Activities

WOW MARKET

Friday 9 March – Sunday 11 March

Level 2 Foyer at Royal Festival Hall,

12 noon– 6pm

Stallholders include everyone from hairdressers, manicurists, female plumbers and DIY experts, to charities supporting women and designer makers. Browse our extraordinary free market and discover.

Crèche

Friday 9 March – Sunday 11 March

Sunley Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall,

Friday 2pm – 6pm, Saturday 12 noon – 6pm, Sunday 12 noon – 6pm

Children 0-12 welcome, limited to 20 children.

Speed Mentoring

Friday 9 March – Sunday 11 March

Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall

high-level experts across all fields from theatre directors to geoscientists.

To meet other women who face the same challenges, sign up or find out more by email

wowmentoring@southbankcentre.co.uk

WOW Bites

March 10 - 11

St Paul’s Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall

WOW Bites are little talks and inspiring ideas, achievements, obsessions, stories, performances or manifestos of and everything inbetween.

Each one is completely different – come and take a chance.

Phenomenal people – Fuel

March 9 - 11

Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, Friday 11am –

3pm, Saturday 11am – 7pm, Sunday 11am – 7pm

The world is full of inspiring women who are brave, beautiful and strong; who have made a difference and whose stories have never been told. We want to hear those stories. Join some brilliant artists who share their stories live and online over the weekend. Seek us out and, take some time to have a drink, hear a story and share your stories of inspirational women.

Speaker’s Corner

by Shabnam Shabazi

March 10 - 11

Level 2, Terrace EXACT LOCATION? Saturday 12 noon – 6pm, Sunday 12 noon – 6pm?

Jump in and get involved in this interactive, audio and visual performance. Shabnam tells her story of living in a car for five weeks with her mother, grandmother, aunty, cat, dog and goldfish at the height of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, before fleeing to the UK. Exploring themes of displacement, loss, and being taken out of your natural environment, this installation is still relevant today in a world where people continue to not be heard.

WOW education

WOW aims to encourage young women to question issues related to their gender, find women who inspire them and empower them to be their generation’s pioneers. A team of ‘WOWsers’ are helping, talking and interviewing throughout WOW and on 9 March a young women conference, led by Mulberry School, asks what makes a 21st Century WOW Education.

WOW Global

WOW went global in 2012! We launched in Baltimore, USA on March 2nd 2012 in collaboration with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and their Musical Director Marin Alsop. In 2013, we are planning to take WOW to Australia, Iceland and across the UK.

Watch this space!