about

shifting loyalties is a residential gathering for women in the heart of Pendle in Lancashire [1] first established by idle women in collaboration with Silvia Federici in 2016.
 
This gathering (informal conference) offers a space for women to hold critical conversations, excavate our histories, build connections and friendships, and forge a different future. 
 
What can we do to address the urgency of global violence against women, from domestic violence to wars, media representation to pay gaps, and reproductive rights to the silencing of creative and political voice?
 
shifting loyalties is an open space for self-organising with some invited guest speakers. All women are invited to bring something to share, to discuss, to do or make together, a story of your experience or the work you are involved in.
 
[1] The town of Pendle in Lancashire celebrates the history of the Pendle witches through a tourist industry that brands bus routes, public footpaths and shops with caricatures of women who were killed during the persecution.

Through shifting loyalties, idle women seeks to reposition the Pendle witch story in a contemporary and relevant frame, which identifies the continuation of women's persecution.

Coldwell Activity Centre.
Back Lane, Burnley,
Lancashire, BB10 3RD

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invited contributors

This years programme is full of activity and discussion with a small number of spoken presentations.

Jesse Jones, a dublin based Irish artist who is representing Ireland in the Venice Biennale, her practice crosses the media of film, performance & installation

Boseda Olawoye Learning & Engagement Curator and Consultant who has initiated and managed Learning Programmes within contemporary art galleries, public spaces and in communities.
 
Max Dashu is an American feminist historian, author and artist. Her areas of expertise include female iconography, mother-right cultures and the origins of patriarchy
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Dedj Lambert trained in nursing and Western Herbal medicine.
 
Leyla Hussein is a Somali psychotherapist and social activist and multi-award winning campaigner on FGM and gender rights. She is a co-founder of the Daughters of Eve 
 
Dervela McNee and Eileen Leahy are artists based in Dublin, currently organising in response to the Repeal the 8th movement.
 
Mama D’s project ‘community centred knowledge’ communities of African and Caribbean heritage. Working at family and community level through creative engagement.

Alana Jelinek is an artist and AHRC Creative Fellow in Creative and Performing Arts she is currently senior researcher at the Museum of archaeology and anthropology in Cambridge
 
Humraaz womens refuge provide specialist emotional and practical support to BME women suffering from domestic abuse.
 
Lizzie Linton founder of ‘solidarity not charity’ a project directly supporting female refugees in camps.

Sheree Angela Mathews is a writer and artist inspired by the sea and committed to getting more Black, Asian and ethnic minorities into nature. She also encourages women in their exploration of their authentic voices. 

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