Picture This
2022-11-14 17:00 - 20:00, 2022-11-15 17:00 - 20:00 (Europe/London) | Isles of Scilly
Picture This is a free arts and crafts drop-in workshop aimed at mothers and daughters, but open to all parents and carers. Part of our celebratory week at St Agnes Library, attendees will decorate a beautiful picture frame together and then get a professional photo of themselves to put inside.
In this friendly, welcoming space, artists from Scary Little Girls will support and guide you as you get creative and decorate your own picture frame together. Then, have your portrait taken by our professional photographer to finish it off! Create some quality time together away from day to day pressures and come away with a memory in your mind and your frame that will last forever.
Come along any time from 5pm to 8pm on Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th November.
All ages welcome but all children need to bring at least one adult.
This session is part of the Scary Little Girls 20th Birthday celebrations 2022 and is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.

Storytime
2022-11-16 14:00 - 15:00 | Isles of Scilly
Join us for a special edition Storytime as part of our celebratory week at St Agnes Library!
Storytime is a special edition of the library’s free storytelling session for children – with extra added mayhem including the pig puppet from our pantomime Duffy Beats The Devil!
All ages welcome – children must be accompanied by an adult, thank you.
This session is part of the Scary Little Girls 20th Birthday celebrations 2022 and is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.

Singing Workshop
2022-11-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Isles of Scilly
Join local legend Claire Ingleheart for a special FREE mums and daughters singing workshop as part of our celebratory week at St Agnes Library!
We’ll use song to find our voices, explore and celebrate women in music, and enjoy each other’s company away from the pressures of the outside world for an evening.
We’ll be hosting in our usual way to please expect a warm, friendly and supportive session with songs to amuse, move and inspire!
This is suitable for those aged 12 and up – all children must be accompanied by an adult, please and thank you.
This session is part of the Scary Little Girls 20th Birthday celebrations 2022 and is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.

Salon de la Vie - Mothers & Daughters
2022-11-19 19:30 - 21:00 | Isles of Scilly
Join us for a special one-offf Salon de la Vie live and in person, as part of our celebratory week at St Agnes Library
In this Salon focusing on Mothers and Daughters, we will look at that unique, often complicated, relationship. Old friends Rebecca Mordan and Shazz Andrew – who also used to run Scary Little Girls together – will ruminate on the humour, complexity, tragedy and contradictions of motherhood.
Expect a warm welcome and a drink (of course!) for this evening of songs, stories and chat in an intimate Salon that will be equal parts funny, tender and bewitching.
Tickets are £5 and are available from St Agnes Library in advance or at the door, on the night.
All ages welcome – all children must be accompanied by an adult.
This event is part of the Scary Little Girls 20th Birthday celebrations 2022 and is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund

Aldermaston: Embrace the Base Anniversary
2022-12-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Greenham Common Control Tower, Burys Bank Road, Newbury, Berkshire, RG19 8BZ
Come to Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp: Time to celebrate
The spiders and crows are gathering on the 40th anniversary of Embrace the Base when 30,000 women joined hands in solidarity, protesting against the siting of American nuclear weapons on Greenham Common.

Join the Anarchic Women Embracing Aldermaston at any point during the monthly Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp from Friday 9th to Sunday 11th December 2022 in resistance against UK nuclear weapons at AWE Aldermaston.

Women will be weaving webs, celebrating the spiders and crows and resisting nuclear weapons through co-learning, connection and creativity.

Friday afternoon

Embrace the Tower! The Control Tower, Greenham Common
Combining photos and soundscapes, talks by women who lead or attended the Embrace, performances from Scary Little Girls, mulled wine and a singalong from the Greenham Song book!
Herstorians chatting to people and recording memories.
2pm, Meet, Greet and Memory share – grab your glass of mulled wine and add your photos, fliers or other memories to our Embrace table, and have a chat to the Herstorians hosting it.
2.30pm-3pm, Guest Speakers, readings and songs inspired by Embrace the Base by Scary Little Girls and female artists who were part of the action.
3pm, Embrace the Tower! Head outside where we’ll use hands and wool to embrace the tower and raise a cheer for peace and solidarity!
3.15pm-4pm, Head back inside to warm up with more mulled wine, and enjoy more readings and songs, finishing with time for a Q&A for all your burning Embrace the Base Questions.
Saturday
Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp
Workshop 1 – Making crows, spiders and jar lanterns (for evening Lantern parade) to encircle the base with webs, spiders & crows and expose the web of connections that enable nuclear weapons and AWE Aldermaston to exist (uranium mining, militarism, financial interests, etc.).
Workshop 2 – The Web of Resistance. Weaving the web of resistance to nuclear weapons and nuclear colonialism. What we need to resist, both in terms of personal energy, commitment and resilience, and possible/feasible actions.
Workshop 3 – Visions of a good society. What a world without nuclear weapons would look like.
After dark – Lantern parade
Site-specific performance by local Movement Artists (this will last approx. 20 mins and will also happen at 10am and 1pm)
Crows & Spiders shadow puppet show
Wintry spider & crow party (bring your own crow/spider costume or make one at Camp)
Sunday morning
Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp
10.30am-12pm Workshop – Movement Building: Militarism. Links to the Climate and Nature Crisis

The programme will be updated here on the Facebook event page and is subject to change. All accessibility and travel info is also available on that Facebook page. We are supporting and attending this event along with our sister company Greenham Women Everywhere, but we are not running it so we advise you to check the Facebook Page for the most up to date information.

Aldermaston: Embrace the Base Anniversary
2022-12-10, 2022-12-11 10:30 - 12:00 | Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, Paices Hill, Aldermaston, RG7 4WP

Salon du Cinema: Veronica Lake
2022-12-12 19:30 - 21:00 | Old Bakery Studios, Blewett's Wharf, Malpas Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 1QH, United Kingdom
Presented with C Fylm, the festival kicks off with an evening of film, cabaret, comedy, music and storytelling exploring depictions of witches and celebrating Veronica Lake’s iconic performance in this quirky 1942 screwball comedy.
Hosted by Scary Little Girls Artistic Director Rebecca Mordan, this evening begins with live performances by the Mayven festival’s very own Radical Rep and culminates in a showing of I Married a Witch!
Tickets – £10, £6 cons (we consider anyone who needs to be to be a concession, so please pay at this price if this allows you to come along)
Grab your tickets here!

SLG 20th Anniversary Exhibition
2022-12-13 - 2022-12-15 | Stones Krowji Café, West Park, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 3AJ, United Kingdom
Come along to the wonderful Stones Krowji Cafe where not only can you enjoy delicious coffee and food, but also celebrate our 20th anniversary with us!
There’ll be photos from our archive, props large and small, birthday surprises and lots of ways to delve into our history, hear and see extracts from our shows and find out what it takes to make theatre performances and to keep a theatre company thriving for 20 years.
We’ve also invited some of our favourite Cornish artists to present work with us and are thrilled to be joined by Caroline Wilkins, Jenny Rose, Make-A-Mends and more.
The exhibition will be open from the 13th-20th December at 8:30am-4:30pm. It will be closed on Saturday and Sunday.

Printmaking for Radical Christmas Cards
2022-12-13 14:00 - 16:00 | Art Room Krowji, West Park, Redruth, TR15 3AJ
Make your own Christmas cards!
Join us and printmaker Anne Brierley in the Art Room, Krowji from 2.00pm to 4.00pm on Tuesday 1th December to make radical Christmas cards inspired by our exhibition. You’ll be using our mini presses to create images and slogans – all you need to bring is your imagination!
Cost: £5, £3 concession, book here

Blue Moon at The Minack Theatre & Online Livestream
2022-12-13 16:00 - 17:00 | The Minack Theatre, The Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 6JU, United Kingdom
BLUE MOON is a story about what happens when the sea meets the land, responding to climate change, the politics of living on an island and female inter-generational relationships.
The play is set at the island end of Porthmeor beach and has been inspired by Paula Rego’s painting THE DANCE.
After a Research and Development day on the play at our Summer Mayven Festival in July, we are delighted to be developing it further and sharing the performance outcome with the public!
Grab your tickets here!

Mother and Daughter Singing Workshop
2022-12-13 19:30 - 21:00 | Penzance Bowling Club, Redinnick Place, Penzance, TR18 4HP
Love singing? Join us for an evening of song at our Mother and Daughter singing workshop on Tuesday December 13th at Penzance Bowling Club
Claire Ingleheart will be leading a whole bunch of easy to learn songs, with and without lyrics, in all different styles.
The workshop is particularly aimed at mums and daughters (although it could be grandmothers/step mothers/god mothers/aunties etc!). Come and hang out, have a drink & snacks and meet other local/like-minded mums and daughters.
We’ve aimed the workshop at 12 years and over but if you know your child loves singing and is younger, please do come along.
Cost: £5, £3 concession – book here

Menopausal Mayhem and Monologues
2022-12-14 19:30 - 21:00 | The Poly, 24 Church St, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 3EG, United Kingdom
Fresh from a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Menopausal Mayhem is the perfect antidote to the doom and gloom surrounding the menopause.
It is a one-woman show focusing on the funny side of the menopause and also the uplifting freedom and positivity it can bring. Come along and laugh until the tears run down your legs – and feel reassured that it isn’t just you!
Jennifer Kennedy is the award-winning author of Martha Gets the Menopause and Galloping Catastrophe: Musings of a Menopausal Woman, as well as the hugely successful blog Is It Just Me?
Menopausal Monologues is a collection of personal monologues honouring the topic of the menopause and midlife. Continuing the trend of breaking the silence around the menopause, they give voice to a variety of women’s (and some of their significant others’) real experiences.
Compered by Rebecca Mordan with chat and songs.
Grab your tickets here!

Greenham Memory Share
2022-12-15 10:00 - 13:00 | Art Room Krowji, West Park, Redruth, TR15 3AJ
Share your memories of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp!
Drop in to the Art Room at Krowji at any time between 10am and 1pm on Thursday December 15th to hear and share memories of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and the Embrace the Base action – which happened 40 years ago – when 30,000 women joined hands around the 9-mile fence in solidarity and peaceful protest against nuclear weapons in December 1982.
Listen to some Greenham songs and ask our Herstorians any of your burning Greenham questions!
Cost: FREE, no booking required

The Mother’s Ruin Cabaret
2022-12-15 19:30 - 21:00 | Pocketful of Stones, 13 Causewayhead, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 2SN, United Kingdom
Yes, it’s Scary Little Girls’ 20th birthday! No, we can’t believe it either!
But by the goddess we are going celebrate the heck out of it!
Join compére Rebecca Mordan – or Bunny Morethan to those who know her from the Glastonbury Festival Big Top – for an evening of music, stories, comedy, special guests and surprises from the finest fems from the Cornish arts scene.
Expect gin cocktails, festive games and the anarchic joie de vivre that SLG have been known and loved for these past 20 years…
Tickets – £10, £6 cons (we consider anyone who needs to be to be a concession, so please pay at this price if this allows you to come along)
Grab your tickets here!

SLG 20th Anniversary Exhibition
2022-12-16, 2022-12-19, 2022-12-20 | Stones Krowji Café, West Park, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 3AJ, United Kingdom
Come along to the wonderful Stones Krowji Cafe where not only can you enjoy delicious coffee and food, but also celebrate our 20th anniversary with us!
There’ll be photos from our archive, props large and small, birthday surprises and lots of ways to delve into our history, hear and see extracts from our shows and find out what it takes to make theatre performances and to keep a theatre company thriving for 20 years.
We’ve also invited some of our favourite Cornish artists to present work with us and are thrilled to be joined by Caroline Wilkins, Jenny Rose, Make-A-Mends and more.
The exhibition will be open from the 13th-20th December from 8:30am-4:30pm except for Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th when the venue is closed.

Salon du Chocolat
2022-12-16 19:30 - 20:30 | The Drapery, United Kingdom
Allow performers from Scary Little Girls to stimulate your senses!
This intimate storytelling salon celebrates the relationship between cocoa nibs and forbidden literature…
When chocolate was first brought to England in the 1600s, it was considered a taboo substance, enjoyed only by the risque and elite in private salons. Some of our finest literature was also once considered too provocative for public consumption and was heard in similar salon environments by only the boldest of ears.
We recreate these intimate environs, combining mouth-watering chocolate treats with tales of the secret, banned and scandalous from authors such as Lord Byron, John Donn, Angela Carter and Joanne Harris.
Performed, read and sung to you by our highly acclaimed storytellers, the Salon du Chocolat invites you to succumb to a literary seduction!
Grab your tickets here!

Moon Hag R&D
2022-12-17 | Penlee Park Theatre, Morrab Road, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 4HE
Sunday, 20 July 1969 – the night man will land on the moon.
The far west of Cornwall –granite and serpentine – standing stones and a Satellite Station, under the light of the moon on which man will walk. An ancient landscape at the cutting edge of the modern technology that will broadcast this historic moment into the homes of the UK.
Three women artists, each as old as the century – a sculptor, a painter and a theatre-maker – are tuning in to witness this moment. Post-husband, post-children, or any wish or expectation of them–they all landed here from up-country and have lived within a few square miles, without knowing each other, since the 1940s.
Each has found her perfect self in solitude, with the means to claim a space of her own. Each has shaped, through her vision and her hands, and her love of the moon, a version of Cornwall which is beamed down the years.
But there is a shadow-woman behind them: she has been here all along, with the moon, and the sea and the stone circles she helped to build. There is a line from her Bronze Age moon worship, through the art and moon landings of the 1960s, to 2025 when Goonhilly technology is preparing to put a woman on the moon.
This is about women in Cornwall, under and on the moon: how each shapes and is shaped by the other down the years.
Please note that this is a private R&D event so no tickets are available

Menstrual Creativity Workshop with Amy Draper
2022-12-17 10:00 - 11:00 | Isles of Scilly
Are you working in arts venues and looking to support wellness within production companies?

Are you part of a permanent arts building team and looking to support wellness within rehearsal rooms?

Are you a freelance arts facilitator or arts leader looking to grow your confidence around supporting wellness within performance teams and companies?

Join this 2 hour online workshop with Amy Draper that explores how to run a menstrual cycle aware process to benefit both your participants and the work.

It will demystify, provide language to use and give confidence to talk about this, incorporating:
+ Fears and taboos of bringing menstrual cycle awareness into the workplace
+ The Inner Seasons – an outline of the different monthly energies
+ How to harness these as an individual creative
+ How to run a team or a room with this and menstrual wellbeing in mind
+ Further resource list
Why?
Menstrual cycle awareness is all about people who menstruate understanding and working with, not against, the natural and consistent energies of each cycle. It’s brilliant, eye-opening and game-changing. Amy says, ‘The more I’ve engaged with this, both as a menstruator and someone who leads creative processes, the more it hasn’t made sense to exclude it from other wellbeing practices.”
Grab your tickets here!

Riot Showgrrrls Club
2022-12-17 19:30 - 20:30 | Stones Krowji Café, West Park, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 3AJ, United Kingdom
In 2008, when lad mags were in their hay day, cabaret meant tit tassels and female stripping and porn was being main-streamed right into our cultural veins, Scary Little Girls bravely took a pro sex anti porn show to Edinburgh.
We claimed that ‘it’s an empirical fact that feminists have the best sex’ and used throbbing, electro-pop and gleeful, musical romps to lay out why – and how porn ruins this.
Now in 2022, still putting the “camp” squarely into “campaigning”, our heroines Rebecca Mordan and Christina Li are going to use games, comedy, songs and hand-stamps to look at how we are faring since in these days of hyper-social media and Pornhub.
Expect make-your-own-membership cards, vulva cupcakes and Patriarchy Bingo in this fast paced, fact facing, feel good feminist fling – and there will be dancing in our revolution!
Tickets – £10, £6 cons (we consider anyone who needs to be to be a concession, so please pay at this price if this allows you to come along)
Grab your tickets here!

A Scary Little Tempest
2022-12-20 16:00 - 17:00 | The Minack Theatre, The Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 6JU, United Kingdom
We’re partnering with The Minack for their first ever live theatre digital fusion event and our largest to date: join us online for a new exploration of Shakespeare’s shipwreck classic – or in person if you feel hardy enough to brave the winter elements and really get involved in the action!
***STOP PRESS! A Scary Little Tempest has been included in The Guardian’s best theatre to stream this month!***
You are invited to a very unusual wedding – Prospero and Ariel know you are coming but the bride and groom haven’t even met yet! In their own cabaret style, Scary Little Girls use live and digital fusion to examine the love stories at the heart of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, combining live-streamed scenes, songs and projections.
Featuring the talents of the Radical Rep and guest illustrator Rima Stains, this 50 minute frolic into this classic text uses Cornish mythology and the Minack’s rugged sea-scape to explore themes of power, intimacy, manipulation and hope.
Follow proceedings from shipwreck to goddess-led wedding celebrations from the comfort of your own home, or join us at the Minack for this solstice sea-set one-off special!
Tickets – £10, £6 cons (we consider anyone who needs to be to be a concession, so please pay at this price if this allows you to come along)
Livestream tickets – £20 per device, £10 cons (this price is based on more than one person watching a device. If just one person is watching, please book a concession.)
Grab your tickets here!

Solstice Stories
2022-12-21 12:30 - 14:00 | The Minack Theatre, The Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 6JU, United Kingdom
On the solstice. from the comfort of your cosy home, follow performers from Scary Little Girls around the majestic Minack theatre as they read you specially commissioned stories about Cornish heroines of witchery and myth.
Enjoy the words of Cornish favourites like Anna Maria Murphy and LH Trevail and uncover new gems, all performed from the stage, balcony and backstage hidy holes of Cornwall’s most magical venue.
This event will be livestreamed.
Tickets £5 or £3 cons (we consider anyone who needs to be to be a concession, so please pay at this price if this allows you to come along)
Grab your tickets here!

Common Ground – A memory sharing exhibition about the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp
2023-02-27 11:00 - 2023-03-04 18:00 | Jupiter Gallery, 3 Chywoone Hill, Newlyn, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 5HQ, United Kingdom
Join us at Jupiter Gallery, Newlyn for our Common Ground exhibition, where you can find out all about this powerful movement that began 40 years ago and continues to influence today.
Hang out in our bender tent listening to a specially created soundscape of sounds and stories from the peace camp and interviews with Greenham Women. Chat to us about your memories of Greenham and hear ours. Look around the gallery at portrait photos of the Greenham Women today as well as new work by contemporary artists inspired by the Greenham Women Everywhere archive and current protest movements.
The gallery is open:
Monday – Thursday 11am – 3pm
Friday 2pm – 6pm
Saturday 10am – 4pm
In addition, we’d love to see you at one of these events in the gallery – please book as numbers are limited:
Tuesday 28th February 7pm – Greenham Singing Workshop with Claire Ingleheart
Friday 3rd March 7pm – Greenham On Film
Saturday 4th March 2pm – 4pm – Experimental Gelli Plate printing with Caroline Wilkins
This event is created by Scary Little Girls with the support of Greenham Women Everywhere and with thanks to funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Greenham Singing Workshop
2023-02-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Jupiter Gallery, 3 Chywoone Hill, Newlyn, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 5HQ, United Kingdom
Love singing? Join us for an evening of song at our Greenham singing workshop on Tuesday 28th February at Jupiter Gallery.
Claire Ingleheart will be leading a whole bunch of easy to learn songs, with and without lyrics, in all different styles. Come along to this event based around the protest songs that kept the women of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp united and motivated.
Have a sing, a drink & snacks and meet other local voices.
Email hello@greenhamwomeneverywhere.co.uk to book!

Greenham on Film
2023-03-03 19:00 | Jupiter Gallery, 3 Chywoone Hill, Newlyn, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 5HQ, United Kingdom
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.
Email hello@greenhamwomeneverywhere.co.uk to book!

Experimental Gelli Plate Printing with Artist Caroline Wilkins
2023-03-04 14:00 - 15:30 | Jupiter Gallery, 3 Chywoone Hill, Newlyn, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 5HQ, United Kingdom
Set amongst our exhibition, this is a playful printmaking session designed to encourage experimentation, sharing and discussion as we make a set of protest postcards.
We will be using Gelli plates to explore image transfer and slogan writing.
All materials are provided. Places are free and limited to 6 so booking is essential.
Please contact Sharon to book.

Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices with Rebecca Mordan
2023-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 | The Leeds Library, 18 Commercial St, Leeds, LS1 6AL, United Kingdom
As a child Rebecca Mordan visited Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp with her mother and was part of making history with 30,000 other women and children at the Embrace the Base action 40 years ago.
After graduating Sheffield University and Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Rebecca worked as an actor, director, writer and producer and created award-winning feminist production hub Scary Little Girls and became a regular ‘rent-a-feminist’ talking head for TV and Radio, including You and Yours, 5 Live, Woman’s Hour, and Sky News.
In 2018 she started interviewing Greenham Women to celebrate their unique role in changing women’s roles nationally and internationally, and she hasn’t stopped since! In 2021 she was chosen to be part of the BBC Writers Room, wrote for the BBC’s Archive on Four, Radio 4’s The UK Project and her first book was published, Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices.
In this talk at Leeds Lit Fest, about her book and the process leading to it, Rebecca will bring along Greenham Women who contributed their stories, sing you some songs from the Greenham Song book and she and her guests will answer all your burning Greenham questions – go on ask them, we dare you!
Grab your tickets here!
