WOW Pakistan 2023

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WOW Pakistan 2023 will be the most diverse and exciting since WOW Pakistan began and include dynamic panels, workshops, immersive performances, vibrant marketplaces and shows for children. 

The festival featured an art exhibition, a drum circle, art installations, and film screenings. The opening performance at the festival featured Shae Gill, the singer of last year’s biggest hit ‘Pasoori’ and the closing performance was by Pakistan’s legendary singer Naseebo Lal.

Presented in partnership with the WOW Foundation, the 2023 theme was Ral Mil - the Seraiki phrase for coming together as a community. The theme ‘Ral Mil’ built upon ideas of communities of care and imagined ways to build better, strengthen bonds, heal wounds, find joy, and salvage the earth from the effects of climate change.

WOW in Pakistan is co-curated by the Entrepreneurship and Community Development Institute (ECDI Pakistan) and Olomopolo Media, in partnership with the British Council.

The WOW Foundation works in partnership with amazing women and organisations to create WOW Festivals across the world. The WOW organisers in each location ensure the content is created by the local community for the local community. While each festival is different in its own wonderful, unique way, there are elements that stay consistent at every WOW Festival wherever you are in the world; from the WOW Marketplace to Under 10's Feminist Corners.

In the past decade, the WOW movement has grown from its London beginnings to find homes everywhere from Beijing and Kathmandu to Baltimore and Brisbane.

To date, there have been more than 100 festivals and events across six continents, reaching more than five million people from thousands of women in favelas at WOW Rio to Territory women at WOW Katherine.