The Power of Women for International Women's Day 2022
Tue 8 Mar 2022 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Peckham Levels, SE15 4ST
Description
Join us this International Women's Day to celebrate "The Power of Women".
Watch, listen and experience the incredible power of female and non-binary talent, ranging singers, spoken word artists, dancers, theatre performers, and social entrepreneurs. The evening will leave you feeling inspired!
TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT - LIMITED TICKETS ON THE DOOR.
Please find the full line up below.
This event is a charity fundraiser for Refuge: a charity for women and children, against domestic violence. Proceeds from the tickets will be donated to Refuge once the event has passed.
The funds raised will help Refuge continue to provide life-saving and life-changing services to women and children escaping domestic abuse and other forms of gender-based violence.
Can't attend the event but want to show your support? Donate via our crowdfunder here, or continue scrolling to see how you can sponsor the event.
Line up:
Performers include:
Alejandra Gissler Hernandez (dancer and movement practitioner)
Alejandra is a Latin female performer, choreographer and dance researcher. Alejandra has trained and worked internationally, graduating from London Contemporary Dance School in 2019, having collaborated with artists such as Eve Stainton, Florence Peake, Leila McMillan, Jeannie Steele and others. She joined Richard Alston Dance Company as an apprentice, touring and performing around the UK, US and Switzerland in their Final Edition tour. In 2021, she completed her MA in Contemporary Dance, in which she investigated the relationship between moving images, in cinema and dance, with the embodied experience of feminist futures. Recently, Alejandra has integrated urban agriculture, community gardening and horticulture into her personal and artistic work. She currently works and volunteers with the Story Garden in London, and OrganicLea in the Lee Valley. Together with four other friends and dance collaborators, Alejandra founded the Dance Cooperative with whom she explores ideas of care and friendship through dance and performance. At present, she also collaborates with artists Rocio Chacón and is a member of Anhelo Collective. Alejandra's creative practice expands as an interdisciplinary exploration of human relations, caring practices, and the generation and use of collective space.
Amar (dancer)
Reinventing the self, Amar's process is about harnessing the now and detaching from their original circumstances to create an honest and non-judgmental expression of the self in order to reach their true potentiality in life and within their artistry. One of the most passionate and eclectic artists in the UK, Amar has taught dance both nationally and internationally (Italy, France, Croatia, Spain, Portugal, Israel, UK and L.A.).
They are passionate about mastering their individuality by using elements from contemporary dance, other dance cultures such as hip-hop and holistic practices such as Yoga. Amar loves to contribute to the dance scene bringing creative energy, eclectic movement and supporting other artists to celebrate and refine their individuality.
Amaroun (musician)
Amaroun is a multi talented musician, producer, poet and filmmaker. Her kaleidoscopic music and silky vocals tells the story of a life lived at the intersections of culture and identity and celebrates blackness, queerness and womanhood in all its glory.
Amaroun creates ‘a spaciousness that is absolutely stunning’ - Chris Hawkins, BBC 6 Music
Barbara Pugliese AKA Barbarella (singer-songwriter & multi-disciplinary artist accompanying her voice with bass guitar)
Barbara is an Italian-English singer-songwriter, dancer and music producer based in London.
She is the former lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the band Barbarella’s Bang Bang, formed in south east London in 2011. Their debut album, released on Kanuga Records in 2014, led to tours in Europe, UK and a deal in Japan with Uncle Owen Music. Further singles include Surgery (2017), Cowboy Job (2018), Grudge (2020), Learn to Unlearn (2021).
In 2017 Barbara began a music production internship at the Midi Music Company in Deptford, where she developed her skills as a producer and bass player, writing songs for her upcoming solo project. In 2019 she met producer and former Faithless guitarist Dave Randall who invited her to contribute lead vocals for his collective SLOVO. Together they released the album Bread and Butterflies in 2020, which she considers an uplifting, intense, fierce and healing music masterpiece. She also worked with Brixton grime artist CHOZE whose energy, lyrics and music have motivated and inspired her creative mind. Barbara is passionate about working on art collaborations which allow her to explore her voice and movement. She has created experimental sound and performance on visual art projects with multidisciplinary artists Celia Arias (Triformis - 2020), Maria Almena from Kimatica Studio (Transcendence -2018) and Sybilla Bam Bam ( Magic Mirror -2019).
"I am grateful to be surrounded by talented friends who have inspired and helped me to create my identity as an artist.
I am who I am because of you."
Cheryl Dawn Jennings (artist and author of Love Simple Words)
"I love simple words
And use them to write about the world love nature and people"
Dawn is an empath. Her poetry helps her get perspective on what she feels and
dreams. Her views are born from her black Caribbean British strong female heritage.
Chloe Levaillant (eclectic folk singer/songwriter, performance maker and vocal coach)
Chloe is a French - British eclectic folk singer/songwriter, multi-instrumental artist and vocal coach. She recently released her third self produced album ‘Bloom,’ which takes us on her journey from youth to womanhood in which she saw herself wilt, rise and Bloom. She has a background in opera singing and received a masters degree from California Institute of the arts in vocal performance. Her other big passion is highlining, which is basically walking on a thin piece of webbing at a height, on which she likes to sing opera arias or improvise with her voice. When she isn’t writing and performing her own music she is teaching others to do the same, accompanying them on their journey to break through fear of vulnerability and opening up a world of creativity through song writing.
Lesley Ewen (contemporary performance maker)
Lesley is a contemporary performance maker working in various media, as required by what wants to appear, avoiding binaries and silos. She lives in East London. Lesley has worked across Canada; co-founded Leaky Heaven - an award-winning art/theatre performance company; appeared in US features and series; Arrow, X Files, V, Twilight Zone, Stargate, The L Word, etc. In 2012 she moved here; completed an MA in Performance Making at Goldsmiths; continued performing; Doctor Who, The Witcher, GAIA in Sony’s hit computer game Horizon; Forbidden Zone. In 2019, she directed her award-winning play Camera Obscura (hungry ghosts), winning Outstanding Production and five additional nominations; also awarded the Lorena Gale Woman of Distinction Award and an Offie
nom for Amanda in the first European production of The Glass Menagerie (Arcola) with a global majority cast.
Lesley has played an integral part in developing the role of Creative Enabler, supporting professional actors with learning difficulties, in film, tv, and on stage.. She teaches at RADA where she’s originated/teaches the Devising stream plus Meditation/Actor Resilience, Improvisation and scene study.
Tilda Allie (soulful electronica music producer & singer)
Tilda is a Swedish music producer, vocalist and visual artist based in South East London. Tilda explores alternative soundscapes mixed with electronic-pop, soul, jazz, and cinematic music. Flaring with jazz-influenced chords and warming arpeggios, her modern influences flutter in her huge dynamical output. Ridden with soulful-pop charm, Tilda showcases her adept ability in vocal performance by her characteristic harmonies and songwriting. Allie draws her inspiration from lo-fi hip-hop, electronica, contemporary RnB, jazz and soul, by the likes of: Björk, Laura Misch, Biig Piig James Blake and Little Dragon.
Tilda’s work has been previewed in Discovernu Mag, POP Matters, Dummy Mag,Spindle Magazine, Wordplay Magazine, GAFFA and picked as "Artist of the week" by BBC introducing. She has supported acts like Lava La Rue and Haiku Hands and most recently played The Revival Festival in Colombia.
The event will be hosted by Antoinette Daniel, social entrepreneur and founder of Just Helpers, the ethical cleaning and housekeeping agency for busy Londoners.
Antoinette is a former PE teacher, now entrepreneur who is passionate about seeing justice done in all areas of her life. She is the founder of an award-winning London cleaning agency called ‘Just Helpers’ and they are aiming to make the world a better place, one clean at a time. Strong justice ethics are at the heart of all they do. Currently Antoinette is in the process of radically transforming the cleaning industry to enable: cleaning colleagues to be paid equitably; working rights and conditions to be more rigorously monitored; laws to be changed to enable ethical agencies to operate more ably; and clients' homes and offices to be cleaned to a consistently high standard.
In her spare time she loves walking by the sea or sitting in her favourite chair watching the world go by.
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FAQs:
Q: Is this event open to men?
A: Absolutely. We welcome humans of all genders to attend this event and show their support for the performing talent + the aim of raising money for Refuge.
Q: I want to attend the event, but can't afford it. What can I do?
A: Get in touch with the organisers (xtatxstudio@gmail.com) as may have pre-paid tickets from generous supporters to provide.
Event Sponsors & Partners:
- African Diaspora Dance Association
- Cobalt Partners
- Glassmoon
- LAB
- Mama Codes
- South of the River Pictures
- That Gorilla Brand
Our event sponsors and generous supporters are helping cover the costs of the events, ensuring the performers and talent involved can be renumerated for their time and art.
Event Partners:
We welcome humans of all genders to join this event and show their support.
If you have any questions or would like to get in touch with the organisers.
Location
Peckham Levels, SE15 4ST