Women’s Festival at the Artscape

Straight to the heart with ‘Love Responsibly’

This year’s Artscape Women’s Festival will strike at the heart with its thoughtful ‘Love Responsibly’, theme presented via four theatre productions and 13 workshops in August.

The Artscape Women’s Festival is an annual gathering of gender activists, artists and anyone interested in celebrating women’s achievements and to experience cutting edge workshops that intends to address the need in our society to empower and enlighten our men and women on how to appreciate each other as human beings.

The anchor of this festival is a well-respected clinical sexologist, Dr Marlene Wasserman a.k.a. Dr Eve, who will host sessions about the importance of the holistic well-being of women and men.

Dr Eve will also partner with Nia Dance Technique South Africa to present a ‘Danceshop’ that opens an understanding “for women to reconnect to their sexuality”. 

Gender Dynamix will host a workshop to question the meaning of an ‘African woman’. Another seminar will investigate how race, class, sexual orientation and gender identity can serve as barriers when accessing services such as shelters.

There’s even a belly dancing workshop to experience the feeling of moving like a belly dancer in your own body.  The ‘Men’s Discussion Forum’ brings on board male voices via the Sonke Gender Justice group, which hosts a discussion and debate around gender equality, discrimination and gender-based violence.

On the theatre front, entertainment will enliven the passion that we all need to share regarding women’s rights. The line-up includes ‘I, Claudia,’ which is an award-winning one-woman play that humourously unpacks critical teen issues of identity, individuality, transformation, peer pressure and parental and family relations. 

For the full schedule visit www.artscape.co.za

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