REVOLUTION RADIO
WOMEN’S WORK SHOWCASE
DATE: FRI 7TH JUNE | VENUE: OH YEAH MUSIC CENTRE, 15 – 2 1 GORDON STREET, BELFAST, BT1 2LG | TIME: 5PM – 7 PM ENTRY: FREE, REGISTRATION REQUIRED VIA EVENTBRITE Is the radio revolution upon us? Zoe Ball, Lauren Laverne, Sara Cox and Mary Anne Hobbs are now helping to balance the gender issue across the biggest daytime radio shows in the UK – a seismic shift from the historically double-decked male dominance. In this special Women’s Work panel we are joined by the women ‘holding it down’ in the North of Ireland – the voices, the curators, the ground breakers featuring Caroline Fleck (Downtown), Lisa Flavelle (Belfast 89fm), Mairead Campbell (BBC Radio One) and Emer Maguire (BBC Radio Ulster). This panel is suited to those trying to break into radio as either a presenter or producer. It also offers an opportunity for musicians trying to get their music played to meet the people responsible for introducing new acts to big audiences.
CDJ WORKSHOP PRESENTED BY GIRL DJ
DATE: SAT 8TH JUNE | VENUE: OH YEAH MUSIC CENTRE, 15 – 21 GORDON STREET BELFAST, BT1 2LG | TIME: 11AM – 1 PM | ENTRY: £10 Belfast Club Queens, GIRL (Marion Hawkes & Venus Dupree) will lead another CDJ workshop for beginners at Women’s Work 2019. This 3-hour class will be offered in a safe, inclusive and relaxing environment covering the basics, which include learning CDJ and mixer functions, selecting music, beat matching and mixing. Previous years have sold out far in advance so get in quick and bag your space!
JAM SESSION
DATE: SAT 8TH JUNE | VENUE: OH YEAH MUSIC CENTRE, 15 – 21 GORDON STREET, BELFAST, BT1 2LG TIME: 12PM – 2 PM | ENTRY: FREE, TO RESERVE YOUR PLACE E-MAIL: GIRLSROCKSCHOOLNI@GMAIL.COM Girls Rock School NI makes music performance fun, accessible and available to groups of women at all stages and ages. Join them for this taster session to jam, riff and rock with others or simply give performance a go for the first time. The workshop space will have drums, bass, guitar and vocal setups – by the end of the session you will able to perform a full song on your chosen instrument.
CAREER LONGEVITY: IN CONVERSATION WITH BRIGID O’NEILL, SARAH MURPHY & LYNDSEY MCDOUGALL
DATE: SAT 8TH JUNE | VENUE: OH YEAH MUSIC CENTRE, 15 – 2 1 GORDON STREET, BELFAST, BT1 2LG | TIME: 12PM – 2PM | ENTRY: FREE In open conversation with our audience, Brigid, Sarah and Lyndsey will look at what these women in music have needed to do to sustain a career in music, what support have they had, barriers they’ve faced, what the future looks like for career musicians and how charities like Help Musicians NI can help. This session will welcome speakers who have had involvement across the industry, and stories spanning a variety of diverse experiences.
FINE TUNING YOUR LIVE PERFORMANCE
DATE: SAT 8TH JUNE | VENUE: THE BLACK BOX, HILL STREET, BELFAST, BT1 2LA | TIME: 12PM – 3 PM ENTRY: FREE, REGISTRATION REQUIRED VIA GLASGOW@THEMU.ORG
DATE: SAT 8TH JUNE | VENUE: OH YEAH MUSIC CENTRE, 15 – 2 1 GORDON STREET, BELFAST, BT1 2LG | TIME: 9PM – L ATE | ENTRY: £10 The Women’s Work Showcase is back and our bill is bigger than ever. This year’s line-up provides a snapshot of the female and female-identifying music makers across the country in pop, rock, ambient, experimental and rap.
FEATURING: –– Wynona Bleach –– Molly Sterling
–– Kyoto Love Hotel –– Havvk
–– Dena Anuk$a –– Girls Rock School NI Graduates
–– Gender Chores –– Gemma Bradley
SUCCESS WITH LESS STRESS PRESENTED BY MUSIC FOR MENTAL WEALTH DATE: SAT 8TH JUNE | VENUE: OH YEAH MUSIC CENTRE, 15 – 2 1 GORDON STREET, BELFAST, BT1 2LG | TIME: 2PM ENTRY: FREE, REGISTRATION VIA EVENTBRITE ESSENTIAL Join Coach & Mentor and former MD at Coda Music Agency Claire Horseman for a workshop around mental health and well-being and how you can thrive as a woman in the music industry. Highlights include recognising stress and burnout, finding your emotional resilience, and learning tools and techniques to support you. Claire will be available for one-to-one conversation following the session. Find out more: www.musicformentalwealth.com.
START TOGETHER WOMEN IN MUSIC SCHEME DATE: SUN 9TH JUNE | VENUE: OH YE AH MUSIC CENTRE, 15 – 21 GORDON STREET BELFAST, BT1 2LG | TIME: 1PM – 2PM ENTRY: FREE SIGN UP REQUIRED VIA SOPHIE@STARTTOGETHERSTUDIO.COM This event will conclude the Women in Music training that helped women and non-binary people develop skills in music recording and production through Start Together Studio. This training was gratefully funded by Help Musicians NI Women In Music Fund. Join us for a casual discussion / Q&A format, involving special guest hosts who will be discussing their work in the music industry and answering questions from both the audience and group participants.
THE MOTHER WITHIN SINGLE LAUNCH DANI (FULL BAND SHOW) + GUESTS DATE: SUN 9TH JUNE | VENUE: THE BLACK BOX, HILL STREET, BELFAST, BT1 2LA | TIME: 8PM | ENTRY: £8 EARLY BIRD TICKETS VIA: WWW.DANIMUSICATHOME.COM
The best performers are always looking for ways to develop and improve their live shows. The more engaging your live show, the more opportunity for you to grow your audience and increase the likelihood of further opportunities. In this workshop, the Musicians’ Union will facilitate a practical look at live sound setup, lighting and production basics, dos and don’ts and what is expected from musicians from a production perspective. Lunch will be provided.
This year’s Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival Artist in Residence, DANI, will launch her new single ‘The Mother Within’ with a full band as part of the Women’s Work Festival. DANI recorded ‘The Mother Within’ during the ‘Our Future Roots’ residency programme with Indonesian percussionists KunoKini in August 2018 at Half Bap Studios. Expect special guests and tales from her experiences in Palestine and Indonesia rooted firmly in the context of Irish folk music.
FAIRPLÉ: RISING TIDES
MIND YOURSELF: MENTAL HEALTH & MUSIC
DATE: SAT 8TH JUNE | VENUE: THE DUNCAIRN CENTRE, DUNCAIRN AVENUE, BELFAST BT14 6BP | TIME: 12PM – 4 PM | ENTRY: FREE
DATE: SUN 9TH JUNE | VENUE: OH YEAH MUSIC CENTRE, 15 – 2 1 GORDON STREET, BELFAST, BT1 2LG | TIME: 2:30PM – 4 PM ENTRY: LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE, REGISTER VIA EVENTBRITE
Supported and funded by Help Musicians NI through the Women in Music Fund, FairPlé is holding three panels: 1: Know Your Funders: with panellists from the Arts Council of Ireland, the Arts Council of NI, and Help Musicians NI 2: Scoring Evidence: an academic response to gender inequality in Irish folk/trad with Dr. Úna Monaghan, Joanne Cusack and Catriona Hawksworth 3: Identifying the ‘Workplace’ in Irish trad/folk: with Pauline Scanlon and Úna Molloy (Turning Pirate) & Eibhlín Ní Dhochartaigh (Imbolc)
ATYPICAL SOCIAL FOR DISABLED & D/DEAF MUSICIANS DATE: SAT 8TH JUNE | VENUE: UNIVERSITY OF ATYPICAL, 109 – 113 ROYAL AVENUE BELFAST, BT11FF | TIME: 2PM – 3 :30PM | ENTRY: FREE Call down to University of Atypical from 2:00pm to 3:30pm on Saturday June 6th to hang out, meet other disabled and D/deaf musicians, and chat to representatives from University of Atypical and Oh Yeah Centre to learn about ways we may be able to offer support.
SelfMade presents an interactive workshop led by psychotherapist, musician, researcher and BIMM lecturer, Aoife Ruth. The session is supported by Help Musicians NI, an independent charity for musicians whose work includes providing help and support for emerging talent. This workshop will explore the psychology of women’s experiences in music, from the pressure to perform femininity in the ‘right’ way, to how we internalise messages about the value, potential and abilities of female musicians.
BEAUTY QUEENS, MUSIC & ACTIVISM – A CONVERSATION DATE: SUN 9TH JUNE | VENUE: THE GREEN ROOM, THE BLACK BOX HILL STREET, BELFAST, BT1 2LA | TIME: 7PM | ENTRY: FREE, REGISTER VIA EVENTBRITE. DONATIONS WELCOMED FOR GENESIS STARS FOUNDATION SCHOOL Presented by Escuelas de Paz & Beyond Skin. Genesis is a Colombian musician, children’s champion, peace activist, and the founder of Genesis Stars Foundation, a school meeting the needs of girls using music in education. Genesis is also a beauty queen, with over 16 crowns to her name. So how does Genesis use her success to protect and empower young women, is it a contradiction to promote the unrealistic expectations of beauty competitions or a useful tool for engagement?
NEO NEO #8 – SOUND & VISION
WRITE. FIGHT. IGNITE!
DATE: SAT 8TH JUNE | VENUE: THE GREEN ROOM, THE BLACK BOX, HILL STREET BELFAST, BT1 2LA | TIME: 7PM | ENTRY: FREE
DATE: SUN 9TH JUNE | VENUE: OH YEAH MUSIC CENTRE, 15 – 21 GORDON STREET BELFAST, BT1 2LG | TIME: 7PM ENTRY: £5 + BOOKING FEE
This immersive showcase event will feature audio works created by participants from the NEO NEO Sound & Vision course, alongside guest performers. During the course participants have worked in audio recording, DJing and beat-making to create original soundscapes in response to a visual brief from artist Helena Hamilton. NEO NEO is supported and funded by Help Musicians NI through the Women in Music Fund and showcases highquality contemporary music and visual art through live events with a focus on experimental electronic performance and collaborative practices. Find us at: www.facebook.com/neoneoproject/
Women Aloud NI join Geraldine Quigley, author of Guardian-reviewed ‘Music Love Drugs War’, a novel about 1981 Derry and all that entails seen through the eyes of teenagers, to bring you an evening of literary talent. From poems to plays, this night will explore what happens when music gets under your skin and how to write it... on the page. Featuring performances and discussion from Sharon Dempsey, Alice McCullough, Elizabeth McGeown and Csilla Toldy.
THE GUILTY FEMINIST: LIVE DATE: SAT 8TH JUNE | VENUE: LIMELIGHT 1, BELFAST (SEATED) | TIME: 7PM (EARLY SHOW) | ENTRY: TICKETS £18.50 + BOOKING FEES (18+ ONLY) The Guilty Feminist is coming to Belfast! This award winning podcast for 21st century feminists, with over 50 million downloads is making its Belfast debut as part of Women’s Work. Join comedian Deborah Frances-White and special guests for this off-limits live comedy podcast, to be recorded live at Limelight 1, Saturday 8th June.
START TOGETHER STUDIO PARTY DATE: SUN 9TH JUNE | VENUE: LIMELIGHT 2, 17 ORMEAU AVENUE, BELFAST, BT2 8HD | TIME: 7PM | ENTRY: £10 Start Together Studio will host the first Irish show for punk 5-piece Queen Zee (Sasstone Records) whose debut album was part recorded with Rocky O’Reilly. Shake down at this super special Women’s Work finale with “strange people from Liverpool who look a little weird and rock like crazy” – Iggy Pop (BBC Radio 6 Music). 5% of ticket sales will be donated to The Belfast Trans Resource Centre; a hub for transgender, non-binary and questioning people and their families across NI – www.belfasttrans.org.uk/fundraiser