This week Alternative Arts, an arts organisation based in London's Spitalfields area, is holding events for International Women's Week.
The week follows International Women's Day; celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.
Craft fits into all causes in some way and isn't about to be left behind here either. Two women doing inspired, arty and innovative things in the name of craft are Rachael Matthews and Louise Harries of Prick Your Finger.
For IWW they've produced a series of Opinionated Shopping Bags with the help of the ink-bespattered genuises at Dalston Print Club.
The bags feature slogans produced from research the intrepid two have done into issues raised by visiting women's groups across Tower Hamlets. The local politicians are invited to a private view at Prick Your Finger this Thursday 11th March from 5-7pm. There they will be given the bags along with the opportunity to discuss the issues raised. How can they possibly refuse?
Anyone is invited to go along on the day to say it with a shopping bag. So get yourself and your opinions over there.
