Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/08/2016 - 03/13/2016
10:00 am - 11:00 pm
Location
Southbank Centre
Category(ies) No Categories
The Women of the World (WOW) Festival, supported by Bloomberg, celebrates women and girls, and looks at the obstacles that stop them from achieving their potential. Based in London, it’s a festival of talks, music, comedy, debates, and film, all celebrating, supporting, and empowering women.
Impact:
- WOW is the world’s largest cultural festival network of its kind
- WOW was one of the first mainstream, public forums in which FGM survivors spoke, leading to a change in Government policy in 2014 to stop the practice
- The UK’s Women’s Equality Party was founded at WOW
- Over one million people have been involved in over ten WOW festivals across five continents
- Over 10,000 women globally have been mentored as part of our free Speed Mentoring
- Most of WOW’s talks are recorded and made available for free on our YouTube channel, with over 500,000 views to date
- We are delighted that in February 2015 HRH The Duchess of Cornwall became President of WOW
‘WOW is almost single-handedly responsible for enlivening the feminist movement in the UK at the beginning of the 21st century – and I’m delighted that it’s poised to go global’ (Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty)
‘Three days ago it seemed unimaginable for me to have a conversation about having been raped, with someone I didn’t know. Since I spoke at WOW, it doesn’t feel frightening and shameful – so I guess I came out successfully!’ (WOW speaker, 2015)
‘There is nothing else in London which can bring such a diverse group of women together’ (WOW London speaker, 2014)
‘I could talk freely and people listened’ (Mila Harrison, WOW London speaker, age 12)
‘A chance to speak with white women about what matters to black British women’ (WOW London attendee, 2015)
Watch the trailer for the fantastic event below, and visit their website here for more information:
