Celebrate International Women’s Day with some exciting activities right here in Yarra.
We're coming together to celebrate women's achievements and take action to drive gender equality on International Women's Day.
We have a key role to play in promoting social change for gender equality, contributing to a more fair and safe community.
The theme for International Women's Day 2025 is about accelerating action for gender equality.
We encourage everyone in our community to attend local International Women's Day events and activities.
What’s on?
FREE Women Making Waves at Collingwood Leisure Centre
Women Making Waves is a Yarra Leisure program for women only.
The session includes:
• gym access
• casual swimming and aqua classes
• open lap lanes
• general water play
• use of the spa and sauna
When: Saturday 8 March 2025
Where: Collingwood Leisure Centre
Time: 6.30pm to 8.30pm
Women of all ages, cultures and abilities are welcome. Boys under 5 years are also welcome. You do not need to book – just come along!
We only roster female staff during Women Making Waves.
Motherhood and Creativity: Panel discussion
12.30pm to 1.30pm, Saturday 8 March at Fitzroy Library
Being an artist and a mother are both absorbing occupations – so how do you do both? Join us on International Women’s Day for a panel conversation about the highs and lows of raising small children while making creative work of any kind.
Art+Feminism Wiki Edit-a-thon
11am to 2pm, Saturday 8 March at Richmond Library
In celebration of the Women’s Art Register's 50th anniversary, we invite members of the community to join us for a dynamic edit-a-thon focused on enhancing representation on Wikipedia. This event will address the critical issues surrounding the visibility of female and female identifying artists and their contributions within in the arts. Participants will learn editing skills and contribute to Wikipedia articles, using library and archival resources to support the editing process.
Imitami (Valentina) by Ella Rizzi – Art Exhibition
Showing until Sunday 13 April at Bargoonga Nganjin, North Fitzroy Library.
A series of paintings focusing on the past, through the repetition of a singular image modelled from the artist’s personal photo archives.
Each painting presents the image from a new perspective, uncovering and unravelling the abstracted forms that create an unidentified woman. Like a camera shuttering or a person blinking, eyes glaring in and out of the sunlight, the recurring image comes and goes between paintings.
Zone Red by Yandell Walton – Art Exhibition
Showing until Monday 6 April at Edinburgh Gardens
Zone Red confronts the urgent reality of climate change by visually embodying the countdown to a critical moment in our planet’s future.
This artwork embodies a duality: it is a call to action rooted in the alarming realities of climate science, yet it also carries the promise of hope, underscoring the potential for human ingenuity and collective effort to create meaningful change before it is too late.