As WOW – Women of the World festival takes over the Royal Festival Hall, stumble upon a free WOW Pop-Up and get involved with an amazing range of shows and activities. Here’s what’s planned, with lots more surprises over the big weekend!

1pm-3pm JUMP LDN

Jump into our daily jump skipping activity, hosted by JUMP LDN, who use Double-Dutch skipping to promote alternative fitness and community. Improve your coordination, mindset and fitness levels, let loose in the ropes and leave feeling empowered.

Cloakroom Foyer, Level 1, Royal Festival Hall

1pm-1.30pm WOW Sounds Presents Jelly Cleaver

Join artist and activist Jelly Cleaver for some afternoon tunes. Her work is often a meditation on the philosophical, the spiritual and the political moving freely across several genres, from cinematic and spiritual jazz to raw and rebellious post-punk.

Central Bar, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall

1pm-1.30pm Self-Defence Workshop with London Krav Maga

Join self-defence coach Sarah Brendlor in this fun, empowering workshop giving you an introduction to Krav Maga, a simple modern self-defence system. Krav Maga doesn’t rely on size or strength, so it can be used effectively by men and women of all ages. This session gives you some rudimentary skills to defend yourself, increase your awareness and teaches you how to deal with confrontation.

Blue Side Foyer, Level 4, Royal Festival Hall

2.50pm-3.20pm Curve Catwalk Dance

The Curve Catwalk has entered the building. Join us on the dance floor for a party experience like no other! Whether you’re confident in your dance skills or a complete beginner, this WOW Pop Up will ensure you leave the floor full of the energy that is created when we all come together and move.

Presented in Partnership with Nike.

Central Bar, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall

2.50pm-3.10pm Women, Life, Freedom

The Woman, Life, Freedom Group will perform in solidarity for the women’s revolution in Iran through song, drumming, art, and theatre.

Blue Side Foyer, Level 4, Royal Festival Hall

4.35pm-4.50pm WOW Sounds Presents Belle Scar

Singer-songwriter, composer and conductor Belle Scar will perform a special intimate acoustic set. Belle Scar writes and sings about beginnings and endings, identity and change, and finding meaning in the strange ride that is human life with all its beauty and darkness.

Central Bar, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall

11.30-12pm Speedcubing

Blink and you’ll miss it! Katie Davies, expert Rubik’s Cube speedsolver, will be demonstrating speedcubing and talking tricks and techniques. Katie currently holds the UK women’s national record of 6.59 seconds.

Stall 22 in the WOW Marketplace

1pm-3pm: JUMP LDN

Jump into our daily jump skipping activity, hosted by JUMP LDN, who use Double-Dutch skipping to promote alternative fitness and community. Improve your coordination, mindset and fitness levels, let loose in the ropes and leave feeling empowered.

Cloakroom Foyer, Level 1, Royal Festival Hall

1pm-1.30pm Footy Drills with Goal Diggers FC

Join Goal Diggers outside to have a go at football drills. Goal Diggers Football Club is a London based non-profit club, run by members for members, set up in 2015 to provide football for non-binary people and all women regardless of previous experience or ability.

Riverside Terrace, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall

1pm-1.30pm D.M.S. Live

D.M.S. (aka Dani Makes Songs) performs some of her latest tracks live. D. M. S. is an artist with Heart n Soul in Deptford, an award-winning arts charity led by people with and without learning disabilities and autistic people.

Central Bar, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall

3pm-3.30pm WOWsers Spoken Word

Gather round and listen to some powerful spoken word, written and performed by young people from Brixton Youth Theatre and beyond. The pieces discuss important themes around identity, trust, power, gender, intersectionality, belonging and hope. Lend your ears!

Central Bar, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall

4.30pm-5pm WOW Sounds Presents LayFullstop

WOW’s Artist In Residence LayFullstop will be performing an intimate set. ​​Come to celebrate, sing and dance as she performs some new songs written especially for and inspired by WOW.

Central Bar, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall

11.30-12.00pm WOW Sounds Presents LayFullstop

Another chance to catch an intimate set by WOW’s Artist In Residence LayFullstop.

Central Bar, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall

1pm-3pm JUMP LDN

Jump into our daily jump skipping activity, hosted by JUMP LDN, who use Double-Dutch skipping to promote alternative fitness and community. Improve your coordination, mindset and fitness levels, let loose in the ropes and leave feeling empowered.

Cloakroom Foyer, Level 1, Royal Festival Hall

1pm – 1.30pm Samba Sisters Collective

This London-based, community, all-female samba-fusion band put on a roving performance of samba, featuring Brazilian drums and surdos (big bass), repiniques, caixas, agogos, chocalhos and tams. Follow their parade as they fill the Southbank Centre with music and rhythm!

Central Bar, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall

2.50-3.15pm Kickboxing with Muay Fitness

Kickboxing with Muay Fitness

Join Gemma Heard of Muay Fitness for an introductory crash course in Kickboxing. Don the gloves and find your inner kickboxer! All welcome, no experience or skill level needed.

Blue Side Foyer, Level 4, Royal Festival Hall