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Wednesday 5 – sunday 9 March London WOW LOGO for WOW LOGO 2014 small scale use Full programme WOW LONDON 2014 Jude Kelly WOW WEEKEND: 7, 8, 9 MARCH The WOW weekend is for everybody. Join us for a packed weekend that celebrates the incredible achievements of women and girls and looks at the most potent topics for women today. Featuring voices Jude Kelly, from around the world and stories from your neighbours. WOW is now Women of the World in its fourth year, and this time it’s bigger, broader, and broaches a Festival Director range of new subjects. This has been an important year for women’s As Artistic Director of WOW festivals in schools and also for rights. WOW looks back at key events and considers the future, with and a female leader, WOW directly primary-age children who have their own more action-focused sessions and ways to campaign, whether you’re expresses many of the aspirations, conference on Thursday. WOW is now dilemmas and dramatic challenges that happening in four other countries and a veteran or dipping your toe into for the first time. I’ve witnessed throughout my life and still scheduled to spread to four more next see mirrored in the female population year. WOW festivals around the UK are Day passes and three-day weekend passes are available across the world. I founded WOW four starting up too. Wowsers, our trainees years ago to ensure there was a high- programme has attracted an astonishing Day passes: £12* Three-day passes: £30* profile cultural space where hundreds of group of young women who help to run women’s stories could be shared, feelings the Festival, whilst of course the whole *No transaction fees for in-person bookings or Southbank Centre Members and Supporters vented, fun had, minds influenced and team at Southbank Centre search for Circles. For other bookings transaction fees apply: £1.75 online, £2.75 over the phone. hearts expanded. new and distinguished contributors to add to the wealth of ideas. There is not one country in the world where women have full equality This year we’ve added Women in the Arts contents and in most countries injustices are Day to ensure that as part of the cultural WOW STUFF P4,32-33 FRIDAY DAY PASS EVENTS P8-13 commonplace. Women can support each sector we take action in our exhibitions P5 SATURDAY DAY PASS EVENTS P14-22 other to make changes on all levels. own backyard. Men can and must be part of realising Almost 1,000 women from all walks of ticketed events P6,7,13,23,31 SUNDAY DAY PASS EVENTS P24-30 that changing landscape. It will be a life will be part of the Speed Mentoring better world for everyone and I think our Programme. children and grandchildren, both boys Highlights and girls, are entitled to expect progress We want WOW to be the place you rely on vivienne westwood P25 malala yousafzai P23 from us. The three-day pass will give you to highlight hidden issues and important access to a plethora of conversations projects. We work with hundreds of vicky pryce P11 Anne summers P29 and events, some deeply disturbing and contributors to make WOW happen – it’s maxine peake P13 nirbhaya P6 some exhilarating and inspiring. During now one of the largest women’s festivals in under-10s ronnie spector P31 WOW week there are parallel activities the world and will keep growing. After all, feminist corner P14,20,24 for teachers on gender education, for there’s a lot to do. grayson perry P31 women against pit closures P28 teenagers who are holding their own mirth control P23 teens’ events p18,20,25

Bloomberg’s support builds on a long history of support across Southbank Centre for a wide range of art exhibitions, public commissions and literature programmes. Through its philanthropy programme, Bloomberg helps charities and non-profit organisations around the world with education and literacy programmes, health and medical research, social work, arts and culture, public parks and the environment. Southbank Centre is grateful to Ms Miel de Botton, Catherine Petitgas, Lauren Prakke, southbankcentre.co.uk/wow #wowLDN and Joana and Henrik Schliemann for supporting WOW 2014. 3 wow Stuff that’s useful to know wow exhibitions

WOWsers TEEN EVENTS J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere Look out for the Wowsers – a team of young This year we have a number of events for young Hairstyles ambassadors for WOW. Meet them at the people covering subjects including bullying and information desk where they can answer your the politics of the playground. and Headdresses questions and direct you to the next event. Get See pages 18, 20, 25 for details. opens wednesday 5 march crafty with them at the WOW market where they The first UK exhibition of work by renowned can help you make your own WOW souvenir and Nigerian photographer, J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere. read their reports of the festival on the WOW blog. Speed Mentoring at WOW The Hairstyles series began in 1968, driven wow.southbankcentre.co.uk Share your challenges, exchange ideas and stories by Ojeikere’s desire to document the many and potentially identify a new mentor. Speed different types and meanings of hairstyles mentoring is an opportunity for you to be mentored worn by Nigerian women. In essence MARKETPLACE by experts across many fields, including theatre Modernist fashion photography, the resulting Friday 7 – Sunday 9 March directors, journalists, scientists, campaigners, images poignantly document a nation undergoing immense social and cultural The WOW marketplace is the heart and hub of artists, WOW speakers and many more. change following post-colonisation. the festival. Our specially designed indoor market The mentoring session lasts for one hour, with four is home to carefully selected stalls providing individual 15-minute speed mentoring sessions. Spirit Level at information, raising awareness, showcasing work or selling their wares. Market stallholders include Friday 7 March WAH Nails, Science Grrl and Africa’s Living Room. 2.30pm Level 2 Foyers at Royal Festival Hall The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall 10am – 6pm saturday 8 12 noon – 1pm and 3.30pm – 4.30pm ACCESS Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall A selection of the talks will be British Sign Language interpreted and Speech to Text Transcribed. Look out sunday 9 March for the symbols next to each event in this brochure. 11.30am – 12.30pm and 3pm – 4pm Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall UNDER-10s Speed mentoring at WOW is free, but sign-up FEMINISt corner is required as places are limited. Jananne Al-Ani: Sign up to be a mentee via the Southbank Centre website or Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 March Ticket Office. Excavations Are you a budding young feminist? Would you use If you’re interested in being one of our WOW mentors please wednesday 5 March the F word in the playground? If so, we’ve got the email [email protected] for further – sunday 20 April Hera Master Come Down perfect session for you. Join other young feminists information. These are women-only events. Project Space presents a for an interactive workshop exploring what being a selection of works from London-based Iraqi-born tuesday 4 March – sunday 13 girl means and get tips on how to start a campaign artist Jananne Al-Ani. Working with photography, April in your bedroom. Led by former under-ten film and video, Al-Ani has an ongoing interest in Ntiense Eno Amooquaye launches her first feminists, Caroline Bird and Lucy Ellinson. the landscape of the Middle East, its archaeology ever solo exhibition, Hera Master Come Down, after working with The Saison Poetry Library’s Please note, this free event requires a ticket. and its visual representation in the West through collection over a period of 12 months. Ntiense Please book your free ticket online, by phone or in the technology of modern warfare. The exhibition Eno Amooquaye is a member of the London- person (no fees apply). includes Shadow Sites I (2010) from the Arts Council Collection. based art collective Intoart and her practice Saturday 8 March, 12 pm – 1pm & 3.30pm – 4.30pm integrates the visual, written and spoken word Hayward Gallery Project Space Sunday 9 March, 10am – 11am through print, text, image and live performance. J.P. Morgan Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall Jananne Al-Ani will be in conversation with Hayward The Saison Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall Please note this event is for under-10s only. Gallery Chief Curator Stephanie Rosenthal at 3.30pm in Dan Graham’s Waterloo Sunset Pavilion, Ntiense Eno Amooquaye will be doing a WOW Bite. Hayward Gallery. See page 21 See page 29

Image Credits: J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere, Modern Suku, 1979 © J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere. Courtesy Galerie MAGNIN-A, . 4 Jananne Al-Ani, Aerial I (2011), production still from the film Shadow Sites II. Courtesy the artist and Abraaj Capital Art Prize. Photography Adrian Warren 5 wow Seventstuff that’s useful to know These events are ticketed separately and are not included in the day passes. *No transaction fees for in-person bookings or Southbank Centre Members and Supporters Buy tickets online or phone our Ticket Office (details on the back page). Circles. For other bookings transaction fees apply: £1.75 online, £2.75 over the phone.

miss representation Gabriela Montero monday 3 March Wednesday 5 March Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s powerful film highlights Venzuelan pianist Gabriela Montero shines how America’s mainstream media contributes to a spotlight on a remarkable female the lack of women in leadership positions. composer, Clara Schumann. Like drawing back a curtain to let bright light , 7.30pm stream in, Miss Representation uncovers a glaring £28, £21, £15, £10* reality we live with every day but fail to see. The film exposes how mainstream media contributes to Gabriela Montero is also speaking the under-representation of women in positions of as part of WOW see page 16 power and influence in America and challenges the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and feel powerful in their day-to-day lives. Gabriela Montero

Duration: 90 minutes Miss Representation Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7pm £12 The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director, Jennifer Siebel Newsom Nirbhaya Written and Directed by Yael Farber Wednesday 5 – ★★★★★ Wednesday 12 March Motherland () Based on the performers’ real-life experiences. vincent dance theatre ★★★★★ On December 16 2012 a young woman and her Thursday 6 March male friend boarded a bus in New Delhi. What Through a potent blend of theatre, live (Daily Telegraph) followed changed their lives and countless others music and dance, an ensemble of men, forever. Playwright and director Yael Farber has women and children take a look at the created a searing new work that cracks open the gender they were born into and silence around women whose lives have been the price they are paying for it. shattered by gender-based violence. Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7.30pm Presented by Southbank Centre. An Assembly, Riverside £16 and £10* Studios and Poorna Jagannathan Production. A post-show conversation will be held after each performance Wednesday 5 – Wednesday 12 March, 7pm Saturday 8 March: Matinee, 2pm Tuesday 11 March Performance will be BSL signed. Please note there is no performance on Motherland © Alastair Muir Monday 10 March at Queen Elizabeth Hall Nirbhaya © William Burdett-Coutts £22.50* 6 7 FRIDAY 7 MARCH day pass Events If you have a Friday/Three-Day Pass, choose one event to attend in each time slot and arrive early, as it’s first come, first served.

Women and Power Friday Lunch: Austerity – Friday 7 March COLLECTRESS who benefits? Is feminism officially ‘in’? If so, has it changed Friday 7 March Friday 7 March women’s relationship to power? Journalist Collectress has been described as a cross Why are cuts and austerity politics still Kira Cochrane opens this session with a whistle- between the Elysian Quartet and the Brontë disproportionately affecting women? Leading stop tour of the past 12 months’ big stories. In sisters when possessed (FoxyDigitalis.com). They anti-cuts campaigners including Rosie Rogers this unprecedented year for feminism, Baroness are a quartet of long-term musical collaborators from UK Uncut and Eleanor Lisney from Sisters Shirley Williams, campaigner Sarah Brown, and from London and Brighton. With dynamic of Frida lay out today’s cuts landscape and space-scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock talk combinations of strings, keys, woodwind, found consider what challenges the next round of cuts about power – and whether women’s relationship sounds and voices, they perform with a strong will bring. Chaired by Guardian journalist Kira to the p-word would change in a gender-equal Maggie Aderin-Pocock sense of narrative, drawing listeners into their Cochrane. world. Chaired by WOW founder and Southbank distinctive world of experimental chamber music. Centre Artistic Director Jude Kelly. The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall Central Bar at Royal Festival Hall 1.30pm – 2.30pm Queen Elizabeth Hall 1pm – 2pm FREE 9.30am – 11am The Squeezed Middle – the Lord Mayor’s Rape and the Law Sarah Brown Challenge Friday 7 March Friday 7 March Nearly one in five women in and Wales The gender diversity debate rages on – with calls report that they have been the victim of a for more women on boards, more opportunities sexual offence since the age of 16. Hear from at start-up or apprenticeship level and focus on Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary Dru equal opportunities all the way up the career Sharpling CBE, who currently chairs the national ladder. Fiona Woolf, the Lord Mayor of London, Rape Monitoring Group which regularly reports to argues that the people largely responsible for the Home Secretary on the progress of criminal implementing diversity – HR departments and justice agencies in dealing with rape and serious middle managers – are too busy, stressed or offences; Detective Inspector Jason Ashwood, from Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child un-persuaded to implement these intentions. Collectress What companies or initiatives are REALLY making Abuse Command in the Met Police and Professor a difference, not just offering lip service? The Joanna Bourke, author of ‘Rape: A History from 1860 to the present’ about how these crimes Lord Mayor is joined by Australian lawyer and WOW question time Activism Without Borders company director Cheryl Bart and paralympian are reported, how government and police policy and independent cross bench peer Baroness Friday 7 March impact conviction rate and how the myths around Friday 7 March rape should be challenged. Chaired by Tanni Grey-Thompson. Which political party really puts gender equality What can UK-based activists learn from their News presenter Cathy Newman. The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall at the heart of its policies? As we gear up for the international sisters? Australian writer and 11.30am – 1pm 2015 general election, WOW holds its first ever Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall feminist Anne Summers, co-founder of anti-FGM political hustings. 1.30pm – 2.30pm campaigning group Daughters of Eve Nimco Ali, Judy Kosgei, leading Kenyan journalist Harriet Harman, deputy leader of the Labour and winner of the Thomson Foundation Young party, Linda Jack, chair of Liberal Left and Journalist Award, and Mariana Katzarova, member of the Liberal Democrats’ Federal Policy founder of Reach all Women in WAR, discuss Committee. Chaired by Sarah Sands, Editor of global campaigns and grass-roots activism, the London . lobbying policy makers, and what success Queen Elizabeth Hall would look like. Chaired by Jessica Horn, 1.30pm – 2.30pm feminist activist and one of Applause Africa’s 40 Changemakers. Queen Elizabeth Hall, 11.30am – 1pm 8 9 FRIDAY 7 MARCH day pass Events If you have a Friday/Three-Day Pass, choose one event to attend in each time slot and arrive early, as it’s first come, first served.

Olympic Leadership Lynne Franks Speed Mentoring Crash and Burn Friday 7 March SEED Clinic pt 1 Friday 7 March Friday 7 March What is good leadership – and is leadership Friday 7 March The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall What happens when your life hits the wall? Is gendered? At this special WOW session, 2.30pm there really such a thing as rock bottom and if so Lynne Franks, founder of SEED, interviews Stella See page 6 for details what do we learn about ourselves when we reach Sarah Winckless, Olympic medalist rower and Creasy MP, Shadow Minister for Business, leadership coach, describes how knowing it? Rosie Boycott, a recovering alcoholic, Innovation and Skills at the SEED Café about ‘what Zoe Webber, founder of Full Petal Jacket, and yourself helps you bring out the best in others government can do to help women in business. Women and Immigration and gives guidance on getting your skills and journalist Tanya Gold open up about depression, talents recognized in life and in the workplace. This will be followed by the SEED team of Friday 7 March addictive behaviour and coming back from the coaches and experts work in SEED Café Style Immigration will be one of the key issues of the brink. Small capacity with WOW attendees, offering practical help general election, but what are the real facts? How Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall Sunley Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall and guidance on how to start and run your own does immigration affect women? What makes 3pm – 4pm 1.30pm – 2.30pm sustainable business women leave their homes, their families and their Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall friends, and what happens when they arrive in their How To become an mp 1.30pm – 2.30pm UK? Hear about the lives behind the headlines. heading for Friday 7 March the stratosphere Speakers include Ewelina Pawlowska from the Roma Support Group and campaigner Learn from the experts what it takes to become an elected representative. Friday 7 March Stella Creasy Meltem Avcil. Nelly Ben Hayoun is Designer of Experiences Queen Elizabeth Hall, 3pm – 4pm Find out why so few women stand, whether women at the SETI Institute. In 2012, Ben Hayoun vote for other women and what tips seasoned assembled the world’s first International Space female politicians share with those at the start of Orchestra (ISO) composed of space scientists Vicky Pryce: their career. If you’ve ever toyed with the idea of from NASA Ames Research Center, SETI Institute Prisonomics running for office, whether it’s at local, national or (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), international level, this is the session for you. Singularity University, and the International Friday 7 March Blue Room, Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall Space University. Here she talks about her After her stint in Holloway Prison, Vicky Pryce 3pm – 4pm methods and results, working against all odds, discusses being behind bars, her book Prisonomics, and the highlights of this cosmic-sized work. and the human and economic cost of keeping How to create women in prison. Chaired by Deborah Coles, Co- Australian lawyer and company director Cheryl Director of INQUEST and trustee of a great web presence Bart and daughter Nikki Bart made history when Women in Tech they became the first-ever mother-daughter Clean Break theatre company and Women In Prison. Friday 7 March team to reach the summit of Mt Everest. Upon Friday 7 March The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall Discover the most effective web presence for your reaching the top, they also became the first As the percentage of women using social networking 3pm – 4pm needs. Lulu Kitololo, creative director and co-founder mother-daughter duo to complete the Seven sites surpasses that of men, and barriers to women of Asilia, tells you how to create your own off-the-peg Summits: the highest peaks of every continent in learning code are diminishing. But what role are website, generate quality traffic and capture leads. the world. Cheryl talks about ‘mind over mountain’, women playing in the tech, media and digital industry, Small capacity and the particular challenges of being a woman and is it being influenced by women’s voices? And whether balancing work and children to training does this matter? Cheryl Bart, Board member of the Sunley Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall and expedition life – and argues that everyone Austrailian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) looks 3pm – 4pm should attempt a mountain. at the future of the media at a time when we’re all Weston Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall journalists. The speakers are Mariéme Jamme, CEO 1.30pm – 2.30pm of SpotOne Global Solutions and founder of African Gathering, and tech artist Julie Freeman. Chaired by Olivia Solon, deputy editor of Wired.co.uk St Paul’s Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall 1.30pm – 2.30pm Vicky Pryce

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Funny Women Why People Fail Maxine Peake club night Comedy Workshop Friday 7 March Friday 7 March Friday 7 March Friday 7 March Is there a handbook on how to be successful? Starring in shows such as Shameless and The line-up includes Radio 1’s Gemma Cairney, Want to improve your confidence, presentation, Do self-help books work? We ask founder of WAH Silk, Maxine Peake is not just one of the UKs Capital Xtra’s Coco Cole, presenter and DJ Jamilla and networking skills by using humour? Led by Nails, Sharmadean Reid, Southbank Centre most popular actresses; she is also building Walters and Melody Kane, prolific DJ and founder Funny Women founder Lynne Parker, who draws Patrons Manager Joanna Newell and others a name as an astute and independent of Female Takeover, which showcases work from the on 11 years of comedy experience, this workshop to follow the rules of Siimon Reynolds’ How artist who is using her fame and influence UK’s top female DJs, MCs, artists and urban acts. gives you a taste of how you can use comedy on People Fail. and report back on its strategies to help women’s stories take central stage. Curated by Gemma Cairney. stage, in business, or as part of everyday life. for defeating things that affect us all, like low From her mesmerizing, haunting portrayal Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, 8.30pm – 1am productivity, stress, fixed mindset and lack of of Myra Hyndley to her quietly courageous Level 4 Blue Bar at Royal Festival Hall daily rituals. Did this book change their lives? And Grace Middleton in BBC One’s The Village, her 3pm – 4pm what was the best and worst advice? Chaired by searing performances focus on the complex Editor of COSMOPOLITAN Louise Court. circumstances that drive women’s actions in Lynne Franks St Paul’s Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall crime, love or politics. She talks candidly about friday 7 march EVENT SEED Clinic pt 2 3pm – 4pm ambition and her growing celebrity status, and the role models she has been inspired by. In WOW Laureates’ Night Friday 7 March conversation with Jude Kelly. For the first time in history, all five Sharmadean Reid Lynne Franks, founder of SEED, interviews The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall UK and NI poet laureates are women. successful women leaders from the corporate 4.10pm – 5pm We bring Carol Ann Duffy, Liz Lochhead, and entrepreneurial world including Debbie Gillian Clarke, Paula Meehan, and Sinéad Moore of Pineapple and Helen Humphrey, Morrissey together for this celebratory Maxine Peake former Vice President of McDonalds. They tell © Lorna Milburn performance and their first joint reading. their stories about getting to the top of their Queen Elizabeth Hall 6.30pm careers having emerged from very challenging £15 and £12* backgrounds. Followed by a Q & A session on how you can do it too. Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall 3pm – 4pm Bringing Up Boys Friday 7 March Are there fundamental differences in how we bring up boys and girls and do we have unhelpful preconceived ideas about how children of each FRIDAY TONIC: Lyrically gender should behave? Are gender-segregated Challenged Collective products limiting what boys believe they can be? A panel including poet and performer Nick Makoha, Friday 7 March The UK hip-hop collective takes you on a journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, and Abi Moore Carol Ann Duffy ©Michael J Woods of Pink Sticks campaign discuss if we need to journey to honour the power of women through rethink how we bring up boys and whether we are music. Spoken word and hip-hop collide. teaching our children to grow up with the tools The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall they need to live in a gender equal world. 5.30pm – 6.30pm Weston Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall FREE 3pm – 4pm *No transaction fees for in-person bookings or Southbank Centre Members and Supporters Circles. For other bookings transaction fees apply: £1.75 online, £2.75 over the phone. 12 13 saturday 8 MARCH day pass Events If you have a Saturday/Three-Day Pass, choose one event to attend in each time slot and arrive early, as it’s first come, first served. malala yousafzai men talk Does Page 3 make Campaigning Workshop saturday 8 March saturday 8 March the world saturday 8 March Royal Festival Hall How do men talk about women and what truths a better place? The ‘Lose the Lads’ Mags’ campaign has 10am – 11.30am lie behind it? Sam Roddick, founder of Coco de saturday 8 March successfully taken on some of the UK’s biggest Please see page 23 for more information. Mer, activist, artist and sexual philosopher talks to retailers – The Co-op has stopped selling lads’ Separate ticket required. a men’s group led by gonzo therapist Jerry Hyde, Since it started in 1970, the Sun’s Page 3 feature – mags and Tesco have age-restricted them. and asks them to open up and talk honestly about a photo of a topless woman – has become both a British institution and a lightning rod for debates Find out what makes this campaign powerful sex, vulnerability and their emotional relationships and why strategy is so important. Learn how wow Films with women. about the objectification of women. Campaigners have argued for it to be scrapped, while others to identify goals, targets and tactics and how saturday 8 March Festival Village under Queen Elizabeth Hall, have defended it on the grounds of press freedom. to plan your own campaigns. Led by Sophie See what happened at WOW 2013 with 12 noon – 1pm So is it a genuine problem, or just harmless fun? Bennett, from UKFeminista. screenings of some of last year’s taks including And what does it say about sexism in the press Level 4 Green Bar at Royal Festival Hall Alice Walker, The Politics of Afro Hair and some refusing to be silenced more broadly? We open with a keynote by Eleanor 12 noon – 1pm of the top bites. Mills, chair of Women in Journalism and Editorial The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall saturday 8 March Director of . 10am – 11.30am Who are the women who risk their lives to Speakers include journalist Knight, WOW Fringe speak the truth? This session brings together ex-Loaded editor Martin Daubney, model and saturday 8 March international women of courage who stand for business woman Katie Price and Laura Bates, A space for unsigned acts, new conversations human rights and justice in war and conflict zones Under-10s Feminist founder of Everyday Sexism. and activism. Come and see the best emerging around the world, including winners of the Anna Corner In partnership with Women in Journalism talent, alternative ideas, performances and a Politkovskaya Award. Speakers include Elena vibrant range of no-pressure workshops. saturday 8 March Kudimova, Anna Politkovskaya’s sister; Mariam Queen Elizabeth Hall J.P. Morgan Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall Suleiman (Darfur), Founder and Chair of The Voice 12 noon – 1pm Join a craftivist workshop with 12 noon – 1pm of Darfur Women; Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 • Sarah Corbett, founder of Craftivist See page 5 for details News International Editor and Lyse Doucet, BBC Weave vs Natural? Collective and craft your own mini protest Chief International Correspondent (both friends banner (which you’re encouraged to leave Caroline Bird of veteran war correspondent Marie Colvin who The Politics of Afro Hair somewhere as street art) died reporting in Syria and won the 2012 Award); saturday 8 March • Hear from Lets Start a Pussy Riot on being Masih Alinejad (Iran), a journalist persecuted for With over 40,000 views on Youtube and counting, inspired by the Pussy Riot movement, art, exposing government corruption; Reem Rashad last year’s conversation on the politics of Afro activism and Riot Grrrl. (Syria), an activist from the Violation Documentation hair is WOW’s most popular video online. This See the blackboard outside the space for more details. Centre (VDC) and sister of Razan Zaitouneh (2011 time we dig even deeper. Sandie Okoro, chief Award winner, kidnapped in Syria); and Lydia legal counsel at HSBC and one of the UK’s most Level 4 Blue Bar at Royal Festival Hall Cacho (Mexico), a journalist who exposed child sex powerful black women, talks about being natural 12 noon – 3pm (also Sunday 1 – 4pm) trafficking by the powerful elite and suffered torture in the City, United KinKdom blogger Crystal Afro and death threats. Singer-songwriter Lorraine and Angel Dike, founder of The Natural Lounge, Jordan concludes with Anna’s Song, dedicated to talk about the rise of the online naturals, and Anna Politkovskaya. Natalie Clue of BeautyPulseLondon tells us why Led by Mariana Katzarova, Founder of RAW in WAR she loves her weave. Chaired by Hannah Pool, (Reach All Women in WAR) who confesses her Jheri curl sins... The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall Followed by the WOW Natural Afro Hair Meet-up, 12 noon – 1pm hosted by Crystal Afro and The Natural Lounge (see page 18) speed mentoring The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall 12 noon – 1pm saturday 8 March Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, 12 noon – 1pm See page 6 for details 14 15 saturday 8 MARCH day pass Events If you have a Saturday/Three-Day Pass, choose one event to attend in each time slot and arrive early, as it’s first come, first served.

Jóhanna and me Art will change WOW Tour Female Friendship saturday 8 March the world saturday 8 March saturday 8 March Jónína Leósdóttir, the wife of the former saturday 8 March Catherine Cartwright gives a women’s tour of Who is the Thelma to your Louise? Best friends Icelandic Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, One of Venezuela’s most gifted musicians, the South Bank area. Come and hear about the can come and go, and the nature of friendship discusses life as the wife of the first out gay Gabriela Montero, uses her albums to rail against creative, caring, daring, dutiful, powerful, patriotic, changes as we move through different phases of head of state and the dramatic years when the the regime. Ros Horin is an Australian theatre and bonkers women who tried and sometimes our lives. But how do you get the most from – and two women hid their relationship, worried the directorwho combines real women (including triumphed in times that were not always easy. This give the most to your friendships? Psychologist truth might damage Jóhanna’s political career. Aminata Conteh-Biger, who joins the panel) with walk emphasises how these ladies’ efforts have Linda Papadopoulos, Josie Barnard, author of At a time when gay rights are in question across professional artists to create powerful, joyous marked London and our lives. The Book of Friendship, and novelist the world, Jónína talks candidly about reactions theatre about their lives. Charlotte Vincent, In partnership with London Undone. Dorothy Koomson and Kate Packenham & to their relationship and reads from her new Josie Rourke from Donmar Warehouse discuss choreographer/director and founder of Vincent 1.30pm – 3pm, Meet at Royal Festival Hall Ticket Desk acclaimed book about their thirty years together. Dance Theatre, is committed to raising the BFFs, quality vs quantity and whether Facebook She is in conversation with novelist, playwright profile of female-led arts practice in a field that friends really count. and founder of the Bailey’s Prize for Fiction, remains male dominated, and Josie Rourke Online Bullying The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall Kate Mosse. is Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse, saturday 8 March 1.30pm – 3pm Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall where Phyllida Lloyd’s ‘all female’ production of Women receiving death, bomb and rape threats 12 noon – 1pm Julius Caesar sparked huge cultural and politcal on social media has become a fact of modern Being Mixed Race debate. Emerging from strikingly different artistic life. How can women and girls use the web backgrounds, these artists meet here for the first without being subjected to trolling and abuse? saturday 8 March time to discuss why art will change the world. Campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez, TIME What is being ‘mixed race’? Is there such a thing Chaired by Southbank Centre Creative Director of Magazine Editor at Large Catherine Mayer as a mixed-race identity? In the 2011 census, Learning and Participation Shân Maclennan. and comedian Ava Vidal, who have all received over a million people in the UK ticked the ‘mixed serious threats to their lives on Twitter, explore the race’ box – double the number who did so in Blue Room, Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall 2001 when the box was first introduced. This 12 noon – 1pm topic. Jamie Bartlett, Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos gives an multi-generational panel continues one of WOW overview and inside look at the stats. Chaired by 2013’s most moving and insightful conversations. WOW Bites 1 journalist Kira Cochrane. Is the term mixed race useful to anyone but statisticians? Can today’s increasingly fluid racial saturday 8 March The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall identities ever really be squeezed into a one- Rebecca Andrews on the art and photography of 1.30pm – 3pm size-fits-all box? Speakers include Irish Nigerian bodybuilding visual sociologist Emma Dabiri and artist Hattie Hasan, Founder of Stopcocks Women Being a Man Phoebe Collings-James. The session includes a Plumbers, on her unlikely journey from bringing workshop led by Emma Dabiri and we hear from Fighting the Neurotrash shame on her family to running a groundbreaking saturday 8 March consultant Sally Kneeshaw. and highly innovative national business Following Southbank Centre’s inaugural Blue Room, Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, saturday 8 March Being A Man festival in January 2014, join some Jane Walker MBE – how the ‘Angel of the Dump’ 1.30pm – 3pm Women are better at empathising; men are better of the BAM contributors as they give feedback set up The Philippine Community Fund. at reading maps. That’s because their brains on the weekend. Chaired by the festival’s founder Emma Dabiri are different, isn’t it? Can stereotypes such as Ayndrilla Singharay on being inspired to Jude Kelly, the panel – including poet and writer these actually change how brains work and make write working with South Asian survivors of Anthony Anaxagorou and psychotherapist ‘gender neuromyths’ come true? Neuroscientist domestic violence. John McKeown, explore some of the main themes Gina Rippon wades through the ‘Mars and Venus’ Chaired by filmmakerKathryn Ferguson that emerged from discussions on fatherhood, neurotrash to give us the lowdown on whether St Paul’s Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall being a gay man, gang culture, boys’ education there is any such thing as a ‘female’ or a ‘male’ 12 noon – 1pm and male violence – and discuss why we need a brain. Chaired by Chi Onwurah MP. men’s festival. In partnership with ScienceGrrl. Festival Village, under Queen Elizabeth Hall Purcell Room, 12pm – 1pm 1.30pm – 3pm

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Teens’ Feminist Corner The Liberty session – female genital speed mentoring saturday 8 March State Failure, mutilation saturday 8 March Under 18 and at WOW? This session led by and Personal Justice saturday 8 March Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall for young people looks at everything from body saturday 8 March How can we end Female Genital Mutilation in 3.30pm – 4.30pm image to consent; feminism to friendship. Learn one generation? An estimated three million See page 6 for details how to set up a campaign and get tips on getting When the state fails to respond to allegations of rape or domestic violence it can have women undergo this practice each year – but your mates involved. Includes a campaigning what is FGM, why does it still happen, and workshop by Sophie Bennett from UK Feminista. catastrophic consequences. The Human Rights Fabulous Fashionistas Act is an essential tool for justice, yet it is hugely why do campaigners receive death threats? Under-18s only; girls and boys welcome. maligned and misrepresented – and under Efua Dorkenoo from Equality Now, Nimco Ali, saturday 8 March threat of repeal. Liberty Solicitor Emma Norton co-founder of Daughters of Eve and Naana With an average age of 80, the stars of Channel 4’s J.P. Morgan Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall and Sarah Ricca from Deighton Pierce Glynn Otoo-Oyortey, Executive Director of FORWARD Fabulous Fashionistas redefine old age and defy 1.30pm – 3pm discuss how the HRA works on behalf of the discuss the momentum for change with expectations of the ageing process, determined women they represent. They are joined by Lynne Featherstone MP, who outlines the to have fun and keep going. Here, three of the Afro Hair meet-up clients Sharon Hardy and Khristina Swain, UK government’s new programme to reduce fashionistas, Bridget Sojourner, Daphne Selfe and the practice by 30% in at least ten countries saturday 8 March sisters of Anne-Marie Ellement, who committed Sue Kreitzman, and the producer of the film, Sue suicide after alleged rape and bullying by army across Africa over the next five years. Chaired by Bourne, talk life, art, and why wearing beige may Considering going natural but not sure how colleagues, and Celia Peachey and Manuel journalist and author Hannah Pool. kill you. Chaired by television producer, journalist to go about it? Been natural for a while and Fernandez, daughter and brother of Maria Queen Elizabeth Hall and writer Ruth Pitt. need some new styling tips or inspiration? Join Stubbings, murdered by her former partner. 1.30pm – 3pm leading natural hair bloggers Crystal Afro (United Beware: this session might make you wish Chaired by Shami Chakrabarti, Director of KinKdom), Angel Dike (The Natural Lounge) you were 80. Liberty, the UK’s leading human rights and others as they guide you through the best campaigners. Fertility Myths The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall products, salons and the difference between 3.30pm – 4.30pm ACV and BC. Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall saturday 8 March 1.30pm – 3pm All hair types welcome! Fertility is big business. With more than 30,000 women seeking IVF each year, the sector is worth Following on from The Politics of Afro Hair £500 million – but over 70% of treatments fail. (see page 15). Are clinics offering a valuable service, or are Level 4 Green Bar at Royal Festival Hall, they trading on false hope? This panel looks at 1.30pm – 3pm the barrage of information and misinformation, freezing your eggs, ‘running out of time’, and the Crystal Afro politics and economics of fertility. Speakers include leading fertility and pregnancy expert Zita West, Jody Day, founder of Gateway Women and consultant obstetrician Dr Susan Bewley. Chaired by journalist and author of The Complete Guide to IVF, . Kate Brian © Hana Ali *See page 20 for details of the Childlessness Workshop hosted by Jody Day. Anne-Marie Ellement (centre) with her sisters Sharon and Khristina. St Paul’s Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall 1.30pm – 3pm

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Feminism and Privilege talking about janaNne al-ani WOW Bites 2 saturday 8 March Childlessness in conversation saturday 8 March Does mainstream feminism only speak to white, saturday 8 March saturday 8 March Shirley Thompson on the heroic women of opera straight, able-bodied, middle class women? This 1:5 women are turning 45 without having had Jananne Al-Ani talks to Hayward Gallery Chief Rachael Campbell on cheerleading – athletic panel unpicks the debate about feminism and children, double that of their mother’s generation. Curator, Stephanie Rosenthal about her Hayward and unapologetic identity politics, what it means to be a good ally Although some women are childfree by choice, Project Space exhibition Excavations and the Lynn Ruth Miller on reinventing yourself with and whether you can ever leave your privilege at many others are childless by circumstance. landscape of the Middle East. laughter at 70 with the help of stand-up comedy the door. Speakers include Nan Sloane, director Jody Day, founder of Gateway Women, leads Free event – no ticket required. London guide-lecturer Catherine Cartwright on of the Centre for Women and Democracy, Reni this workshop on the complex truth about Small capacity learning, teaching, living and loving (in) London Eddo-Lodge, writer and contributing editor at childlessness. With a film byKatie Barlow. Feminist Times and Eleanor Lisney of Sisters of Triona Holden on her death-defying journey Following on from Fertility Myths (see page 19) Dan Graham’s Waterloo Sunset Pavilion Frida. Chaired by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. at Hayward Gallery through illness to art. Chaired by Southbank The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall Level 4 Green Bar at Royal Festival Hall 3.30pm – 4.30pm Centre’s Claudia Merhej. 3.30pm – 4.30pm 3.30pm – 4.30pm St Paul’s Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall Rape – giving testimony 3.30pm – 4.30pm Under-10s Feminist Beyoncé and me saturday 8 March Corner saturday 8 March Does our culture have an attitude problem with saturday 8 March Love Beyoncé but feel confused? Journalist rape and sexual assault? Why is it more difficult J.P. Morgan Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall Hannah Pool talks about why it’s hard to be to talk about than other serious crimes? How 3.30pm – 4.30pm Beyoncé-loving feminist, then Bonnie Parsons, does society treat women who have been raped? See page 5 for more details founder of Seen on Screen (SOS) invites you to Jude Kelly chairs a discussion with women who a Beyoncé Dance class to come and learn the have been raped and are willing to talk about it. Feminism in the moves to Beyoncé’s Run the World (Girls) with a Blue Room, Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall backdrop of the Houses of Parliament. There’ll 3.30pm – 4.30pm Classroom be loud music, smoke machines and probable saturday 8 March fierceness. Classes are about having fun first and foremost, absolute beginners are strongly Women, water and Hear from a group of young women about life encouraged, and no trainers are needed. in the playground, in the classroom and on the sanitation: From burden internet. What’s it like when your peers have porn Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall to liberation 3.30pm – 5pm Pick of the Festival on their phones and you’ve grown up with social saturday 8 March media? 11 year old Mila Harrison, campaigning saturday 8 March student Yas Necati and Anisa Khalique from What role do water, sanitation and hygiene play Mulberry School for Girls discuss the pressures in women and girls’ ability to fulfil their potential? It’s impossible to go to everything in WOW – so and the joys – and the kind of world they want How can a village well reduce teenage pregnancy, come and hear highlights from Under-10’s to grow up in. Led by Miriam Franklin, teacher at and what role has water and sanitation played in Feminist Corner, the Politics of Afro Hair, Fighting Mulberry School for Girls. the history of women’s liberation in the UK and the Neurotrash (about the real differences around the world? Dr Helen Pankhurst leads a between men and women’s brains) Jónína Festival Village under Queen Elizabeth Hall panel of experts including Kenyan journalist Judy Leósdóttir, about her life as the wife of the first 3.30pm – 4.30pm Kosgei, who won the Thomson Foundation Young out gay head of state, and more! Journalist Award for a story on the suffering of The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall girls because of a shortage of sanitary towels, in a 5pm – 6.30pm discussion on the impact of water and sanitation on a woman’s life, liberty and learning. In Parthership with Care International Level 4 Blue Bar at Royal Festival Hall 3.30pm – 4.30pm 20 21 saturday 8 MARCH day pass Events saturday 9 MARCH Events These events are ticketed separately and are not included in the day passes. 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Hot on 4th Dan Black Belt in karate and Advanced Self Malala Yousafzai is AND GAGGLE the heels of There Is No Word For It – The (Trans) Defence Instructor with over 20 years’ experience. a campaigner who in 2012 saturday 8 March Mangina Monologues, hotpencil press presents After coming back from India where she taught was shot for her activist An special evening of music from some of the this brand new collection of stories. Using urgency 3000 underprivileged girls and women for free, work. Here she talks UK’s most exciting female artists. and humour, the piece offers fresh language and she gives a short course specifically designed for about the systemic nature Queen Elizabeth Hall, 8pm intonation on butch beginnings, butch desire and WOW. No prior knowledge required. of gender inequality and £15, £10 desirability, butch bravado and vulnerability, butch- In partnership with Premier Self-Defence Ltd. bringing about change. on-femme sex, butch-on-butch sex, switches, J.P. 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NAILWRAPS Newspaper Review Trafficking Vivienne Westwood Sunday 9 March SUNDAY 9 March SUNDAY 9 March in conversation with Following the success of Nailwraps: Influences WOW reads the Sunday papers – Jude Kelly, Human trafficking is one of the largest areas of Shami Chakrabarti at WOW 2013, Phoebe Davies’ nail-bar returns on Shami Chakrabarti, Baroness Doreen Lawrence, organised crimes across the globe, generating £20 SUNDAY 9 March Sunday for WOW 2014. Natascha McElhone and Mulberry School for billion per year. Trafficking for sexual exploitation Dame Vivienne Westwood is a living legend Over the past year, the artist has been working Girls student Sujina Khatun, give us a snapshot of almost exclusively affects women and girls (98%) – not only one of the most recognised and in collaboration with groups of women exploring the biggest headlines across the globe, and best and trafficking for labour exploitation also affects influential fashion designers of the late 20th current attitudes to gender equality, feminism, comment and reflect on their own experiences of women more than men (56% women and girls). century, but also an active campaigner on social female expectations and aspirations. Drawing dealing with the press. Speakers including Marissa Begonia, founder and environmental issues such as nuclear upon the contemporary culture of nail art, these The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall of Justice for Domestic Workers and Klara disarmament, climate change, and most recently dialogues and collaborations have resulted 10am – 11am Skrivankova from Anti-Slavery International speak the anti-fracking campaign at Balcombe. She in a series of printed nail designs depicting about how trafficked women are hidden in plain states that one of her proudest moments people of personal influence or significance to sight and what they are doing to fight it. Chaired by was being named a trustee of human rights participating groups. These nailwraps are then Senior Correspondant for ITV News, Ronke Phillips. organization Liberty – and here, Vivienne talks applied and distributed from a public nail bar Queen Elizabeth Hall, 11.30am – 12.30pm with Liberty’s director Shami Chakrabarti about run by project participants, acting as a site to human rights and speaking out about exchange opinions and ideas, questioning what what matters. feminism means to women today. Club 18 – 80 The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall Nailwraps: Influences is an Artsadmin Project and is SUNDAY 9 March 11.30am – 12.30pm supported using public funding by the National Lottery Journalist Katharine Whitehorn, best selling through Arts Council England. author Kathy Lette, teenager Ioana Anghelescu Level 2 Foyers at Royal Festival Hall and journalist Bim Adewunmi are from four 10am – 6pm different generations. Here they talk to author and journalist Rachel Johnson, swap stories Doreen Lawrence © Sharron Wallace Photography about how navigating sex, relationships, friendships and society’s treatment of women has changed over 80 years, and discuss life’s milestones from first periods to menopause. Under-10s Feminist The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall Corner 11.30am – 12.30pm saturday 8 March J.P. Morgan Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall Who owns your body? 10am – 11am SUNDAY 9 March Vivienne Westwood © Christian Shambanait See page 5 for more details Despite many successes in gender equality, Nailwraps: Influences © Phoebe Davis women’s bodies are still continually under threat. speed mentoring What do campaigns against issues such as rape MsUnderstood in conflict, pornography-inspired labiaplasty or Workshop sunday 9 March the pushing back of abortion rights tell us about Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall ownership of women’s bodies? Speakers include SUNDAY 9 March 11.30am – 12.30pm Nimco Ali from anti-FGM campaigner Daughters Why policy matters, and how you can change it. A See page 6 for more details of Eve, Kate Smurthwaite from Abortion Rights, workshop for young women and men who want Australian writer & leading feminist thinker Anne to make a difference. Led by Ikamara Larasi from Summers and activist Jessica Horn. Chaired by Rewind & Reframe/Imkaan and Carlene Firmin, Helena Kennedy QC. founder of the MsUnderstood project. Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall Level 4 Green Bar at Royal Festival Hall 11.30am – 12.30pm 11.30am – 12.30pm 24 25 sunday 9 MARCH day pass Events If you have a Sunday/Three-Day Pass, choose one event to attend in each time slot and arrive early, as it’s first come, first served.

global gay rights Bites 3 – Sexual violence SUNDAY 9 March SUNDAY 9 March Sane New World in conflict With marriage equality in the UK finally a reality, Natasha Devon on Body Gossip: ‘How to rock SUNDAY 9 March SUNDAY 9 March are lesbians still facing prejudice specifically your own brand of gorgeous’ Ruby Wax performs extracts of her new show, Women for Women International has worked because they are women? Is it even more June Barrow-Green on the fantastic story of Sane New World, and talks mindfulness, brains with over 384,000 socially excluded women in difficult for black queer women? In a time where Sofia Kovalevskaya, one of the first great women and comedy with neuroscientist Sophie Scott. eight conflict-affected countries across the international anti-homophobia campaigns are in maths. world. Many of these women have survived still predominantly led by men and there are still Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall Emma Chapman on being a transsexual woman sexual violence as well as other abuses few lesbian role models, Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, 1pm – 2.30pm and living a life more ordinary associated with conflict. They present lessons founder of Black Pride UK, Forensic psychologist from 20 years of experience to explore how sexual Lucy Kerbel on 100 Great Plays for Women Ruby Wax Skye Chirape and author Beatrix Campbell – who violence can be prevented in conflict and post- talks about her new book The End of Equality – Marion Trestler and Dr. Jill Lewis on the conflict contexts, and how to support survivors discuss misogyny, race, and whether we need courageous women and hidden facts of post-war of such violence to ensure they contribute fully to more lesbian national treasures. British-Austrian life in the UK the rebuilding of conflict-affected countries. Blue Room, Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall Chaired by journalist Anna Hart Led by Brita Fernandez Schmidt, Executive 11.30am – 12.30pm St Paul’s Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall Director of Women for Women International 11.30am – 12.30pm St Paul’s Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall Funny Women workshop 1pm – 2.30pm SUNDAY 9 March WOW Tour Want to improve your confidence, presentation, SUNDAY 9 March The New Black and networking skills by using humour? In a 1pm – 2.30pm SUNDAY 9 March workshop led by Funny Women founder Lynne Meet at Royal Festival Hall Ticket Desk Parker, who draws on 11 years of comedy Whether it’s Beyoncé being Drunk in Love or Miley See Page 16 for details The Personal is still experience, get a taste of how you can use Political: Will you Cyrus and her twerking, how far have we come comedy on stage, in business, or as part of from the 19th-century fetishization of Sarah everyday life. Porn Occupy your Body? Baartman as the Hottentot Venus? Does popular culture still have a problem with black women? Level 4 Blue Bar at Royal Festival Hall SUNDAY 9 March SUNDAY 9 March Speakers include Dr Shirley Tate, author of Black 11.30am – 12.30pm As generations grow up with hard-core Apples, pears and hourglasses, too fat, too thin – Beauty Aesthetics, Stylisation, Politics, Jude pornography easily accessible on mobiles and why are we obsessed with women’s body shapes, Smith Rachele, co-founder of Abundant Sun Women’s Rights laptops, is it a waste of time trying to stem the who decides what the ideal is, and what damage and Ikamara Larasai from Rewind&Reframe/ flow, or should we be campaigning more than does it do? In this session led by Susie Orbach, Imkaan in the arab region discuss how women can reclaim their bodies for ever? Porn addiction is on the increase and porn’s Chaired by journalist and author Hannah Pool. SUNDAY 9 March links to domestic and sexual abuse have long themselves, how body image could be taught in schools – and formulate campaign strategies Weston Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall What are the core issues that affect women’s been documented. What does this mean for our with body activists AnyBody. 1pm – 2.30pm lives in the Arab region? What is the role of relationships with each other?

the women’s movement in revolution, war and Chaired by Helena Kennedy QC. Opens with a Follows on from Who owns your body? See page 25. Hannah Pool peace building? keynote speech by film directorBeeban Kidron. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall © Aida Muluneh Speakers include: journalist Dame Ann Leslie, The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall 1pm – 2.30pm Abir Awad Country Director BBC Media Action, 1pm – 2.30pm Iraq and writer Samar Samir Mezghanni Weston Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall WOW fringe 11.30am – 12.30pm SUNDAY 9 March 1pm – 4pm Level 4 Blue Bar at Royal Festival Hall See Page 15 for details 26 27 sunday 9 MARCH day pass Events If you have a Sunday/Three-Day Pass, choose one event to attend in each time slot and arrive early, as it’s first come, first served.

Louboutins and Women Against Pit The Misogyny Factor Life Drawing landfill: how to be a Closures - 30 years on sunday 9 March & modelling sustainable fashionista sunday 9 March After more than 40 years of fighting for women’s sunday 9 March SUNDAY 9 March Betty Cook and Anne Scargill are founding rights, leading Australian feminist Anne Summers Come and try life modelling and/or drawing, says it is time for a radical rethink about what we and hear the testimonies of women who have Worth over £200 million per year, ethical clothing members of Women Against Pit Closures, the need to do to achieve equality. Her 2012 speech Her found life modelling to be a transformational is one of fashion’s newest markets. political movement that supported miners and their families in the UK miners’ strike of 1984–85. Rights at Work? The Political Persecution of Australia’s experience. Be professionally guided in a Join Dr Kate Fletcher of the Centre for Sustainable Here, they talk about picketing, community and First Female Prime Minister was a game-changer peaceful space, or just come to listen. Women Fashion at London College of Fashion, Jacqueline finding their voices in the traditionally macho and refuelled the debate on the treatment of women model together as a group, with poses lasting up Shaw, author of the Africa Fashion Guide, Carry coalfield communities with artist, writer and in politics, and in her new Stella Prize-nominated to 20 minutes, and the strong, supportive vibe Somers, founder of Fashion Revolution Day and broadcaster Triona Holden, author of Queen Coal: book The Misogyny Factor, she argues we don’t have is ripe for lasting empowerment. Art materials, Abigail Murray, ex Vogue editor and founder of Women of the Miners’ Strike, who covered the true equality of the sexes because misogyny and robes, a changing area and a warm, comfortable Designer Jumble Sale, as they discuss whether miners’ strike for the BBC throughout the 80s. its expression – sexism – are still rampant. Here, space to pose are provided. If you have health fashion can ever really be ethical and whether she talks with Jude Kelly about inclusion, equality, concerns, inform us and we will do our utmost ethical fashion can ever truly be stylish. Chaired by Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall respect, and the role misogyny plays in day-to-day 3pm – 4pm to accommodate you. Men are welcome to the Melanie Rickey, Fashion Editor at Large.com. life and in the corridors of power. introduction between 3pm and 3.15pm. Blue Room, Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall Women-only session. 1pm – 2.30pm 3pm – 4pm In partnership with Spirited Bodies Blue Room, Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall Anne Summers 3pm – 4.30pm Bites 4 sunday 9 March Aowen Jin on the changing lives of modern Chinese factory workers and her Factory Girls art project. Kawsara Chowdhury and Maria Amrin from Betty Cook second from left, Anne Scargill third from left. Mulberry School for Girls on why feminism is still relevant to young women. this is what Ntiense Eno Amooquaye on Hera Master Come a fat activist does Down, her first solo exhibition currently at The Women and Faith Saison Poetry Library. sunday 9 March SUNDAY 9 March speed mentoring Ros Horin on the The Baulkham Hills African What is fat activism, why do fat activists use the Ladies Troupe: a celebration of women, human How does faith impact on gender equality? What word fat, and why is it still such a taboo? sunday 9 March particular challenges do women of faith face? rights, laughter and resilience including a short Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall What can Muslim women teach Christian women Public discourse about fat usually looks at fat film excerpt. 3pm – 4pm and do women of faith have more in common people in the abstract. This panel gets to the nuts Amisha Ghadiali, Co-Founder of Provenance, on See page 6 for details than they realise? This multi-faith panel of and bolts of what fat activists do. voting with your wallet and understanding what speakers includes Dina Brawer from the Jewish Speakers include artist and activist Rita Keegan, you buy. Orthodox Feminist Alliance, Reverend Sally Kay Hyatt, host of The Weigh In and campaigner Chaired by city girl and feminist Hannah Philp. Hitchiner, Polly Harrah, founder of The Sharan Kathryn Szrodecki. St Paul’s Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall Project and Catriona Robertson. Chaired by leading fat activist Charlotte Cooper 3pm – 4pm Festival Village under Queen Elizabeth Hall Weston Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall 1pm – 2.30pm 3pm – 4pm 28 29 sunday 9 MARCH day pass Events SUNDAY 9 MARCH Events If you have a Sunday/Three-Day Pass, choose one event to attend in each time slot and arrive early, These events are ticketed separately and are not included in the day passes. as it’s first come, first served. Buy tickets online or phone our Ticket Office (details on the back page).

Kate Smurthwaite – A Day in Detention the News at Kate RONNIE SPECTOR’S SUNDAY 9 March BEYOND THE BEEHIVE sunday 9 March ‘I came here for safety, but they locked me up.’ Ronnie Spector’s first UK headline show A comedy show about opinions: how we form In this final day pass session at WOW 2014, come in four years, the acclaimed Beyond The them, how we challenge them and how we can and listen to leading actresses Juliet Stevenson, Beehive, chronicles her 50-year journey change them. A talk based on Kate Smurthwaite’s Bryony Hannah and Cush Jumbo reading the through rock and roll. In a multi-media experience of appearing on more than 500 TV searing testimony of refugee women locked up performance, Ronnie performs classic and radio debate shows, from Woman’s Hour to in the UK. Every year, many women who come tracks including Ronettes songs with Question Time, facing off with MPs, religious leaders to the UK to seek asylum are held in indefinite her band, reveals previously unseen and the odd TV presenter. detention. For this piece, directed by Jessica photographs and home videos and shares Swale, writer Nell Leyshon has woven together the Festival Village under Queen Elizabeth Hall personal stories from every stage of her extraordinary true stories of refugee women who 3pm – 4pm career – from her early days with The have been detained. Come and hear their journeys Ronettes to her years of touring the world through hope and despair. After the reading, with Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones. zero tolerance campaigner Natasha Walter is joined by Shami sunday 9 March Chakrabarti and women who have been detained, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 8pm including student and campaigner Meltem Avcil, £25, £20* We live in a world where female inequality Ronnie Spector to discuss with the audience how the detention of is embedded into society. Jude Kelly argues © Debra Greenfield refugee women can be challenged. that in order to live a sociable and loving life most women feel compelled to tolerate a level In partnership with Women for Refugee Women. of inequality that makes us complicit in the The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall continuation of the status quo. Are we capable 5pm – 6.15pm of taking a zero tolerance approach to inequality Grayson Perry © Peter Allan in both our domestic and public lives? And what Shami Chakrabarti ‘Men – Sit down for would be the consequences if we did? Can ©Jo Metson Scott your rights’ endemic injustice be rooted out – or are some At Southbank Centre’s Being A Man festival, of us resigned to improvement rather than real Turner Prize-winning artist and national treasure change, just for an easy life? Finally, are men Grayson Perry gave his inaugural speech about all ready to stand shoulder to shoulder with women things MAN to a sold-out Queen Elizabeth Hall. in order to create a total shift in the world? While maintaining a sense of comedy, Perry The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall raised issues of equality, the male gaze, macho 4.30pm – 5pm transvestites and whether the male role is looking a bit threadbare. He proposed a Bill of Rights for Men, which included the Right to be Vulnerable, and the Right to be Wrong. Here, Grayson repeats his lecture, followed by a Q and A with Jude Kelly about what this means for women – and if it could be implemented, what impact his bill of rights might have... Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £15, £10*

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WOW EDUCATION CATCH UP ONLINE WOW Parties WOW Global Primary School Day Missed a talk during the day? Catch up online at Now in their second year, the WOW parties WOW is a global festival, and since it launched in Guess Who? youtube.com/southbankcentre celebrate the work of specially selected charities 2011 it has taken place in three continents. Each Also follow us on twitter and organisations supporting women in the UK WOW is rooted in its local area but becomes part Thursday 6 March @wowtweetuk #WOWLDN and internationally and take place simultaneously of the global WOW network, and festivals feed An event for primary school children on the evening of Wednesday 5 March 2014 into each other, swapping stories, supporting and encouraging broad and exciting aspirations for the across the whole of Royal Festival Hall. There is a inspiring each other and creating a network of future and challenging the idea that certain jobs WOW CRÈCHE public event on The Clore Ballroom at 6pm with people and ideas. are for men or women only. Meet professionals short presentations from all the chosen charities WOW has happened in Baltimore, USA with Marin from different careers – a dancer, a labourer, an Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 March and organisations. Alsop at the Baltimore Symphony Hall, Sydney, athlete, a scientist, a technician and an artist – but There is a free crèche available for Day or Australia as part of Sydney Writers’ Festival and who’s who? There may be a few surprises! Weekend Pass holders on Saturday 8 and Sunday WOMEN IN THE ARTS DAY Katherine, Australia, with the Godinymayin Yijard If you are interested in bringing a group of 9 March. Four sessions are available per day, Rivers Arts and Culture Centre, one of the first Year 5 or 6 primary school children to this timetabled according to the talks programme This year, Southbank Centre hosts its first arts centres in Australia with joint Indigenous free event please email (please see website for further details). Each Women in the Arts day. Over 200 women and non-Indigenous leadership. In 2013 the first [email protected] ticket holder can book a maximum of two working in the arts and cultural sector have been WOW held in the UK outside London took place in sessions across the weekend. invited to ask what new steps need to be taken Derry-Londonderry as part of the City of Culture. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall to achieve gender equality across the industry. In 2014 WOW will take place in Cardiff and Keynote speakers include Director of the Cambridge, and we hope in Hong Kong, Iceland, WOW PRODUCTS Whitechapel Gallery Iwona Blazwick and author New York , Ethiopia and again in Australia Take a bit of WOW home with you. and playwright Kate Mosse. Open Space Event and Baltimore. This year we have created an exclusive range of Queen Elizabeth Hall Front Room How do we create gender WOW merchandise, including cotton tote bags, Invite Only equality in schools? bone china mugs and laser-cut necklaces from Friday 7 March celebrated designers Tatty Devine. Kate Mosse © Mark Rusher How do we create gender equality in schools? These and much more are available in An Open Space event for secondary school Southbank Centre Shops and online at teachers and staff. This day of discussion is southbankcentre.co.uk/shop jointly led by Southbank Centre and Mulberry School for Girls in Tower Hamlets. Open Space is a widely practiced method of hosting a meeting or conference where the delegates create a working agenda as the day develops, led by a single facilitator. If you are a teacher, trainee teacher or member of staff interested in attending this free event, please email [email protected]. Festival Village under Queen Elizabeth Hall

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