As part of the upcoming Women On Tap annual festival, an online panel event will bring together activists who will talk about the beer industry’s own #metoo movement and their own game-changing work as they explore the question: Is beer a safe space?
The panel for the event is:
Shreena Gobey, Women’s Night Safe Coordinator, Women’s Lives Leeds.
Driven by women and girls the Women Friendly Leeds movement’s mission is to mobilise women and girls to have their voices heard, ensure that their needs are considered in all decision making and empower them to lead safer, healthier, equal and more fulfilled lives. Women’s Night Safe Space is a non-judgement safe bus for women and girls to come to, or be referred to in the city centre at night if they feel concerned, unsafe, unwell or vulnerable.
Farah Benis, Founder and Managing Director of FFA Security Group, a private, London-based security firm that specialises in protection and management services.
Farah Benis is a Director of FFA Security Group working with venues across London spearheading training on programs like Ask For Angela and sexual harassment awareness, reporting, and response. She is also a board member of Chalk Back, a youth-led organisation that is committed to educating on public street harassment and provides a platform for people to share their stories through chalk art. Through this, she also founded and runs the Catcalls of London campaign, which to date has taken over 15,000 individual stories of street harassment from Londoners alone.
Elysia O’Neill and Della Claydon, Founders of The Egalitarian, an organisation working to create a fairer society through community-led, data-driven projects and training, including certification for the night time economy.
Elysia leads the Safe Place Project with Della and is passionate about empowering women and marginalised genders in the NTE. Elysia’s experiences of sexual violence, misogyny and spiking as a customer in the beer industry and member of staff in hospitality, as well as hundreds of conversations with victims through The Egalitarian, drives everything she does to push the inclusion agenda forwards in the industry. Elysia empowers venues to respond to issues in victim-led responses whilst focussing on identifying suspicious perpetrator behaviours.
Della leads the Safe Place Project with Elysia, focussing on changing the current narrative within the night-time economy of the treatment of intoxicated people, specifically women and marginalised genders. Della champions the vision that venues within the night time economy should have an increased responsibility to protect all members of society but particularly those more vulnerable to risks of harm such as women, members of the LGBTQ+ society and young people. Using her combined experiences as a customer and employee of the night time economy, Della ensures the Safe Place Project is community-led and victim focused.
The discussion will be hosted by Rachel Auty, Founder of Women On Tap CIC.
THE ONLINE PANEL WILL TAKE PLACE 25TH MAY 2023, 6.30-7.30PM. TICKETS ARE PAY WHAT YOU FEEL WITH ALL PROCEEDS GOING TO WOMEN ON TAP CIC.
VIEW THE FULL FESTIVAL PROGRAMME AND BOOK ONLINE AT: www.womenontap.co.uk/2023-
Contact: Rachel Auty, CEO, Women on Tap, rachauty@gmail.com