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Women of the
World festival
FULL PROGRAMME 2018
29 - 30 SEPTEMBER
#WOWPERTH
funded by
SPIRIT OF 2012
INVESTING IN HAPPINESS
Has there ever been a more exciting time WOW Perth is a festival - not a conference
of change for girls and women? There’s so or a symposium - because we want to
much to celebrate and so much to improve attract and celebrate women and girls from
and it needs everyone to be involved. all walks of life. Despite the gravity and
seriousness of the issues that hold us back,
I founded WOW - Women of the World we aim to build a place of warmth, shared
Festivals in 2010 because I felt we needed respect and fun.
a place to get together, to talk and discuss
in a spirited, frank and inclusive way all Now in it's second year, WOW Perth has
the barriers and possible solutions to been led by the incredible Lou Brodie who
achieving a gender equal world and also has worked with the whole community
create an understanding of the to create this thoughtful, generous and
intersections that further divide us. rigorous programme where there exists a
platform for so many different voices. I’m
WOW Perth 2018 is our 50th festival, and looking forward to an inspiring weekend
we’re proud to celebrate this with the filled with celebration and debate and
people of Perthshire and beyond. Scotland having conversations with lots of amazing
has been a major force for women’s women.
empowerment and it’s important that the
conversations, awareness and activism Jude Kelly CBE
that WOW facilitates take place in smaller Founder,
communities as well as major cities. WOW - Women of the World festival
We are excited to be building on nearly a
decade of WOW working as a conduit for
change and so after 12 incredible years
as Artistic Director of the Southbank
Centre I have left to establish The WOW
Foundation. This will exist as an
independent charity working with
national and international partners to
build upon and further the work that
WOW festivals have begun.
WOW is now in over 15 countries across 5
continents. Two million women are a part
of the WOW movement, which grows daily -
you can see our global map of festivals on
p.19 in this programme. Men and boys are
an important part of WOW - we all benefit
Kalpesh Lathigra
from a gender equal world.
*WOW Festivals are presented by arrangement with Southbank Centre
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Welcome
I’m so delighted and proud to share with you the programme for
our second edition of WOW Perth hosted in the beautifully restored
Perth Theatre - a venue whose history is steeped with the stories
of badass women.
In the year since we presented our first festival there have been
some significant shifts in the fight for gender equality. No longer
an urban centric conversation, gender equality is being discussed
across Scotland’s rich landscape and now more than ever we must
push forward. Perth is uniquely placed to bring people together and
foster this dialogue as we celebrate the amazing women leading
the way locally, having difficult and important conversations and
making change happen.
Diversity and inclusivity stand front and centre at WOW. The festival
aims to inspire debate as well as positive change. It is a call to
action not just of the head but of the heart also. Join us for a
weekend of thoughtful, emotional and practical enrichment, and
for dancing, laughing and talking to people from all corners of our
community. The festival is a space for you to connect with those you
may not have met before, to ask the questions you’ve been dying to
ask and take risks. Bring a friend, colleague or family member who
needs to join this vital and urgent conversation. WOW Perth 2018 is
for everyone and celebrates all those who identify as women, girls
and non-binary, and the men and boys who support them.
I would like to take the time to say thanks
to the people who support WOW Perth:
Nicki and the team at The Red String Agency,
Becca our fantastic WOW facilitator, all of
the team at Horsecross Arts especially
Anna Beedham and Michael Heasman, our THE WOW FOUNDATION
truly brilliant volunteers and WOWsers, all The WOW Foundation is currently
the organisations and individuals who have in the process of applying for
taken the time to meet with me and offered charitable status. The Foundation
their resources and support and of course, will grow the WOW global
a huge thanks to all those who joined for movement towards gender
this years Thinkins and helped shape the equality through festivals,
festival.
leadership and education
We can’t wait to welcome everyone to this
programmes, advocacy and
year’s festival! celebration. You can find more
information and sign up to hear
Louise Brodie, about our festivals at
WOW Perth Programmer thewowfoundation.com
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Festival
WOW Passes Ticketed Events How to Book
Buy a WOW pass to gain Want to attend an event
access to all the events ticketed separately from your Online
marked as PART OF PASS as pass, or are you visiting WOW horsecross.co.uk
you pick and mix your own for a specific ticketed event?
Phone
timetable of talks, debates Buy tickets online or on site
and performances, be it for from our box office. Box Office:
one day or the whole weekend. 01738 621031
Day and Weekend pass Free but Ticketed Events In person
holders have a choice of There are a number of free
activities throughout the Perth Theatre or
events that require you to
festival. If your first choice reserve a ticket due to limited Perth Concert Hall
is full due to limited capacity capacity. This applies whether Mill Street
do not worry. We encourage you are a WOW pass holder or Perth
you to try other sessions - just exploring the free events PH1 5HZ
sometimes an unexpected of the festival.
second choice will be the
best thing you’ll see! Free Events @PerthWOW
While you’re here, we @WOWTweetUK
Day pass: encourage you to explore all
£12 | concession £9 the free events. Whether you perthwow
are a ticket or pass holder womenoftheworldfestival
Weekend pass: or not, you can enjoy free
£20 | concession £16 exhibitions and pop-up @wowperth
(price includes £1.50 booking fee) performances all weekend. @wowglobal
WOW Schools Day
Friday 28 September
A day for secondary school students aged 13-18 to explore gender equality and celebrate
their role models and the women from history who have inspired them. Led by an array of
artists and speakers, students can make their voices heard through creative workshops,
interactive talks, dance and music, leaving them inspired and empowered.
9.30am - 3pm
Perth Theatre
For more information email wowperth@southbankcentre.co.uk
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Information
Access WOW Crèche Shop, Eat and Drink
All venues are accessible to Babes in arms are welcome Festival venue Perth Theatre
people with disabilities. to all WOW sessions. There Café and Bar is the perfect
For building-related access will also be crèche facilities place to meet, eat and catch
queries, please email for children aged 5 and under up with WOW friends. Take
wowperth@ available each day of the advantage of one of our
southbankcentre.co.uk festival. To book a place for festival deals or choose from
your child email us at one of the many eateries on
TEXT wowperth@ our doorstep.
southbankcentre.co.uk
A number of the sessions will Crèche places are free for day WOW Partner Venue
be live captioned and BSL and weekend pass holders. Horsecross Arts is excited to
Interpreted. Please look out be partnering with Southbank
for the access symbols in WOW Volunteers Centre to bring Scotland’s only
this brochure for details. In The WOW volunteers are on WOW Festival to Perth. The
addition to the sessions hand all weekend to welcome creative organisation behind
indicated in the brochure, we you to the festival, answer Perth Concert Hall and Perth
have some roaming interpreters queries, offer help and share Theatre, Horsecross Arts runs
and an oral interpreter. If you information about the festival a programme ranging from
would like to book an programme. When you see classical to comedy, theatre
interpreter for particular them, be sure to say hello! to trad music, family shows to
sessions please email festivals, contemporary art to
wowperth@ WOWsers community activities - there
southbankcentre.co.uk The WOWsers are young people is always something going on!
by Monday 24th September. aged 14-18 working together
in the lead-up to the festival Situated in the heart of the
Events in to create a piece of work to city, Perth Concert Hall has
Norie-Miller Studio be showcased at WOW Perth some of the finest acoustics
For help finding the 2018. They are also speaking in Europe and light and
Norie-Miller Studio situated on various panels throughout airy public places. Just up
in Perth Concert Hall, follow the weekend, ensuring that the road, the restored and
signage, ask a Host or go to the voices, opinions and redeveloped Perth Theatre
the Festival Welcome Desk. interests of Perth’s young combines a historic Edwardian
people are represented. auditorium with modern
performance spaces and
welcoming public areas.
At the centre of cultural life
in Perthshire, Perth Concert
Hall and Perth Theatre are a
destination and a resource
for everyone.
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Equality.
If not now,
why?
Saturday 29
WOW Morning Yoga Under 10’s
Stretch out in preparation for Feminist Corner
the weekend’s events. Feminism isn't just for
Mothers and babies welcome. grown-ups ... or teenagers!
Bring your own mat if you have Are you a budding young
one, and we’ll have some too. feminist? Do you think girls
should have the same
9am - 10am
opportunities in life as boys?
Joan Knight Studio
If so, we’ve got the perfect
PART OF PASS
session for you. Join other girls
and boys for an interactive
WOW Run* workshop led by Lauren
Start your WOW weekend with Oakes, exploring what being
a family friendly 5km park run a girl means, and get tips on
around the North Inch. We will how to start a campaign in
aim to be back by 11am, your bedroom.
invigorated and ready to This is a mixed session for all
enjoy the rest of the festival. genders aged 6-10 years old.
*Family friendly and suitable for These workshops are for young
all abilities, volunteers will be on people only.
hand to support. Runners under
11 must run with an adult. Meet 10am - 11.15am
at the Festival Welcome Desk Space One
at 9am. Free but Ticketed
9am - 11am
Free but Ticketed Art and Activism
Get crafty at our art and
activism table where you’ll
Sweep Through the Year find a variety of activities
It’s been a tumultuous 12
throughout Saturday from
months, so join us to navigate
producing femzines, creating
the ups and downs for women,
your own suffragette sash and
followed by in-depth
designing your own ‘Super
explorations on the big
Shero’. A great place for all
stories, from those in the know.
ages to meet new people and
Speakers include:
make new friends.
Katie Horsburgh from the First
Minister’s National Advisory 11.30am - 4pm
Committee for Women and Level Two Walkway
Girls, Victoria Heaney founder Free
of the Free Period Movement,
Sue John from Glasgow’s
Women’s Library and a
performance from Debra Salem
and the Menopause Choir.
10am - 11am
Main Stage TEXT
PART OF PASS
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Christina Riley
WOW Schools Day
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Intersectionality Women in the Criminal Breastfeeding:
in Action Justice System: A Conversation Café
“I am not free while any A Conversation Café Join us for an informal
woman is unfree, even Scotland has one of the conversation café supporting
when her shackles are very highest populations of female and celebrating mums feeding
different from my own.” prisoners. Lucy Mulvenna of their babies in public. Eat
Audre Lorde Perth’s One Stop Women’s cake, drink tea, make friends
Many women are held back Learning Service and Kirstie and share stories with women,
not just by their gender. As a Morrison past offender and parents-to-be and those who
predominantly white, able peer mentor for OWLS, discuss are interested in discussing
bodied society how do we make what is being done to support all things breastfeeding.
sure our own personal fight women in the criminal justice Hosted by Breast Buddies.
and Scotland’s fight for gender system and the changes that
equality is truly intersectional? 11.30am - 12.30pm
are taking place across
Our panel including Director of Level One Café Bar
Scotland.
Equate Scotland and founder Free
of Women 50/50 Talat Yaqoob, 11.30am - 12.30pm
Activist Mina Baird and local Space One Power, Purpose and
Outreach Officer Samaira PART OF PASS Progress: A Different
Ali will discuss how they are Approach to Leadership
putting intersectionality into Body Image: Come together in this session
practice as they place issues Glasgow Women’s to share visions and stories
like race, class, sexuality and Library Story Café of alternative approaches to
disability front and centre in Join us at this Glasgow leadership. Our speakers
their fight against sexism. Women’s Library Story Café to will share their real life
chill out and listen to readings experiences and provide
11.30am - 12.30pm
as some of the best women provocations before opening
Main Stage
writers worldwide get to grips out the discussion to everyone.
PART OF PASS
with body image in fiction and The session will end with us
poetry that is challenging, working together and creating
Who’s Afraid of practical examples to take
funny and moving. Pull up a
Feminist Economics? chair and become part of the back to our workplaces,
Has economics cemented story. communities and educational
gender inequality? ‘Feminist institutions. Speakers include;
Economics’ says it has - by 11.30am - 12.30pm Penny East, Head of
habitually ignoring women. Space Two Communications at Safelives,
So what is it and what does PART OF PASS Kathryn Welch, Operations
it offer, or does traditional Director for Macrobert Arts
economics already have the How To Change A Tyre Centre, Amanda Kilroy, Director
answers? Join us for this Back by popular demand of Social Innovation at CoLab
panel discussion hosted by Dr Rhona Croft is on hand to Exeter and Huda Jawad,
Engender - Scotland's feminist give you all the tips and tricks Activist and Writer.
membership organisation that on how to change a tyre.
advocates for all of society to 11.30am – 12.30pm
have equal opportunities in 11.30am - 12.30pm Norie-Miller Studio
life. Meet at the PART OF PASS
Festival Welcome Desk
11.30am - 12.30pm Free
Joan Knight Studio
PART OF PASS
9 Saturday
Christina Riley
WOWsers
Being A Man Menopause Café
Jordan Stephens Rachel Weiss
10Being A Man YES! YES! YES! Motherhood:
With ‘feminism’ named the Discussion Group A Conversation Café
word of 2017 by Merriam- Get a whistle-stop tour of From the birth to whether you
Webster, we look to the future female pleasure in this breastfeed, to whether you
with hope for ongoing activism workshop, covering everything work or stay at home -
and energy around gender from sex toys and stimulating mothers are under scrutiny.
equality. But how can men your G spot, to why the A, C Where do modern mothers
and boys work to support and O spots are rarely talked find support when the world
feminism? How can we about, and why the clitoris is busy judging them? Join our
empower boys and young is undersold. Expect to leave conversation cafe and share
men to speak out and support with a new view on all things your challenges, exchange
their female peers? Speakers vulva, and tips to help you ideas and explore different
include Actor and Musician reach your multi-orgasmic perspectives. This session
Jordan Stephens and Perth potential. Age 16+ is aimed at anyone who
Theatre Associate Artist Ross considers themselves a mum,
MacKay. 1pm - 2pm including (but not limited to)
Space One mums-in-law, stepmums,
1pm - 2pm PART OF PASS foster mums and adoptive
Main Stage
mums. Maybe you’re not a
PART OF PASS Mental Wealth: mum yet but are considering
Because You’re Worth It it, or you’re expecting. You may
The Digital Gaze: Our mental health like our not call yourself a mum, but
Surveillance is a physical health is something are considered a parent or
Feminist Issue that must be paid attention carer by others.
Bring your phone or device to, exercised and nurtured.
and join Perth Theatre A fifth of women - and one in 1pm - 2.30pm
Associate Artist and creator four pregnant women - are Norie-Miller Studio
of The Big Data Show Clare reported to suffer from a PART OF PASS
Duffy and tech experts Rupert mental health issue such as
Goodwins and Freda O’Byrne anxiety and depression, New Balls Please!
as they offer a hands on compared to one in eight men. Join us at Perth’s North Inch
interactive workshop which Hear from panelists Dr Eve park for a celebration of
will provide practical Hepburn, founder of online women and sport. Meet local
information and advice about magazine Fearless Femme, and national sportswomen
how you can stay in control Louise Johnstone, organiser and have a go in a friendly
of your online experiences. of the Heart Tay Heart Festival and fun environment.
As part of the session Clare, and Tomiwa Folorunso from For those who would like some
Rupert and Freda will invite the Young Women’s Movement help to find the park you can meet
you to test out their new app as they share what they have our volunteers at the Festival
Welcome Desk at 12.45pm
Swipe - Big Data Show. done to positively impact
and we will walk together.
their mental well-being and
1pm - 2pm discuss how we can challenge
Space Two 1pm - 3pm
the stigma and shame around North Inch Park
PART OF PASS women’s mental health. Free
Chaired by Rachel Weiss
1pm - 2pm
Joan Knight Studio
PART OF PASS
11 SaturdayWild Ones: A Walking Gusset Grippers Bearing the Burden:
Conversation Café ‘Laugh don’t leak!’ Women and Poverty
Join storyteller and wild space A shocking 1 in 3 women and This session will be delivered
advocate Claire Hewitt for a 1 in 9 men wet themselves. by Twimukye Mushaka - Senior
facilitated walk-and-talk Leaking is common and most Fieldwork Development Officer
around the North Inch park. cases of stress incontinence from The Poverty Alliance. Using
A chance to discuss the stories can be cured. Get your festival participatory methods and
of wildness and women and comedy fix by witnessing the discussion we will explore the
the importance of connecting joy that is Elaine Miller’s social and economic injustices
with outdoor spaces. Gusset Grippers - a stand up facing women in Scotland
The route will be gentle and comedy show that brings today. From the changes to our
there will be stopping points pelvic floor health to the welfare system, child poverty
along the way. masses. You’ll leave this and challenging stigma, come
thoroughly entertaining show along to discover what is being
2pm - 3.45pm knowing what a pelvic floor done, what else could be done
Meet at the is, what it does, why having and how you can be part of
Festival Welcome Desk a good one is smashing and making positive change.
Free where to take yours if it is a
bit broken. Elaine Miller is a 2.30pm - 4pm
WOW Bites physiotherapist, comedian, Space One
Come along to WOW Bites for mother of three giant headed PART OF PASS
short talks, performances, children and a recovered
readings and soapbox incontinent. She did the obvious Breaking the Silence:
moments delivered by all thing and combined all of Giving Testimony
sorts of women with amazing those to create Gusset Grippers. Hear survivors of rape, sexual
stories. Five speakers will “Startling and humorous assault and domestic abuse
share a range of stories from insights” Sydney Herald. speak first hand about their
the serious to the funny. Gusset Grippers is Elaine’s experiences. The second hour
Speakers include: contribution to breaking down of the session will be an open
Andrea Johnstone talking the taboos which surround discussion looking at what
about WITH - Women in the incontinence and sexual dys- happens when you speak out
Highlands a current WEA functions, the first fringe show in public about violence
Scotland initiative. Charlotte to improve orgasms for both committed against you.
Flower discusses what it takes men and women, and that’s
to set up and run a rural nano scientifically proven! 2.30pm - 4.30pm
business. Hanan Al-Haifi tells Space Two
us about her project which Followed by a Q&A PART OF PASS
shares success stories of
2.30pm - 4pm
independent Arab women to
Main Stage
provide relatable role models
PART OF PASS
and inspirational content for
the millennial Arab girl.
Jenni Keenan discusses her
relationship with childlessness.
2.30pm - 3.30pm
Joan Knight Studio
PART OF PASS
12Speed Mentoring* Saturday Closing The Vagina Monologues
Join experts from many fields Session: An Obie award-winning
including journalists, scientists, Jude Kelly Keynote whirlwind tour of a forbidden
theatre directors, campaigners, Jude Kelly CBE, founder of zone, The Vagina Monologues
WOW speakers and many more WOW - Women of the World introduces a wildly divergent
for three individual 15-minute festival, delivers a keynote on gathering of female voices,
mentoring sessions to share how the festival is contributing including a six-year-old girl,
your challenges, exchange to global change and why a a septuagenarian New Yorker,
ideas and potentially identify gender-equal world is a much a vagina workshop participant,
a new mentor. better world for everyone. a woman who witnessed the
*Please note our speed birth of her granddaughter,
mentoring sessions have a very 4.30pm - 5pm a Bosnian survivor of rape,
limited capacity and mentees Main Stage TEXT and a feminist happy to have
will be welcomed to the session PART OF PASS found a man who “liked to look
on a first-come first-served at it.”
basis. Presented by Perth & Kinross
and Dundee & Angus Rape and
3pm - 4pm
Sexual Abuse Centres.
Norie-Miller Studio
PART OF PASS 7.30pm - 9pm
Joan Knight Studio
Free but Ticketed
Jassy Earl
Art and Activism
13 SaturdaySunday 30 Under 10s
Feminist Corner
See page 7
Wild Ones: A Walking
Conversation Café
See Page 12
10.30am - 11.30am 11.30am - 1pm
Space One Meet at the
Free but Ticketed Festival Welcome Desk
Free
WOW Views on the News
What better way to start our Creating Heroines:
Sunday than with a WOW take Puppetry Workshop
on a classic weekend tradition. Fresh from WOW Karachi and
Dive in-depth into the papers WOW London, award-winning
with our panel including Briana Pakistani puppeteer Yamina
Pegado, Founder and Director, Peerzada joins us at WOW
Edinburgh Student Arts Festival Perth. Yamina will be
and Patrycja Kupiec, Director collaborating with a Scottish
of YWCA Scotland - The Young puppeteer to explore issues
Women’s Movement as they of gender equality, in the
discuss what the headlines different cultural contexts of
mean for gender equality. Scotland and Pakistan. Join
them in this drop-in session
10.30am - 11.30am
and discover how to use
Main Stage
TEXT puppetry to create our own
PART OF PASS
heroines.
Project X: 11.30am - 3pm
Dance Workshop Level Two Walkway
Project X is changing the Free
conversations and perceptions
around dance within the WOW Bites
African Diaspora in Scotland. Come along to WOW Bites for
Through profiling practitioners short talks, performances,
and platforming the diverse readings and soapbox
styles, they celebrate our moments delivered by all
heritage and broaden the sorts of women with amazing
mainstream consciousness. stories. Five speakers will
Join Project X at WOW for a share a range of stories from
dynamic dance workshop that the serious to the funny.
will not only move your body
but enrich your perceptions 12pm - 1pm
and ideas of representation. Joan Knight Studio
No previous dance experience is PART OF PASS
required, suitable for all abilities.
11.30am - 1pm
Norie-Miller Studio
PART OF PASS
14Jassy Earl
Speed Mentoring
You and #MeToo We Need to Talk Speed Mentoring
The #MeToo hashtag has About Alcohol: See Page 13
uncovered the global scale A Discussion Group
of sexual assault and 12pm - 1pm
In Scotland, we drink more than Space One
harassment and became people in England and Wales,
a rallying cry and show of PART OF PASS
and more than many other
solidarity for survivors - mostly European countries. There
women, and some men too. has been a dramatic increase
Menopause Café
Join our panelists as they Join us to drink tea, eat cake
in women’s drinking over the
discuss what the reality is for and talk about the menopause.
last 30 years. However, double
women and girls in Scotland There’s no speaker and no
standards are still common, and
and how we are trying to agenda, just the sharing
women’s drinking is judged more
tackle this global epidemic. of experiences, jokes and
harshly than men’s drinking.
Chaired By Karen Boyle, questions about the menopause.
Join us to discuss the pain and
Professor of Feminist Media Open to all ages and genders
pleasure of women’s drinking
Studies and Director of the to join in the conversation or
in Scotland. Speakers include
Applied Gender Studies just come and listen. Led by
Alison Douglas, Chief Executive
programme at the University Founder Rachel Weiss.
of Alcohol Focus Scotland and
of Strathclyde. Dr Carol Emslie researcher 12pm - 1.30pm
12pm - 1pm and co-creator of the website Level One café bar
Main Stage genderandalcohol.co.uk Free
PART OF PASS 12pm - 1pm
Space Two
PART OF PASS
15Badass Women from Menstruation: WOW Presents:
History: Pride Edition Glasgow Women’s An Evening with
Hear from a panel of some Library Story Café Horse McDonald
of Scotland’s top LGBTQIA+ Every day, over 800million
people including Editor of Diva women and girls have their “What a woman. What a voice!”
Magazine Carrie Lyell, Musician period - it’s been the subject melody maker
Horse McDonald and Activist of fiction, poetry and myth “One of the finest singers in
and Campaigner Mridul Wadhwa since the beginning of time Britain” Q magazine
as they get inspired by the and women have been telling
courage, initiative, intelligence, For the uninitiated, Horse is
stories about it that are the iconic Scottish singer
willpower and all-round profound, powerful and
badassery of some of the songwriter described by Q
sometimes hysterically funny mag as having, “a soul deep
greatest LGBTQIA+ women for just as long. Join Glasgow
in history. purr... Scottish and brilliant;
Women’s Library to chill out McDonald owns one of the
and hear how women writers finest voices of modern times,
1.30pm - 2.30pm
worldwide have broken the soul and intelligence combined”
Main Stage
taboos of menstruation. Pull Her signature song, Careful
PART OF PASS
up a chair and become part of was covered by Will Young.
the story. She’s toured many times
Abortion
Every year, over 56 million 1.30pm - 3pm throughout the UK, Europe,
women have an abortion Space One USA and Australia and opened
around the world, with over PART OF PASS or toured for other artists
half that number still done including Tina Turner, Bryan
unsafely. This year the world Ferry, Burt Bacarach, and BB
Power Ballad Your
watched as the Republic of King. She is an ambassador
Stress Away for the Nordoff Robbins Music
Ireland repealed the ban on Join Perth’s First Ladies of
abortion, our panel discuss therapy charity, a patron for
Country for an hour of singing Switchboard LGBT and for the
the questions surrounding your heart out to your
the debate. Chaired by Jude Clutha Trust. A multi award
favourite girl power anthems. winner her most recent include
Kelly, Founder, WOW - Women
of the World Festival 1.30pm - 3pm induction into the Saltire
Space Two Society Outstanding Women
1.30pm - 2.30pm PART OF PASS of Scotland, the DIVA Lifetime
Joan Knight Studio achievement award and most
PART OF PASS recently placed at #43 in the
Pick of the Festival World Pride Power List!
So what happens next?
Suffrajitsu Our festival finale will be all November is the 25th
Join Fair City Jiu Jitsu instructor about personal activism and anniversary of her second
Steven Gray and our WOWsers how you take the festival album Gods Home Movie, and
for a mashup of ‘herstory’ and energy and make change. this rare, intimate, acoustic
self defense as our experts Featuring some of the stories performance will feature this
celebrate the suffragettes and speakers from across the album as well as other classic
whilst teaching you some weekend. Hosted by Lou Brodie, Horse songs from her rich
matriarchal martial arts WOW Perth 2018 Festival catalogue.
moves for mindfulness and Programmer
confidence. 8pm - 9.30pm
3.15pm - 4pm Joan Knight Studio
1.30pm – 3pm Main Stage TEXT
Tickets £18/Concession £15
Norie-Miller Studio PART OF PASS All tickets include £1.50 booking fee
PART OF PASS
16Kris Kesiak
An Evening with
Horse McDonald
17 SundayThroughout the weekend WOW Marketplace Pop Up Performances
The heart and hub of the Over the course of the weekend
festival - our specially designed you will encounter a range of
indoor market is a central pop up performances around
meeting point where people the theatre building. Check out
can gather, find information, our daily diaries for details of
do some shopping, network where and when each pop up
with others, get a feel for the will take place and information
festival and experience a whole on the artists involved.
range of products, ideas and Performances include:
activities. Acoustic music set from
Debra Salem,
10am - 5pm Untitled(Labyrinth) from
Perth Theatre Foyer Dance Artist Claricia Kruithof,
Free Indian Dance from
Shweta Jariwala,
New Order, Other Spaces All female drumming
This multi-site solo exhibition ensemble - Sheboom.
by Jo Longhurst explores the
gymnastic body across Women and Food:
photography, moving image
Recipes for Homesickness
and installation. New Order,
For millennia, women and
Other Spaces engages with
food have been intrinsically
ideas of perfection, gender,
linked with recipes and stories
gesture, and inter-generational
passed down through
understandings of movement.
generation to generation.
It features new commissions
Throughout the weekend we
produced in collaboration with
are inviting you to share these
gymnasts of all ages and in
recipes and stories by asking
response to archival research
the question: What do you cook
including the life and work
to comfort you? Facilitators
of dance artist and choreographer
Rani and Merlyn will gather
Margaret Morris (1891-1980).
together your stories and
Part of Festival 2018
recipes to produce a unique
Curated by Tiffany Boyle and
Iliyana Nedkova. Produced by the
WOW Perth cookbook.
artist, curators and Horsecross 11am - 4pm
Arts. Supported by Glasgow 2018
Level Two Studio Foyer
European Championships
Free
Festival Fund. Additional support
by The Zone, The Glasgow School
of Art,Glasgow Life and University
of Glasgow.
10am - 6pm
Threshold artspace,
Perth Concert Hall and Theatre
Free
18WOW is a global festival, having taken place in five continents since it launched in 2010. Each WOW is rooted in its local area but becomes part of the WOW global network, allowing festivals to feed into each other, swap stories, support and inspire each other, while creating a network of people and ideas.
FUNDED BY SPIRIT OF 2012 WOW SPIRIT
SPIRIT OF 2012
INVESTING IN HAPPINESS
Spirit of 2012 is a funding charity, WOW Spirit is delivering nine WOW festivals
established with a £47m endowment from in five cities across the UK (one in 2016,
the Big Lottery Fund. It funds partners three in 2017 and five in 2018). It’s a
across the UK that provide opportunities Southbank Centre initiative funded by
in sports, physical activity, arts and culture, Spirit of 2012. WOW Spirit is targeting
volunteering and social action. Spirit was areas where a lack of cultural infrastructure,
founded to continue and recreate the limited access to resources and restricted
spirit of pride, positivity and social opportunities for female leaders can be
connectedness that people experienced barriers to community cohesion. Each
during the London 2012 Games. They invest festival is based on ideas raised at a series
to create good outcomes for people and of planning sessions called ‘Thinkins’.
communities and have invested over £25 Everyone can come to these to share their
million into community projects in over 100 ideas and suggestions and make sure that
locations across the UK, benefiting more WOW looks at important local issues.
than 1 million people.
Building new festivals across the UK allows
@spiritof2012 women, men, girls and boys (including some
spiritof2012.org.uk of the most marginalised voices in society)
to get actively involved in their local
communities. As programmers, volunteers
and participants, they can help create a
fairer, happier society.
#WOWPERTH
@PERTHWOW
in partnership with
#WOWLDN
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