#FemFest - Thank you for a brilliant day
Published: Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Almost 3 weeks ago we held #FemFest, a major conference with young women on body image and leadership, which was the culmination of a year's worth of workshops with young women.
The day was made possible by the young women involved in our 'Looking Glass' work; by attending the workshops, posing in photos, doing media interviews, making videos, and speaking on the day in Croke Park from the floor and the stage, they made #FemFest the fun and inspiring event that we could have only dreamt it could be.
We heard brilliant contributions on the day from our body image panel of Tara Flynn, Tom Meagher, Dil Wickremasinghe, Louise O'Neill, chaired by the amazing Ailbhe Smyth. The leadership panel was equally inspiring - Lynn Ruane, Bressie, Nadya Bhettay and Claire Daly made some unforgettable contributions, as did the Chair, Sinead Burke.
A special thank you to Delerentos, and Maud in Cahoots, for their musical performances and a shout out to Sarah Griffin for her amazing reading - we loved it!
For those of you who didn’t make it along – we missed you! - and didn’t see the hashtag trending for the day, here is some of the coverage and snippets of what we got up to:
• Her.ie