Oxford International Women’s Festival
Women’s Creativity and Survival during Covid 19 and its Aftermath
1st—14th March 2022
Join us for two weeks of events around Oxford celebrating women’s strengths, successes & solidarity.
Women’s Creativity and Survival during Covid 19 and its Aftermath
The 33rd Oxford International Women’s Festival
March 1st – March 14th 2022
Since the Oxford International Women’s Festival began in 1989, it has always focused on Women’s International Day March 8th , the day when women throughout the world celebrate women’s struggle for political, trade union and employment rights. It has also covered a wide range of topics ranging from the arts to the sciences, as well as women’s creativity, and initiated and supported campaigns on women’s rights.
Since the 2020 Festival, Covid 19 has changed women’s lives dramatically and provided them with many new challenges. The Festival Collective was able to respond to some of these challenges and put on a successful online Festival in 2021 which celebrated women’s creativity in this depressing period.
The title for the 2022 Festival, ‘Women’s Creativity and Survival During Covid 19 and its Aftermath’ will continue this theme by illustrating how women have found positive ways in surviving the events of the last year. The 2022 Festival will be a celebration of women’s survival as well as a memorial for those who did not survive. It will also focus on why it is important to keep up the struggle for women’s equality, both locally, nationally and internationally. This will be illustrated and communicated through music, dance, film, discussion and debate.
Behind the Illustration
The artist Marcia Davies
Marcia Davies is a Bath based graphic communication student and practitioner. Inspired by people
and social activism, Marcia uses her creative repertoire to explore and shed light on movements of
interest such as feminism, environmentalism and mental wellbeing.
Marcia’s mediums of choice are digital illustration, print and collage. She finds peace within bold
lines, graphic shapes and strong colours.
You can check out Marcia’s illustrations through her Instagram:
www.instagram.com/marciadaviesdesign/