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Jude Kelly is the Founder and Director of The WOW Foundation, which runs WOW - Women of the World Festivals across the globe to celebrate the achievements of women and girls and confront global gender injustice. Starting at London's Southbank Centre in 2010, where Jude was Artistic Director for 12 years, the festival now takes place in 30 locations across six continents. In 2018 Jude established The WOW Foundation as an independent charity dedicated to building the WOW movement as a force for change.
\n\nJude Kelly has directed over 200 theatre and opera productions, including at the Royal Shakespeare Company, English National Opera, National Theatre, and the Châtalet in Paris including Ian McKellen in The Seagull, Patrick Stewart in Johnson over Jordon and Dawn French in When We Are Married. She is the recipient of two Olivier Awards, a BASCA Gold Badge Award for contribution to music and a Southbank Award for opera. She was headhunted to join the bidding team for the 2012 London Olympics and create the programme for culture and ceremonies, she subsequently advised both Rio and Tokyo on their successful bids.
\n\nJude Kelly has founded a range of arts institutions and has commissioned and supported the work of thousands of artists across all genres.
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Domino Pateman|Director of Festivals and Programmes at The WOW Foundation
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Sabeena Akhtar|Writer/Editor, Festival Coordinator of Bare Lit (UK)
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Shereen Perera is WOW's Senior Producer. All of her work combines her two passions - creativity and social justice and stems from a belief to breakdown stereotypes, promote intercultural dialogue and creating platforms for marginalised voices to be heard. So far in her career she's toured an international girl band to the Commonwealth Games, produced the finale event to the Barbican's ‘Basquiat: Boom for Real' exhibition, project managed the Colombo Art Biennale and in June 2020 created WOW's first ever dedicated music programme WOW Sounds which works with women and non binary musicians who are using music as a form of activism. She's interested in creating innovative hybrid festival models that create opportunities to link different audiences and speakers together.
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Cathryn Fenton|Co-founder of Big Mess
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Sabeena Akhtar is a Writer/Editor and an Arts and Culture programmer working across a variety of literary festivals. She is the Festival Coordinator of Bare Lit, the U.K's principal festival celebrating remarkable writers in the diaspora. A co-founder of the Primadonna Festival which spotlights the work of women writers, the Primadonna Prize for writing and Bare Lit Kids, the UK's first children's festival showcasing the work of writers of colour. She is also Senior Programmer at the WOW Foundation, working on it's London festival at the Southbank Centre. A keen advocate for Partition commemoration, in 2017 she partook in the BBC's coverage of the 70th anniversary of Indian independence and alongside her daughter, filmed a programme on the Partition of India for children. She has since been invited to discuss the subject on various media outlets. She has published a wide variety of work including editing Cut From The Same Cloth? an anthology by visibly Muslim women in Britain, Talking About Islamophobia published by Hachette and is currently working on a novel. You can find Sabeena tweeting at @pocobookreader
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Cathryn Fenton|Co-founder of Big Mess
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Cathryn Fenton (she/her) is a queer emerging producer and currently works at WOW - Women of the World Festival as their Projects Assistant. Cathryn is co-founder of big mess, a theatre company making work about feminism, friendship and working hard.
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Cathy Hunt|Executive Producer of WOW Australia, Founding Director of Positive Solutions, Founder of the QuickstART, Board Director of Screen Queensland
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\n\nCathy has spent her life working in the cultural economy as one of the founding Directors of Positive Solutions, across the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Hong
\n\nKong, as a producer, festival director, cultural strategist and consultant. As Executive Director of non profit company Of One Mind Cathy works with the WOW Foundation in London to develop WOW (Women of the World) Festivals in Australia, including in the Northern Territory town of Katherine and was the Executive Producer of WOW at Festival 2018 (Celebrating the Women of the Commonwealth)
\n\nWith support from the Queensland Government, Cathy is leading a team for the creation of three years of ‘WOW Australia' Festivals in the State, the first planned for Brisbane in April 2020 and cancelled due to the Pandemic with content and new commissions pivoted to digital presentation. The second WOW Australia 2021, devised as a series of smaller festivals and events across regional and rural Queensland was also partly cancelled due to lockdowns and will be presented during the first half of 2022 (wowaustralia.com.au). Cathy is the founder of the QuickstART microloan fund for artists, a Board Director of Screen Queensland, was the recipient of the Advancement of Women Inaugural Award from the Zonta Club of Brisbane in 2019 and is on the Advisory Committee for the new Queensland Government Women's Strategy.
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Laura Greer|Producer of WOW Apollo , Senior Producer of Apollo Theater
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Laura Greer joined the world-famous Apollo Theater in 2005 after over twenty years of working in the performing arts. She is dedicated to presenting and commissioning artists of African descent and introducing new voices and talents to the attention of diverse audiences.
\n\nGreer is currently a Senior Producer at the Apollo Theater. Throughout her tenure, she has been a member of the leadership team and instrumental in shaping the design and implementation of the "new" artistic vision and strategies for the Apollo's performing arts, education and community programs, and archive project.
\n\nMs. Greer has created several of the Apollo Signature Programs: the Salon Series, a new works residency and performance series providing critical support in the creation and development of contemporary new work; Music Café, a late-night cabaret series spotlighting the next generation of music artists; and Africa Now!, an annual festival that celebrates the best of today's African music. She's spearheaded and managed several international collaborations including Breakin' Convention (2013, 2015, 2017) , an international hip hop dance theater festival with Sadler's Wells, London; a collaboration with Jazz à Vienne (2014, 2016), a leading European jazz festival in Vienne, France, featuring presentations in Vienne and New York; Amateur Night Goes to London (2012), the first international presentation of Amateur Night at Hackney Empire; and the Apollo's successful presentation of Southbank London's New York premiere of the Women of the World Festival 2015, 2017 (WOW).
\n\nPrior to her work at the Apollo, Ms. Greer was the Associate Producer at the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, Georgia (1999-2005), where she was responsible for the artistic and production oversight of the annual ten-day festival. She has also served as the Director of Programming at 651 Arts at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Majestic Theater, specializing in works grounded in the African Diaspora. She has held various leadership positions at Aaron Davis Hall at City College of New York (1985-1998), now known as Harlem Stage.
\n\nGreer has served on numerous panels and committees, including the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Harlem Arts Festival, Georgia Council on the Arts, a primary partner of the 651 Arts Africa Exchange Project, and the New York Dance Bessie Committee.
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The WOW Foundation
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The WOW Foundation exists to build, convene and sustain a global movement that believes a gender equal world is desirable, possible and urgently required. WOW's global movement celebrates women, girls and non-binary people, takes a frank look at the obstacles that prevent positive change and develops and supports their individual and collective activism. WOW is for everyone.
\n\nWOW's work raises awareness about intersectional gender inequalities. By amplifying the varied barriers and challenges that impact every aspect of all of our lives, and connecting the dots between us, WOW aims to unite people around the common understanding that a gender equal world is actually possible - and would be preferable for everyone.
\n\nWOW always starts with optimism, recognising a gender equal world is possible, and uses this optimism to build the stamina and momentum required to get there.
\n\nWOW helps people to imagine the change they want to see, and inspires them to take urgent action towards gender justice. WOW acknowledges different starting points, and aims to meet people where they are. WOW facilitates a journey wherever you stand.
\n\nWOW works locally, nationally and internationally because WOW believes all our stories and lives are interconnected.
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