Women of the World Festival 2018
11/16/2018 — 11/18/2018
Praça Mauá, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Redes da Maré, the Southbank Centre and the British Council came together to organize the Women of the World Festival – Rio de Janeiro, the first edition of the Women of the World Festival [WOW] in Latin America, which took place between November 16 and 18 at the Museum of Tomorrow, the Museum of Art of Rio and Armazém 01 – Píer Mauá, at Praça Mauá.
Automatica was responsible for producing the event Women in Dialogue, which was intended to stimulate, document and disseminate reflections on the stories of women from different fields of knowledge, celebrating their achievements and highlighting the challenges that still form part of their lives. The program was devised through collective curatorship which included the staging of six Reflection Groups in different regions of Rio de Janeiro, between November 2017 and September 2018. This content was systematized and resulted in eighty activities, divided into the following formats: Shared Territories, Conversation Circles, Forums of Experience, Exchanges of Experience, WOW Bites: sharing stories, Workshops and Mentorships: lives in connection – the latter with Luiza Mello as one of the guest participants.
The global movement launched by the British director and producer Jude Kelly, in 2010 has already taken place in 23 countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, as well as several cities in England. WOW is the largest, most comprehensive and most important festival dedicated to presenting work produced by women, debating and promoting the search for gender equality.
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Automatica has been developing cultural projects since 2005, working in the creation, production, curation, management, coordination and consultancy of exhibitions, educational programs, publications and other activities related to artistic production. It works with artists, curators, art critics, art historians, cultural institutions, public and private sponsors. It participates in public notices and awards, and prepares projects for incentive laws in the three spheres of public administration.
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