by imaduser | Jul 9, 2015 | Events, News
Imece have organised Purple Day, the women’s film event as part of 20th London Turkish Film Festival, on 10 May 2015 at Rio Cinema. There were 178 participants and the event programme included, screening of ‘Last Stop: Salvation’, discussion panel and reception. In the discussion panel the speakers, Mizgin Mujde Arslan ,film director and screenwriter, Feride Kumbasar ,Director of Imece Women’s Centre and Gulsun Kanat from Power of Solidarity spoke about womens issues from different angles. The reception following the panels enabled the participants to network and share...
by imaduser | Jul 9, 2015 | Events, News
6th March, Mildmay Community Centre IMECE successfully hosted its Annual User Consultation on 6th March at Mildmay Community Centre. IMECE service users from broad range of services participated in the consultation and gave their views and suggestions about IMECE’s services and what IMECE should aim for the coming 3 years. Whilst users stated that IMECE’s services are very important to them and having specialist services in their mother tongue was a very valuable thing for them, IMECE’s services has good working processes and makes great impact on their lives, they also recommended that IMECE should have more services for service users, including more advice sessions and art/craft...
by imaduser | Jul 9, 2015 | Events, News
6th March International Women’s Day Celebration IMECE has organised a Women’s Day Celebration on 6th March at Mildmay Community Centre. The participation to the event was great and 38 women had attended and celebrated their day. The celebration commenced with an opening talk from IMECE’s Director welcoming all women attended the event and wished all participating women to enjoy their day. Lunch was served and traditional Turkish music was played and all participants danced side by side. The event finalised with a Zumba session which the participants very much enjoyed. 7th March Billion Women Rise March IMECE staff, volunteers and users has taken part at the Billion Women Rise March and enjoyed solidarity with hundreds of women and celebrated the International Women’s...
by imaduser | Apr 29, 2015 | Events, News
FREE EVENT We are delighted to invite you for ‘Purple Day, the women’s film event as part of 20th London Turkish Film Festival, between 12 Noon and 4pm on 10 May 2015 at Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2PB. The event programme includes, screening of ‘Last Stop: Salvation’, panel speakers and reception. Programme 12.00 – Film Last Stop: Salvation (Kurtuluş Son Durak) 14.00 – Panel Speakers (Konuşmacılar) Feride Kumbasar Women and diaspora: women with experience of multi- faceted violence and rejuvenated dreams Diaspora ve kadın: çok yönlü şiddet deneyimi ve gelecek için yeniden umutlanmak Mizgin Mujde Arslan Women’s film language: Breath, Mirror, Road Kadınların film dili: Nefes, Ayna,Yol Gülsün Kanat Power of solidarity Dayanışmanın gücü 15.00 –...
by imaduser | Jan 12, 2015 | Events, News
1-3 October 2014 at Stoke Newington Library Exhibition Hall IMECE Women’s Centre organised a 6-week workshop for children and young people aged between 5 and 18. The purpose of the exhibition was to enable children and young people to discover photography, be active and creative whilst supporting children and young people’s mental, emotional and social development. This project also enabled participants to depart from the digital world. Workshops consisted of several hands-on activities such as taking photos with the cameras created from shoeboxes and processing those photos in the dark room by themselves. Additionally, at the end of the programme an exhibition was held to exhibit both the handmade cameras and the photographs taken during the workshops. 27 children were presented Certificate of Achievement and also were given a frame with one of their own photographs produced. Visitors to the event were parents of the children who attended the course, local artists, Turkish, Kurdish and Cypriot Turkish Community members, local and community media representatives, local residents and Baroness Meral Ece from House of Common whom made the reception opening speech. During the course of the exhibition over 200 people visited the...
by imaduser | Jan 12, 2015 | Events, News
Imece Staff Away Day Every year Imece organises a Staff Away Day to get the staff, volunteers and Trustee Board to come together and have a joint event where they can enhance team building. This year’s event took place on 6th Dec and Imece’s staff, volunteers and Trustees got together at a Brunch. This event gave opportunity to all participants to get to know each other as well as have discussions about Imece’s success in the last...
