International Working Women’s Day Events by Beşiktaş Municipality!

The Beşiktaş Municipality is launching many meaningful events within the scope of the March 8, International Working Women’s Day.

MARCH 8, 2016 INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN’S DAY PROGRAM

Opening Ceremony of the Women’s Solidarity Center

Çırağan Municipal Building

Time: 14:00

The Women’s Solidarity Center, which is a center to serve as a unit where women, primarily battered women, will be provided with consultancy about sheltering, employment, psychological support, as well as directing legal and financial aid, is being opened on the March 8, International Working Women’s Day.

Don’t Be Afraid of it, Be Conscious of it, Don’t Be Late, Don’t Put Off Your Health!

A consciousness-raising event aimed at cancer and overcoming stress by doing yoga, in cooperation between the Beşiktaş Municipality, the Memorial Health Group and the Turkish Cancer Society.

Akatlar Cultural Center (Akatlar Kültür Merkezi)

Time: 15:00-17:00

Women’s Session

Akatlar Cultural Center (Akatlar Kültür Merkezi)

Time: 20:00

A Special Concert for the Women’s Day to the benefit of the Koruncuk Vakfı (Turkish Foundation for Children in Need of Protection)

Fulya Arts Center (Fulya Sanat)

Time: 19:00

The theatre play named ‘Özel Kadınlar Listesi’ (translated as ‘The List of Special Women’)

Ortaköy Cultural Center (Ortaköy Kültür Merkezi)

Time: 20.30

An exhibition by Ülkü Cılızoğlu

‘Öncü Kadınlarımız’ (translated as ‘Our Pioneering Women’)

Fulya Arts Center (Fulya Sanat)

March 1-9

A Painting Exhibition by Berna Üzüm

‘Cumhuriyet’e Can Veren Kadınlar’ (translated as ‘The Women Who Breathed Life into the Republic’)

Ortaköy Cultural Center (Ortaköy Kültür Merkezi)

March 7-11