Scary Little Girls

Common Ground Memory Share and Film Screening
2023-05-14 15:00 - 20:00 (Europe/London) | Friends Meeting House, Champion Square, Bristol, BS2 9DB, United Kingdom
Head down to the Bristol Friends Meeting House to craft, share memories and watch films celebrating Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp!
All activities are FREE.
Programme of Activities:
3pm: Craftivism and Memory Share Afternoon
Drop-in for some craftivism with Greenham Woman, Jill ‘Ray’ Raymond who will be running practical web weaving sessions and sharing the history of Web Weaving as feminist protest.
You’ll also have the chance to meet with Greenham Women and share your own stories of resistance with our oral history team.
5pm: Women Against the Bomb Film Screening
First up we will be screening Women Against the Bomb, a prize-winning look at the impact of the Greenham Women, reflected through interviews and footage from women who took action and never looked back.
6pm: Q&A with Greenham Guest Speakers
We will be joined by Greenham Child Rebecca Mordan and guest Greenham Women giving you the chance to ask all your Greenham questions.
6.30pm: Carry Greenham Home Film Screening
Then we will head back to the early days of Greenham with Beeban Kidron and Amanda Richardson’s fly-on-the-wall masterpiece was shot whilst they lived at Greenham in 1982-83.
About Common Ground
Common Ground is a series of events bringing the legacy of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp to local communities across the UK. It is part of a project created by Scary Little Girls in collaboration with Greenham Women Everywhere CIC to map the impact of the Peace Camp on the women who inhabited it and the communities they returned to. This project has been made possible thanks to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
About Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp
Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was an enduring and iconic protest spanning 19 years from 1981 – 2000. Whilst the occupation of the common began with the aim of forcing out the US nuclear warheads from Berkshire, the protest became a focal point of feminist history and has left a legacy of women’s liberation around the world. You can view our archive of oral histories, photographs and ephemera from Greenham here.
Inclusion and Accessibility
Common Ground strives to be an inclusive and welcoming space which celebrates diversity in all its forms. Our approach is to learn from and value each other’s lived experience.
This venue is wheelchair accessible.
If you have any access needs you’d like to speak to us about please email us.
Click here for more information about travelling to the venue.

Common Ground: An Exhibition of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
2023-05-27 10:00 - 12:30 | Freshwater Library, 41 School Green Rd, Freshwater, PO40 9AP, United Kingdom
Scary Little Girls and Freshwater Library join forces to bring you a pop-up exhibition celebrating Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp.
Join us to chat to us about your memories of Greenham and hear ours. Hang out in our bender tent listening to a soundscape of stories from the peace camp and interviews with Greenham Women. Our oral history team will be there to record your memories of Greenham so that you can become part of our growing archive.
About Common Ground
Common Ground is a series of events bringing the legacy of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp to local communities across the UK. It is part of a project created by Scary Little Girls in collaboration with Greenham Women Everywhere CIC to map the impact of the Peace Camp on the women who inhabited it and the communities they returned to. This project has been made possible thanks to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
About Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp
Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was an enduring and iconic protest spanning 19 years from 1981 – 2000. Whilst the occupation of the common began with the aim of forcing out the US nuclear warheads from Berkshire, the protest became a focal point of feminist history and has left a legacy of women’s liberation around the world. You can view our archive of oral histories, photographs and ephemera from Greenham here.
Inclusion and Accessibility
Common Ground strives to be an inclusive and welcoming space which celebrates diversity in all its forms. Our approach is to learn from and value each other’s lived experience.
This venue is wheelchair accessible.
If you have any access needs you’d like to speak to us about please email us.

Common Ground: Memory Share and Film Screening
2023-05-27 13:30 - 15:30 | Freshwater Library, 41 School Green Rd, Freshwater, PO40 9AP, United Kingdom
Join us for a film screening in Freshwater Library as we transport you back to the early days of Greenham with Beeban Kidron and Amanda Richardson’s fly-on-the-wall masterpiece was shot whilst they lived at Greenham in 1982-83.
Hear songs from the camp come to life and enjoy the opportunity to hear from Greenham Women in our live Q&A.
About Common Ground
Common Ground is a series of events bringing the legacy of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp to local communities across the UK. It is part of a project created by Scary Little Girls in collaboration with Greenham Women Everywhere CIC to map the impact of the Peace Camp on the women who inhabited it and the communities they returned to. This project has been made possible thanks to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
About Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp
Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was an enduring and iconic protest spanning 19 years from 1981 – 2000. Whilst the occupation of the common began with the aim of forcing out the US nuclear warheads from Berkshire, the protest became a focal point of feminist history and has left a legacy of women’s liberation around the world. You can view our archive of oral histories, photographs and ephemera from Greenham here.
Inclusion and Accessibility
Common Ground strives to be an inclusive and welcoming space which celebrates diversity in all its forms. Our approach is to learn from and value each other’s lived experience.
This venue is wheelchair accessible.
If you have any access needs you’d like to speak to us about please email us.

Common Ground: Craftivism and Memory Share Coffee Morning
2023-05-28 10:00 - 13:00 | Ventnor Exchange, 11 Church St, Ventnor , PO38 1SW, United Kingdom
Join us for a Craftivism & Memory Share Coffee Morning hosted by Greenham Women Everywhere and Scary Little Girls!
Drop in to the Cafe at Ventnor Exchange between 10am – 1pm.
Printmaker Caroline Wilkins will be leading a relaxed session making protest bunting using simple kitchen table print techniques. Your printed bunting flags will be stitched together and will travel around the UK with Scary Little Girls as we continue to gather Greenham stories.
Whilst crafting, Greenham Child Rebecca Mordan and Sue Bolton will be sharing their memories of Greenham and chatting to you about yours.
All materials provided.
About Common Ground
This event was made possible thanks to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. It is part of a project created by Scary Little Girls in collaboration with Greenham Women Everywhere CIC to map the impact of the peace camp on the women who inhabited it and the communities they returned to.
About Greenham Common Peace Camp
Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was an enduring and iconic protest spanning 19 years from 1981 – 2000. Whilst the occupation of the common began with the aim of forcing out the US nuclear warheads from Berkshire, the protest became a focal point of feminist history and has left a legacy of women’s liberation around the world. As women travelled to Greenham from across the UK, local support hubs formed to ‘Carry Greenham Home’.
This event was made possible thanks to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. It is part of a project created by Scary Little Girls in collaboration with Greenham Women Everywhere CIC to map the impact of the peace camp on the women who inhabited it and the communities they returned to.
Inclusion and Accessibility
Common Ground strives to be an inclusive and welcoming space which celebrates diversity in all its forms. Our approach is to learn from and value each other’s lived experience.
If you have any access needs you’d like to speak to us about please email us.

Common Ground: Open Studio and Photographic Exhibition
2023-05-28 11:00 - 15:30 | The Shed, Through the archway off Church Street behind the Chinese Restaurant, PO38 1SW, United Kingdom
Just down the road from Ventnor Exchange you can join Greenham Woman and artist Bridget Boudewijn in her Isle of Wight studio to view her photographs of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp giving a unique, first hand insight into the camp.
About Common Ground
This event was made possible thanks to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. It is part of a project created by Scary Little Girls in collaboration with Greenham Women Everywhere CIC to map the impact of the peace camp on the women who inhabited it and the communities they returned to.
About Greenham Common Peace Camp
Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was an enduring and iconic protest spanning 19 years from 1981 – 2000. Whilst the occupation of the common began with the aim of forcing out the US nuclear warheads from Berkshire, the protest became a focal point of feminist history and has left a legacy of women’s liberation around the world. As women travelled to Greenham from across the UK, local support hubs formed to ‘Carry Greenham Home’.
This event was made possible thanks to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. It is part of a project created by Scary Little Girls in collaboration with Greenham Women Everywhere CIC to map the impact of the peace camp on the women who inhabited it and the communities they returned to.
Inclusion and Accessibility
Common Ground strives to be an inclusive and welcoming space which celebrates diversity in all its forms. Our approach is to learn from and value each other’s lived experience.
If you have any access needs you’d like to speak to us about please email us.

Common Ground: Panel discussion and book talk
2023-05-28 16:30 - 18:00 | Ventnor Exchange, 11 Church St, Ventnor , PO38 1SW, United Kingdom
Join us in the Cafe at Ventnor Exchange to hear all about life at the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp from women who were there. Hear songs and stories that bring the camp to life as we reflect on the impact of the camp 40 years on.
Greenham child and author Rebecca Mordan will introduce her book ‘Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices 1981 – 2000’ sharing the impact her early experiences of the camp have had on her life.
Did you visit the Greenham Common Peace Camp? If so we’d love to hear your stories too and take the opportunity to interview you for Greenham Women Everywhere’s oral history project about your experiences of Greenham.
About Common Ground
This event was made possible thanks to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. It is part of a project created by Scary Little Girls in collaboration with Greenham Women Everywhere CIC to map the impact of the peace camp on the women who inhabited it and the communities they returned to.
About Greenham Common Peace Camp
Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was an enduring and iconic protest spanning 19 years from 1981 – 2000. Whilst the occupation of the common began with the aim of forcing out the US nuclear warheads from Berkshire, the protest became a focal point of feminist history and has left a legacy of women’s liberation around the world. As women travelled to Greenham from across the UK, local support hubs formed to ‘Carry Greenham Home’.
This event was made possible thanks to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. It is part of a project created by Scary Little Girls in collaboration with Greenham Women Everywhere CIC to map the impact of the peace camp on the women who inhabited it and the communities they returned to.
Inclusion and Accessibility
Common Ground strives to be an inclusive and welcoming space which celebrates diversity in all its forms. Our approach is to learn from and value each other’s lived experience.
This venue is wheelchair accessible. Click here for more information about accessibility at Trinity.
If you have any access needs you’d like to speak to us about please email us.

Edge of the World bookshop book talk
2023-06-01 19:30 - 21:00 | Edge of the World Bookshop, 25/26 Market Jew Street, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 2HR, United Kingdom
Join us at the wonderful Edge of the World bookshop in Penzance in June for a talk with Rebecca Mordan about her book, Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices 1981 – 2000.

Our own Artistic Director Rebecca will read, tell stories and sing you some songs from the Greenham Song Book and together with Greenham Women who contributed their stories, she will answer all your burning Greenham questions – go on ask them, we dare you!

Tickets are £6 and on sale here

Living Literature Walks: The Great Estate Festival
2023-06-03 - 2023-06-04 | The Great Estate Festival, The Secret Gin Garden, Scorrier House, Redruth, TR16 5AW
Will you be in Redruth, Cornwall for The Great Estate Festival? We will – we’re back for another year with our Living Literature Walks – find us in the Secret Gin Garden on the 3rd and 4th June!
Join us to explore the most rambunctious garden fête! This walk will take you on an exciting journey around the Secret Gin Garden to discover female botanists and explorers.
Find performative pioneers and seeds of information planted amongst the trees.
As well as evergreen plays, music and poetry, we will also shed light on some budding shoots!
Cast:
Rebecca Mordan
Sue Hill
Vanessa Pini
Indira Falle

Common Ground: Craftivism & Memory Share
2023-06-08 15:00 - 18:00 | Penlee Park Theatre, Morrab Road, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 4HE
40 years on from the iconic Greenham actions of Embrace the Base, Carry Greenham Home and women dancing on the silos at the nuclear air base, we are excited to host social archivers Greenham Women Everywhere in an afternoon of print-making, radical bunting, information sharing, memory recording and song!
The session will begin with a chat about the impact of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp from local Greenham Women and Greenham Child Rebecca Mordan.

We will then enjoy craftivsim with Caroline Wilkins and cake as we create a space for the change we want to see in the world!

Entry is £5 – book your place here

Common Ground: Greenham on Film
2023-06-08 20:00 - 22:00 | Penlee Park Theatre, Morrab Road, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 4HE
Photograph by Raissa Page. Copyright: Adrianne Jones – courtesy of The Richard Burton Archives, Swansea University. Not to be used without permission
Join us for a double feature combining classic and contemporary takes on the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp.
In an evening of cutting edge documentary making, we bring you Women Against the Bomb, a prize-winning look at the impact of the Greenham Women, reflected through interviews and footage from women who took action and never looked back. Then we’ll go back to early days of the camp with Beeban Kidron and Amanda Richardson’s fly-on-the-wall masterpiece shot in the year they lived at Greenham – Carry Greenham Home.
Linked by guest speakers who feature in the films and artists from Scary Little Girls and Greenham Women Everywhere, this evening will be a chance to see the Greenham movement in all its glory, grim, grit and enduring grandeur.
Adult £10
Concs £8
Child £5
Family £26

Glastonbury goers - get a load of our Pockets of Power!
2023-06-21 - 2023-06-25 | Glastonbury Festival, United Kingdom
We are delighted to be taking a brand new show to Glastonbury this year, celebrating pockets! Will you be there? Come and see us!
Pockets of Power! is an original concept from the minds of our very own Artistic Director Rebecca Mordan (who, dontcherknow, has also featured in the BBC Writers Room and is the Glastonbury Circus Big Top Compère) our fabulous friend Dr Naomi Paxton (The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker, and aka award-winning cabaret act and member of The Magic Circle, Ada Campe) and is in collaboration with Dr Kat Jungnickel (Goldsmith Uni and author of Bikes and Bloomers)
Together, these flamboyant miscreants will present comedy, song, sketches and audience games to show how women radically reinvented the worlds of fashion and design to solve problems, smash stereotypes and have adventures!
This interactive rampage through the history of the pocket draws on research from the Politics of Patents project at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and will feature:

costumes made from original patents and adapted for festival fabulousness in glitter and neon by Dr Jungnickel’s team, including a Victorian lunchbox and muff combination, a personal Edwardian life-saving device for long sea voyages (with hidden sandwich), and a vast array of secret compartments in everything from bags and bustles to hats and hooped skirts!
six live performers, embodying the characters who came up with and used these fabric inventions, such as Milly the Shop-Lifter, Lea the Land-Girl and Sal the Sports-Woman
live music, some specially commissioned for the project and some from pop culture, from music hall to the swinging 60’s
bespoke magic tricks
a specially commissioned puppet designed by Velma von Bon Bon
games, gifts and dressing up for audiences as they take part in activities and sections, such as Paper Doll Finger races and the Pockets vs Hands Ultimate Challenge!

Our cast includes friends of Team Scary old and new: Sarah Annakin, Don One, Koko Brown, Nadia Shash, Velma von Bon Bon and Dr Naomi Paxton
This is a Scary Little Girls Production created with Naomi Paxton, commissioned by Glastonbury Festival and Goldsmiths Uni, the first time we’ve been commissioned by either of these bodies.
Look for us in the festival programme!
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EDIT – our event is now on the Glastopedia page for the stage we’re performing on – A Little More Sensation

Chatty Cakey Tea Party - Saltash
2023-07-21 10:00 - 13:00 | Saltash Library and Information Service, Callington Road, Saltash, PL12 6DX, United Kingdom
Come and tell us your favourite Cornish stories, myths and legends–true or otherwise!
Jenny Beare, Bec Applebee and Shazz Andrew are the story gatherers and would love to hear your Cornish tales as we begin our project to create a legacy of our collective community storytelling heritage, from which we’ll create a new archive of Cornish Folklore, a new play and a digital map to keep these stories alive.
Come to our free tea party to learn more about the project and tell us your stories.
We’ll be hosting tea parties at several venues across Cornwall until 25th August – see them all here.
The Cornish Storylines project has received £296,200 from the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and is part of a £4.4m investment in a cultural events and talent programme across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

Common Ground: Exhibition and Film Screening
2023-07-24 16:00 - 20:30 | RISC, 35-39 London Street, Reading, RG1 4PS, United Kingdom
Scary Little Girls and RISC join forces to bring you a unique opportunity to discover the work of Judith Baron in this exhibition of her photographic works from her time at Greenham Common and Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camps.
4.30 – 6.30: Judith Baron Exhibition Private View – photographs from Greenham and Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camps.
6.30pm: Talks from photographer Judith Baron and Greenham Women
7.30pm – 8.30pm Film screening of Women Against the Bomb, Sonia Gonzalez’s prize-winning documentary about the impact of the Greenham Women, reflected through interviews and footage from women who took action and never looked back.

Common Ground: Craftivism Coffee Morning
2023-07-25 10:00 - 13:00 | RISC, 35-39 London Street, Reading, RG1 4PS, United Kingdom
Scary Little Girls and RISC join forces to bring you a unique opportunity to discover the work of Judith Baron in this exhibition of her photographic works from her time at Greenham Common and Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camps.
Join us from 10am-1pm for a relaxed craftivism session where we’ll be exploring messages of hope for the future. Whilst crafting, Greenham Child Rebecca Mordan will be sharing her memories of Greenham and chatting to you about yours.
All materials provided.
About Common Ground
Common Ground is a series of events bringing the legacy of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp to local communities across the UK. It is part of a project created by Scary Little Girls in collaboration with Greenham Women Everywhere CIC to map the impact of the Peace Camp on the women who inhabited it and the communities they returned to. This project has been made possible thanks to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
About Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp
Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was an enduring and iconic protest spanning 19 years from 1981 – 2000. Whilst the occupation of the common began with the aim of forcing out the US nuclear warheads from Berkshire, the protest became a focal point of feminist history and has left a legacy of women’s liberation around the world. You can view our archive of oral histories, photographs and ephemera from Greenham here.
Inclusion and Accessibility
Common Ground strives to be an inclusive and welcoming space which celebrates diversity in all its forms. Our approach is to learn from and value each other’s lived experience.
This venue is wheelchair accessible.
If you have any access needs you’d like to speak to us about please email us.

Chatty Cakey Tea Party - Bugle
2023-07-25 10:00 - 13:00 | Bugle Village Hal, New St, Bugle, Saint Austell, PL26 8PG, United Kingdom
Come and tell us your favourite Cornish stories, myths and legends–true or otherwise!
Tell us about your favourite Cornish places, anecdotes, legends and local characters. Talk to our story-gatherers as they create a legacy of our communities, their storytelling and heritage. We’ll work with archivers of Cornish Folklore, create a new play and a digital response to keep these experiences and voices alive.
Come to our free tea party to learn more about the project and tell us your stories.
We’ll be hosting tea parties at several venues across Cornwall until 25th August – see them all here.
The Cornish Storylines project has received £296,200 from the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and is part of a £4.4m investment in a cultural events and talent programme across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

Common Ground: Memory Share and Film Screening
2023-07-26 17:45 - 20:00 | The Ultimate Picture Palace, Jeune St, Cowley Rd, Oxford, OX4 1BN, United Kingdom
We’re bringing the inspirational story of the first all-female peace camp of Greenham Common, told from the inside by the women who were there to The Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford.
Women Against the Bomb is Sonia Gonzalez’s prize-winning documentary about the impact of the Greenham Women, reflected through interviews and footage from women who took action and never looked back.
Join us for a film screening followed by a Q&A with Greenham child and author of ‘Out of the Darkness’ Rebecca Mordan as well as other Greenham Women who will discuss their first hand experiences of Greenham Common.
Hear songs from the camp come to life and enjoy the opportunity to hear from Greenham Women in our live Q&A.
Book tickets here
17:45 Doors
18:15 Film starts
19:15 Q&A
20:00 Ends
About Common Ground
Common Ground is a series of events bringing the legacy of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp to local communities across the UK. It is part of a project created by Scary Little Girls in collaboration with Greenham Women Everywhere CIC to map the impact of the Peace Camp on the women who inhabited it and the communities they returned to. This project has been made possible thanks to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
About Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp
Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was an enduring and iconic protest spanning 19 years from 1981 – 2000. Whilst the occupation of the common began with the aim of forcing out the US nuclear warheads from Berkshire, the protest became a focal point of feminist history and has left a legacy of women’s liberation around the world. You can view our archive of oral histories, photographs and ephemera from Greenham here.
Inclusion and Accessibility
Common Ground strives to be an inclusive and welcoming space which celebrates diversity in all its forms. Our approach is to learn from and value each other’s lived experience.
If you have any access needs you’d like to speak to us about please email us.

Common Ground Event Day
2023-07-28 10:00 - 16:00 | The Mill Arts Centre, Spiceball Park Road, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX16 5QE, United Kingdom
Join us for a day of Craftivism, Memory Sharing and talks hosted by Greenham Women Everywhere and Scary Little Girls to find out more about the Greenham Common Peace Camps!
Drop in to the Millers Bar at The Mill Arts Centre to discover an action packed day of events.
10am-1pm Craftivism workshop – Join us for a relaxed craftivism session
Whilst crafting, Greenham Child Rebecca Mordan will be sharing her memories of Greenham and chatting to you about yours.
All materials provided.
10am-4pm Pop Up Exhibition – Hang out in our bender tent listening to a soundscape of stories from the peace camp and interviews with Greenham Women. Our oral history team will be there to record your memories of Greenham so that you can become part of our growing archive.
2pm-4pm Panel Chat and Book Talk – Greenham child and author Rebecca Mordan will introduce her book ‘Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices 1981 – 2000’ sharing the impact her early experiences of the camp have had on her life.
We’ll also have the opportunity to hear from other Greenham Women who share their experiences of the Greenham Common Peace Camp.
About Common Ground
Common Ground is a series of events bringing the legacy of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp to local communities across the UK. It is part of a project created by Scary Little Girls in collaboration with Greenham Women Everywhere CIC to map the impact of the Peace Camp on the women who inhabited it and the communities they returned to. This project has been made possible thanks to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
About Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp
Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was an enduring and iconic protest spanning 19 years from 1981 – 2000. Whilst the occupation of the common began with the aim of forcing out the US nuclear warheads from Berkshire, the protest became a focal point of feminist history and has left a legacy of women’s liberation around the world. You can view our archive of oral histories, photographs and ephemera from Greenham here.
Inclusion and Accessibility
Common Ground strives to be an inclusive and welcoming space which celebrates diversity in all its forms. Our approach is to learn from and value each other’s lived experience.
If you have any access needs you’d like to speak to us about please email us.

Book talk with Woodstock Books
2023-07-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Woodstock Town Hall, Town Hall, Market Pl, Woodstock, OX20 1SL, United Kingdom
Join us at Woodstock Town Hall for a talk with Rebecca Mordan about her book, Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices 1981 – 2000.

Our own Artistic Director Rebecca will read, tell stories and sing you some songs from the Greenham Song Book and together with Greenham Women who contributed their stories, she will answer all your burning Greenham questions – go on ask them, we dare you!

Grab your tickets here!

Common Ground: Activities Day
2023-07-30 11:00 - 17:00 | The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone St, New Basford, Nottingham, NG7 6HX, United Kingdom
Scary Little Girls and the Sumac Centre join forces to bring you a pop-up exhibition and activities day celebrating Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp.
We’ll have lots of family friendly activities for you to join in with including

Vegan Brunch
Craftivism
Memory sharing
Pop-up Exhibits

All activities FREE!
Vegan Brunch served by Veggies 11-2pm, more info here!
Talks from 2pm – 4pm
About Common Ground
Common Ground is a series of events bringing the legacy of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp to local communities across the UK. It is part of a project created by Scary Little Girls in collaboration with Greenham Women Everywhere CIC to map the impact of the Peace Camp on the women who inhabited it and the communities they returned to. This project has been made possible thanks to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
About Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp
Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was an enduring and iconic protest spanning 19 years from 1981 – 2000. Whilst the occupation of the common began with the aim of forcing out the US nuclear warheads from Berkshire, the protest became a focal point of feminist history and has left a legacy of women’s liberation around the world. You can view our archive of oral histories, photographs and ephemera from Greenham here.
Inclusion and Accessibility
Common Ground strives to be an inclusive and welcoming space which celebrates diversity in all its forms. Our approach is to learn from and value each other’s lived experience.
This venue is wheelchair accessible.
If you have any access needs you’d like to speak to us about please email us.

Common Ground: Family Activities Day
2023-07-31 13:00 - 16:00 | Central Library, High Street, West Bromwich, B70 8DZ, United Kingdom
Scary Little Girls and Sandwell Central Library join forces to bring you a pop-up exhibition and activities day celebrating Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp.
We’ll have lots of family friendly activities for you to join in with including:

Craftivism
Sing-along session
Memory sharing
Pop-up Exhibits

All activities FREE!
In the Children’s Library at Sandwell Central Library
About Common Ground
Common Ground is a series of events bringing the legacy of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp to local communities across the UK. It is part of a project created by Scary Little Girls in collaboration with Greenham Women Everywhere CIC to map the impact of the Peace Camp on the women who inhabited it and the communities they returned to. This project has been made possible thanks to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
About Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp
Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was an enduring and iconic protest spanning 19 years from 1981 – 2000. Whilst the occupation of the common began with the aim of forcing out the US nuclear warheads from Berkshire, the protest became a focal point of feminist history and has left a legacy of women’s liberation around the world. You can view our archive of oral histories, photographs and ephemera from Greenham here.
Inclusion and Accessibility
Common Ground strives to be an inclusive and welcoming space which celebrates diversity in all its forms. Our approach is to learn from and value each other’s lived experience.
This venue is wheelchair accessible.
If you have any access needs you’d like to speak to us about please email us.

Common Ground: Book Talk and Film Screening
2023-07-31 18:00 - 20:30 | Thimblemill Library, Thimblemill Rd, Smethwick, B67 5RJ, United Kingdom
Join us at Thimblemill Library for an evening hearing all about life at the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp. Hear songs and stories that bring the camp to life as we reflect on the impact of the camp 40 years on.
Greenham child and author Rebecca Mordan will introduce her book ‘Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices 1981 – 2000’ sharing the impact her early experiences of the camp have had on her life. There will be chance for you to ask any questions during a Greenham Q&A.
Following this there will be a screening of Carry Greenham Home as we transport you back to the early days of Greenham with Beeban Kidron and Amanda Richardson’s fly-on-the-wall masterpiece was shot whilst they lived at Greenham in 1982-83.
About Common Ground
Common Ground is a series of events bringing the legacy of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp to local communities across the UK. It is part of a project created by Scary Little Girls in collaboration with Greenham Women Everywhere CIC to map the impact of the Peace Camp on the women who inhabited it and the communities they returned to. This project has been made possible thanks to support from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
About Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp
Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was an enduring and iconic protest spanning 19 years from 1981 – 2000. Whilst the occupation of the common began with the aim of forcing out the US nuclear warheads from Berkshire, the protest became a focal point of feminist history and has left a legacy of women’s liberation around the world. You can view our archive of oral histories, photographs and ephemera from Greenham here.
Inclusion and Accessibility
Common Ground strives to be an inclusive and welcoming space which celebrates diversity in all its forms. Our approach is to learn from and value each other’s lived experience.
This venue is wheelchair accessible.
If you have any access needs you’d like to speak to us about please email us.

Chatty Cakey Tea Party - Grampound
2023-08-04 10:00 - 13:00 | Grampound, Grampound, Truro, TR2 4SB, United Kingdom

Chatty Cakey Tea Party - Liskeard
2023-08-11 10:00 - 13:00 | The Liskerrett Community Centre, Varley Lane, Liskeard, PL14 4AP, United Kingdom

Greenham Women's Peace camp Exhibition : Green Man Festival
2023-08-18 08:00 - 2023-08-20 17:00 | Green Man Festival, Einstein’s Garden, Glanusk Park,, Crickhowell, NP8 1LP, United Kingdom
Are you heading to the Green Man Festival this summer? We are! We’ll be in Einstein’s Garden with our Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp exhibition from the 18th to 20th August – join us!
The Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp was an enduring and iconic protest spanning 19 years from 1981 – 2000. Whilst the occupation of the common began with the aim of forcing out the US nuclear warheads from Berkshire, the protest became a focal point of feminist history and has left a legacy of women’s liberation around the world.
Join this immersive installation to weave webs, build a bender, make a banner or peace dove, create music and sing songs. Join in discussions about climate change, feminism, nuclear weapons and the necessity for and challenges facing activism today.
Our oral history team will also be there to record your memories of Greenham so that you can become part of our growing archive.
Contributors:
Rebecca Mordan
Rebecca is the creator of award-winning feminist production hub Scary Little Girls and spent several years of her childhood visiting Greenham. She recently co-wrote and presented The Greenham Effect for the BBC’s Archive on Four, drawing on the 200 plus testimonials she helped gather from Greenham Women as part of the Greenham Women Everywhere project she co-founded. This also led to the publication of her first book, Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices drawing on these interviews. Join her to chat about your memories of Greenham and hear hers.
Sue Say
Sue Say lived at Greenham for 2 years. On her first evening there, she heard a woman talking to a soldier on the other side of the fence. It was that powerful conversation that kept her at the camp, protesting nuclear missiles but also exploring the multitudes of different ways to be a woman by meeting and talking to “many shades of women”. Sue went to prison many times, took the government to court for illegal strip-searches and won, changing the law in the process. At Green Man, she will be talking about her soon to be published book and inviting you to join her in making friendship bracelets.
Carolyn Francis
Carolyn lived at Greenham in a hollowed-out holly tree from Summer 1984. She became a Buddhist at Greenham and the personal impact of her time there changed the course of her life.
Carolyn is a well known for her research, composition, performance and teaching of Cumbrian fiddle and border bagpipe tunes. She is currently focussing on expressing the relationship between traditional music, place and landscape, and reaching new audiences in order to expand the community playing, enjoying and participating in this music.
Pearl Love
Alongside song writing and performing, Pearl is a workshop facilitator, harmony sharer and choir leader. Pearl grew up around group singing and has always felt the power of singing with others and the community it can create. It is her belief that everyone should have access to the uplifting joy and sense of connection that singing in harmony can bring. Pearl teaches harmony songs and rounds, from a range of traditions, in a friendly and lightly humorous way. Each song is taught by ear, so no experience is needed, and every voice is welcome!
You can also catch Pearl leading Mindful Music workshops in the Little Folk Field this weekend.
Pixie Taylor
Pixie went to Greenham when she was 18, living at Green Gate from 1985-86 and returning to live at Blue Gate from 1991-1994. She has been a Forest School leader since 2002 and feels passionately that is vital for us to enable and encourage children today to connect with the natural environment. Pixie will be teaching people how to build their own Greenham-style camp, using natural materials and simple techniques.
Jill ‘Ray’ Raymond
Ray lived at Greenham for around 12 years and she was part of a core group who stayed and took part in actions such as the famous protest when they danced on the silos on New Years Eve and cut through miles of fencing.
Drop-in for some craftivism with Ray who will be running practical web weaving sessions and sharing the history of Web Weaving as feminist protest.
And more TBC. Free to festival ticket holders.

Chatty Cakey Tea Party - Launceston
2023-08-18 10:00 - 13:00 | The Orchard Centre, Blind Hole, Market St, Launceston, PL15 8AU, United Kingdom
Come and tell us your favourite Cornish stories, myths and legends–true or otherwise!
Tell us about your favourite Cornish places, anecdotes, legends and local characters. Talk to our story-gatherers as they create a legacy of our communities, their storytelling and heritage. We’ll work with archivers of Cornish Folklore, create a new play and a digital response to keep these experiences and voices alive.
Come to our free tea party to learn more about the project and tell us your stories.
We’ll be hosting tea parties at several venues across Cornwall until 25th August – see them all here.
This project is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. Cornwall Council has been chosen by Government as a Lead Authority for the fund and is responsible for monitoring the progress of projects funded through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

Chatty Cakey Tea Party - Redruth
2023-08-19 10:00 - 13:00 | Kresen Kernow, Little Vauxhall, Redruth, TR15 1AS, United Kingdom

Chatty Cakey Tea Party - Wadebridge
2023-08-21 10:00 - 13:00 | John Betjeman Centre, Southern Way, Wadebridge, PL27 7BX, United Kingdom

Common Ground: Memory Share & Film Screening
2023-08-21 19:00 - 21:00 | The Melville Centre, The Melville Centre, Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, NP7 5UD, United Kingdom
We’re bringing the inspirational story of the first all-female peace camp of Greenham Common, told from the inside by the women who were there to The Melville Centre
In an evening of cutting edge documentary making, we bring you Women Against the Bomb, Sonia Gonzalez’s prize-winning look at the impact of the Greenham Women, reflected through interviews and footage from women who took action and never looked back.
Framed by guest speakers who feature in the film and artists from Scary Little Girls and Greenham Women Everywhere, this evening will be a chance to see the Greenham movement in all its glory, grim, grit and enduring grandeur.

Chatty Cakey Tea Party - Padstow
2023-08-22 10:00 - 13:00 | Little Theatre, Barry's Ln, Padstow, PL28 8AU, United Kingdom

Common Ground: Craftivism & Memory Share
2023-08-23 14:00 - 16:00 | Riverside Cafe, Newcastle Emlyn, SA38 9AD, United Kingdom
Drop in to the Riverside Cafe for a relaxed session sharing memories and stories from Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp.
We will be joined by local Greenham Women, Greenham Child Rebecca Mordan and will be running a craftivism session making badges and radical bunting.
Come along and have a brew and some cake on us!
