updated November 12, 2005

THE FIRST LADYFEST TOOK PLACE AUGUST 2000 in Olympia, WA.

LADYFEST IS FOR EVERYONE! PLEASE KEEP US UPDATED ON YOURS!
Please note that the different ladyfests are not related (except in spirit!), if you want to get involved with any of these events please contact the organizers in that city, email addresses are provided below for many of them.
Ladyfest Europe is a wonderful source of information.

UPCOMING LADYFESTS :

NEWS

2005
LADYFEST BIELEFELD (Bielefeld, Germany) - dates tba (email)
LITTLE LADYFEST (Philadelphia, PA) - Date? (email)

2006
LADYFEST MONTERREY (Monterrey, Mexico) - February 2006 (email)
LADYFEST TOULOUSE (Toulouse, France) - September/October 2006 (email)
LADYFEST SOUTH (Atlanta, GA) - Fall 2006 (email)
LADYFEST FRANKFURT/MAIN (Frankfurt/Main, Germany) - 2006 (email tba)
LADYFEST LAS VEGAS (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA) - 2006 (email)
LADYFEST PENINSULAR (Mèrida, Yucatàn, Mexico) - 2006 (email)

November 2005

NOTE FOR LADYFEST ORGANIZERS!
Ladyfest Out West has a grant we would like to pass on to an upcoming new or struggling ladyfest (US and Worldwide). First come first serve. Please contact anticapitalistqueer@hotmail.com.

LADYFEST Frankfurt/Main added

LADYFEST Las Vegas added

LADYFEST Toulouse added

LADYFEST Peninsular, Mexico added

LADYFEST Monterrey email changed!

LADYFEST Lublin cancelled for 2005, they will try again in 2006, please help!

 

August 2005
Added: Ladyfest Guelph, Ladyfest Singapore (September)

Plans underway for LADYFEST WELLINGTON in late 2005 - email

June 2005

LADYFEST SOUTH AFRICA added!

LADYFEST NORTH CAROLINA has a website and dates - Oct 21-23, 2005.

LADYFEST ITALY has an English version website.

May 2005

Dates set for LADYFEST SPAIN in Madrid, October 28-29 2005.

Dates set for LADYFEST BRISBANE website is up and dates set for September 11-18 2005.

Second LADYFEST MANNHEIM in Germany set for October 14-16 2005.

LADYFEST GOTHENBURG in Sweden set for November 3, 2005. The second LADYFEST MALMO and LADYFEST STOCKHOLM will also take place in November 4th and 5th, respectively.

LADYFEST NORTH CAROLINA is planned for this year.

April 2005

LADYFEST OLYMPIA website is up! For Ladyfest Olympia inquiries, write to ladyfestolympia@hotmail.com

Second LADYFEST EAST added for October 2005.

Fourth LADYFEST OTTAWA in September.

LADYFEST BERLIN is happening again this year, August 5-13. Website will be updated for 2005 soon.

LADYFEST DRESDEN website is up, English version coming soon.

The third LADYFEST SOUTH will take place in Fall of 2006.

March 2005
Ladyfest Olympia 2005 will take place July 28-31.

Ladyfest Lansing added.
Ladyfest Ohio added.
Ladyfest Amsterdam not happening this year, maybe a smaller event in the summer...
Ladyfest San Diego added.
Ladyfest Brisbane added.

February 2005
Ladyfest Lublin (Poland) added.
Ladyfest Mexico has a website - go there.
Ladyfest Dresden added.
Ladyfest Spain added.
Nihal is trying to get a ladyfest going in Turkey (email).

January 2005
Happy New Year!
Happy Anniversary to Ladyfest! Ladies in Olympia are working on another festival for this year, no specifics are set yet but info will be posted as it comes in. Please note the info on other pages of this website refers to the 2000 festival, not the upcoming one.

New ladyfests have been added for 2005 in North Carolina, Mexico, and California. The second ladyfest in Brazil is in March, and the second ladyfest in Denver will happens this summer.

December 2004
Ladyfest Switzerland added for September 2005.

November 2004
Added Ladyfest events in Warsaw, Poland and Adelaide, Australia + past events in Sao Paolo, Brazil; Birmingham, UK; Toronto, Canada; Atlanta, Georgia; and Berlin, Germany.

July 2004
tons of ladyfests added! ladies at work in : Honolulu, Stuttgart, Leipzig (#2!), Dublin, Ottawa (#3!) . . .

also LADYFEST EUROPE is maintaining information on Ladyfests in Europe (email)

 

 

October 2003
EMAIL TROUBLE!
We've recently discovered that emails to info@ladyfest.org had been bouncing for who knows how long... The problem is fixed now, but if you sent info which is not posted here or asked a question and never got a response, please write back. Good luck to everyone!

Just added:
Ladyfests in
Columbus, OH
Lansing, MI (#2)
Seattle, WA (#3)
Richmond, VA
and Sweden!

Ladyfest Melbourne website up! (email) and date changed to November 2003.

LADYFEST JINGLES FROM AMSTERDAM

LADYFEST EAST Comp CD Available!

send info to info@ladyfest.org

FESTIVALS THAT HAVE ALREADY TAKEN PLACE (95) :

2005 (31)
LADYFEST EKINDA (Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Italy) - January 9, 2005
LADYFEST MEXICO (Monterrey, Mexico) - February 12-13, La Casa de Pancho Villa Address: Calle Padre Mier No. 837 Pte. Centro (email)
LADYFEST ROMANIA (tentative) - (Timisoara, Romania) March 1-8, 2005 (email)
LADYFEST BRASIL (Brazil) - March 12-13, 2005 (email)
LADYFEST HAWAII (Honolulu, HI) - March 3-6, 2005 (email)
LADYFEST LANSING (Lansing, MI) - April 14-17 (email)
LADYFEST ARCATA (Humbolt County, CA) - April 2005? (email)
LADYFEST NORTH CAROLINA - Date ?
LADYFEST DRESDEN (Dresden, Germany) - July 7-10, 2005 (email)
LADYFEST SAN DIEGO (San Diego, CA) - July 14-17, 2005 (email)
LADYFEST ITALIA (Napoli, Italy) - July 21-23, 2005 (email)
LADYFEST OLYMPIA - (Olympia, WA) - July 28-31, 2005 (email)

LADYFEST SOUTH AFRICA (Johannesburg, South Africa) - July 29, 2005 (email)

LADYFEST BUFFALO (Buffalo, NY) - Summer 2005 (email)
LADYFEST BERLIN (Berlin, Germany) - August 5-13, 2005 (email)
LADYFEST OUT WEST (Denver, CO) - August 5-7, 2005 (email)
LADYFEST BRISBANE (Brisbane, Australia) - September 8-11, 2005 (email)
LADYFEST OTTAWA (Ottawa, Canada) - September 15-18, 2005 (email)
LADYFEST GUELPH (Guelph, Canada) - September 23-24, 2005 (email)
LADYFEST SINGAPORE (Singapore) - September 2005 (email)
LADYFEST SWITZERLAND (Zurich, Switzerland) - September 2005 (email)
LADYFEST OHIO (Columbus, OH) - October 7-9, 2005 (email)
LADYFEST VIENNA (Wien ) October 7-9, 2005 (email)
LADYFEST EAST (New York, NY) - October 14-16, 2005 (email)
LADYFEST MANNHEIM (Mannheim, Germany) - October 14-16, 2005 (email)

LADYFEST BRIGHTON (Brighton, UK) - October 19-23, 2005 (email)
LADYFEST NORTH CAROLINA (Durham, NC) - October 21-23, 2005 (email)

LADYFEST SPAIN (Madrid, Spain) - October 28-29, 2005 (email)
LADYFEST GOTHENBURG (Gothenburg, Sweden) - November 3, 2005 (email)
LADYFEST MALMO (Malmo, Sweden) - November 4, 2005 (email)
LADYFEST STOCKHOLM (Stockholm, Sweden) - November 5, 2005 (email)

2004 (25)
LADYFEST TRIER - (Trier, Germany) - January 17, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST LUXEMBOURG - (Luxembourg) - March 6, 2004
LADYFEST BRAZIL - (Sao Paolo, Brazil) - March 13-14, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST LANSING (Lansing, MI) - April 15-18, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST SWEDEN Stockholm (email) April 30, 2004 / Malmö (email) May 1, 2004
LADYFEST GUELPH (University of Guelph, Ontario) - May 29, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST TEXAS (Austin, TX) - May 27-30, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST OHIO (Columbus, OH) - May 28-31, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST RICHMOND (Richmond, VA) - April 30-May 2, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST GUELPH (Guelph, Canada) - May 29, 2004
LADYFEST VIENNA (Vienna, Austria) - June 10-13, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST SEATTLE (Seattle, WA) - June 24-27, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST BIRMINGHAM (Birmingham, UK) - July 9-11, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST BAY AREA (San Francisco, CA) - July 30 - August 1, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST BERLIN (Berlin, Germany) - August 1-15, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST DENMARK (Denmark) - September 10-11, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST OTTAWA (Ottawa, Canada) - September 17-19, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST BIBLEBELT (Denton, TX) - September 30-October 3, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST TORONTO (Toronto, Canada) - October 1-3, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST LEIPZIG (Leipzig, Germany) - October 22-23, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST EAST (NYC) - October 29-November 1, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST STUTTGART-ESSLINGEN (Stuttgart and Esslingen, Germany) - October 29-31, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST SOUTH #2 - (Atlanta, GA) - Nov 4-7, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST WARSAW - (Warsaw, Poland) - November 12-14, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST DUBLIN - (Dublin, Ireland) - November 12-14, 2004 (email)
LADYFEST ADELAIDE - (Adelaide, Australia) - December 1-8 (email)

2003 (21)
LADYFEST FLORIDA - March 6-9,2003 (email)
LADYFEST PHILLY
(Philadelphia, PA) - March 20-23, 2003 (email) (list)
LADYFEST SEATTLE (Seattle, WA) - March 26-30, 2003 (email)
LADYFEST LANSING (Lansing, MI) - April 10-13, 2003(email)
LADYFEST JAKARTA (Jakarta, Indonesia) - April 16, 2003 (email)
LADYFEST DEVON (Devon, UK) - April 25-27, 2003 (email)
LADYFEST TEXAS (Austin, TX) - May 23-25, 2003 (email - list)
LADYFEST OUT WEST (Denver, CO) - June 18-22, 2003 (email) (list)
LADYFEST BRISTOL (Bristol, UK) - August 11-17, 2003) (email) (list)
LADYFEST BERLIN (Berlin, Germany) - August 15, 2003 (email)
LADYFEST LEIPZIG (Leipzig, Germany) - August 16, 2003 (email)
LADYFEST AMSTERDAM (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - August 27-31, 2003 (email)
LADYFEST MANCHESTER (Manchester, UK) - SUMMER 2003 (email) (list)
LADYFEST HAMBURG
(Hamburg, Germany) - September 4-7, 2003 (email)
LADYFEST HALIFAX (Nova Scotia, Canada) - October 3-5, 2003 (email)
LADYFEST LIEGE (Liège, Belgium) - October 3 - 4, 2003 (email)
LADYFEST NANTES (Nantes, France?) - October 9-11, 2003 (email)
LADYFEST MELBOURNE (Melbourne, Australia) - November 20-23, 2003 (email)
LADYFEST AUCKLAND
(Auckland, New Zealand) - November 27-30, 2003 (email)
LADYFEST ORANGE COUNTY (Orange County, CA) - Date? (email)
LADYFEST OTTAWA (Ottawa, Canada) - date??
LADYFEST LANSING (Lansing, MI) - date??

2002 (12)
LADYFEST LANSING (Lansing, MI) - April 11-14, 2002
LADYFEST OTTAWA (Ottawa, Canada) - July 12-14, 2002 (email)
LADYFEST BAY AREA (SF/Bay Area, CA) - July 24-28, 2002 (email)
LADYFEST DC (Washington, DC) - August 7-11, 2002 (email)
LADYFEST EUROPE (email)
>>>>>> BELGIUM - July 20, 2002 (email)
>>>>>> AMSTERDAM - July 26-28 (email)
>>>>>> LONDON - August 1-4 2002 (email)
LADYFEST TORONTO (Toronto, Canada) - September 8, 2002 (email)
LADYFEST ORLANDO (Orlando, FL) - September 29, 2002 (email)
LADYFEST EAST (#2!) (Brooklyn, NY) - September 19-22, 2002 (email)
LADYFEST SOUTH (Atlanta, GA) - October 10-13, 2002 (list) (email)
LADYFEST LOS ANGELES (Los Angeles, CA) - November 8-11, 2002 (email)

2001 (5)
LADYFEST SCOTLAND (Glasgow) - August 12-14, 2001
LADYFEST MIDWEST (Chicago, IL) - August 16-19, 2001
LADYFEST EAST HAMPTON (Easthampton, MA) - August 24-25, 2001
LADYFEST EAST (NYC) - 2001
LADYFEST INDIANA (Bloomington, IN) - April 5-8, 2001

2000
LADYFEST (Olympia) August 1-6, 2000

 

please let us know about any other ladyfests not listed here.

All of the information on these pages was current in August, 2000 and, for the most part, has not been updated since. We would like to encourage ladies to take what they can from our experience and create their own events in their own communities. Please keep us updated.

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many many others not pictured here worked on ladyfest, by the way.


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