Who‘s coming to FiLIA?

What time does it start on Saturday morning? So I can work out if I can get there in time, thanks.

The app doesn't seem to be hugely active - at least not by Mumsnet standards!

I am keen to meet too - I have not looked at the app much yet

I can't see anything organised either! Keen for a meet-up!

I’m going and would like to meet up with any other Mners. I can’t see anything on the app, is there a meet up organised ?

Hello all. I'm going but don't know anyone else going. Hotel booked, will be there Saturday and Sunday. Excited!

If the pole telescopes down into a proper sized bag then it should be fine.
Ditto the banner.

The rules page is the standard venue gigs one.

Lots of ladies will be carrying banners for the Saturday afternoon after all.

You might want to read the rules of the Conference Centre, before taking your flag. Just saying ...

I went to Cardiff and stayed on my own and walked to the conference alone and went to the party alone
and loved EVERY minute of it.
NOBODY is alone on an all female dance floor :-)

I went to a women’s liberation in education conference in 2023/4 (can’t recall) and it was bloody brilliant to be among so many interesting, clever women from all walks of life. I went alone and was ‘adopted’ for the day by a lesbian couple in their seventies who thought I looked lonely and fed me biscuits while we raged at each other about gender ideology in schools and tutted at the (small( group of (really quite silly) young men outside chanting ‘I would rather be a Nazi than a terf’.

I was at that conference. It was ACE!

And I think that's where the convicted & violent criminal "Sarah" Baker incited violence against feminists. There was some threatened & actual violence meted out on attendees around UCL, iirc.

Those who are alone perhaps start a "Pre party meet up" thread on the Cvent ap & meet other women who are alone but going to the party.

There is the Femicide Rally outside before the party, and then everyone comes back for the party - so even if you met at 7pm for a drink & then you could go to party together? I would have enjoyed that kind of meetup on my first FiLiA.

I'm staying in a hotel close to the venue & I have a 2m telescopic flagpole & a big suffragette flag I'm going to fly proudly as I walk to the venue!!

What great luck having the use of your friends flat @CornflakeGirlsClub

I think there are a few party tickets left if you are feeling brave - according to the ap there is a band and all so its not too late to change your mind re the party. I had a party ticket on my first FiLiA (in London) and I didn't go cause I was "alone" so I get it. But the party really is a great release of tensions, emotions & coming together with women to shake it all out.

I was about to start a thread and then found you all. Yay! 🎉

I’ve got a Sat & Sun ticket. My first time (bought a ticket last year but then got the flu…boo).

Going down from London on the Friday night and staying in a friends flat while they’re away, but coming to the conference alone. Haven’t got party tickets as even though I’m fairly brave, I don’t want to be a billy no mates wall flower (and I stopped drinking a few years ago, so no Dutch courage for me!)

I’m excited! My DH and kids keep talking about mum being hyped for her ‘weekend feminist party’ 😀

I went to a women’s liberation in education conference in 2023/4 (can’t recall) and it was bloody brilliant to be among so many interesting, clever women from all walks of life. I went alone and was ‘adopted’ for the day by a lesbian couple in their seventies who thought I looked lonely and fed me biscuits while we raged at each other about gender ideology in schools and tutted at the (small( group of (really quite silly) young men outside chanting ‘I would rather be a Nazi than a terf’.

I’m a tall lass with a good death stare. I’ll happily walk to the venue with anyone feeling nervous. 🌷

Enjoy! I went to the Glasgow one because it's local. Not normally my kind of thing but found it refreshing to be in the presence of so many women. Hope you all have a great time.

very good @Talkinpeace - timely!

@RobinEllacotStrike
I realised I missed of a song that NEEDS to be played on the Saturday night

Why in Brighton? Erm, because there are 125,000 women in Brighton! Because in 1996 there was an important Feninist conference. Because sex-realism/gender critical beliefs are worthy of respect in a democratic society, and because we will not be bullied by nasty misogynistic, drluded trans rights activists.

Brilliant stuff!

We will be there! We're a group of Brighton women that have set up sisters heal following the Sarah Summers legal case.

We will also be part of the "I am Sarah" talk on Sunday about the Supreme Court judgment.

We have a stall at FiLiA and would love for Mumsnetters to stop by and say hello.

www.sistersheal.co.uk

It's my first Filia. Feeling a tad nervous in case of trouble but overall I'm excited. More so since reading how brilliant it'll be to be in the company of so many women. I shall investigate the app for chat and meetups.

@ThisIsMyGCname
Definitely ask around to see who else is likely to be on your train.
There are LOTS of us rocking up so there will be terven all over

Oh, I didn’t see the chat function. Thank you. I might just do that. And you’re right, I bet there’s someone going who’s on my train. I saw one of “us” in the wild a few weeks ago at a completely unrelated event. I can’t tell you how I knew because that would blow her cover but we did a secret handshake.

@ThisIsMyGCname I understand feeling like that & I imagine many women will be feeling a bit apprehensive.

@ParmaVioletTea 's suggestion is a good one & there will likely be women on your train coming to FiLiA too.

You will be absolutely fine and when you see the building and all the women there you will be uplifted & feel much better. Women belong in Brighton!

If you go on the app that FILIA is using for scheduling, you’ll see there’s a chat function. You could arrange to walk with a group of other women travelling and walk with them from the station to the venue.