Women on Women (WoW)

Women on Women (2019 - 2021) is about the (re)presentation of women by women, past and present. Patriarchal perspectives of history exclude women from the picture unless they were part of the power structure at play. The project therefore focuses on gender equality through a feminist perspective, tracing the legacy of women particularly from a diverse and intersectional perspective. The term women, stands for women, transgender and intersex people who identify as women.

The project will test new models of solidarity and knowledge exchange between different communities and celebrates the achievements of women past and present with nominations, portraits, collective performances, city mappings, and artistic interventions in public spaces as well as by developing artistic programmes that reflect the cultural diversity of contemporary societies.

WoW will include twenty women of diverse social, economic, cultural, ethnic, racial, and generational backgrounds who will be integral to the preparation and realisation of the project's activities and artistic programmes. The project aims to resist current neo-liberal and exclusionary political and populist trends by making quality art with women and presenting new narratives to new audiences. Narratives that leave people inspired and wowed.

On Culture Night 2020, Outlandish Theatre launched film portraits of five inspiring women who have made extraordinary contributions to radical social change and gender equality. Each WoW award winner introduced her work and vision in a location of importance in film portraits made with filmmaker Jeda de Brí and Outlandish Theatre Platform. A nationwide call for the WoW Awards led to over fifty nominations of women who are fighters for gender equality and social justice. The WoW awardees 2020 were Caoimhe Butterly, Catherine Joyce, Éadaoin Kelly, Marie Mulholland and Mavis Ramazani.

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• Women On Women