Sunday Day Pass
The world’s biggest festival celebrating women, girls and non-binary people is back at Southbank Centre in 2027! Join us for three days of urgency, laughter, joy, rage, world-class speakers, artists and activists, all under one roof as we look together at the world today.
A strictly limited number of discounted Early Bird Sunday Day Passes are available now.
Expect mind-expanding conversation, storytelling and surprise moments as we explore the big questions shaping our lives, from feminism and solidarity to pleasure, power, media, masculinity and the stories we tell about each other. Across the day, we’ll move between the personal and the political, exploring how we navigate relationships, trauma, inequality and a world that can sometimes feel like it’s on fire. Along the way, there’ll be space for laughter, creativity, challenge and connection.
The day opens with Jude Kelly and Views on News, setting the scene for a day of lively debate and fresh perspectives on the world around us. Musician and artist Jordan Stephens will explore masculinity and mental health, and there'll be poetry from the award winning poet Hollie McNish.
Acclaimed authors Aja Barber, Natasha Walter and Angela Saini andjournalist and activist Zahra Joya bring different perspectives to what feminism can offer in turbulent times, exploring solidarity, inequality, power and the possibilities of building a fairer future. Angela will also delve into ideas from her work and writing for a WOW Big Idea, inviting us to think differently about the forces shaping our lives.
We’ll take pleasure head-on with Come Again?, a playful exploration of bodies, sexuality and the right to feel good while also considering how we reconnect with pleasure after trauma, shame or difficult experiences. Expect honesty, humour and perhaps a few happy endings.
We’ll also get to grips with Himpathy, exploring whose pain gets centred, who gets humanised and how gender shapes the stories we tell about people who cause harm. With Professor Joanna Bourke joining the conversation, we’ll ask why men who harm women can so often receive sympathetic backstories, while victims are pushed out of the frame.
Across the day, expect big questions, unexpected connections and plenty of reasons to think, laugh, challenge your assumptions and leave feeling fired up. And we’ll come together for a closing session to end the festival on a note of hope, solidarity and possibility.
Bringing together WOW’s other festivals Shameless! and Boys & Men into WOW London for the first time, festival-goers can also choose to explore their themes. In Shameless! we’ll look at how to end sexual violence; and Boys & Men events will tackle everything from the manosphere to men’s role in the fight for gender equality.
Day passes are also available for Friday and Saturday with a completely different line-up each day. As part of the festival there are also separately ticketed events, including Gisèle Pelicot and Tarana Burke In Conversation – on sale now. More events on sale soon!
WOW Festivals celebrate women, girls and non-binary people, take a frank look at the obstacles they face and discuss solutions for change. Since launching in 2010, WOW Festivals and events have reached over five million people across six continents.