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On air at the ‘100 First Women Portraits’ Exhibition
RadioReverb International Women’s Day Live Broadcast
This year our all-female team broadcast live from the heart of Brighton & Hove’s International Women’s Day celebrations at Brighton Dome and Brighton Museum.
As part of our 13th Birthday weekend, we partnered with Brighton Museum & Art Gallery to tell the story of the pioneering women featured in the ‘100 First Women Portraits’, and built a studio in the Dome among the Brighton Women’s Centre’s programme of events.
Created by photographer Anita Corbin, the exhibition is the culmination of her 10-year personal mission to capture the portraits of modern female trailblazers.
Our team of all-women presenters & producers took the exhibition as their starting point, celebrating the extraordinary women featured. Taking the themes of women in literature; art; business; broadcasting; music; sports; and more, they asked how far the equality movement has come – and how far we still need to go.
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Over the course of the day we interviewed the photographer behind the exhibition, as well as many of the women featured, including Dany Cotton, the first female commissioner of the London Fire Brigade; Sally Kettle, the first woman to row across the Atlantic; Professor Monique Simmonds, the first female Deputy Director of Science at Kew Botanical Gardens; and the first female stage and screen fight director Alison De Burgh.
We also showcased the many International Women’s Day events taking place on the day, as programmed by Brighton Women’s Centre. We interviewed pioneering local women, such as Caroline Lucas, the UK’s only Green MP, and broadcast a live speech by Mayor of Brighton & Hove Alexandra Phillips.
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RadioReverb’s Big Weekend 7th-8th March 2020
THE REVERBATHON IS BACK!
Sunday 8th March, noon-midnight at the Hope & Ruin
RadioReverb celebrates its 13th birthday with two days of live broadcasting in Brighton.
Sunday 8th March is the anniversary of us winning a full-time broadcasting licence, and to mark the day, a roster of presenters will be live at Brighton’s Hope and Ruin in Queen’s Road for our annual Reverbathon fundraiser.
The RadioReverb team will be at the Hope and Ruin from noon-midnight, broadcasting live from the venue, and we’ll selling merchandise and collecting donations, in person and online, so come down and join us. We look forward to meeting you!
We’ll also have shows specially sponsored for the day by local businesses who want to support grassroots community enterprises like RadioReverb.
All the money raised during the Reverbathon goes directly back into the running of the station, upgrading equipment and giving an opportunity to bring in new shows with local voices.
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To support RadioReverb please click on the button above and choose how much you would like donate. We have a limited number of black cotton tote bags with a large RadioReverb logo to give to the first 50 people who donate a minimum of £10 (sorry, UK only). And you don’t need to wait until 8th March – if you donate today we’ll add your amount to the Reverbathon totaliser and give you a shout out on the day!
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Live at Brighton Museum for International Women’s Day Saturday March 7th
The Reverbathon is the second day of live broadcasting on that weekend. On Saturday 7th March, RadioReverb is celebrating International Women’s Day with a day of programmes coming from Brighton Museum at the ‘100 First Women’ photography portraits exhibition.
Created by photographer Anita Corbin, the exhibition is the culmination of her 10-year personal mission to capture the portraits of modern female trailblazers.
The all-women team of presenters and producers will broadcast interviews with the subjects of the exhibition, and showcase the many International Women’s Day events taking place at the Museum on that day, including panel discussions, workshops and performances.