Lactivist "I love Mummy Milk" T-shirt
Lactivist "I love Mummy Milk" T-shirt
The Breastfeeding Festival have a bundle of Lactivist goodies to give away. I so wish I could be there!
Here is the line up so far, more is being added daily.
The Breastfeeding Festival
16th to 22nd August 2010
Ulverston, Cumbria, England
The Breastfeeding Festival’s events, 16th-22nd August 2010
About us
* All our events are FREE because we aim to be as accessible as possible.
* The festival is celebrating and promoting breastfeeding, aiming to increase breastfeeding rates and duration.
* We are a not-for-profit voluntary group, made up of mothers of small children, passionate about doing something exciting to change the world.
* We are not sponsored and we have raised all the funds ourselves through supporters’ generosity, so what you see here is what we love and what we think you’ll like, too, uninfluenced by outside commercial interests.
The Big Breastfeeding Picture
Tuesday 17th August, Ford Park. This event is in two parts.
First part – Workshop on the Breastfeeding Manifesto, 10am-12noon, Coach House, Ford Park.
Second part – The Big Breastfeeding Picture, 1pm-4pm, Ford Park. Be part of a huge people-picture of a mother feeding her baby. Inspired by Art for the Sky, this promises to be spectacular. Please let us know you’re coming if you can!
The Madonna and Child Project
by Kate Hansen, Tuesday 17th – Saturday 28th August, 9:30am – 5:30pm, Bleach House Gallery, LMB Design, 3 Quay Street.
An exhibition of beautiful, iconic mother and baby portrait prints with associated birth stories, by Canadian artist Kate Hansen. We’re delighted to be the first to show this exhibition outside Canada.
Breastfeeding Fair
Saturday 21st August, 1:30pm-4:30pm, Supper Room in the Coronation Hall.
Loads of great things all in one place, with something for everyone! Plus, live music from Sedleigh Adams!
Stalls from charities and campaign groups including:
Baby Milk Action
Breastfeeding Manifesto Coalition
United Kingdom Association for Milk Banking
Businesses including information from:
Bibs n Bots
Boobie Buddies Ltd
Lait d’Amour
Mama Packs
Children’s books including:
books from the Katie Morag series by Mairi Hedderwick
‘The Wonderful Place’ by Chrissy Butler
Resources for peer supporters
Communal weave craft workshop.
Talk to us!
Market stalls, Thursday 19th and Saturday 21st August, Market Place.
Peer supporters get together, Friday 20th August 11am, Home and Finance Café.
Please come along for a chat whether you’re a peer supporter or just considering it.
End of festival get together, Sunday 22nd August 2pm, Gillam’s Tea room
Tell us what you enjoyed, and contribute you ideas for next year’s festival.
Workshops
Children’s Centre, Lund Terrace
Breastfeeding info for Grannies, Monday 3-4pm and Tuesday 7-8pm
Breastfeeding, including a presentation from The Food of Love: your formula for successful breastfeeding, put together by the book’s author, Kate Evans. Wednesday 3-4pm and Thursday 7-8pm
Baby-led weaning, by Gill Rapley and Tracey Murkett, authors of Baby-Led Weaning: helping your baby to love good food, Friday and Saturday 3-4pm
Milk banking, Precious milk for precious babies – an update on breastmilk banking at home and abroad, by Gillian Weaver, Chair of the United Kingdom Association for Milk Banking, Saturday 11am-12noon
Listen while you work
Thursday 19th August 3pm, Parish Rooms, Church Walk.
Knit breasts to donate to hospitals for breastfeeding demonstrations, while listening to radio documentary Breastfeeding Beyond Infancy, produced by Knitwise Media. Bring your own needles and wool if you have them.
Formula for Disaster
Friday 20th August, 7:30pm, Parish Rooms, Church Walk.
Watch this documentary by Unicef Philippines on the promotion of infant formula in the Philippines, followed by a presentation about the Baby Feeding Law Group by Mike Brady, Campaigns and Networking Co-ordinator for Baby Milk Action. Baby Milk Action is the Secretariat of the Baby Feeding Law Group.
Mama and Hathor: mother and superhero
By Heather Cushman-Dowdie, Wednesday 18th August, 7:30pm, Parish Rooms, Church Walk.
A talk about Hathor the Cow Goddess and Mama is, the breastfeeding comics, recorded specially for the festival by the wonderfully talented American mother and comic artist.
Mother’s Milk
Award-winning short film by Kevin Douglas West, Saturday 21st August, 7pm-8pm, Children’s Centre, Lund Terrace
A short film about milk banking, followed by a presentation by Gillian Weaver, Chair of the United Kingdom Association for Milk Banking, about milk banking following bereavement
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