WOW Global 24

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With the overarching theme of “Women and Girls in a Time of Crisis”, WOW Global 24 analysed the issues, explored solutions, spotlighted what is already being done, and heard from women, girls and people of all genders who are working towards a better, post Covid-19 world.

Enjoy these excerpts from the Australian and Pacific content broadcast as part of WOW Global 24. WOW Global was broadcast June 27-28 2020.

Watch the full series of content on our YouTube channel.

Presentations by Changemakers

June Oscar: Under Whose Law?

June Oscar AO – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Human Rights Commission Australia. This piece was originally presented as part of WOW @ Festival 2018.

This piece includes an introduction from Associate Professor Sandra Phillips from the University of Queensland, recorded June 2020.

Forgive the Past, Live the Present, Reclaim the Future, Join the Movement

Aunty Ivy is a Cultural Ambassador, healer & teacher. Her mentoring draws from her Homelands heritage Aotearoa, NZ. Her life’s work honours cultural practices embodied in a cross-cultural lineage of Polynesian, Asian & European bloodlines. Her work & walk of integrity across the Globe is a potent advocacy for humanity & nature

Quentin Bryce: ‘Grandma is in Lockdown’

WOW Australia Patron The Hon. Quentin Bryce in this moving conversation with our Executive Producer Cathy Hunt.

A New Economy

Learning from the Pandemic: Strategies for a new Economy

Speakers

Alanna Bastin-Byrne & Jade Collins - Co-Directors Femeconomy
Ingrid Burkett - Co-Director, The Yunus Center, Griffith University
Maria Calibo-Sales - Founder & Chief Advisor, Calmar Corps
Carla Garvie - People Leader, Aurizon, Australia Aurizon
Cathy Hunt - Executive Producer WOW Australia/Pacific for WOW Global 24
Leanne Kemp - Queensland Chief Entrepreneur & CEO Everledger
Kate Rose - Accumulation Account Product Manager, QSuper
Lisa Siganto - Executive Chair, ImpaQt Queensland Professor Anne Tiernan - Dean of Engagement Griffith Business School, Griffith University
Leesa Watego - Managing Director of Iscariot Media

Kim Rubenstein talks 'Snap Forward Feminist Policy Framework for Australia'

Kim talks about the 'Snap Forward Feminist Policy Framework for Australia'.

In this presentation she summarised the 10 recommendations submitted to the Parliamentary Senate Inquiry into Covid - put together by a fantastic bunch of energetic and hard working women - all part of the 'Snap Forward Feminist Policy Network' (SFN).

The SFN Submission has been endorsed by over 80 organisations and key individuals around the nation. We eagerly await the Committee's response report!

Performances

Tub Talk - Talking Tits!

Country Witches Association - Comedy duo Mandy Nolan and Áine Tyrell, telling it like it is from the most comfy seat in the house.

‘Your Feminism‘

‘Your Feminism’, written and performed by Anisa Nandaula, WOW Australia Poet in Residence 2020, with artists Aurora Liddle-Christie, Waima De Souza, and Waniki Maluwapi.

Vulcana Circus: Circus Captives

Circus in isolation! Presented by Vulcana Circus, Queensland’s oldest women’s arts organisation. Across all their performance work Vulcana aims to represent diverse stories, bodies, abilities and creative responses.

 
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Will gender equality be the legacy of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup?
Will gender equality be the legacy of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup?

The excitement for this first FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand has been accompanied by frustration expressed about the pace of change toward gender equality in sport. Major sport events, such as the FIFA Women’s World Cup, the Olympic and Paralympic Games shine an important spotlight on the problematic values that continue to marginalise women’s voices in the governance and representation of sport.

WOW London 2023
WOW London 2023

It is four years since I participated in a WOW Festival in London, missing out in 2019 due to an accident and then of course the last three years of COVID cancellations and travel restrictions. So it was extra special this year to be able to travel to the UK with WOW Australia Senior Producer Jo Pratt and in partnership with the WOW Foundation, to support the participation of our Co Patron Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar AO in this year’s WOW London at the Royal Festival Hall.

Cathy Hunt: “A glimmer of hope for the creative economy.”
Cathy Hunt: “A glimmer of hope for the creative economy.”

The inability to tackle some of the wicked problems of the day (ongoing gender injustice included) is often a cultural issue. The way we think about issues, the way we’ve always done things as a community, results in particular approaches to problem solving. If we want real social change, we have to start with cultural change – and what better tool for that than the creative outpourings of culture itself?

Listen up, it’s WOW Sounds
Listen up, it’s WOW Sounds

When it feels as if the world around you is collapsing, there are few quicker, more spiritually nourishing, ways to reset than by listening to your favourite music artist, or watching a spoken word poet really tackle the world head on.

Once Upon A Time in Australia…
Once Upon A Time in Australia…

On Friday 2nd September we were delighted to welcome our esteemed guests, the Hon. Quentin Bryce and the Hon. Julia Gillard for our twice postponed and much anticipated conversation Once Upon a Time in Australia! It was a delight and privilege to hear the stories and reminiscences of these two leaders who have broken new ground for so many women in Australia.

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