WOW at Festival 2018

SUNDAY
8 APRIL
9.30 — 10.45am
Women and Children First
— Why Climate Change is a
Feminist Issue
Powerhouse Theatre
9.30 — 10.45am
For God’s Sake
Visy Theatre
They say love is blind, so is faith blind? Women
of all faith traditions say their faith inspires,
9.30 — 10.45am
The Regional Voice
Turbine Studio
Women in five regional and
remote communities in
9.30 — 10.30am
WOW Bites
Rooftop Terrace
Four women speak about
transcending their different
9.30 — 11am
Show us your Balls
and Hoops
Stores Studio
See Friday for details
Wherever you live in the Commonwealth — sub-
Saharan Africa, the delta in Bangladesh, the coral
atolls of the Pacific or regional Australia — climate
change is making itself felt in communities, and
especially in the lives of women and children.
But women are also at the forefront of responses
around the world. These amazing women will bring
a gender lens to climate change and its impacts,
to suggest how this can be changed. Speakers will
include from Fiji Sharon Bhagwan Rolls founder of
femLINKpacific, Mayor Vonda Malone of the Torres
Shire Council and from Griffith University Research
Scientist Esther Onyango. Facilitated by former
Australia Greens Deputy Leader and Queensland
Senator Larissa Waters.
supports and gives them courage. They also
acknowledge that religious institutions can be
challenging and sometimes sexist, but they
continue to be among the faithful. That faith
then impacts their relationships — friends and
families — and the communities in which they
live and work. Are the benefits greater than the
challenges or is faith simply blind?
Zainah Anwar the founder of Musawah (Equality)
in conversation with Scott Stephens Editor
of the ABC’s Religion and Ethics website, and
specialist commentator on religion and ethics
for ABC radio and television delve into Islamic
tradition to unpack the challenges that women
as followers face, and why they do, indeed,
remain faithful.
Queensland and the Northern
Territory (the Torres Strait
Islands, Channel Country,
Lockhart River, Bundaberg
and Katherine) have been
working with the WOW team
in the lead up to the Festival,
to help shape the Festival,
and to bring something of
the Festival to their own
communities. Join WOW
Executive Producer Cathy
Hunt to hear about their work,
and the challenges for women
and girls in these unique, and
vastly different communities.
personal challenges.
Delvene Cockatoo-Collins,
a First Nation artist from
Quandamooka country
sharing her story behind
designing the Gold Coast 2018
Commonwealth Games Medals.
Donna Thistlethwaite on the
perfect storm that took her
to the brink of death and
her strategies to move from
surviving to thriving.
Mikhara Ramsing, answers
the question ‘Can I be Indian
and gay?’, shares her personal
story and what drove her to set
up Ethnic LGBT+.
9.30 — 10.30am
Stretch!
A Mindmap for Good
Decision Making
Graffiti Room
Every day we make major
decisions which impact our
emotional, physical and
financial well-being. Who is
in charge of making major
decisions for you? Many
women tend to delegate
decision-making to other
important people in their
lives — decisions which
satisfy or place other people’s
Madeleine Buchner —
on turning big dreams into
reality — a better world for
young carers.
needs above their own. In this
workshop Balveen Ajimal will
help place you at the heart of
the decision.
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Photographer
Jordin Steele
Vonda Malone Zainah Anwar Scott Stephens Channel Country ladies day Mikhara Ramsing Balveen Ajimal
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