Women Make Music: Female Music Creators and the Gender Gap
Word reaches us of a brilliant event on Monday night organised by Birds Eye View, an organisation that celebrates and promotes women in the film industry. They've teamed up with the PRS for Music Foundation to host a panel debate on female music creators and the gender gap. And the panel is rather special...
Hosted by journalist Miranda Sawyer, the panel features awe-inspiring disco doyenne Alison Goldfrapp, spiky singer/songwriter Kate Nash, Mercury-award-winning Speech Debelle, Oscar-winning composer Rachel Portman, Warp Records composer Mira Calix, and Janis Susskind, the Director of Composers & Repertoire at Boosey & Hawkes.
It's all happening at Kings Place in Kings Cross, London. It's on Monday at 7pm, tickets are £9.50 and are available from the King's Place website.
Birds' Eye View work to develop and support women who work across the arts. They are formed around the startling statistic that only 7% of film directors and 12% of screenwriters are female. If you're interested in closing this gender gap, they're a great organisation to get involved with. They run an annual Film Festival, and you can watch the trailer for the last festival below...
