News | Audacious Women Festival

Interview with Alison Bancroft - Website Building Without Limits workshop leader

Thu 22 Feb 2018

We spoke to Alison Bancroft about her Festival event Website Building Without Limits and asked her why she was offering the workshop.

Almost time for Preaching Divas!

Wed 21 Feb 2018

Almost time for our first event with Ali Affleck & The Copper Cats! We spoke to Ali earlier today and she told us:

2018 Festival At A Glance

Mon 19 Feb 2018

Trying to plan which events to come to? Don't want to waste a minute? We've just published the Festival Programme At A Glance to help you.

A lot of events have now sold out, but there's still just a few tickets left for the following events:

Motorcycle Taster Sessions

Art Inspired By Women Who Broke Down Barriers

Thu 15 Feb 2018

Karen Fleming, from DOK Artist Space, tells us why she decided to offer an art workshop based on the womens emancipation movement.

Interview with Geraldine Wooley - Make It Happen! workshop leader

Sun 11 Feb 2018

We spoke to Geraldine Wooley about her Festival event Make It Happen! which will support women to plan their own audacious acts. We asked her what being audacious meant to her and why she was offering the workshop.

Media Coverage

Thu 08 Feb 2018

Article In Common Space

If you missed it, there's an article about this year's Festival in Common Space. You can have a read here.

2018 Festival Announced

Thu 18 Jan 2018

3rd Audacious Women Festival Programme Announced

The 3rd Audacious Women Festival will take place from the 22nd – 26th February. It will feature over 20 workshops, conversations, performances and at least one pop-up event – all of which invite women to ‘Do What You Always Wish You Dared’.

'A Revolution on Roller Skates': Glasgow Women's Library celebrate the audacious women of roller derby

Fri 17 Feb 2017

Hell hath no fury like an audacious woman on roller skates. It may come as a surprise to some people that learn that Scotland has a vibrant female roller derby scene, from the Auld Reekie Roller Girls in Edinburgh, to Glasgow Roller Derby, to the Dundee Roller Girls.

Conversation with Karen Fleming & Olivia Turner, DOK Artist Space

Mon 13 Feb 2017

Audacity comes in handy when you're making art - or setting up an artist space. Karen Fleming and Olivia Turner founded the DOK Artist Space with fellow ECA graduate Daryl Mckee, which houses exhibitions and offers studio space to up to nine artists at a time in Ocean Terminal.

Conversation with Mairi Campbell, folk musician and festival performer

Wed 08 Feb 2017

One of the Audacious Women collective met Mairi Campbell, to talk through plans for the Festival Celebration Party, taking place at Augustine’s Church at 7.30pm on Saturday 25th February.

Conversation with Rachel-Jane Morrison, writer and performer of Unearthing

Mon 30 Jan 2017

"Aw fur the sake o money, many men lost their lives aye but it was us women who got by"

Women & Whisky featured in the Sunday Herald

Mon 30 Jan 2017

Did you catch us in the paper this weekend? The wonderful Justine Hazelhurst - the woman behind Kask Whisky - was interviewed by the Sunday Herald for a Burns Night feature on her upcoming 'Women & Whisky' tasting at the Audacious Women Festival.

We're in The List!

Tue 24 Jan 2017

"With its collaborative and encouraging vibe, celebrating personal victories alongside historical groundbreakers, the Audacious Women Fest makes it easy to try something new."

We were delighted to see the Audacious Women Festival featured in The List this week.

Conversation with Justine Hazlehurst, founder of Kask Whisky

Wed 18 Jan 2017

"And – if freedom an whisky gang thegither –
How do you like your freedom? Swallowed neat?
Distillations of history, language, weather
In an usqueba o barley, burn water, peat."
- Liz Lochead

Audacious Women Festival: Do What You Always Wish You Dared

Our 2017 programme has launched!

Sun 08 Jan 2017

We're delighted to share our 2017 programme with you. From breakdancing to roller derby, stonemasonry to songwriting - we're celebrating audacious women everywhere with workshops, conversations and events from 18 - 26th February.