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Group Project: Women of the World (WOW) Festival

WOW is a festival is to inform women and men about how powerful, strong, honorable, and successful women can be. WOW has multiple public speakers, debaters, and feminists come and present information to the audience. The Women of the World festival is hosted at a different place each year. It has been hosted in London, Cambridge, New York, and other well known cities.

Jill Dolan, a published author of The Feminist Spectator as Critic, is a very important spectator in the WOW Festival, expressing her views and opinions on the event. Dolan is most known for her role of feminist criticism in relation to performance.

Source: http://wow.southbankcentre.co.uk

Women of The World Festival

Women of the World is a week long festival held in various places, it features musical performances, debates, public speeches, mentoring sessions, and more. Women of the World festival is usually referred to as WOW. Many talented individuals perform and teach girls about how to tackle the obstacles society throws their way. The festival always takes place the week of International Women's Day - March 8th. WOW will be celebrating its sixth year of the festival as of 2015.

A day at the Women of The World Festival includes many events, discussions, debates, and cultural music. Speakers come from all over the world to participate in this global festival and speak on specific topics, such as gender roles and identity, women empowerment, and the inspiration of other feminists. Usually the first two days of the festival are focused on the more serious topics, such as women equality and debates of violence , and the last two days involve teaching women lifestyle rituals and participate in cultural music and dances. The musical performances are intended to celebrate women and spark progressive discussions of their rights. Women of the World festival helps women and girls proudly to stand for the power that they are capable of inquiring.

Origin

The first WOW Festival was held in United Kingdom, but now has many other locations through out the world. The festivals are rooted in local areas, but are connected internationally. The festivals develop by sharing stories and inspiring one another; all of the festivals are intertwined by being unique in their own way even though they have same name, they are held in a different place every year attracting different people from the last one. Currently, the Women of the World Festival has been held on three different continents, and the Southbank Centre, which is a complex of artistic venues in England, hopes to have it globally known for all to participate.

The Southbank Centre was created in 1951 and is famous throughout the world for its many art festivals. Southbank is inspired by inheritance of cultural traditions and has a wide range of custom events to the society. Committed to working with young and emerging talent, Southbank offers free activities involving music, dance, art and performance inside and outside the historic building. It is also famously known for hosting the Women of the World Festival every year.

Influences of the Movement

Jill Dolan is seen as an important figure to the WOW community. Dolan published The Feminist Spectator as Critic, a groundbreaking book on feminist theatre criticism. She expresses her interest in the relationship of feminist criticism to feminist theatre production. In the book, WOW is not the object of her criticism, but has attained a privileged position as the model for feminist performance. Dolan says, "I went on to suggest that the performances at WOW offered the most potential for subverting the historically conservative performances of gender authorized by theater production." Although she found the performances at Women of the World Festival to be somewhat radical, Dolan was worried that the insularity of WOW might limit its capacity for social change.

Ruizmaddie101 (talk) 18:02, 9 November 2015 (UTC)Rwomac6