WOW Katherine 2013
The WOW – Women of the World – Festival is a global festival originating at London’s Southbank Centre, that celebrates the formidable strength and inventiveness of girls and women, where people of all ages and backgrounds can applaud their achievements but also examine the obstacles that prevent them from achieving their full potential. WOW is for everyone, not a women-only event.
In May 2013, Southbank Centre launched WOW in Australia as part of Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), with a strand of work that ran throughout the festival that focussed on girls and women. Highlights included Ruby Wax in the Sydney Opera House with her show about mental illness, an Under 10’s feminist corner, speed mentoring for 300 people, a keynote from Jude Kelly, Artistic Director of Southbank Centre and founder of WOW, and from Shami Chakrabarti, Director of UK human rights organisation Liberty, who set out the story of women’s struggles for freedom across the world. Now, in September 2013, WOW comes to Katherine in the Northern Territory.
