We are celebrating our 50th birthday!
2025 is Auckland Women’s Centre’s 50th birthday! Yes, we’ve been crashing several waves of feminism into patriarchal monuments for half a century now, from 1975. Rā whānau ki a tatou!
Turning 50 feels good. It feels big. It feels like something to celebrate – with a whole festival season of 50th birthday events:
This page will be updated with event details as they come to hand – and they’ll also be in our newsletters (sign-up at the end of the page)
You can also help kick-off our next 50 years of feminist action by joining the Fab 500!
We survived disco! And bean sprouts! And Rogernomics and stolen answerphones and uninsulated villas … we’ve welcomed homosexual law reform and the Cartwright Inquiry and the #MeToo movement and abortion law reform – we’ve also supported Pūtiki protection and pay equity (and continue to do so!) – and we’ve hosted hundreds of speakers, including Margaret Mutu and Alison Bechdel and Clementine Ford. We pioneered telephone counselling several decades ago and spun-off a programme for teenage mums in the 2000s that has become the mighty E Tipu E Rea Whānau Services…
It is A LOT.
It’s a legacy to be proud of, and a legacy that we’re proud to continue – we’re still here, making a difference – thanks to you!
Thank you so much for being part of our community today – whether that’s online only or includes coming to our kōrero, film nights, Feminists Are Funny, Rainbow games nights, sole mums group, arts classes, self-defence classes and/or counselling – or using Women’s Support or being part of AVA, Intersectional Feminist Club and/or our campaigns like stalking law reform….
We’re all here together, and we care – and we’re loud! Come join the celebrations!
