Feminist Icons
As part of the Crafternoon, we want you to send us your drawings, paintings or photos of
your feminist icon! Send us your photos, drawings or paintings of your feminist hero be it a
musician, writer, politician, artist, relative or friend. We want your portraits of someone
that has inspired you! They will be displayed at our Ladyfest Crafternoon held at St Peter's
College on Saturday 23rd May.
Send them to:
Ladyfest
c/o Rachel Cummings
Oxford University Students' Union
Thomas Hull House
New Inn Hall Street
Oxford
OX1 2DH
(or, if you are within the University, you can pidge them to Lucy Edwards at St Peter's
College or Rachel Cummings at OUSU)
Ladyfest Oxford '09 Programme Online
Details of Ladyfest Oxford '09 events are now available in the Events section.
Photos from Ladyfest Oxford '08
A selection of photographs from Layfest Oxford '08.
Ladyfest needs you!
Ladyfest is an international festival which has taken place in over fifty cities since
2000 and, in 2009, Oxford will be holding in its second ever festival! In Trinity term this
year, we had an amazing day with lots of wonderful female performers, and raised loads of
money for Oxford Sexual Abuse and Rape Crisis Centre; this year we want the festival to be
even bigger and better.
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 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. Both men and women,
students and locals, are very welcome to be involved in organising our events, but we feel
that to demonstrate the underrepresentation of women's acts in cultural activities the
performances ought to be women-only, or majority-women if not possible.
To continue the success of Ladyfest we need you to help organise or contribute to the
events in any way possible; this includes advertising and promoting the event, booking acts,
sound engineers, fundraising and many more. Many of the roles needn't be time consuming or
involve a regular commitment, so if you would like to be involved even in a small way then
we would love to hear from you.
***** This year's Ladyfest will be held at different venues across Oxford from 18th May
to 23rd May *****
Email ladyfestoxford09@googlemail.com if you are interested in organising/performing
at/getting involved with this year's festival.
