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In the wake of shocking numbers of sexual assaults at a Swedish music festival, a women-only festival will take place next year following the success of a crowdfunding campaign launching the project.
“Help us to create a safe space”
Sweden is set to hold a new festival next year. The country’s mega Bråvalla Festival has been plagued by sexual crime since its very first edition in 2013. So much so, 2016’s headliners Mumford & Sons and Zara Larsson, condemned the event and refused to ever return after five rapes and twelve sexual assaults were reported over the course of the four-day event.
Following a successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter which was started by Swedish comedian Emma Knyckare, a women-only festival will take place next year. Knyckare put forward her proposition for Statement Festival on Twitter.
What do you think about putting together a really cool festival where only non-men are welcome that we’ll run until ALL men have learned how to behave themselves?
Yes, yes and yes. Statement Festival’s campaign said “at music festivals, everyone should feel safe”. Hear, hear. The festival is due to be held next Summer with a 10,000-person capacity with cis-women, trans-women and non-binary all welcome.
Last year, Glastonbury featured its first ever women-only venue. Baptised “The Sisterhood”, the festival organisers described it as “a revolutionary clubhouse” open to “all people who identify as women”.
Sisterhood seeks to provide a secret space for women to connect, network, share their stories, have fun and learn the best way to support each other in our global struggle to end oppression against women.
