Category: Annual event

Remembrance Day is an annual event, where we remember all the people who have lost their lives while serving in the armed forces. It’s also called Armistice Day or Poppy Day. It is commemorated on this day because the First World War ended “at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month”.  … Continue reading “Remembrance Day (11 Nov)”

Intersex Day of Remembrance, also known as Intersex Solidarity Day, is an internationally observed civil awareness day designed to highlight issues faced by intersex people. It marks the birthday of Herculine Barbin, a French intersex person whose memoirs were later published by Michel Foucault in Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite.

International Pronouns Day, 19 October [occurring annually on the third Wednesday in October], seeks to make respecting, sharing, and educating about personal pronouns commonplace. Referring to people by the pronouns they determine for themselves is basic to human dignity. Being referred to by the wrong pronouns particularly affects transgender and gender nonconforming people. Together, we can … Continue reading “International Pronouns Day 19 October 2022”

The theme of 2022’s World Mental Health Day, set by the World Federation for Mental Health, is ‘Make mental health and wellbeing for all a global priority‘. The last couple of years have brought many challenges for all of us but, in particular, for people with mental health conditions, many of whom have been experiencing … Continue reading “World Mental Health Day 10 October 2022”

October is Menopause Awareness Month, with 18 October designated as ‘World Menopause Day’ and this year’s theme being ‘Cognition and Mood’. The menopause is a natural stage of life that affects all women. Medically speaking, it is where a woman ceases to ovulate and their periods eventually stop, caused by a change in hormone levels. … Continue reading “Menopause Awareness Month (October) and World Menopause Day (18 October)”

International Translation Day is an opportunity to pay tribute to the work of language professionals, who play an important role in bringing nations together, facilitating dialogue, understanding and cooperation, contributing to development and strengthening world peace and security. Transposition of a literary or scientific work, including technical work, from one language into another language, professional … Continue reading “International Translation Day (30 September)”

One day a year, there’s a call for people in Britain to send their anonymous diary accounts of their day http://www.massobs.org.uk/write-for-us/12th-may. After over a year of living through a global pandemic, this year’s contributions will be very telling. Mass Observation is a UK social research project, started in 1937 by three former Cambridge students – … Continue reading “Mass Observation Day”

The theme for this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week is ‘loneliness’. With loneliness affecting more and more of us, it has had a huge impact on our physical and mental health during the pandemic. Our connection to, and with, other people and our community is fundamental to protecting our mental health. Particularly during the pandemic, … Continue reading “Mental Health Awareness Week 9-15 May”

In the UK alone, there are over 10 million people living with some form of hearing loss, whether it is mild or profound.  Deaf Awareness Week is all about promoting the positive aspects of living with deafness. This event aims to raise awareness of the isolation that deaf people can occasionally experience, and promote the … Continue reading “Deaf Awareness Week 4-9 May 2022”

Holi, also called the festival of sharing and love or the festival of colours, is a Hindu two-day festival in the Spring. This year the festival starts at sundown on 17 March to sundown on 18 March, with the first day of the festival called Chhoti Holi or Holika Dahan and the second Dhuleti or … Continue reading “Holi (17-18 March)”