S.O.F.A. launches its new season since a long hiatus this February. A series of events held throughout the year at secret locations in major capital cities. At each S.O.F.A. event, we feature women in various fields dabbling in things they're passionate about, have fun, have a dance, meet and mingle and network in the safety and comfort of other women. We welcome men who arrive in the company of their female friends.
S.O.F.A. Speakeasy
Date: 11 Feb 2017
Venue: A secret location in the heart of Kuala Lumpur
Featuring DJs and Guest Mixologist
The theme for this upcoming event is inspired by the 'prohibition' times in the United States of America, circa 1920s-1930s where the manufacture, sale and distribution of alcohol was banned, resulting in the opening of many many tiny bars and drinking 'holes' throughout the US.
I recently met a young lady from the UK, whose grandmother was an original suffragette. Her name was Elsa, and so was her grandma. She shared with me a fast tale about how Elsa was fighting for women to have the right to vote, and was a fiercely independent woman who stood for what she believed, at the turn of the century. We're a hundred years in, yet sometimes I hear sad tales from women still living as if they are not equal to the other sex. As if it's not a right. As if we are born to serve, to be filial and to be that other rib, derived from the other sex.
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I've overheard a GLBTQ freedom fighter says all we do are social events, as if to pooh-pooh social events as trivial and non-committal. But hey, it's at social events like Speakeasy Bars during the prohibition times, that ideas are discussed, disagreements are had and beer is drunk. For each its own. For disco we live on. For disco was once prohibited too. But not on 11 Feb 2017.
