Womanity is an all-day festival, which aims to provide a forum for young people of all genders. The aim is to come together to create, learn and discuss gender-based issues, which affect their day-to-day lives.

The Young Women’s Music Project’s director Zahra Tehrani has been working closely with a group of girls over a period of years. The idea for Womanity emerged from a series of discussions about their hopes and aspirations. Whilst the focus of the project is to empower young women through music, and address issues of the underrepresentation of women as a whole, the event branches out from these ideas, to explore a wider selection of cultural issues. Young Women’s Music Project has received an Oxford County Council grant, from the Positive Activities Fund, to stage an event that addresses the concerns and interests of not only the members of the group, but their friends and peers.

The day will consist of workshops, lectures, sessions and a panel discussion. The evening will host live art, local crafts, and a frock swap, alongside live music from diverse female musicians. Subject matters as varied as creativity and self-destruction, blogging, self-defence, sexual violence, vocal looping and women in hip hop, will be covered. The open-panel discussion is centered on what feminism means today to young people, with a majority of questions being submitted from schools around the county.

More information at www.facebook.com/events/181444698713319. Tickets available from www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/8882304211