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Past Events
List of Archived Events and Festivals
February 2024
March 2024
WOW: One Night Live in London
WOW Istanbul 2024
WOW Istanbul is back for 2024!
WOW Istanbul's third edition will take place at–
WOW Pakistan 2024
WOW Pakistan is back for 2024!
WOW Pakistan is an ode to the strength, perseverance and reserve of Pakistani women.…–
August 2023
October 2023
WOW Rio 2023
WOW Rio is back for in 2023! A place to exchange experiences, learn new perspectives, tell and listen to stories, where women from different…–
WOW Australia: Voices Shaping the Future
Voices Shaping the Future is a two‑day celebration of conversations, performances, and workshops by and for young women and those…–
April 2023
May 2023
June 2023
March 2023
Off Air with Jane & Fi at WOW
The Big O with Oloni at WOW
Roxane Gay Live at WOW
UK Jazz Plus sessions - Live at WOW
WOW Sounds Presents LayFullstop
WOW Festival Presents Prima Facie
WOW Under 10's Feminist Corner for Boys
WOW Under 10's Feminist Corner for Girls
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Joyful Joyful: Stories Celebrating Black Voices
Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun: Tolá Okogwu
The Little Match Girl Strikes Back
WOW Speed Mentoring
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WOW Marketplace
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Friday WOW Festival Day Pass
Saturday WOW Festival Day Pass
Sunday WOW Festival Day Pass
WOW Marketplace
WOW Festival is back, and the WOW Marketplace returns ready for everyone to explore.
Inside the Royal…–
November 2022
WOW Think In - Online
WOW Presents… Creativity Under Stress with Saima Mir & Kate Mosse
Saima Mir is an award-winning journalist and writer. She is a guest columnist for The Guardian, and has also written for The Times,…
August 2022
September 2022
In Person: Lubaina Himid in Conversation: Found Cities, Lost Objects
WOW Presents Natalie Haynes: Digital Launch
July 2022
WOW Think In - Online
WOW Think In - In Person
WOW Think In - Online
WOW Presents: Laura Bates - Fix the System, Not the Women
Laura Bates is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, the author of Everyday Sexism, The Sunday Times bestseller Girl…
March 2022
Online: Women, Power and the Brain
Power affects your life 24/7, impacting every action, conversation - and even your thoughts.
Suzanne Alleyne is a Cultural…Online: WOW on International Women’s Day
Join WOW Founder Jude Kelly and guests on International Women’s Day to talk joy, resilience and making change happen.
What…Online: Drawing Breath with Tania Kovats & Jane Sassienie
Come and draw breath at this very special session at WOW led by Tania Kovats and Jane Sassienie.
When you pause, take a breath…Online: Writing Happiness - A WOW workshop
This workshop is a space for D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent creatives to come together and write about our joy. The workshop will provide writers…Online: Grandmothers
In 2021, WOW gathered over 150 grandmothers from across the UK and beyond to discuss anything and everything Grandmotherhood. They were rich and much…Online: Under 10’s Digital Feminist Corner
Are you a budding young gender equality champion? Do you think we should all have the same opportunities in life? If so, don’t miss this…Natalie Haynes in conversation: Women in Greek Myth
The Greek myths are among the world's most important historical building blocks - they’re all around us, deeply embedded into our culture and…Angela Davis: A Lifetime of Resistance
World renowned scholar and friend of WOW, Professor Angela Y. Davis joins us live from San Francisco in this one-off, special event featuring…WOW Sounds Hour
Join us at WOW Festival for this special gig featuring an exclusive line up of WOW Sounds acts including Nadia Javed and…Bernardine Evaristo - Black Britain: Writing Back
Join Booker Prize winning author Bernardine Evaristo and special guests Judith Bryan, Barbara Blake…Bridget Christie at WOW: Who Am I?
Bridget Christie is hot, but not in a good way.
The 50-year-old critically acclaimed stand up leaks…Grace Victory & Candice Brathwaite at WOW
Join Grace Victory and Candice Brathwaite at WOW as they share how they grew their careers to encompass…Patrisse Cullors: An Abolitionist Journey
WOW presents a very special evening with Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, author,…Lisa Taddeo & Pandora Sykes in Conversation
In this exclusive event, we welcome author Lisa Taddeo, author of internationally renowned Three Women to WOW. Lisa’s latest book,…Figs in Wigs: Little Wimmin
Figs in Wigs bring Little Wimmin, their live art feminist…Maryland
Watch this script-in-hand performance of Lucy Kirkwood’s Maryland at the WOW Festival, an immediate, extraordinary, communal rallying cry in…Sunday afternoon at WOW with Elizabeth Day
Join Elizabeth Day - award-winning journalist, bestselling novelist and presenter of the hit podcast, How to Fail - for Sunday afternoon at…WOW Speed Mentoring
Share your challenges, exchange ideas and stories and meet a whole range of incredible women and non binary people, including WOW Speakers,…WOW Sounds Presents Miss Baby Sol
WOW welcomes UK based artist Miss Baby Sol to our stage on to perform an exclusive gig with her full live band in the beautiful Clore…Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan: Tangled in Terror
In this exclusive WOW event, writer, poet and activist, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan launches her new book, Tangled in Terror: Uprooting…Marian Keyes at WOW: Again, Rachel
Join Marian Keyes in conversation with Kit de Waal at WOW Festival, as they discuss her much anticipated…The Urgent Conversation at WOW
Every day, it feels like we wake up to something new to respond to, a new urgent conversation to have, a new set of injustices to carry and solutions…Warsan Shire at WOW: Bless the Daughter
Join award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire as she launches her long-awaited first full-length poetry collection Bless the…Deborah Frances-White Stands Up at WOW
Join stand up comedian Deborah Frances-White at the WOW Festival, as she cuts edges and rouses rabbles with her new hour of takes that are just the…Friday at WOW
In a time of so much uncertainty, what we need now more than…Saturday at WOW
WOW London is back in person! Join the world’s biggest festival celebrating…WOW Under 10's Feminist Corner for Girls
Feminism isn’t just for teenagers and grown-ups – WOW Under-10s Feminist…WOW Under 10's Feminist Corner for Boys
Feminism isn’t just for teenagers and grown-ups – WOW Under-10s Feminist Corners are…Sunday at WOW - Women & Power
In this one-off special at WOW Festival, join WOW Founder Jude Kelly and guests to explore women, power and leadership today.
November 2021
Shameless! Festival: Emily Ratajkowski In Conversation
New York Times bestselling author and actor Emily Ratajkowski joins WOW - Women of the World Founder Jude Kelly CBE atPoetic Unity at Shameless! Festival
Poetic Unity presents 'Safe Space', an evening of poetry and…Shameless! Festival Day Pass
A festival of Activism against Sexual Violence, produced by SHaME and WOW - Women of the World
Join us at the…
July 2021
WOW UK 2021 Festival Revisited Talks Pass
Due to phenomenal demand, we’re bringing back a selection of talks and workshops (23rd-27th July) from WOW UK Festival 2021! So if you missed out or…–
Workshop: Grandmothers
Grandchildren come with all the joy and less responsibility - or do they? With sky high childcare fees, an increasing number of single parents needing…Workshop: Finding Your Virtual Power with Sarah Blumenau
Whether we love it or hate it, the virtual environment is now a crucial part of our everyday professional and personal lives. This very special…Workshop: Under 10’s Feminist Corner
Feminism isn’t just for teenagers and grown ups! Find out what you can do to fight for equality in this fun workshop. If you’re a budding young…Workshop: Everyone’s An Artist with Bryony Kimmings
As children we all draw, sing and make pretend. At some point for most of us those urges are either schooled out or forgotten to the daily grind. Yet…Workshop: All Cisterns Go - Plumbing with WOW
It's not a pipe dream, do it yourself! In this workshop led by Hattie Hasan MBE, Founder of Stopcocks Women Plumbers, come and learn the basics of…Workshop: How To Be An Active Bystander
Witnessed violence but didn’t know how to react? We all have the capacity to be someone who does something in the face of inequality in all of its…Workshop: From Intersectionality to #SayHerName
Join this discussion, led by Jade Bentil, to delve into the radical love of Black feminist politics, and other topics that emerge from Kimberlé…Talk: Cut from the Same Cloth?
Are you oppressed? Do you wear that at home? Can you be a feminist? Aren’t you hot in that?
SPOILER ALERT: This session will not be asking or…
November 2020
March 2021
WOW UK 21 Launch: Where Are We Now?
Join us to launch WOW’s 2021 UK digital festival - with WOW Founder and Director Jude Kelly and entrepreneur India…Arundhati Roy and V In Conversation
Join writers Arundhati Roy and V (formerly Eve Ensler) as they talk to writer Preti Taneja, reflecting on the meaning…Good Grief: Catherine Mayer and Anne Mayer Bird In Conversation
Catherine Mayer and her mother, Anne Mayer Bird, lost their beloved husbands just 41 days apart on the eve of the…Where Are All The Working Class Writers?
WOW joins forces with the Working Class Writers Festival for this special event, withWomen in Greek Myths: Natalie Haynes and Bettany Hughes
Join Natalie Haynes and Bettany Hughes in conversation at WOW UK Festival…Sheila Heti and Avni Doshi In Conversation
Sheila Heti joins Avni Doshi in a conversation on the ambivalence of motherhood, chaired by Sunny…Kimberlé Crenshaw In Conversation
Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term ‘Intersectionality’ in 1989, and #SayHerName campaign she fights for the forgotten women who have…How To Talk to Robots: A Girls’ Guide To a Future Dominated by AI
AI is everywhere. From tracking your spending habits, to creating the latest filter on Instagram to job applications, AI is playing a part in how we…Ruby Wax: And Now for the Good News
When was the last time that reading the news made you feel good?
Come and join Ruby for an hour of optimism - including a…Refusing to be Silenced
In the midst of lockdown, when growing authoritarianism threatens to silence the voices of truth and justice, meet the women who risk their…Sex in Lockdown
Are sex and social distancing unnatural bedfellows? From having more to wanting more, and from doing it yourself to abstaining completely - we have…Workshop: Money Matters - Reset Your Money Mindset with Selina Flavius
This workshop from Selina Flavius, founder and author ofWorkshop: Under 10’s Feminist Corner
Feminism isn’t just for teenagers and grown ups! Find out what you can do to fight for equality in this fun workshop. If you’re a budding young…Workshop: WOW’s Virtual Big Sing
‘Singing?’
‘On Zoom?’
‘On my own?’
‘On mute?’
‘Does it work, or is it…weird…..?!’
The answer, in short, is yes,…Workshop: Grandmothers
Grandchildren come with all the joy and less responsibility - or do they? With sky high childcare fees, an increasing number of single parents needing…Workshop: Radical Childcare
Our childcare costs match those of our rent or mortgage, but our childcare practitioners are some of our lowest paid workers.
This highly…Workshop: Decolonising Songwriting
Anindilyakwa woman, singer-songwriter Emily Wurramara and Irish woman, singer-songwriter Áine Tyrrell join forces in…Workshop: I Am Perfect As Me
I Am Perfect As Me is a campaign created byWorkshop: Finding Your Personal Power with Sarah Blumenau
Whether we love it or hate it, the virtual environment is now a crucial part of our everyday professional and personal lives. Learn how to increase…Workshop: How To Be An Active Bystander
Witnessed violence but didn’t know how to react? We all have the capacity to be someone who does something in the face of inequality in all of its…Workshop: Everyone’s An Artist with Bryony Kimmings
As children we all draw, sing and make pretend. At some point for most of us those urges are either schooled out or forgotten to the daily grind. Yet…Workshop: All Cisterns Go - Plumbing with WOW
It's not a pipe dream, do it yourself! In this workshop, come and learn the basics of plumbing, so that you can sort easy problems yourself at home,…Workshop: Emilia - Our Time Is Now
Where are all the women from history? So many trailblazing women have been erased from our memories. How do we bring their stories back?
Come…WOW's International Women's Day Map
For International Women's Day 2021, we've created WOW's International Women's Day Map - an interactive map to help you discover inspiring events,…Women, Power and Change: International Women’s Day at WOW
It’s a fact - the majority of the countries that have been more successful in stemming the tide of the COVID-19 pandemic are headed by women.* Yet,…Workshop: From Intersectionality to #SayHerName
Workshop: From Intersectionality to #SayHerName - The radical love of Black feminist politics
Join this discussion, led by…Workshop: Female Friendships
Do you have a Thelma to your Louise? Friendships are some of the most important relationships in our lives. As best friends come and go, and the nature…British Vogue Forces for Change
British Vogue Forces for Change will be returning to WOW this year to uncover the raw and inspiring stories of women across the globe;…The Unviable Cabaret
When Where’s My Vagina? collective asked Jessi…Workshop: Understanding Black British Girlhood with Milk Honey Bees
What does it mean to be a Black British Girl in twenty first century Britain?
Join Youth Practitioner and founder ofWorkshop: BSL Cookalong with Yvonne Cobb of Yumma Food
Join founder of Yumma Food, Yvonne Cobb, dubbed…Another Pandemic — Male violence against women
You can now watch a recording of this eventInternational Women's Day with WOW
Join WOW UK on International Women's Day for a free programme of events released throughout the day on WOW's
June 2020
WOW Marketplace
Every WOW - Women of the World Festival around the globe has a WOW Marketplace. For WOW Global 24 we are taking it online for the first time ever,…–
The Local Channel
Tune into WOW Global 24's Local Channel above (just click…–
The Global Channel
Watch 24 hours of urgent discussion, exclusive performances and inspiration ideas here on The Global Channel (just click…–