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Europe | U.K. | Activism

HearHer Is The UK’s First All-Female Festival Giving Women In Music The Space They Deserve

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In 2018, UK festival line-up statistics were still rather disappointing. 70 percent of festivals featured all-male bands, leaving many to wonder why female artists were still being dismissed. These figures come from the founding members of the UK's first all-female festival, HearHer: three days of musical bliss performed exclusively by female artists. Set to take over Dorset's Sandford Holiday Park from Oct. 11 to 13, HearHer has enlisted over 20 incredible performers to share their talents with the nation. The festival has been curated by singer-songwriter KT Tunstall and actress-slash-mu
North America | United States | Entertainment

Madonna Achieves Ninth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With ‘Madame X’

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X marks the No. 1 spot. Madonna lands her ninth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as Madame X enters atop the tally. The set, released via Interscope Records on June 14, launches with 95,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending June 20, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 90,000 were in album sales. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units are comprised of traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equival
North America | United States | Career

Warner Bros. Taps BBC Studios Americas Chief Ann Sarnoff as CEO

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Warner Bros. has tapped BBC Studios Americas president Ann Sarnoff as its new CEO, a surprise pick that is sure to shake up the venerable studio. Sarnoff becomes the first woman to head Warner Bros. in its nearly 100-year history. She was under the radar during WarnerMedia’s search for a successor to lead the studio following the forced resignation of chairman-CEO Kevin Tsujihara in March.
International | Entertainment

Happy Father’s Day! Femina’s Fatherhood Song Pick of the Year…

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We know, we know, we are all about celebrating women's achievements and our accomplishments…but men play many different roles in our lives and are important. Fathers are incredibly important in the individual lives of their children and fatherhood is incredibly important within society over all. Again, yes, at Femina.com it is about the global, local, women’s news, but, we wanted to celebrate the importance of fatherhood on this Father’s Day. Daddy Can I Wear Your Hat is our pick for fatherhood song of the year for 2019…it embodies and evokes exactly what fathers should strive for a
Middle East | Saudi Arabia | Culture

Stop portraying Arab women as victims, leading Saudi filmmaker says

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Acclaimed Saudi Arabian filmmaker Haifaa al-Mansour has a message for Western audiences: stop seeing Arab women as victims. Portraying the women of her region as strong and resilient is one of the missions of her highly-awarded films, al-Mansour — who is one of Saudi Arabia's most famous, as well as most controversial directors — told CNBC's Hadley Gamble during a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday. "Whether it's coming from the region, or internationally, I really enjoy portraying strong female protagonists, women who don't see themselves as victims," al-Mansour
North America | United States | Entertainment

ABC Shake-up: Channing Dungey becomes the first female African-American to run a broadcast network

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Channing Dungey was named entertainment president of Disney's ABC television network, becoming the first African American to lead a major broadcast network at a time when lack of diversity in Hollywood has come under increasing scrutiny. Dungey on Wednesday replaced Paul Lee, who was widely credited with promoting more prime-time shows with people of color in front of and behind the camera. But Lee tangled with his boss Ben Sherwood, who is co-chairman of Disney Media Networks, and ABC's ratings have tumbled in recent months. Dungey, 46, who has been a Walt Disney Co. executive for more
North America | United States | Entertainment

HOW EMILY LAZAR BECAME THE ONLY FEMALE MASTERING ENGINEER EVER NOMINATED FOR A GRAMMY

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This year, Emily Lazar became the first woman to be nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. That means that Lazar's work as mastering engineer on The Bird and the Bee's album Recreational Lovemarks the first time in 58 years we've had a female nominee in the category. It's not the first time that Lazar, who owns and runs New York-based mastering studio The Lodge, has made history for women during the Grammys, however: She's previously been the first female mastering engineer nominated in two other categories, which is both impressive and concerning. (Th
North America | United States | Entertainment

Meet the Most Powerful Woman in Hollywood

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After more than three decades making some of the most successful movies of our time, Kathleen Kennedy has become something of an icon. She is perhaps the most powerful woman in Hollywood, but she does not talk much about what it is like being a female executive in a male-dominated industry. That is not her style. Nor is she self-deprecating. She prefers just to have people watch what she does. She is exceedingly uneasy about promoting her own story—unusual for Hollywood, where people rarely take less credit than they deserve. She has produced more than 60 movies and together, her movies h
South Asia | India | Entertainment

Daredevil army women bikers will perform at India’s Republic Day for the first time

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For the first time, an all-women contingent of personnel from the Central Reserve Police Force will be performing stunts with their motorcycles during India's Republic Day parade on 26 Jan. Called "Women Daredevils CRPF", the contigent of 120 women riders will display their skills on the motorcyle. This squad was created in 2014, when women were trained in performing difficult individual and group stunts and manoeuvres on Bullet motocyles. Before that, only male commando units of the defence forces were allowed to undetake such stunts.
North America | Canada | Activism

Eekwol Fights for Aboriginal Women’s Rights Through Hip-Hop

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Hip-hop’s roots are inextricably linked to political, socioeconomic, and racial inequality. Not that you might think of those things while turning up at a party or waxing poetic on a hoverboard. Enter the conscious rapper to remind us what’s real. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan’s Eekwol raps about her Canadian prairie surroundings and Cree culture. Born Lindsay Knight, she began performing in the late 90s with her brother Mils and five cousins under the banner of Innersoulflow. Eventually, the members went solo, but Eekwol continued to promote social change and the quest for knowledge and self
North America | United States | Arts

The Goodman Theatre Announces First All-Female Playwrights Unit

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Chicago's Goodman Theatre has announced that its sixth playwrights unit will be made up entirely of female playwrights. The Chicago writers participating in the 2015-16 program are Kristiana Rae Colón, Sandra Delgado, Jenni Lamb and Calamity West. The Unit is a year-long residency designed to nurture new work. The writers attend bi-monthly meetings with the Goodman's artistic team, culminating with public staged readings of their completed works. The Goodman's decision in selecting all female playwrights is particularly important in light of recent statistics showing that only o
North America | United States | Arts

Theater festival in DC puts spotlight on female playwrights

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It was an historic moment in theater few people saw when the first female writing team won Tony Awards this year for "Fun Home." The milestone symbolized a stubborn imbalance between the number of female playwrights who see their work produced on stage compared with men. The breakthrough for Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori's with Broadway's "Fun Home" came during a commercial break in the Tonys. Writers are rarely recognized in the theater world. But for this team, the win cemented their place at a time when very few new plays picked up for production in theaters are written by women. Now a
International | Entertainment

New Yorker Kaila Mullady Named the World Female Beatbox Champion at the 2015 Beatbox Battle World Championships

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A remarkably talented woman named Kate Mullady from New York has been named the 2015 Female World Beatbox Champion by the Beatbox Battle Championships that were recently held in Berlin, Germany. Mullady is also the 2014 ABC Loop Station Champion and Beatrhyme Champion. Kaila Mullady is a New York based performer – The 2015 World Beatbox Champion, the current America Vice Beatbox Champion, Loop station champion and three time, reigning Beatrhyme Champion. Kaila performs all over NYC and the country infusing beatboxing, singing, rapping, poetry and theater to push the boundaries of creativity
Asia | Japan | Entertainment

Japan’s new ‘girl band’, average age 84

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They joke about knocking on heaven’s door, but a Japanese ‘girl band’ with an average age of 84 have struck a blow for grannies everywhere by becoming pop idols. Hailing from the remote, coral-fringed island of Kohama in Okinawa, KBG84 – a play on the name of saccharine teeny boppers AKB48 – admit to being slightly bemused by their success after cutting their first disc and completing a sellout Japan tour. “When I first heard someone call us ‘idols’ I thought an idol meant someone who had lived a long life and was at the gates of heaven,” pint-sized diva Tomi Menaka, 92

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