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4/21/2017 |
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Additional Viewings of Her Story is Our History Documentary |
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The Ministry of Education, Employment and Gender Affairs would like to remind the public of the two additional viewings of the documentary Her Story is Our History: The Women’s Suffrage Movement in the Cayman Islands. The first will be held in West Bay on Saturday, 22 April 2017 in the Sir John A. Cumber Primary School Hall. The second will be for the Eastern Districts at the Clifton Hunter High School in the Performing Arts Auditorium on Saturday, 29 April. Both events will be from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. Members of the respective communities are invited to attend, as well as the wider public who were unable to attend the premiere. The Ministry would especially like to invite those women who signed the petitions and their family representatives. The 22-minute documentary tells the story of the courageous women who signed petitions and demanded a voice and place in politics. Interviewees in the documentary included Mrs. Georgette Hurlston-Ebanks, signatory on the 1948 petition and Mrs. Janilee Clifford, signatory on the 1957 Petition. Women currently involved in politics or who are activists in the community were also interviewed; these included Hon. Juliana O’Connor- Connolly, Hon. Tara Rivers, Lucille Seymour, and Annie Multon. These ladies speak of what life was like back then, when women had little say in the running of the country, and how the Caymanian environment changed once women were given the human right to vote in elections and stand for public office. Aquinnah Ebanks, a young feminist and aspiring politician, was also interviewed to provide a youth perspective on these issues. Orders for DVDs of the documentary are also being received by the Gender Affairs Unit at a cost of CI$10.00. Order forms can be obtained by visiting www.genderequality.gov.ky.
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