Tilted Women Festival: Respecting Women’s Stories and World-View Through Creativity
Respecting Women’s Stories and World-View Through Creativity: a workshop and conversation
with Ali Smith
Sunday 9th March 1.30 – 2.30pm
We’ve heard ad nauseam about the male gaze and women have been fighting for decades to claim our own narrative in the creative fields. After all, history / herstory is written by the one who gets to the pen / brush / microphone first.
What are the externally and internally imposed stumbling blocks women face to believing in the legitimacy of our own stories and visions of the world enough to share them?
Who can we look to (and not look to) to bolster our self-belief and self-efficacy as writers / painters / photographers / collage artists / musicians / creative spirits in the world?
How can we bolster ourselves and each other so that women’s visions of the world become a dominant narrative and force ?
Join me and let’s figure this sh*t out through conversation and creation !
Bio
Ali Smith is a portrait, documentary and commercial photographer and writer, contributing regularly to the Guardian, the New York Times and other publications internationally. Of her two critically acclaimed books of photography, the most recent — Momma Love; How the Mother Half Lives— won two international book awards, was featured by the NY Times (and others), Gloria Steinem called it a gift to moms, and photographer Amy Arbus deemed it “essential.”
Ali’s memoir — the Ballad of Speedball Baby — is an alternately hilarious and heart-breaking memoir about being the only woman in an influential, 90s New York punk band, surviving the slings and arrows society reserves for women who refuse comply. Ali teaches photography and lectures at universities internationally, and she designed and taught a photography program with the express purpose of helping teenage girls respect the way they see the world.
