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

14 February: One Billion Rising for Justice events are going on all around the UK; check here for details.

One in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime. That is one billion women.

In 2013, one billion women and men shook the earth through dance to end violence against women and girls. This year, on 14 February 2014 we are calling on women and men everywhere to harness their power and imagination to rise for justice.

Imagine One Billion women releasing their stories, dancing and speaking out at the places where they need justice, where they need an end to violence against women and girls.

Edinburgh:

10 February: Save EWRASAC Bake Sale at Edinburgh University Central Library, 30 George Square, Edinburgh, from 11am – 5pm.

‘Save EWRASAC’ are putting on a bake sale to raise money for Edinburgh Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre, providing hungry students with tasty treats and baked goods.

There will be loads of yummy gluten-free and vegan options also, so not to worry if you have special dietary requirements. Help support a great cause!

10 February: Save EWRASAC Pub Quiz at The Southsider, 3 – 7 West Richmond St, EH8 9EF, at 8pm.

Come along and test your knowledge in a pub quiz fundraiser for Edinburgh Women’s Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Centre.

Only £2 entry and all money goes towards EWRASAC.

Please bring friends, flatmates, family or even come by yourself and you’ll be matched with a team.

London:

14 February: Feminist Fightback Film Club: Valentine’s Day Edition at The Common House, Unit 5E, 5 Pundersons Gardens, London E2, from 7pm.

Feminist Fightback invite you to a film screening of She’s a Punk Rocker UK by Zillah Minx, so celebrate your love of mohawks, badass women, the 80s, swearing, neon, drums and so forth.

Zillah Minx ( from the band Rubella Ballet) tells the story with the women of the UK’s budding punk scene – the women before the Sex Pistols appeared on TV and revealed an underground punk world to the public. It is an insight into female punk rock – a culture that has been greatly misunderstood and misrepresented in the media. Their stories explore the experiences of being a punk rocker, life stores, gigs, fashion, music, Politics, friends, relationships and events. The present media interest in punk rock is a male dominated vision of the era.

This documentary specifically reassesses women’s roles in a dynamic movement that irreversibly changed the face of society, politics, art and music.

Featuring women punk rockers from bands of the era including Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex, Vi Subversa of Poison Girls, Eve Libertine & Gee of Crass, Gaye Black of The Adverts, Michelle of Brigandage,Ruth & Janet of Hagar The Womb and journalists, authors and photographers Julie Burchill and Caroline Comb and more.

Tickets: waged/£4.50 unwaged/£2.50.

Until 27 February: UCL Equalities University College London.

Throughout February, an exciting programme of events has been organised by UCL Equalities to celebrate diversity and examine the ongoing and evolving challenges some groups face in education, work and the wider society. This year’s theme is time, history and generation. The events will look at the historical context of equalities and diversity and the way different experiences of diversity are found within and between generations.

A full programme, which includes events that do not require registration, can be found here.

Events going on this week, include:

Historicising Slavery and Engaging the Younger Generation: The ‘ownership’ of enslaved men and women in the Caribbean by people living in Britain is still not widely known. And the extent to which Britain’s wealth derives from slavery is even less well understood.

The Legacies of British Slave-ownership project has developed an online database which uses the compensation records, a listing of all of those who received money when slavery was abolished in the 1830s, to highlight Britons’ connection to slave-ownership.

The research team are especially interested in engaging with young people and are now working along with Hackney Museum to develop a programme for secondary school students concerning slavery and slave-ownership in their borough.

Slavery can be a difficult subject to raise, especially with young people. Yet the LBS team believes that explaining the ways in which Britain was enriched by the labour of enslaved people can demonstrate that British heritage has been shaped by and therefore belongs to many people.

Queen of the Desert film screening: Not only has she got pink extensions, painted-on eyebrows, glitter stockings and superman hotpants, Starlady is a youth worker in some of Australia’s most remote and challenging places. Her tools are unique - scissors, bleach and hair colour.

Like a real life Priscilla, Starlady takes us on a Queen of the Desert journey to Areyonga, an indigenous community in Central Australia, where she’ll work with a group of curious and cheeky young people.

Until 22 February: Blurred Lines by Nick Payne and Carrie Cracknell at The Shed, National Theatre, South Bank, 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) and Wozzeck (ENO).

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

Until 22 March: The Mistress Contract by Abi Morgan, at Jerwood Theatre downstairs, Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square SW1W.

She and He are the pseudonyms of a real-life couple who live in separate houses in the same city on the west coast of America. She is 88. He is 93.

For 30 years he has provided her with a home and an income, while she provides ‘mistress services’ – ‘All sexual acts as requested, with suspension of historical, emotional, psychological disclaimers.’

They first met at university and then lost touch. When they met again twenty years later, they began an affair when She – a highly educated, intelligent woman with a history of involvement in the feminist movement – asked her wealthy lover to sign the remarkable document that outlines their unconventional lifestyle: The Mistress Contract.

Was her suggestion a betrayal of all that she and the women of her generation had fought for? Or was it brave, honest, and radical?

Then — on a small recorder that fit in her purse — this extraordinary couple began to tape their conversations about their relationship, conversations that took place while travelling, over dinner at home and in restaurants, on the phone, even in bed.

Based on reams of tape recordings made over their 30-year relationship, The Mistress Contract is a remarkable document of this unconventional couple, and the contract that kept them bound together to this day.

The Mistress Contract is Abi Morgan’s Royal Court Theatre debut. Her theatre credits include most recently 27 for National Theatre of Scotland and Frantic Assembly’s Lovesong. Her previous plays for the stage include Skinned, Splendour and Tiny Dynamite. A BAFTA award-winning writer, she wrote the screenplay for the film The Iron Lady starring Meryl Streep and Shame, directed by Steve McQueen and starring Michael Fassbender and on television, her credits include The Hour, Birdsong, White Girl and Sex Traffic.

Tickets £32, £22, £16, £12.

Until 23 March: Hannah Höch exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London, E1.

Hannah Höch was an artistic and cultural pioneer.

A member of Berlin’s Dada movement in the 1920s, she was a driving force in the development of 20th century collage. Splicing together images taken from fashion magazines and illustrated journals, she created a humorous and moving commentary on society during a time of tremendous social change.

Höch was admired by contemporaries such as George Grosz, Theo van Doesburg and Kurt Schwitters, yet was often overlooked by traditional art history. As the first major exhibition of her work in Britain, the show puts this inspiring figure in the spotlight.

A determined believer in artistic freedom, Höch questioned conventional concepts of relationships, beauty and the making of art.

Höch’s collages explore the concept of the ‘New Woman’ in Germany following World War I and capture the style of the 1920s avant-garde theatre. The important series ‘From an Ethnographic Museum’ combines images of female bodies with traditional masks and objects, questioning traditional gender and racial stereotypes.

Astute and funny, this exhibition reveals how Höch established collage as a key medium for satire while being a master of its poetic beauty.

Tickets £9.95/ £7.95.

Nottingham:

10 – 13 February: After Tiller at Broadway Cinema, 14 – 18 Broad Street, Nottingham, at 7.30pm.

Directed by Martha Shane & Lana Wilson, After Tiller shines a light on a topic that polarises America more than any other. After Tiller is a sobering and sombre account of the few doctors in the US who, after the murder of Dr George Tiller in 2009, continue to provide late term abortions. Death threats, fire-bombings and personal abuse are common, debate all but impossible.

Kerry Abel from Abortion Rights said: “I think we should thank Lana Wilson and Martha Shane for making a sensitive and extremely moving documentary, is a story of people who risk their lives every day for their work, many of whom were close colleagues of Dr. Tiller and now battle to maintain this service in the face of increasing provocation and harassment from the pro-life movement. It shines a light on the real situations faced by real people. This is something we at Abortion Rights have to highlight constantly, that whatever the situation or whatever our own views, we should trust women to make their own decisions about their own bodies and their own circumstances.

I read that the directors wanted to make this documentary to take heat out of the debate but shine more of a light on the real situations and that the people shown in the film agreed to take part because ‘it would be easier to go through the experience with [people who were helping them understand the process they were going through]’. I think we need more of that.”

Oxford:

15 February: No Ifs! No Buts! No County Council Cuts! Rally meeting at Manzil Way, Oxford, from 12 noon.

March – against Oxfordshire County Council Cuts – from Manzil Way to Bonn Square.

Oxfordshire County Council is proposing to make £64m of cuts to its services. As well as 38 per cent reductions in Housing Related Support, this will mean huge reduction in provision of adult social care (£7.1 m), environmental services – including public transport (£11.2 m) and children’s services (£6m). They say the children’s centres and early intervention service will be protected, but are taking £3m from their budget.

The final vote will be on Tuesday 18 February. Oxford People’s Assembly calls on the people of Oxfordshire to demonstrate together against the cuts on Saturday 15 February.