Join us to celebrate women in cricket and women’s sport history at these events at the MCC Library, MCG, 28th January, 2025
Women in cricket history panel
In the lead up to the historic Women’s Ashes Test at the MCG, we are hosting two great events on 28 January 2025 with our great friends at the MCC Library at The Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- Date: Tuesday 28 January 2025
- Time: 10am to 12pm
- Location: MCC Library at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
- Cost: FREE!
All are welcome to join us for this panel discussion on the morning of Tuesday 28 January. This panel will feature historians and journalists discussing the role of historical storytelling in sports writing, how to tell historical stories and will highlight the resources the MCC Library offers to find women’s sports stories in the archives.
Our panel will feature leaders in the field:
- Raf Nicholson, cricket historian, academic and sports journalist
- Marion Stell, one of Australia’s leading sports historians and author of “The Bodyline Fix”
- Karen Hill, former Australian cricketer and member of Cricket NSW Women’s Heritage Group
- Kirby Fenwick, Siren co-founder, historian, writer and audio producer
We will also hear from MCC Librarians David Studham and Trevor Ruddell
The panel will be moderated by Siren co-founder and Deakin University sports media academic, Kasey Symons.
Women’s sport history storytelling workshop
- Date: Tuesday 28 January 2025
- Time: 2pm to 5pm
- Location: MCC Library at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
- Cost: FREE!
This will be a hands-on workshop perfect for women and non-binary sports writers, emerging and established, who are keen to develop some more historical research skills to aid in their storytelling. We will have historical storytelling experts in the room such as Raf Nicholson, Marion Stell, Rob Hess, MCC Librarians David Studham and Trevor Ruddell and Siren co-founders Kasey Symons and Kirby Fenwick, leading a workshop on how to find stories, conduct research and bring the story together.
We will prioritise registrations for women and non-binary folk for this workshop.
If we have remaining places we will open registrations but please feel free to email us at contact@sirensport.com.au to add your name to the waitlist and we will let you know if we have any spots left by 22 January.