WOW Australia is back for 2025 and coming to Gladstone!

Join us this October in Gladstone as we celebrate the women of the region with a jam packed program of all your wow favourites, including:

Panel conversations informed by our local community consultation process, WOW Bites where you get to hear from everyday hero’s, a range of fun and informative workshops, local artisans in the WOW Marketplace, the WOW Healing Space where you can chill out and do some weaving; and an amazing line-up of performances and visual arts across the program.

Highlights include:Our Place, an exhibition of local artists at the Blue Mirror Gallery, the WOW Comedy Gala hosted by comedian Mandy Nolan and featuring: Ting Lim, Alexandra Hudson, Janty Blair, Bron Lewis and Jackie Loeb and, for the first time, a Men's Breakfast

Find out more about WOW Australia here and subscribe to our newsletter for updates as the programme is announced.

Founded in 2010, more than 150 WOW Festivals and events have now taken place in 71 locations across the world. The WOW organisers in each location ensure the content is created by the local community for the local community. While each festival is different in its own wonderful, unique way, there are elements that stay consistent at every WOW Festival wherever you are in the world; from the WOW Marketplace to Under 10's Feminist Corners.

In the past 15 years, the WOW movement has grown from its London beginnings to find homes everywhere from Beijing and Kathmandu to Baltimore and Brisbane. To date, WOW has reached more than five million people from thousands of women in favelas at WOW Rio to Territory women at WOW Katherine.