Ladyfest needs you!

Ladyfest is an international festival which has taken place in over fifty cities since 2000; this year Oxford will be holding its very own! Oxford’s Ladyfest is planned to be a day-long event in the great outdoors of the city and an indoor venue for the evening, with participants and organisers including locals and students alike.

Ladyfest is a non-profit festival which presents and supports the creative talents of professional and amateur female acts in our community, including performances and workshops. The programme of events will include music, dance, drama, film, poetry, debating, comedy, craft, sword-dancing, and other cultural elements you feel need incorporating!   

The aim of the festival is to celebrate women’s creative talents and to raise awareness of the underrepresented and marginalised nature of women’s creative efforts.

To get involved in a city-wide, inclusive and exciting event, please email leanne.price@ccc.ox.ac.uk or join the Facebook group: http://oxford.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6810566077

We are looking for people to form teams, filling the following roles...

·         Booking acts –subdivided according to the type i.e. music, drama, poetry, film, dance, crafts, comedy

·         Poster designers

·         Publicists –getting the word out across Oxford in inventive, cost-effective ways

·         Technical advisors –helping us find the necessary equipment, setting up etc. for the indoor event in the evening where

·         PR –fostering relations with complementary and sympathetic groups, the media, high profile attendees

·         Fundraisers –organising low-key events in the weeks preceding Ladyfest to raise enough money to meet promotion costs

·         Admin- the bread-and-butter work, checking with council/university etc. getting permission for the event; booking the indoor venue

·         Website manager- setting up and updating a standalone website

(Both men and women are welcome to organise, but we feel that to demonstrate the underrepresentation of women’s acts in cultural activities the performances ought to be women-only)

So there are two things you can do:

1.      Email leanne.price@ccc.ox.ac.uk if you are interested in becoming involved, either in one of the specific roles (you’ll be part of a team, so it won’t be too much work or too scary!) or in an informal capacity to be kept up-to-date with developments.

2.      Spread the word! Tell your friends, your friends’ friends...