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International Women’s Day Tuesday 8 March 2016

International Women’s Day has been observed sincethe early 1900s as a time of great expansion andturbulence in the industrialised world that sawbooming population growth and the rise of radicalideologies. Every year on 8 March, thousands ofevents are held throughout the world to inspirewomen and celebrate achievements.

A global web of rich and diverse local activity connectswomen ranging from political rallies and businessconferences to government activities and networking.We should remember that gender equality initiativesshould always include men and women.

For more information visitwww.internationalwomensday.com

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1 Saint David’s Day - Christian2 Nineteen Day Fast begins - (2 to 20 March) - Bahá'í3 Hina-matsuri (Festival of dolls) - Shinto5 Saint Piran's Day - Christian

Purim - Jewish6 Mothering Sunday

Hola Mohalla - Sikh8 International Women’s Day13 L. Ron Hubbard's Birthday (Church of

Scientology17 Saint Patrick’s Day - Christian

Maha Shiravatri - Hindu19 Saint Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary -

Christian20 International Day of Happiness21 Naw-Ruz - Bahá'í

Jamshedi Noruz (Fasli) - ZoroastrianShubun-sai (Equinox day) - ShintoWorld Down Syndrome DayInternational Day for the Elimination of RacialDiscrimination

25 Good Friday The Feast of the Annunciation -Christian

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Zoroastrian29 British Summertime - starts Palm Sunday

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“As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.” Virginia Woolf

Special Days 1 Guru Granth Sahib - Sikh Festival 5 Janmashtami - Shri, Krishna Janmashtami - Hindu Festival (5th-6th) Leil Selichot - Jewish Festival 8 International Literacy Day Nativity of the Theotokos/Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary 10 World Suicide Prevention Day Paryushan - Indian Jain Festival (10th-17th September) 12 Ethiopian New Year 13 Rosh Hashanah - Jewish New Year 14 Sexual Health Week (14th-20th September) 15 International Day of Democracy 16 Fast of Gedalliah - Jewish Festival 17 Ganesh Chaturthi - Hindu Festival 18 Jeans for Genes Day 21 International Day of Peace World Alzhemier's Day 22 World Car Free Day 23 Autumn Equinox - Pagan Festival 24 Eid-Ul-Adha - Muslim Festival 25 World's Biggest Coffee Morning 26 European Day of Languages 27 Sukkot - Jewish Festival (27th September - 4th October) Mid Autumn Festival/Chinese Moon Festival 29 World Heart Day Michaelmas/St Michael, St Gabriel and St Raphael's Day

"Autism is not a disability, it's a different ability" - Stuart Duncan

Please note all events highlighted and circled in purple and will have a special celebration/focus this year in college and any marked during the weekend will be celebrated on the Friday before.

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Special Days 1 Stoptober (1st-28th October) Breast Cancer Awareness Month (1st-31st October) Black History Month (1st-31st October) International Day of Older Persons 2 International Day of Non-Violence Mahatma Gandhi's birthday World Smile Day (children with serious illness) 4 Hoshana Rabbah - Jewish Festival 5 World Teachers' Day Simchat Torah- Jewish Holiday 8 National Poetry Day World Sight Day 9 Confucius' Birthday - Chinese 10 World Mental Health Day 11 National Coming Out Day 13 Navaratri - Hindu Festival (13th-21st October) St Edward's Day -Christian festival 14 Al-Hijra - Islamic New Year Dyslexia & Dyspraxia Awareness Week (14th-19th October) 17 World Day to Overcome Extreme Poverty 19 Birth of the Báb - Bahá í festival 20 Guru Granth Sahib declared Guru for all times - Sikh Festival 21 Chung Yeung - Chinese Family Remembrance Day 22 Dussehra - Hindu Festival Yom Kippur - Jewish Day of Atonement 23 Ashura - Muslim Festival Wear it Pink Day 24 United Nations Day 31 All Hallow's Eve (Halloween) - Christian Festival Samhain - Celtic New Year - Pagan Festival

"Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about, be kind always" - Ian Malare

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Special Days 1 All Saints' Day (Hallowmas, All Hallows) - Christian Festival Movember Men's Health Awareness (1st-29th November) 2 All Souls' Day - Christian Festival Coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie I -Rastafari 4 National Stress Awareness Day 8 Remembrance Sunday 11 Armistice Day Diwali (11th-15th November) Bandi Chhor Divas (Prisoners Release Day) - Sikh Festival Birth of Bahá'u'lláh - Bahá í festival 13 World Kindness Day Children in Need 14 World Diabetes Day 15 Shichigosan (7-5-3 fesstival) - Shinto Festival Start of Winter Lent - Orthodox Christian Festival 16 Anti-Bullying Week (16th-20th November) International Day of Tolerance Alcohol Awareness Week (16th-22nd November) 17 International Students Day 19 International Men's Day 20 Universal Children's Day Transgender Day of Remembrance 22 Christ the King - Christian Festival 23 Niinamesei - Shinto Festival Road Safety Week (23rd-29th November) 24 Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur- Sikh Festival 25 Birthday of Guru Nanak - Sikh Festival 26 Thanksgiving - USA 27 Ascension of Abdu'l'Baha - Bahá 'í festival 29 Advent Sunday - Christian Festival 30 St Andrew's Day

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment" - Buddha

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Special Days 1 World Aids Day 2 International Day for the Abolotion of Slavery 3 International Day of Persons with Disabilities 5 International Volunteer Day for Economic & Social Development 6 Hannukkah - Jewish Festival (6th-14th December) 8 Bodhi Day - Buddhist Festival Feast of the Immaculate Conception - Christian festival 10 Human Rights Day 13 St Lucy's Day - Christian festival 18 International Migrants Day 22 Yule/Winter Solstice - Pagan Festival 10th Tevet - Jewish fast day 24 Christmas Eve - Christian festival 25 Christmas Day -Christian festival 26 Zartusht-no-Diso - Zoroastrian festival Boxing Day 29 Milad ul Nabi - Birthday of Prophet Muhammad 31 New Year's Eve

"Our own life has to be our message" - Thich Nhat Hanh

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Special Days 1 New Years Day Oshogatsu/Shogatsu - Shinto New Year National Glaucoma Awareness Month (1st-31st January) 6 Epiphany - Christian festival 7 Orthodox Christmas Day / Theophany Ethiopian Christmas Day 10 Baptism of the Lord - Christian festival 11 Human Trafficking Awareness Day 14 Orthodox New Year STiQ Day Makar Sankranti - Hindu festival 15 Seijin Shiki (Adults' Day) - Shinto festival 16 Birth of Guru Gobind Singh - Sikh festival Religious Freedom Day 17 World Religion Day 24 Tu B'Shevat - Jewish hoiday 25 Robert Burns Night St Paul's Day - Christian festival 27 Holocaust Memorial Day 28 St Thomas Aquinas - Christian festival

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel" - Maya Angelou

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Special Days 1 LGBT History Month (1st - 29th February) Imbolc - Pagan festival 2 Candlemas - Christian festival 3 Rissun (Setsubun) - Shinto festival 4 World Cancer Day 6 Wear it, Beat it Day (Birtish Heart Foundation) 8 Chinese New Year (Year of the Monkey) 9 Shrove Tuesday - Christian festival Go Green Week (9th - 15th February) 10 Ash Wednesday - Christian festival Lent (10th-24th March) 11 Our Lady of Lourdes - Christian festival 12 Darwin Day 13 Vasant Panchami - Saraswati Puja - Hindu festival 14 Valentines Day 15 Parinirvana / Nirvana Day - Buddhist festival 17 Mahashivratri/Shivaratri - Hindu festival 21 International Mother Language Day 22 National Eating Disorders Week (22nd- 28th February ) 23 Student Volunteering Week (23rd February - 1st March) 26 International STAND UP to bullying day

"One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks" - Jack Penn

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Special Days 1 Self Harm Awareness Day St David's Day - Christian festival 2 The Nineteen Day Fast - Bahá' í festival (2nd - 20th March) 3 Hinamatsuri (Festival of Dolls) - Shinto festival Climate Week - (3rd-9th March) 4 Shabbat Shekalim - Jewish festival 6 Mothering Sunday 8 International Womens Day 11 No Smoking Day 14 Nanakshahi New Year - Sikh festival Hola Mohalla (Lunar Calendar) - Sikh festival 17 St Patrick's Day 20 International Day of Happiness Palm Sunday - Christian festival Spring Equinox - Pagan festival Naw-ruz - Bahá' í New Year 21 Shubun-sai (Equinox Day) - Shinto World Down Syndrome Day International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Jamshedi Noruz Fasli) - Zoroastrian New Year 23 Holi - Hindu festival Lord's Evening Meal- Jehovah's Witness Purim - Jewish festival 24 Maundy Thursday - Christian festival 25 Annunciation - Christian festival Good Friday - Christian festival 26 Purple Day for Epilepsy Holy Saturday - Christian festival Khordad Sal (Fasli) - Zoroastrian festival 27 Easter Sunday - Christian festival 28 Easter Monday (Bank Holiday) "When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age" - Victor Hugo

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Special Days 1 Blackpool Sixth "Show Your Pride" month (1st - 30th April) April Fool's Day 2 World Autism Awareness Day 7 World Health Day 12 International Street Children's Day 14 Baisakhi (New Year) - Sikh festival 15 Rama Navami - Hindu festival 16 World Voice Day 19 Mahavir Jayanti - Hindu festival 20 Nutrition Awareness Week (20th - 25th April) May Festival of Ridván - Bahá 'í festival (20th April - 2nd May) 21 Anniversary of Haile Selsassie's visit to Jamaica -Rastafari festival 22 Hanuman Jayanti - Hindu festival Theraveda New Year - Buddhist festival (22nd - 23rd April) Save Energy Week (22nd - 27th April) Earth Day 23 Passover (Pesach) - Jewish festival (23rd - 29th April) St George's Day 29 Ninth day of Ridván - - Bahá 'í holy day

"The first step towards change is awareness. The second step is acceptance" - Nathaniel Branden

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Special Days 1 Beltane - Pagan festival 2 Early May Bank Holiday Twelfth day of Ridván - Bahá 'í holy day 3 Lailat al Miraj - Muslim festival World Asthma Day 4 Deaf Awareness Week (4th - 10th October) Yom HaShoah - Jewish Holocaust Remembrance Day 5 Europe Day Ascension Day - Christian festival Isra and Mi'raj - Muslim festival 8 World Red Cross Day 11 Yom Haatzmaut - Israeli Independence Day 12 International Nurses Day Mental Health Awareness week (12th - 18th May) 15 International Day of Families 16 Whit Monday 17 International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia Ascension Day (Catholic Church in England and Wales) 20 Wesak/Buddha day - Buddhist festival 21 World Day for Cultural Diversity, Dialogue and Development Lailat al Bara'a - Muslim festival Nisf Shabaan - Muslim festival 22 Trinity Sunday - Christian festival Declaration of the Báb - Bahá' í festival 24 Pentecost - Whitsun - Christian festival 25 Lag B'omer - Jewish holiday 26 Corpus Christi - Christian festival 28 Ascension of Baha'u'llah - Bahá'' í festival 29 International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers 30 Spring Bank Holiday 31 World No Tobacco Day

"Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone" - Martina Navratilova

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Special Days 1 LGBT Pride Month (1st - 30th June) International Children's Day 4 Engineers' Day International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression 5 World Envrionment Day 6 Ramadan - Muslim festival (6th June - 5th July) 8 My Money Week (8th - 14th June) Carers Week (8th - 14th June) 11 Shavuot - Jewish festival (11th - 13th June) 14 World Blood Donor Day 16 Martyrdom of Guru Arjan Dev - Sikh festival 17 World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 19 Fathers Day 20 World Refugee Day 21 Summer Solstice -Litha- Pagan festival 26 All Saints' Day - Christian festival 29 St Peter and St Paul's Day - Christian festival

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent" - Mahatma Gandhi

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Special Days 2 Lailat al-Qadr - Muslim Asala - Dharma Day - Buddhist festival 6 Eid al-Fitr - Muslim Ratha Yatra - Hindu festival 8 Martyrdom of the Báb - Bahá ' í festival 11 World Population Day 15 St Swithin's Day - Christian festival 17 International Justice Day 23 Birthday of Haile Selassie I - Rastafari festival 24 Pioneer Day - Mormon 28 World Hepatitis Day 30 International Friendship Day

"There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures" - Bell Hooks


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Special Days 1 Lughnasadh/Lammas - Pagan festival World Breasfeeding Week (1st - 7th August) 9 International Day of the World's Indigenous People 12 International Youth Day 15 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary- Christian festival 25 Krishna Janmashtami - Hindu festival 26 Women's Equality Day 29 Paryushan - Indian Jain festival (29th August - 5th September) Summer Bank Holiday

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world" - Virginia Woolf

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