Galway Bay FM
7 March 2021
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Galway Bay FM Newsroom – GMIT have announced an exciting programme of events to make International Women’s Day on Monday using the theme ‘Choose to challenge’.
International Women’s Day will celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women and is a collective day of global celebration and a call for gender equality.
GMIT is marking this special day with a series of virtual events running throughout the day from public talks and seminars to an art exhibition delivered by GMIT staff, students and special guests including a TD.
The series kicks off at 10.30am with a ‘Coffee break with poetry and prose’, where budding and established writers within GMIT will read some of their work. This is followed by a lunchtime seminar from 1 to 2pm where five 10-minute presentations will be given on contemporary and historical themes or figures relating to gender and equality. The presentations will be delivered by lec
International Women s Day to be celebrated virtually by GMIT
GMIT is to celebrate International Women’s Day on Monday next (March 8
th) with virtual talks, presentations, seminars and an art exhibition by the college’s lecturers, students and special guests working under thetheme ‘Choose to Challenge
’ (#ChooseToChallenge).
International Women’s Day celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women and is a collective day of global celebration and a call for gender equality.
The series kicks off at 10.30am with a ‘Coffee break with poetry and prose’, where budding and established writers within GMIT will read some of their work. This is followed by a lunchtime seminar from 1 to 2pm where five 10-minute presentations will be given on contemporary and historical themes or figures relating to gender and equality. The presentations will be delivered by lecturers and academics in the Mayo campus in a forum chaired by GMIT’s Dr John