All About Women at the Sydney Opera House

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Sydney Opera House has partnered with venues across regional Australia and New Zealand to broadcast two of its most anticipated sessions from its All About Women festival, enabling more people around Australia and beyond to celebrate International Women’s Day alongside audiences at the Opera House.

Kicking off the broadcast from the Sydney Opera House’s Joan Sutherland Theatre at 11am is the keynote session “How To Be A Feminist”, with Germaine Greer, ‘Bad Feminist’ Roxane Gay, the gaming critic at the centre of #Gamergate Anita Sarkeesian and American writer and proud single lady Kate Bolick. Local feminist legends on the panel include Australian writer Clementine Ford, bestselling author Tara Moss, and self-titled ‘Black Feminist Ranter’Celeste Liddle.

“Can Men’s Roles Change” – a panel on work/life balance and families will also be broadcast to participating venues from the Sydney Opera House Playhouse at 1pm. Featuring ABC journalist and author of The Wife Drought Annabel Crabb, Washington Post staff writer and author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has The Time Brigid Schulte, work/life consultant Graeme Russell, the session will be hosted by broadcaster and writer Richard Glover.

Sydney Opera House Head of International Development and co-curator of All About Women, Danielle Harvey, said, “We are very happy to play a part in creating important and interesting discussions this International Women’s Day. By working with our fellow cultural centres to create events for audiences across Australia and beyond, more people than ever will be able to engage with the inspiring speakers and diverse topics that make up our All About Women festival in 2015.”

All About Women returns in 2015 with a program bursting with storytellers, thinkers and adventurers from around the world, from bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert, to 79-year-old National Geographic Explorer-In-Residence Sylvia Earle, and Australian of the Year Rosie Batty. The program promises an exhilarating day of stories about how women shape their lives – and everybody’s future – and an opportunity to celebrate International Women’s Day both within the ever-inspiring surrounds of the Sydney Opera House and at our regional partnering venues.

Last year’s All About Women was attended by almost 5000 people and received more than ten times that number of views online. With an increased capacity at this year’s event and tickets already selling fast, All About Women 2015 promises to be its biggest and most exciting festival yet.

A complete list of events and the festival calendar can be found here.

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