Here are some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK this week.

Across the UK:

Until 25 January: Sundance Rising viewing parties. On 19 January, the official One Billion Rising 2013 documentary short premiered at Sundance, the preeminent film festival founded by One Billion Rising supporter, Robert Redford.

To celebrate this, One Billion Rising invites you to host a Sundance Rising viewing party as a lead up to your 2014 One Billion Rising for Justice events.

Gather activists, volunteers, community members, and organisations in houses, campuses, movie theatres, stadiums, auditoriums, parks and malls between 19 January and 25 January to screen the film and help build momentum for this years’ initiatives, while honouring last year’s accomplishments.

The short film is available for free. You can watch it online on YouTube, Vimeo, or download it by clicking here.

London:

20 January: Anti-pornography women’s consciousness raising meeting at London Action Resource Centre, 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, London E1, from 7-9.30pm.

Mainstream pornography is increasingly extreme and violent. It is shaping how young men are learning how to have sex, altering women’s relationship to our bodies and sexuality and telling youth in general that this is what sex is.

What impacts have the world’s 5th biggest industry had on our lives as women?

‘Alternative pornography’ notwithstanding, how do we feel about the reality of the first 30,000 items on any pornography search?

Many people are concerned about being women being portrayed as toys, objects, playthings for men’s amusement. Many feel that pornography is not harmless or inevitable.

Some on the left connect the inexorable rise of pornography with increased state control, violent male economic, political and sexual entitlement and increased political repression generally.

Do you have thoughts about this, experiences that you don’t normally share or ideas about how to combat pornification? Come along to our consciousness raising session, where we will create a safe, supportive environment where we can speak and be heard about how pornography has affected us individually and collectively.

Please note this meeting is for women only.

21 January: Feminism Then and Now at Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, London School of Economics (LSE), Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A, from 6-7.30pm.

With the arrival of The Women’s Library at the LSE, the Gender Institute will be running a series of ‘Conversations’ for which audience participation is invited.

Feminism is said to be both ‘over’ and a vibrant contemporary force; feminists from across generations discuss the meaning of feminism and hopes for its future.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (@y_alibhai) is a journalist and author; Natalie Bennett is the leader of the Green Party; Camille Kumar is an activist on domestic violence faced by black and minority ethnic women; Finn Mackay (@Finn_Mackay) is honorary researcher with the Centre for Gender and Violence Research at the University of Bristol and an associate lecturer in sociology at the University of the West of England; Pragna Patel is the director of Southall Black Sisters; Lynne Segal (@lynne_segal) is Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck.

This event is free and open to all with no ticket required.

Entry is on a first come, first served basis.

22 January: How Equal Are Men and Women at Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R, from 6pm.

A lively panel debate on the equality of men and women, with Vanessa Feltz, Cristina Odone, Catherine Marcus and Demetri Marchessini, in front of a live audience. The members of the panel have firmly held views, and the debate promises to be stimulating and controversial.

Questions will not be taken from the floor.

The event will be filmed for a podcast on the marchessini website, so by attending the debate, audience members agree to grant the organisers a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use their images in any way that they want, and in any media worldwide.

25 January: London 70s Sisters invite you to An Afternoon of Connecting with Other Feminists who were active in the 60s, 70s and 80s at The Feminist Library, 5 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1, from 10am-5.30pm.

There will be discussions around themes of ageing, ageism, and activism, finding out what existing groups are up to, and the chance to form new ongoing groups if you would like to.

No booking required and the event is free, donations to The Feminist Library are welcomed

This is an inclusive space and is wheelchair accessible.

Until 22 February: Blurred Lines by Nick Payne and Carrie Cracknell at The Shed, National Theatre, South Bank, London SE1.

Blurred Lines is a blistering journey through contemporary gender politics. An all-female cast dissect what it means to be a woman today: in the workplace, in cyberspace, on screen, on stage and in relationships.

This new piece explores the reality of equality in Britain today, where feminism is a dirty word and pornography is inescapable. Blurred Lines is a fast-paced, razor sharp glimpse of a culture which promised liberation and delivered Robin Thicke.

Nick Payne’s plays include Constellations, Wanderlust (Royal Court) and The Same Deep Water As Me (Donmar Warehouse).

Carrie Cracknell is Associate Director at the Royal Court Theatre. She was previously Artistic Director of the Gate. Recent work includes A Doll’s House (Young Vic and West End) andWozzeck (ENO).

Suitable for 15 years and over. Please note: The production contains references to sexual assault.

Oxford:

22 January: “Has the Sixties Sexual Revolution ‘Screwed’ Women?” at The Inner Bookshop, 111 Magdalen Road, Oxford from 7.30-9.30pm.

As the NHS begins giving the pill to 13 year-old girls, Parallel Youniversity at Inner Bookshop asks if women/girls have really become ‘liberated’ by the modern Sexual Revolution?

Or were women/girls better off before the 60′s Sexual Revolution kicked off? Does this so called Sexual Revolution really only serve men’s purposes? (after all, it was men who led the way in creating it)

Are young women/girls now under more pressure to have sex with men/boys? Are they now expected to constantly ‘put out’ for their man (boy) whether they want to or not? And what about gay women: have they benefited from the Sexual Revolution?

With Miley and Rihanna wearing the skimpiest of outfits and twerking in front of their young devoted fans we ask if the ‘SlutWalk’ activists are naive in ignoring the consequences of calling for the right of women to wear revealing clothing anytime, anyplace anywhere?

Is this real freedom for women? Will this not give men even more reason to treat women as sexual objects? Or have the women donning burqas got it right?: women should be covering up, not uncovering. Where do feminists stand on this?

Suggested donation £2.

Sheffield:

24 January: One Day Symposium on “Abuse” at The Moot Court, School of Law, University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield.

To mark the end of the partnership project ‘Prosecuting Sexual Violence’ between the Centre for Criminological Research at Sheffield University and the Gender Health and Justice Unit at the University of Cape Town, the Centre for Criminological Research at the University of Sheffield is hosting a free one day symposium on “Abuse”.