Monthly Adoptee Voices Zoom
Your chance to come together with fellow adoptees and talk abut the issues that affect you. Wednesday 24 July 2024, 7.30pm – 8.30pm. Adoptees can register for free here.
Past Events
Screening of Somebody’s Daughter
Virtual adoptee-only screening of Somebody’s Daughter, followed by Q&A with Zara Phillips.
We’re excited to be hosting this with Zara and look forward to sharing the film with an adoptee audience. Sunday 10 September 2024, 7pm UK time. Buy your ticket here.
25th April 2023 – Formal apology from Welsh Government
We’re pleased to share with you that on Tuesday, April 25th at around 4.45 pm the Welsh Deputy Minister for Social Services will make a statement in the Senedd on Historical Adoption Practices.
Adoptees who would like to attend in person can contact the Senedd to reserve a seat in the public gallery.
3rd May 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Adoptee Voices Zoom
This is the first of our regular adoptee-only Zoom chats. We want to make adoptee voices heard and be counted!
Please come and join us to talk about the things that matter to you.
Do you have any questions about the work we’ve been doing, is there anything you think we should be focusing on, and any other suggestions or requests you may have?
To receive the link please register here.
24th May 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm – Adoptee Book Club
When I First Held You – Anstey Harris
Our book club is for adoptees only and ticketed, free or by voluntary donation a portion of which will be passed to Anstey. Please reserve your place via Eventbrite to receive the link.
We are delighted to announce that author and adoptee Anstey Harris will join us for our first online Adoptee Book Club to talk about her latest novel When I First Held You.
In order to allow attendees to speak freely in a safe space, we will not be recording the event.
When I First Held You is available in print, ebook, and audio formats in the UK and the USA. Anstey has asked us to remind UK readers that you don’t need to buy the novel in order to support her–if you check it out from your local library she will still get a fee.
🇬🇧: Bookshop.org; Amazon
🇺🇸: Bookshop.org; Amazon
May | Return to Seoul screening with Director Davy Chou
Return to Seoul will be screening in London in May at the Barbican and at the British Film Institute. Director Davy Chou will attend the Barbican screening on 3 May and the 6pm BFI screening on 5 May, and will hold a Q&A after the film.
April 2023 | The In-Between Lines Project at Coram | Open Mic
“We hold you and we can guide you”. Debbie Nahid from the Adult Adoptee Movement talked to younger adoptees about the lifelong impact of adoption at Coram’s In-Between Lines Project open mic session.
March 2023 | Webinar with the Movement for an Adoption Apology: Why an Apology Matters
Powerful testimony from mothers and adoptees. The Adult Adoptee Movement and the Movement for an Adoption Apology have come together in a webinar to discuss why an apology matters. The UK Government has refused to issue an apology for historic forced adoptions, despite its acknowledgment of a violation of human rights.
February 2023 | Website Launch and Meet the Team
We discuss how we came about, the JCHR inquiry The Violation of Family Life: Adoption of Children of Unmarried Women 1949–1976 in July 2022, as well as the lifelong impact of adoption, and our vision for the future.
Huge thank you to all those who attended!
February 2023 | Webinar with the Ollie Foundation
The recording will be available shortly
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