A registered International Women’s Day event is popping up in the Macedon Ranges this year.
Macedon resident Ali Fowler is one of four women determined to get a regular event that honours and profiles fabulous local women, while raising funds for women’s projects, on the region’s calendar.
Their first event – Macedon Ranges International Women’s Day Dinner – will be held on March 7 from 6.45pm at Olive Jones of Macedon.
Ms Fowler said the evening would feature “amazing women who are all very different” and was going to recognise the United Nation’s 2018 theme No Women Left Behind.
Macedon resident and dean of Deakin University Law School Jenni Lightowlers will be speaking, as will accomplished local sculptor Jennifer Mann.
Clothes handmade in sewing centres in India and the Philippines will be available for sale on the night to raise money for The Liora Project, which is dedicated to releasing women from sexual slavery.
Ms Fowler said anyone was welcome to attend the event, including men.
She said there had already been a lot of local interest, and tickets were booking quickly.
Tickets include the program, dinner and a glass of wine donated by Mount Towrong Vineyard.
To find out more and buy a ticket visit: www.wisewomen.com.au/7-march-event
