Celebrate International Women’s Day with us this March!
This year we have a packed programme with everything from film to author talks, comedy and local history exhibitions. See below to find out more!
Contents
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ• Creative Writing with Priscilla Mante
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ• Author Event with Lin Anderson
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ• Life in the Public Eye with Councillor Linda Erskine
• Comedy
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ• Gail Porter – Hung, Drawn and Portered
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ• Rutherglen Ladies F.C. The Hidden History of James H. Kelly’s Trailblazers
• Films
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ• The Miracle Club (2023)
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ• Mean Girls (2024)
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ• Author Visit with Laura Ellen Anderson
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ• Emily Dodd visiting two Fife Schools
ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ• Janis MacKay and the Burntisland Book Worms
Priscilla Mante is a London based author from Glasgow who writes stories for both adults and children about brave girls and women who challenge the status quo. She is the author of the Dream Team, a children’s book series about girls’ football, friendship and following your dreams. Her debut Jaz Santos vs the World (Puffin) was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Children’s Sports Books Award 2022 and was the Rocketship bookshop of the Year 2021. Priscilla Mante will be facilitating an International Women’s Day workshop for adults on creating strong, realistic, and memorable characters.
When: 7 Mar 2024, 19:00
Where: Kirkcaldy Galleries
Come join us for an Author Event with Scottish Crime writer Lin Anderson.
Lin will talk about her writing and other things, followed by a Q&A session.
Lin will also be signing books with Waterstones providing books for sale on the day.
Complimentary refreshments will be offered.
Spaces are limited for this free event, so book quickly!
When: 25 Mar 2024, 19:00
Where: Templehall Library
Come and join us on International Womens’ Day to hear about Councillor Linda Erskine’s life in the public eye.
She was born in Cardenden into a mining family, worked as a lab technician at Auchterderran Junior School, volunteered in the soup kitchen at Lochgelly during the miners’ strike of 1984/1985, became a shop steward and branch secretary for NUPE and carried on her support of the trade union movement in Fife before finally retiring in 2011.
Then she was elected a Labour councillor for Lochgelly, Cardenden and Benarty. What a woman!
When: 08 Mar 2024, 11:00
Where: Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries
Gail has just completed 31 sold out shows at The Edinburgh Fringe and is now taking her hilarious stand-up show on tour.
Comedy is a new venture for Gail. She has just concluded a run of her one-woman show Hung, Drawn and Portered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The show documents her life experiences and appears to be liberating.
“If I’ve got a problem, I like to share it – whether it’s homelessness or losing my hair,” “I’ve been in a psychiatric unit, and I just think ‘you know what? I’ll just tell you. What’s the worst that could happen?’
When: Friday 1st Mar, 19:30 pm
Women’s football in Scotland has a magnificent but largely overlooked history of more than 100 years. This fascinating exhibition looks at the early days, telling the story of trailblazers Rutherglen Ladies who battled against the odds just to play matches yet led the way in the 1920s and 1930s. Led by superstar captain Sadie Smith, the grandmother of singer-songwriter Eddi Reader, Rutherglen Ladies also featured Cardenden’s own May Watson who would later be described as “probably one of the best lady footballers in Britain”.
Read more about the exhibition and an appeal for information about the women’s game in Fife here.
When: 08 – 30 March 2024
Ticket Price: FREE
Where: Kirkcaldy Galleries
Director: Thaddeus O’Sullivan
Cast: Maggie Smith, Laura Linney, Kathy Bates, Agnes O’Casey
Runtime: 1hr 30mins
Join us for a film and a chat! For those who enjoy discussing the film after watching it, you can join the ONFife film team in The Spinning Top Cafe, a welcoming space for cinema lovers to connect and reflect on the big screen.
Set in Ballygar, Ireland, 1967, hard-knocks community in Dublin marches to its own beat, rooted in traditions of loyalty, faith, and togetherness. here’s just one tantalising dream for the women of Ballygar to taste freedom and escape the gauntlet of domestic life: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes. And with a little benevolent interference from their cheeky and rebellious priest, close friends Lily, Eileen, Dolly and Sgeila are the ‘lucky’ few to win this ticket of a lifetime at their riotous local raffle night.
When: 26 March, 11 AM
Where: Adam Smith Theatre
To find out more and book tickets see here
Director: Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr.
Cast: Angourie Rice, Renne Rapp, Bebe Wood, Avantika
Runtime: 1hr 52mins
From the comedic mind of Tina Fey comes a new twist on the modern classic, MEAN GIRLS.
New student Cady Heron is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called “The Plastics,” ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George and her minions Gretchen and Karen. However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels, she finds herself prey in Regina’s crosshairs. As Cady sets to take down the group’s apex predator with the help of her outcast friends Janis and Damian, she must learn to stay true to herself while navigating the most cutthroat jungle of all: high school.
When: Sat 2 Mar 19:00
Where: Adam Smith Theatre
To find out more and book tickets see here
Laura Ellen Anderson will be chatting to Fife Schools about her brand-new book Marnie Midnight and the Moon Mystery. This event will take place on Teams for World Book Day on Thursday 7th March. This is the first book in a new series by the best-selling author of the popular Amelia Fang and Rainbow Grey series and is a truly magical story about a little moon moth, that dares to dream BIG!
Emily Dodd will be visiting two schools in Northeast Fife on Thursday 7th March to celebrate World Book Day and all things science with them. Emily loves science and wildlife. Emily is the author of picture books and non-fiction science books, a screenwriter for CBeebies, a singer-songwriter, and a BBC radio playwright.
Janis MacKay is an award winning author, known for her amazing books such as the Magnus Fin and Time Traveller series. Janis will be coming to Burntisland Library to celebrate World Book Day on Thursday 7th March with the Family Reading Group – The Burntisland Bookworms.