire tributes to women engineers past and present
• Proggy mat making with Liz from Woodhorn Museum
• Performance by the all women drummers The bangshees
• Bring books for a book swap
• Bar cafe with pizza and nachos available