The group Women in Sound/Women on Sound is hosting its annual forum on 22 April, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts.
Educating Girls in Sound
Submission deadline February 8th, notification of selection February 15th.
WISWOS 2016 will take place at the Peter Scott Gallery at Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts. This years WISWOS event will focus on education. The previous very successful event at Lancaster in 2015 exhibited the excellent and varied work being done by women in many areas of sound, but also made clear their lack of visibility to the young. Despite the long and effective history of women working in and on sound, the numbers involved have not risen. What impact does the current education system have on young girls to deter them from moving into the fields of science, technology, the arts and engineering with sound? How can it be improved?
Key questions we wish to explore in the Forum are:
What happens in the music/sound tech classroom?
At what point do we see the drop from equal interest to little interest?
What initiatives already exist that do encourage girls to engage?
What can we do, and should we do it or not?
Full details here.
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carolynbirdsall
carolinemitchell2012
cvaldigem
gloriakhamkar
Heidi Svømmekjær
kterkan
nazanhaydari
Women's Radio in Europe Network (WREN) 