WOW at Festival 2018
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FRIDAY<br />
6 APRIL<br />
8 — 9am<br />
Laugh Out Loud<br />
Funky Yoga<br />
Performance Lawn/<br />
Healing Space<br />
Join Sadhna and Roushini<br />
to kick off your daily <strong>WOW</strong><br />
experience by starting the<br />
day in the right way — feeling<br />
happier, healthier, focused<br />
and grounded. Limber up<br />
as they lead you through<br />
a combin<strong>at</strong>ion of simple<br />
stretches, yogic bre<strong>at</strong>hing and<br />
movement, and stimul<strong>at</strong>ed<br />
laughter to help change<br />
mindsets and improve general<br />
health and wellness. No yoga<br />
experience?<br />
Also S<strong>at</strong>urday and Sunday<br />
9 — 10.30am<br />
Femocracy —<br />
Are Our Democracies<br />
Failing Women?<br />
Powerhouse The<strong>at</strong>re<br />
It is defined as ‘government of the<br />
people, by the people, for the people’.<br />
But look <strong>at</strong> any democr<strong>at</strong>ically<br />
elected parliament, and wh<strong>at</strong> you<br />
see is — middle aged, middle<br />
class men. Wh<strong>at</strong> can we do to make<br />
our system of government both<br />
more represent<strong>at</strong>ive of, and more<br />
accountable to, the 52% majority in<br />
all its diversity. <strong>WOW</strong> Founder Jude<br />
Kelly leads an intern<strong>at</strong>ional panel,<br />
including those elected to represent<br />
us, to discuss. Speakers will include<br />
from Australia Co-Chair of the<br />
N<strong>at</strong>ional Congress of Australia’s First<br />
Peoples Dr Jackie Huggins am, from<br />
Malaysia women’s rights campaigner<br />
Zainah Anwar, from Canada<br />
Sen<strong>at</strong>or Kim P<strong>at</strong>e, and British High<br />
Commissioner to Australia Her<br />
Excellency Menna Rawlings CMG.<br />
Sen<strong>at</strong>or P<strong>at</strong>e’s particip<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
has been supported by the<br />
Government of Canada<br />
10 — 11am<br />
<strong>WOW</strong> Bites<br />
Turbine Studio<br />
Our first <strong>WOW</strong> Bites session <strong>at</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong> <strong>2018</strong> will include amazing<br />
women from Brisbane, the<br />
Pacific and Regional Queensland<br />
covering a wide range of stories<br />
from the funny to the serious.<br />
Rachel Smith on being<br />
Underspent and the joy and<br />
benefits of breaking the habit<br />
of Impulse Shopping.<br />
Sharon Baghwan Rolls from<br />
Fiji will share her journey with<br />
Fiji and the Pacific’s first mobile<br />
suitcase radio st<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
Renee Crilly and Paula Chalmers<br />
from regional Queensland talk<br />
about how they are developing<br />
Aboriginal and Torres Strait<br />
Islander girls to change<br />
communities through the<br />
Urangan Girls Academy.<br />
Sally Strobridge, on The Silence<br />
— how to build a bridge between<br />
deaf and hearing worlds.<br />
10am – 12.15pm<br />
Wh<strong>at</strong> Shall I Wear?<br />
Turbine Studio<br />
Wh<strong>at</strong> to wear, how to wear it<br />
and where to wear it to is an<br />
everyday question for many<br />
of us. Do we change wh<strong>at</strong> we<br />
wear according to where we<br />
find ourselves in a city? Wh<strong>at</strong><br />
does it mean to ‘cover up’ and<br />
‘provoke’ with the clothing<br />
th<strong>at</strong> we choose? A workshop<br />
exploring body, clothes, cities<br />
and questions of gender<br />
through the<strong>at</strong>re games and<br />
exercises. Over the two hours,<br />
participants will be invited to<br />
tease out questions around<br />
clothing, safety, our bodies and<br />
how we see them.<br />
Conceptualised and Conducted<br />
by — Mallika Taneja and<br />
Samita Ch<strong>at</strong>terjee.<br />
10 — 11am<br />
Be Someone who<br />
does Something<br />
Rooftop Terrace<br />
From sexist remarks in the<br />
bar, to keeping your best m<strong>at</strong>e<br />
safe when she/he has had too<br />
much to drink: do you know<br />
how to be a good bystander?<br />
Join this workshop with the<br />
MATE team from Griffith<br />
University teaching us how<br />
to be agents for change in<br />
preventing violence.<br />
10 — 11.30am<br />
Show us Your Balls<br />
& Hoops<br />
Stores Studio<br />
Run away with the circus for<br />
a moment in a challenge-bychoice<br />
class for all fitness<br />
levels to try juggling, hula<br />
hoops, partner acro-balance,<br />
a touch of aerials and more!<br />
This basic skills workshop<br />
from Vulcana Women’s Circus<br />
will be presented everyday<br />
<strong>at</strong> <strong>WOW</strong>.<br />
Also S<strong>at</strong>urday and Sunday<br />
20<br />
21<br />
Dr Jackie Huggins<br />
Sharon Baghwan Rolls
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