Two events will coincide with the launch of the Brenda Moon Room: our Wikimedian in Residence will be hosting a Wikipedia-editing session for staff, students and friends of the University to create Wikipedia entries for notable women currently missing from the encyclopaedia site, and at the Main Library, LTW Equality and Diversity Images Intern Francesca Vavotici will be hosting a ‘Sketch-a-thon’ using images from the Centre for Research Collections’ Special Collections. All artistic abilities welcome! 

Wikipedia Editathon – Women of Edinburgh:  

This event is open to staff, students and friends of the University and is an opportunity to help add more notable women associated with Edinburgh to Wikipedia, where only 18% of the English Wikipedia's biographies are about women.  

Time: 11:00am – 5pm 

Venue: Argyle House, 3 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh EH3 9DR 

More info and booking link here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_Edinburgh/International_Women%27s_Day_2019  

Sketch-a-thon: 

Learn about the lives of some of the incredible women in the archives of the Centre for Research Collections at the University of Edinburgh, while putting your creative side to use in a relaxed learning environment!  

This event will enable you to portray the work of pioneering women through a series of fun, fast-paced challenges that will help you flex your sketching muscles and experiment with daring colour-combinations, silly caricatures and speedy doodles. No drawing experience is necessary to join us, and all students and staff are welcome. Materials will be provided, but please do feel free to bring your own coloured pencils or felt-tip pens if you wish. 

More info and booking link here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/international-womens-day-sketchathon-tickets-55208621473?fbclid=IwAR2krJRic9Q0qPV3GUtDni2Qr4fNXW0ww5yvhmhawQvPIKNyqqC1QESBEuA