CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

This spring (March 2019) an international jury met to select two exemplary laureates for this year’s Princess Margriet Award: Ahdaf Soueif (Cairo/London) and City of Women Festival (Ljubljana). This year’s laureates represent distinct cultural approaches, but both offer a more hopeful vision of democracy by redefining our understanding of culture and its capacity to improve a common European social reality.

The Telegraph reports that Sandi Toksvig is calling for the National Theatre to be renamed after “failing” to fully represent Britain because it is “ignoring” female writers and directors.

Ms Toksvig, founder of the Women’s Equality Party and who hosts television programmes including The Great British Bake Off, wrote that the theatre did not have the right to use ‘national’ in its title if it ignored half the population.

The Southbank theatre has unveiled six plays in its new programme of work, all written by men and only one involving a female director.