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Women’s Arts International Festival is a unique showcase of work recognising leading women artists from around the world across all art forms and cultures. All other women’s festivals have a political and often separatist agenda. With the arts at the forefront, this festival is unique - there are no multi-art form women’s festivals of this kind anywhere in the world.
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The Women's Arts International Festival is a major international event on the edge of the beautiful Lake District. The festival celebrates, acknoweldges and recognises work by women artists from around the world in a showcase of performances and exhibitions. The festival also includes Q&A sessions, artists in residency, workshops, debates, discussions and opportunities for collaborations and networking. The focus of the festival is to bring international women artists from all over the world including high-profile household names to Cumbria. Packed with opportunities to network and meet your favourite artists, this event is as much about making new connections as seeing some of the most innovative, inspiring and groundbreaking work by women in the arts today. The inaugural festival in 2007 featured Patti Smith and Marianne Faithfull; Decadance all-female hip-hop theatre from New York and Angika Dance Company; novelists Ali Smith and Lionel Shriver; rising stars Bat For Lashes and Emmy the Great; international visual artists Tina Keane, Pam Johnston, Everlyn Nicodemus and Stella Vine; US Original Beat Poet Janine Pommy Vega; Jo Brand and Prunella Scales.....over 200 artists, 120 events in 3 weeks in May.