First details for All About Women 2024 announced
Sydney —
The Sydney Opera House today announced the first details for its 12th annual All About Women festival, taking place on Sunday 10 March 2024. Marking the week of International Women’s Day, the centrepiece talks festival returns to platform inclusive ideas on gender, justice and equality, both in-person and online.
In signature style, All About Women 2024 will be a vibrant forum for panels, conversations and workshops on the big ideas important to women, gender diverse people and their allies. Offering a peek into the festival line-up, the first headlining events announced today include:
- Author of the worldwide satirical sensation Yellowface, Rebecca F. Kuang (she/her), on diversity, cultural appropriation and cancel culture in commercial publishing – both through her own eyes and those of her latest protagonist Juniper “Song” Hayward; and
- World famous classics scholar and author of recent release The Emperor of Rome, feminist icon and perhaps the one woman who thinks about the Roman Empire more than any man on TikTok, Mary Beard (she/her), talking ancient misogyny, gossip and murder, age-old power and what these issues mean for women today.
For the third year, a group of formidable co-curators are being assembled by the Sydney Opera House’s Head of Talks & Ideas, Chip Rolley. Together, they will gather international and Australian artists, thinkers and storytellers for a festival takeover of the Opera House stages and foyers for the All About Women community.
“We are thrilled to reveal the first events for All About Women 2024. It will be such an honour to host both Rebecca F. Kuang and Mary Beard, on their first speaking tours in Australia. We look forward to announcing our fierce and fearless co-curators and the full line-up in the new year, and can’t wait to welcome audiences back to the festival for its twelfth year in March,” said Sydney Opera House Head of Talks & Ideas Chip Rolley.
Full details for All About Women 2024 will be announced on Tuesday 16 January 2024.