Events
Please find a list of our current annual events below. Details will be updated closer to the event with the relevant information for the year. More information can be found on our Facebook page.
Ringing Rotary Nara Peace Bell in Commeration
December 10th is International Day of Human Rights and the final day of the UN Nations 16 Days of Activism against gender violence.
We will gather on the 10th of December, in Lennox Gardens, Flynn Drive, Yarralumla from 6:30am for a 7:00am start.
The bell will be struck once for each womans life lost in Australia through domestic violence,
Once for Indigenous community, once for children, once for New Zealand women,
and once for men who have lost their lives through Domestic Violence.
The Rhythm Syndicate Choir will bring their voices to the event.
Zonta Club of Canberra Breakfast and Rotary Burley Griffin invite you to attend.
This is a solemn and touching ceremony and commemorates the lives lost.
Attendance is free, please register so we can accommodate numbers.
Movie Fundraiser – Lee
Oscar winner Kate Winslet stars in this fascinating portrait of the great American war correspondent Lee Miller, whose singular talent and ferocious tenacity gave us some of the 20th century’s most indelible images.
A former model, Lee is now tired of being viewed through a lens and by men, and focusses on her own work as a photographer. As the threat of war looms, everything about their daily lives changes completely, almost overnight. Frustrated by the restrictions placed on female photographers at the time, who are limited to documenting life on the home front, Miller urges her female boss at British Vogue, to request permission for Lee to go to the frontline.
With a profound understanding and empathy for women and for the voiceless victims of atrocious crimes, her images feature both the fragility and ferocity of the human ability to survive, exist, fight, defend and live.
Directed by award winning cinematographer Ellen Kuras, and featuring superb supporting performances from Marion Cotillard, Andrea Riseborough, Andy Samberg and Alex Skarsgard, the film is a vivid reminder of the bold women who fought to penetrate male-dominated spaces — making great sacrifices and ultimately changing the way we see the world.
Date: Sunday October 27th, 2024
Time: 4 pm – 6:30 pm
Venue: Palace Electric Cinema – New Acton
Price: $25
An Evening With the Stars
Mingle with astronomers and gaze through Mt Stromlo’s outreach telescopes. Discuss astronomy & astrophysics, planetary science & cosmology and instrumentation to theory… or just look at the pretty patterns the stars make.
Zonta’s Women in Astronomy Scholarship recipients Radhika Chirakkara will talk on her PHD thesis which focuses on magnetic fields in galaxy clusters.
Date: Tuesday 6th November 2024
Time: 6.00pm to 9.00pm
Venue: ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
Mount Stromlo Observatory, Cotter Road, Weston Creek
A light supper will be provided
Cost: Adults $25.00 School Students: $10.00
This event is ZCCB’s major annual Fundraising Event and is well established on the local Canberra calendar.
Quality Designer clothing is donated throughout the year and carefully curated for this event.
Pre Loved Fashion Sale (PLFS)
It is time for the much anticipated Pre Loved Fashion Sale and do we have a sale for you in 2025!!
SAVE THE DATE:
Friday 14th of March: Exclusive VIP Evening
VIP Evening Event: 5pm – 8pm (Sales commence 5:30pm)
Drinks and Nibbles included $30
Saturday 15th March: General Admission Free 9am – 3pm
Venue: The Shine Dome, 15 Gordon St, ACTON Canberra City
Tickets to the exclusive VIP night on Friday 14th March 2025 are available now.
Do you love to get dressed up and wear your bling AND support a good cause?
Bring your mum, sister, daughter, husband or special friend and come along to the Zonta Club of Canberra Breakfast’s Tiara High Tea on May 19th at the Royal Canberra Golf Club in Yarralumla from 2pm.
Glenda Stevens – CEO of Fearless Women and this year’s ACT Senior Women of the Year will be our guest speaker.
Tickets are limited so get yours soon from Humanitix $50 each.
https://events.humanitix.com/tiara-high-tea-5lw94rwr
*Tiaras will be available for purchase on the day.
Zonta says NO to violence 2023
Birthing Kit Packing Day
Volunteers join members of the ZCCB to assemble Birthing Kits which are distributed world wide.
We generally assemble between 3000 and 5000 Birthing Kits.
This is a fun day to unite with friends and have a chat whilst assembling the kits.
Date: Late July
16 Days of Activism
Annual Event commencing November 25th – International Day of the Elimination of Violence against Women, through to December 10, International Day of Human Rights.
Nara Peace Bell Cermony
Held annually on December 10, in commemoration of the women who have been killed in Australia. In this simple and moving ceremony, the bell is rung once for each woman who has died.
Movie FundRaisers
Throughout the year we will hold Movie Fundraisers when appropriate films are available. These are generally hosted at the Palace Cinema in New Acton and are announced on our Facebook page and through the Friends of ZCCB Mailing List