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An intimate evening with Danielle Mynes and Jacque RutterDanielle and Jacque welcome you to an evening of culture, poetry, and art to celebrate the launch of Danielle's debut book of poetry Some Woman for One Woman , beautifully illustrated by visual artist Jacque Rutter. The book comprises 28 poems with a corresponding painting illuminating Danielle's words and message.
The evening will include readings from the book, a talk from Jacque about her paintings, and a Q and A with them both.
Our door will open at 6pm, and refreshments are included.
Your ticket price includes a copy of the book (there are also tickets available without a book. )
Some Woman for One Woman is Danielle Mynes’ tome to heal the world through her unique poetic storytelling, feminist musings, and her activism. The title of the book plays on an Irish saying, typically used by Irish people to describe an extraordinary woman of great skill and practicality, often with little or no support or resources available to her at all.
Proceeds of the sold artwork and book will support the charity Freeda and Leadhers, a youth based NPO empowering the next generation of leaders to rise.
Danielle believes that all women are extraordinary and are some woman for one woman, that her story must be felt, told, passed on and down. For too long women's accomplishments, reality, voice, lived experience, and truth have been erased, dismissed, or ignored.
Taking readers on an emotional journey, she explores motherhood, her Irish heritage, emigration, female desire, patriarchy, the spirituality of the sea, and relationships with a big old slice of reality and hard-hitting Irish wit. Her poems are gut-wrenchingly funny, but also dark, uncomfortable, moving and relatable. Her poetry calls for collective unity, allyship, unconditional love, education, and change, to ensure each one of us lives safely without fear or violence, in a world where we all can rise together.
The book also includes Danielle’s influences, feminist musings, and activities. Every poem is beautifully illustrated by Jersey-based visual artist Jacque Rutter, whose work adorns the second half of the book in The Mistress pieces Section. The paintings powerfully illuminate Danielle’s words through abstract visual art and speak to the stories and emotions women and girls carry.
Danielle believes we all either are or know some woman for one woman, let’s celebrate her and listen to her story.
Danielle
Danielle Mynes is an Irish poet, feminist activist, and secondary school teacher living in Jersey, Channel Islands. A TEDx and ResearchEd speaker, she teaches English Literature and leads Personal, Social, Health, and Economic Education at Jersey College for Girls. She also serves as a member of Jersey’s Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Taskforce, leading systemic change in education. Danielle leads pioneering work with her students and fellow Taskforce members to prevent and end violence against women and girls in Jersey.
When she is not teaching or shaping curriculum, Danielle is writing poetry that confronts the realities facing women and girls.
Her work draws on her Irish heritage, the lived experiences of women, and the power of unity and allyship to end gender-based violence. She writes with honesty, rawness, and authenticity about motherhood, relationships, emigration, and the barriers and violence women and girls continue to endure. Her poems are rooted in truth, resilience, and the complexities of women’s lived experiences.
Jacque
Jacque Rutter is an illustrator and visual artist whose career began with commissions for The Sunday Times and Oxford University Press. She later trained as an Art Therapist and worked briefly in an adolescent unit before founding and directing Roche Side Arts Centre, collaborating across three UK local authorities to deliver a wide range of arts programmes, from special needs provision to postgraduate and teacher training.
For over 25 years, Jacque worked as an art teacher and curator in Jersey, a role she loved deeply; Jacque feels it has been a privilege to help young people discover creative expression. Now retired from full-time education, Jacque continues to engage in arts-based community and educational projects while developing her own studio practice, exploring memory, mark-making, and the emotional resonance of place. Jacque understands the power of art and has first-hand experience seeing how engaging in the arts can be life changing.
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New Street,St Helier, JE2 3RA, Jersey
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