Scary Little Girls

Salon de la Vie and LAUNCH of Greenham Women Digital!
2020-11-25 19:30 - 20:00 (Europe/London) | Scary Little Girls YouTube Channel
Join us for an eggs to the wall feminist special on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (IDEVAW) and help us launch our groundbreaking online exhibition, Greenham Women Digital!
Host Rebecca Mordan will be chatting about the new site that brings together first-hand accounts of life at the iconic Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp with a 3D treasure hunt of original performances pieces by and about the Greenham Women.
To support this and to honour the IDEVAW, we’ve chosen material for Rebecca to perform from some of our favourite Scaries such as writer Lorna Partington, Greenham Woman Sue Say and folk legend Peggy Seeger.
This salon will go from the sublime to the ridiculous and we’d love to take you with us as we celebrate the invention, fortitude and attitude of women in their fight against violence and patriarchy – for liberty, sisters!
Book your FREE tickets here

Embrace the Base: Living Legacies of Greenham Women
2020-11-18 18:30 - 20:30 | Online
What was life like at the Greenham Common Peace Camp between 1981 and 2000?
Tune in to this very special interactive performance event at the brilliant Being Human Festival of Humanities where we’ll be talking activism, direct action, and protest, and sharing the oral histories of Greenham Women through songs, games, and virtual reality.

This is organised by The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London

Tickets are FREE – read more and book yours here

Hallowe'en Special - Salon de la Vie!
2020-10-31 19:30 - 20:00 | online
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? ? Celebrate Hallowe’en with us at 7.30 on October 31st ? ?
This Hallowe’en we bring our signature Scary Little Girls approach to all thing spooky!
Join us to celebrate our classic seasonal storytelling as well as some original commissions we’ve created over the years for a take on All Hallows Eve that is wild, witty, wily and womancentric!
With stories from Kate Kerrow and L. H. Trevail and a new interpretation of work by Christina Rossetti by Christina Li, we’re breaking out the bats, lining up the cats, and getting ready for a delicious Scary Little evening!
And why not line up the classic 90’s movie Hocus Pocus or Hollywood classic Arsenic and Old Lace for afterwards?
About Salon de la Vie
Hosted by Scary Little Girls’ Rebecca Mordan, Salon de la Vie is a series of fortnightly 15 – 20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others.
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England for supporting this project and the WONDERFUL Jacky Fleming for her amazing illustrations used on this, and every, Salon de la Vie.
About Scary Little Girls
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.

Salon de la Vie - Season Two - Maya Angelou
2020-09-30 19:30 - 19:50 | Isles of Scilly
For your diary – Salon de la Vie explores the life of Maya Angelou on the 30th September! Join us online at 19.30
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Phenomenal Woman
What better way to end the season than on Maya Angelou – poet, performer, activist and wordwitch! With special guest Kudzanayi Chiwawa we look at Maya’s childhood, her revolutionary writing and her influence on women everywhere.
We can’t wait to celebrate this multifaceted powerhouse of talent with you, sharing readings of her poems and autobiography and praising her like we should!
Did you know?
In 2011 Maya spoke out in opposition to a paraphrase of a quotation by King that appeared on a memorial, saying, “The quote makes Dr. Martin Luther King look like an arrogant twit”
Maya totally redefined the concept of the autobiography, with her 7 volumes about her life starting with “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”
Follow this link for one of the most seemingly unlike collaborations of all time; Maya Angelou, Jessica Mitford and Bernard Cribbins!

About Salon de la Vie
Hosted by Scary Little Girls’ Rebecca Mordan, Salon de la Vie is a series of fortnightly 15 – 20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. And we’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England for supporting this project
About Scary Little Girls
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.

In the Footsteps of the Mitfords
2020-09-23 - 2020-09-27 | Asthall Manor, Asthall, Burford, Oxfordshire, OX18 4HW
***NEW DATES ADDED DUE TO FABULOUS DEMAND! BOOK NOW FOR 23-27 SEPTEMBER!***
The Mitford sisters were writers, travellers and political archivists with dramatically differing views. Following their previous sell-out successes, In The Footsteps Of The Mitfords returns in partnership with The Theatre Chipping Norton, bringing the experiences, opinions and relationships of the celebrated sisters to life through live performances of their letters, fiction, and memoirs. The performances take place in the stunning setting of the gardens of their childhood home, Asthall Manor, near Burford in Oxfordshire.
We have made changes to the performance to conform to current social distancing measures, including smaller groups, spaced performance times and locations that accommodate social distance between audience members and performers.
Booking is now open

The Greenham Women Everywhere Night Around The Campfire
2020-09-19 19:30 - 22:30 | Isles of Scilly
Join us for a window into the world of Greenham, from women who were there, and female artists who have been inspired by the camp!
This exclusive evening will celebrate and commemorate the Greenham Women’s Peace Camp with contributions from women who were there!

You’ll also get a sneak preview of the look and feel of our amazing Arts Council funded project bringing an interactive exhibition about the Camp to life online, ahead of the launch later in the autumn.

An evening of two halves, we’ll treat you to ‘in conversation’ chats – including one between Nina Milns and Sue Say who will be discussing police, courts, prison and race at Greenham – performances of ‘Take The Toys From The Boys’ and parts of Carry Greenham Home, plus memories of the camp, extracts from Stephanie Davies’ memoir, ‘Other Girls Like Me‘, and a preview of Chisato Minamimura ‘Scored in Silence‘ solo digital artwork work that unpacks the untold tales of deaf hibakusha, survivors of the A-Bombs that fell in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Add music from Claire Ingleheart and Sharon Andrew and you’ll see why we are excited!
In true Greenham spirit, we’ll end with a singalong – will you join us? We do hope so!
Get your £5 tickets over on Eventbrite – see you online on the 19th!

Salon de la Vie - Season Two - Lena Horne
2020-09-16 19:30 - 19:50 | Isles of Scilly
For your diary – Salon de la Vie explores the life of Lena Horne on the 16th September! Join us online at 19.30
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The Lady and her Music
Roll up, roll up, for a whistle-stop tour of the times, career and cabaret of Lena Horne!
In her 70 years in show business, Lena was a singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist as at home with Paul Robeson as Ava Gardner.
We’ll look at the Hollywood culture she found herself in, how she dealt with the threat of the blacklist and her later life comeback to huge and devoted fans as a star of Broadway.
Did you know?
After quitting the USO in 1945 because of the organisation’s policy of segregating audiences, Horne financed tours of military camps herself to play to integrated crowds of servicemen
Lena was only 16 when she started her career in the Cotton Club as a dancer before taking herself off to Hollywood
In her autobiography Lena writes ‘You have to be taught your second class; you’re not born that way.’

About Salon de la Vie
Hosted by Scary Little Girls’ Rebecca Mordan, Salon de la Vie is a series of fortnightly 15 – 20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. And we’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England for supporting this project
About Scary Little Girls
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.

Salon de la Vie - Season Two - Zora Neale Hurston
2020-09-02 19:30 - 19:50 | Isles of Scilly
For your diary – Salon de la Vie explores the life of Zore Neale Hurston on the 2nd September! Join us online at 19.30
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‘A Genius of the South’
So said Alice Walker of one of Harlem’s most beloved and controversial sisters, Zora Neale Hurston – and we can’t wait to celebrate her with you! This Salon will explore her life, the music of the scene she was at the centre of and of course her wild and witty writing. We’ll see through her eyes, and the performance of guest star Kudzanayi Chiwawa, the life, loves and folk-law of the people she grew up with and start to understand her impact on culture then and now.
Did you know?
Zora interviewed Cudjoe Kazzola Lewis, of Africatown, Alabama, who was the last known survivor of the enslaved Africans carried aboard Clotilda, an illegal slave ship that had entered the US in 1860, and thus the last known person to have been transported in the Transatlantic slave trade.
Author Alice Walker sought to identify Hurston’s unmarked grave in 1973. She installed a grave marker inscribed with “A Genius of the South.”
Zora collected black folklore from all over the Deep South, including rhymes like
‘Went down to the river,
Heard a mighty racket,
Nothing but the bull frog
Pullin’ off his jacket!’
About Salon de la Vie
Hosted by Scary Little Girls’ Rebecca Mordan, Salon de la Vie is a series of fortnightly 15 – 20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. And we’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England for supporting this project
About Scary Little Girls
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.

Salon de la Vie - Season Two - Nina Simone
2020-08-19 19:30 - 19:50 | Isles of Scilly
For your diary – Salon de la Vie explores the life of Nina Simone on the 19th August! Join us online at 19.30
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The Late Great Nina Simone
Join us to pay homage to singer, musician and civil rights campaigner Nina Simone. Through her life and music and the writings of icons such as Arundhati Roy we’ll discover the cultural challenges Nina faced, both of sex and race, and glory in her talent, attitude and achievements.
Did you know? – When Nina was introduced to Martin Luther King her friend said she stuck her hand out and warned him, “I’m not nonviolent!” King replied, gently, “Not to worry, sister.”
Nina once wrote to herself “I can’t be white and I’m the kind of colored girl who looks like everything white people despise or have been taught to despise. If I were a boy, it wouldn’t matter so much, but I’m a girl and in front of the public all the time wide open for them to jeer and approve of or disapprove of.”
Nina’s song ‘To Be Young, Gifted and Black” was recorded in memory of her friend Lorraine Hansberry, the first African American female author to have a play performed on Broadway.
About Salon de la Vie
Hosted by Scary Little Girls’ Rebecca Mordan, Salon de la Vie is a series of fortnightly 15 – 20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. And we’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England for supporting this project
About Scary Little Girls
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.

Salon de la Vie - Season Two - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2020-08-05 19:30 - 19:50 | online
For your diary – Salon de la Vie explores the life of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the 5th August! Join us online at 19.30
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No More Single Story!
In this Salon we look at the power of story to break the dignity of a people, or repair that broken dignity to paraphrase the fabulous Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. We’ll explore how authors from different countries have written about colonisation, its hold on narratives to control minds – and see what happens when characters escape their confines! And we’ll be exploring stories *about* stories too.
Did you know? – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was obsessed with trying ginger beer as a little girl reading English children’s books?!
Or that when Carly Simon wrote You’re So Vain not one but at least three of her famous ex boyfriends tried to claim the song was about them!
Sawing a woman in half has been a popular magic trick since the 1920’s, but it was magician Dorothy Dietrich, who established herself as a leading magician as a teenager in the 1980’s. She has been called the “First woman to saw a man in half.”
Watch the Salon

About Salon de la Vie
Hosted by Scary Little Girls’ Rebecca Mordan, Salon de la Vie is a series of fortnightly 15 – 20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. And we’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England for supporting this project
About Scary Little Girls
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.

Salon de la Vie - Season Two - Billie Holiday
2020-07-22 19:30 - 19:50 | Scary Little Girls YouTube Channel
Salon de la Vie presents…. Billie Holiday!
Join us on YouTube from 7.30 pm on the 22nd July
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Loved then and now for her evocative singing and her skills in improvisation, Billie Holliday changed the jazz scene forever.
Billie tried to break into show business initially as a dancer and after one failed audition the pianist took pity on her and asked her if she could sing; Billie immediately bust out tunes by her favourite Bessie Smith and was hired as a singer forthwith!
Her career blossomed. As well as being ‘Lady Day’ the performer, Billie was a gifted songwriter and a brave voice of the civil rights movement – she made the song ‘Strange Fruit’ famous singing it at Cafe Society despite warnings from those around her of possible retaliation against her for promoting the song; it had originally been written as a poem by Jewish school teacher Abel Meeropol.
Billie was also a champion of her beloved gang of dogs! Her large canine family encompassed all shapes and sizes, from a tiny coat-pocket poodle, through a beautiful beagle, chirpy chihuahuas, a gigantic Great Dane and more – but her favourite was a boxer named Mister.
We’re exploring Billie’s life in our opening night of Salon de la Vie Season Two and we’re excited to share that special guest performer Kudznanyi Chiwawa will join salon host Rebecca Mordan to celebrate Billie and her legacy through performances of her work, chats about her life and readings from her contemporaries like Dorothy Parker.
Grab your Manhattan and let’s bring both the glamour and the politics of the Jazz Era to life and raise a glass to our first heroine of season two!
About Salon de la Vie
Hosted by Scary Little Girls’ Rebecca Mordan, Salon de la Vie is a series of fortnightly 15 – 20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. And we’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England for supporting this project
About Scary Little Girls
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.

Salon de la Vie - You Can't Read That!
2020-06-17 19:30 - 19:50 | Facebook Live
What do Radclyffe Hall, DH Lawrence and chocolate have in common?

Pull up a chocolate brownie (we love this Vegan Society recipe), pull down the blinds and let’s talk banned books – tell us, what’s your favourite? Why was it banned? Is it still?

Message us and then join the conversation and cabaret on June 17th from 7.30 on Facebook Live for readings from two of the most controversial banned books ever to hit the UK courts, to hear about the love that dare not speak its name and the woman who risked her career to write about it in this weeks salon and to find out what Janelle Monae, Rachel Bloom and DH Lawrence have in common!

Salon de la Vie is Scary Little Girls’ contribution to fun and feminism in a time of COVID-19!
Our fortnightly 15 -20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focus each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave woman from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. We’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England, Cornwall Council and Feast for supporting this project

Salon de la Vie - Suffrage on Stage
2020-06-03 19:30 - 19:50 | Facebook Live
It’s 1908. Over dinner at a table at the Criterion Restaurant in London, two actresses hatch a plan…
No longer content with ‘adding to the gaiety of the nation while suffering from great wrongs arising out of sex disability’, the time had come for change… The Actresses Franchise League was born and soon boasted such names as Ellen Terry, Cicely Hamilton, Edith Craig, JM Barrie and George Bernard Shaw amongst its supporters. These suffragette sisters used the tricks of the trade to help win the vote!
At our Salon celebrating them, our host will regale you with songs and script from their campaigns. Join in and speak your mind in a singalong with your sisters, and use our songsheet above to join in on the night! Huge thanks to the supremely talented Claire Ingleheart for this recording of ‘Let Us All Speak Our Minds’ to help you learn the tune!
https://scarylittlegirls.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Let-Us-All-Speak-Our-Minds-2-verses-1.mp3
Salon de la Vie is Scary Little Girls’ contribution to fun and feminism in a time of COVID-19!
Our fortnightly 15 -20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focus each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave woman from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. We’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England, Cornwall Council and Feast for supporting this project

Salon de la Vie - from Freya to Fairy Tale
2020-05-20 19:30 - 19:50 | Facebook Live
When did women become so passive in stories?
Ancient tales and sagas feature active, dynamic women, as powerful and creative as the men. More modern tales have relegated women to more passive roles – helpmeets, companions, and devices to move the story along.
In our Salon on the 20th May, we’ll be exploring this trend – when and how did it happen? Where did some of our modern characters come from, and what’s their origin story? Did you know that ‘Anonymous’ was usually a woman’? That Snow White started out as the Nordic Goddess Freya? And have you heard how Cornish fairytale heroine Duffy beat the Devil?
We’d love to hear from you in advance – what’s your favourite feminist fairy (or other? ) tale? Message us!
Join us on Facebook Live from 7.30 on the 20th May for 20 minutes of fabulous feminist fun – mix up an Apple Martini in advance to get in the mood!

Salon de la Vie is Scary Little Girls’ contribution to fun and feminism in a time of COVID-19!
Our fortnightly 15 -20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focus each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave woman from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. We’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England, Cornwall Council and Feast for supporting this project

Salon de la Vie - Yo Her Her and a Bottle of Rum!
2020-05-06 19:30 - 19:50 | Facebook Live
‘What do I lack?’
War correspondent, author, journalist and criminologist, this ‘lady reporter’ was fascinated by those who kill and the criminal justice (or injustice) around them. One of her works, still influential today, divided killers into six categories, based on their purported reasons for killing. Another featured a charismatic pirate, Captain Lovel, captaining the good ship Piskie – but did what the captain lacked reveal something about who they really were…?
This week’s Salonista also…
1. Wrote the ripping yarn Moonraker about piracy, cross dressing and the Haitian Revolution!

2. Was part of the Newlyn School of Cornish Artists

3. At the outbreak of WW1, reported from the front line in Belgium and then Holland and France to send vital info on the state of the Red Cross hospitals there, and the Women’s Army
Oh – and she had a famous uncle. But less about him, find out more about her! Join us for a Pirate Mule and a bite sized chunk of feminist fun on Wednesday 6th May, from 7.30, on Facebook Live! Get in the mood early and message us your favourite female pirate or criminal – Anne Bonny? Sayyida al Hurra? Ching Shih?

Salon de la Vie is Scary Little Girls’ contribution to fun and feminism in a time of COVID-19!
Our fortnightly 15 -20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focus each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave woman from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. We’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England, Cornwall Council and Feast for supporting this project

Salon de la Vie - Happy birthday Mary Wollstonecraft!
2020-04-27 19:30 - 19:50 | Facebook Live
Tonight’s Salon de la Vie is an extra one, and an extra special one!
Today is the 261st anniversary of Mary Wollstonecraft’s birthday and we are celebrating this momentous day by hosting a joyous celebratory Salon.
As well as this, we’ll be exploring the brand new today Wollstonecraft Walks app voiced by our own Rebecca Mordan!

The app allows you to take a walk around the birthplace of feminism, Newington Green, following in the footsteps of the champion of girls education, Mary Wollstonecraft herself, sharing details of her life and times as well as her impact on women, politics and 21st century society and culture. The app contains…

WOLLSTONECRAFT WALK GUIDE: Take a guided audio walk around Newington Green stopping off at significant locations (The Cobblers, Newington Green School, Lady Mildmay pub) and listen to the words of iconic feminist writers whilst hearing about the herstory of Newington Green.

Podcasts – hosted by Marina Garvey Birch and Erica McKoy: speaking to local people about their experience of the walks, readings from Maya Angelou, Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, Michelle Obama BTS convo with Anna Birch (Fragments & Monuments) and Rebecca Mordan (Scary Little Girls).
Fragments & Monuments performance and film archive (2000-2020)
School Assembly resources

There are also Mary themed children’s activities courtesy of Unity Arts and a wonderful anthology curated by Professor Emma Clery with contributions from activists, feminist and academics today celebrating Mary’s legacy available at NGMH.org.uk, nearer the time.

Salon de la Vie - What fresh hell is this?
2020-04-22 19:30 - 19:50 | Online Facebook Live
“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
She was a poet, a writer, a critic, and satirist. She was known for her wit and wisecracks, and the critical eye she cast over for 20th-century urban life. Who was she?
Find out at our next Salon de la Vie, 7.30 pm Wednesday 22nd April on Facebook Live. Feel like you’re in the room by making the cocktail we’ll be drinking (see below for the recipe!).
Salon de la Vie is Scary Little Girls’ contribution to fun and feminism in a time of COVID-19! Our fortnightly 15 -20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focus each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave woman from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. We’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England, Cornwall Council and Feast for supporting this project.

Salon de la Vie - help us develop our new online show!
2020-04-08 19:30 - 20:00 | Online Facebook Live
Join us online on the 8th April 2020 for the first of our celebratory storytelling salons, which we’ve joyfully transformed into an online interactive cabaret to help us all remember how fabulous humans can be!
Hosted by Scary Little Girls’ Rebecca Mordan, Salon de la Vie will be a fortnightly 15 – 20 minute extravaganza of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. And we’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
This first show is a warm up and development show as we test ideas. We’re aiming to bring you bitesize chunks of history, biography and good cheer in a fun, feminist space – will we hit the mark? We’d love you to tell us on Facebook Live!
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!

We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England, Cornwall Council and Feast for supporting this project

Salon du Chocolat (Ramsgate)
2020-03-09 20:00 - 21:45 | The Falstaff, 16-18 Addington Street, Ramsgate, CT11 9JJ, United Kingdom
Join us at the POW Festival for an exciting and illicit storytelling event celebrating the relationship between famed aphrodisiac cocoa and forbidden literature! Expect mouthwatering chocolate treats served alongside secret, banned and scandalous tales from authors such as Lord Byron, John Donne, Angela Carter and Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
Salon du Chocolat has enjoyed sold-out success at the Edinburgh Free Fringe, Oxford Playhouse, the Theatre Chipping Norton, the Cornerstone in Didcot and beyond.
“Such fantastic stories, so fantastically told! I feel like a child again, no film could compete. Definitely a convert”
“Gripping! Brilliantly paced – could not have asked for more.”
“Thank you for a lovely evening.”
“Thank you, the stories were so well read and chosen and the atmosphere was lovely.”
“Delicious and delightful. More of the same please….”
Audience comments from previous Salon du Chocolat events

Leeds Lit Adventure Walk (Leeds)
2020-03-05 - 2020-03-08 | Carriageworks Theatre, 3 Millennium Square, Leeds, LS2 3AD
From the Leeds Lit Fest website…
Award-winning Scary Little Girls Productions bring the streets of Leeds alive with performance, poetry and song in the Leeds Lit Adventure Walk!
In groups of only ten to fifteen of you at a time, you set off on a specially prepared route around the city. You have only each other and the carefully constructed printed guides to show you around – as you progress you will discover secrets you never knew your town was keeping! At intervals throughout the route, performers stationed in the crowds begin their poems and songs as your group draws near, engaging you with the best in Yorkshire writing!
The Living Literature Walks make both city and writing come alive as the route becomes a performative treasure hunt. Join us for this intimate, enchanting and unexpected event and see, hear and experience Leeds as never before!
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Meet in Carriageworks Theatre Ground Floor Foyer for the start of your Leeds Lit Adventure Walk. Dress appropriately for the weather.

Greenham Talk (Bodmin)
2020-03-01 19:30 - 21:00 | The Old Library, 10 Lower Bore Street, Bodmin, PL31 2JX
Greenham Women Everywhere: a talk by Rebecca Mordan
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Based on fresh, original testimonies given by over 100 Greenham Common Women, this talk offers an intimate portrait of the adventures, personalities and dilemmas of the Greenham Women, exploring how Greenham’s legacy has influenced current cultural, and political movements including Repeal The 8th, Extinction Rebellion, the Stansted 15 and the MeToo movement.

Rebecca Mordan, Artistic Director of Scary Little Girls Association and co-ordinator of this unique Heritage Lottery funded project, has led an interview process involving approx 100 Women of Greenham Common peace camp. In this talk she explains the work and shares anecdotes from these extraordinary campaigners, finishing the evening with a Q & A session when Rebecca will be joined by local Greenham Women who have contributed to the Greenham Women Everywhere project.

We need your support: visit our Greenham GoFundMe!

Greenham Talk (Launceston)
2020-02-28 19:30 - 21:00 | Launceston Town Hall, Western Road, Launceston, PL15 7AR

The Last Ever Pea Souk Storytelling Supperclub! (Falmouth)
2020-02-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Pea Souk Cafe, 19c Well Lane, Falmouth, TR11 3EG, United Kingdom
Supper, stories and sepulchres – join us for one final revival of our spooky storytelling club at Pea Souk cafe. Journey into the deliciously dark with us, before it closes forever!
In deference to our host and chef we’ve chosen a vampire theme with work from Lord Byron, LH Trevail, Annie Lennox, EF Benson and more.
Spaces are incredibly limited but we’d love to see you there, so please call Pea Souk on 07866 215 963 for prices and times.

Greenham Exhibition & Events (St Agnes)
2020-02-21 - 2020-02-24 | St Agnes Library, 2 Trelawney Road, St Agnes, TR5 0TP, United Kingdom
We’re delighted to take the Greenham Women Everywhere touring pop-up exhibition to St Agnes Library for a special week of events including a screening of new animations by students at Falmouth Film School (Friday 21 February) and a sing-a-long night with Claire Inglehart (Saturday 22 February). Tickets for these events are available directly from the library.
The exhibition itself is free of charge and showcases some original photographs created by our team, and also archival material, both visual and written, which we have collated during the project. We’ll be playing you soundscapes created by artists we have worked with which give a cross-section of the oral testimonies we have taken, as well as using some of the wonderful Greenham music.
All set in a Greenham-inspired tent, this exhibition really allows you to get an intimate look at the sights and sounds of the camp, gives voice to these radical women and asks you what change you want to see in the world.
Our team has been led in the exhibition design by Rachael Miles, an artist and Senior Lecturer at The University of The West of England.

We need your support: visit our Greenham GoFundMe!

Greenham Talk (Truro)
2019-12-10 18:30 - 20:00 | Truro College, Kenwyn Lecture Theatre, College Road, Truro, TR1 3XX

Greenham Exhibition (Cambridge)
2019-12-07 | Cambridge University – TBC
Between August and December 2019, Greenham Women Everywhere will be taking a pop-up exhibition on tour around the UK.
The exhibition will showcase some original photographs created by our team, and also archival material, both visual and written, which we have collated during the project. We’ll be playing you soundscapes created by artists we have worked with which give a cross-section of the oral testimonies we have taken, as well as using some of the wonderful Greenham music.
There will be a video installation which explores what political concerns and campaigns the Greenham Women are taking on today, and there will even be a chance to meet some of the Greenham Women themselves – many will be hosting the exhibitions with us.
All set in a Greenham-inspired tent, this exhibition really allows you to get an intimate look at the sights and sounds of the camp, gives voice to these radical women and asks you what change you want to see in the world.
Do keep an eye on the exhibition schedule for our panel talks – we’ll be running several. These are wonderful opportunities to hear from a range of Greenham Women and ask your own questions about life on camp, as well as talk directly to the project managers about the project itself.
Our team has been led in the exhibition design by Rachael Miles, an artist and Senior Lecturer at The University of The West of England.

We need your support: visit our Greenham GoFundMe!

Greenham Talk (Winchester)
2019-12-06 19:30 - 21:00 | Winchester Discovery Centre, Jewry Street, Winchester, SO23 8SB

Greenham Exhibition (Goldsmiths, London)
2019-11-11 - 2019-11-13 | Goldsmiths University – Whitehead Building Lobby, 8 Lewisham Way, London, SE14 6NW

Salon du Chocolat (St Agnes)
2019-11-02 19:30 - 21:00 | St Agnes Library, 2 Trelawney Road, St Agnes, TR5 0TP, United Kingdom
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Join us at the St Agnes Library for an exciting and illicit storytelling event celebrating the relationship between famed aphrodisiac cocoa and forbidden literature! Expect mouthwatering chocolate treats served alongside secret, banned and scandalous tales from authors such as Lord Byron, John Donne, Angela Carter and Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
Salon du Chocolat has enjoyed sold-out success at the Edinburgh Free Fringe, Oxford Playhouse, the Theatre Chipping Norton, the Cornerstone in Didcot and beyond.
“Such fantastic stories, so fantastically told! I feel like a child again, no film could compete. Definitely a convert”
“Gripping! Brilliantly paced – could not have asked for more.”
“Thank you for a lovely evening.”
“Thank you, the stories were so well read and chosen and the atmosphere was lovely.”
“Delicious and delightful. More of the same please….”
Audience comments from previous Salon du Chocolat events

Talk: Who are Scary Little Girls? (Penzance)
2019-11-01 19:30 - 21:00 | The Hypatia Trust, The Regent, 54 Chapel Street, Penzance, TR18 4AE
Everything you wanted to know about Scary Little Girls, but were too afraid to ask!
For the first time, SLG has been invited to present a talk about its own history – we’re very honoured and excited about this and can’t wait to entertain the wonderful Hypatia Trust, Penzance on our favourite topic…
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Here’s what Hypatia has to say about the event…
Scary Little Girls is a feminist production hub with a passion for stories that are little known, historically or culturally excluded, or told from one perspective only.
Rebecca Mordan is a hugely talented performer with a wealth of humour, song and stories. and here she delves into the company’s past and current projects: ‘Greenham Women Everywhere’, ‘The Mitford Sister talks’, ‘Salon du Chocolat’, ‘Salon du Cinema’, ‘The Full Bronte’ and pub quiz cabaret ‘It’s Your Round,’ and discusses their relevance to women and their popularity with diverse audiences.
A Cornish and London based company, SLG employs around 100 artists annually, reaches live audiences of 25,000, collaborating with venues from Penzance to Edinburgh, actively creating jobs for women, with skills sharing for the benefit of the artistic and wider community.
