Ladyfest Goldsmiths 5th February 2009!

At last it is time for Ladyfest Goldsmiths 2009, and time to celebrate Women’s Creativity. Ladyfest, on FEBRUARY 5TH, is a community-based, not-for-profit global music and arts festival for female artists that features bands, musical groups, performance artists, authors, spoken word and visual artists, and workshops, and we have our home-grown festival here at Goldsmiths.
FEATURED IN THE EVENT:
MUSIC:
Kasms
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
Das Wanderlust
We Rock Like Girls Don’t
Betty and the Werewolves
November Fleet
Tiny Tigers
Helen McCookerybook
The Bobby McGees
PERFORMANCE AND COMEDY:
Vulgarians – stripped down music for an afternoon of excitement.
Dockers MC - performance poet and artist. (The Times picked her as one of 2008's literary 'ones to watch') “both spitfire rapid and animated with slow motion precision, a flurry of sassy South London linguistics and old-fashioned storytelling” (Wears the Trousers)
Rosie Wilby (Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year) 'a nice line in surreal patter' - Metro Rosie Wilby is a comedian, singer/songwriter and MC/event host, based in Peckham, SE London.
Sophie Parkin - Sophie Parkin is an English writer, artist and actor, born in London in 1961.
She has also regularly written for British newspapers and periodicals, and appeared on television and radio as a broadcaster – most recently on Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4. She writes regularly for 3:AM Magazine.
Sara Bynoe Actor, writer, comedian. In 2000 Sara created the website www. TeenAngstPoetry. com: a comedic database of horrible poems people wrote when they were teenagers. The endeavor spun off into hosting "Teen Angst" readings and then Sara edited an anthology "Teen Angst: A Celebration of REALLY BAD Poetry" (St. Martin's Press, 2005). Teen Angst Poetry has been called 'Bloody Hilarious' (ION Magazine) and the book was nominated for a New York Library Association Books of Summer award.
This year due to their being many more events, the day is spilt across different venues: Goldsmiths Students’ Union, The New Cross Inn and the Kate & Tristan shop.
TALKS FROM:
Molly Parkin - The highly acclaimed artist, painter and journalist comes to speak about her life and her time at Goldsmiths in 1949.
"editor, poet, journalist, writer and artist: fashion editor of Nova magazine in the 1960s, she moved onto the Sunday Times in the 1970s and became a trend-setting celebrity; her autobiography, Moll was published in 1993."
Frances Morgan - Publisher of Plan B magazine... Women in Journalism.
"A music magazine that extends its remit to champion the counter-culture in literature, film, comics, videogames and the visual arts, Plan B can be relied on to cover the best new bands you already know and uncover a bunch of others you haven’t heard yet. Or as they put it, “Confrontational without being cliquey, Plan B is part of a cultural underground that looks outwards.”
All proceeds go to the Poppy Project – a London based charity helping women who have been trafficked into the UK.
ALSO: ART, DEBATES, FACE PAINTING, CAKE SALES, ZINE FAYRE, CLOTHES SWAP, BRING & BUY...
Plus lots more to be confirmed – look out for updates!
Tickets: all day pass £7/£6 concession. Night only passes £5/£4 NUS.
Tickets available from www. wegottickets. com.
For more information or to get involved contact Holly Bott [email protected] or (020) 8692 1406.