All About Women 2016

Overview

Things are set to get feisty and fearless at the Sydney Opera House when the fourth All About Women Festival takes over on Sunday, March 6. Leading the prodigious, 30-speaker-strong program is none other than celebrated writer, filmmaker, actor, artist, app maker, handbag wizard and bona fide enigma Miranda July, Carrie Brownstein of US punk band Sleater Kinney, Orange Is the New Black memoir author Piper Kerman and former US State Department director of policy planning Anne-Marie Slaughter.

While our friends across the ditch will be lucky enough to attend the event in person, two talks from AAW will be streamed live courtesy of the Auckland War Memorial Museum. The live cross to the Museum's auditorium will include a talk with the aforementioned Piper Kerman and a panel called “What needs to Change”, featuring American writer, editor, and co-founder of the feminist website The Toast, Mallory Ortberg, and American-Russian journalist, writer and LGBT activist, Masha Gessen.

Kerman, whose memoir inspired the insanely popular TV series Orange Is the New Black, will be chatting about women she’s met in American prisons and her ongoing battle to increase prisoners’ rights.

A panel made up of Masha Gessen, Crystal Lameman, Mallory Ortberg, Ann Sherry and Anne-Marie Slaughter will lead a 70-minute discussion in what crucial levers they would pull if they had the power to change things with gender equality overnight.

During the 50-minute interval, guerrilla girls, quiet subversives and fledgling feminists will be invited to write the most pithy, substantial and challenging 'museum label' they can muster for a specially selected group of objects on display.

The ticket price includes one complimentary beverage and light snacks.