all about women
12 – 13 mar 2022
All About Women (AAW) invites audiences to gather and reflect on burning questions about gender, equality, and justice.
An annual festival that marks International Women's Day and celebrating extraordinary artists and thinkers, AAW is a vibrant day of stimulating debate about the big ideas important to women, non-binary people and their allies.
In 2022, AAW celebrates its 10th year as well as Chip Rolley’s first festival as the Head of Talks & Ideas, programmed alongside co-curator, Larissa Behrendt.
This year amplifies the power of disclosure and transforming trauma into action; celebrates the rich resource of eldership in our First Nations communities; stages cross-generational conversations, art, and performance, and emphasises the need for allyship, friendship, and collective responsibility.
The line-up will feature a mix of international and local speakers, appearing live and/or livestreaming into SOH venues (Covid-dependent).
Experience the festival in person at Sydney Opera House, or join us online via our livestream program.
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Chip Rolley was appointed as Sydney Opera House’s Head of Talks & Ideas in 2021. He has been the artistic director of Sydney Writers’ Festival, and director of PEN America’s World Voices Festival in New York. He oversaw the prestigious PEN Literary Awards and a slate of literary programs that engaged traditionally underserved participants and audiences. He has edited the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s opinion and news analysis website, The Drum. His writing has appeared in The Guardian (US), Wall Street Journal, Griffith Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Vogue, Rolling Stone and he has translated writing from Chinese to English.
Larissa Behrendt AO is the Distinguished Professor at the University of Technology Sydney and at the Director of Research and Academic Programs Jumbunna Institute of Indigenous Education and Research. She has published numerous textbooks on Indigenous legal issues. She is a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and a founding member of the Australian Academy of Law. Larissa won the 2002 David Uniapon Award and a 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize for her novel Home. Her second novel, Legacy, won a Victorian Premier's Literary Award. Larissa is an award winning filmmaker, and her most recent novel is After Story.
10 years of All About Women
10 years of All About Women
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