Let’s celebrate women's achievement. Let’s raise awareness about discrimination. Let’s take action to drive gender parity. IWD belongs to everyone, everywhere.
Increasingly, organizations worldwide provide progressive policies, practices, benefits and support mechanisms to allow women's careers to thrive - and these workplaces offer appealing job opportunities. Plus, celebrating the work of women inspires other women to achieve their full potential.
The campaign theme for International Women's Day 2024 is Inspire Inclusion. When we inspire others to understand and value women's inclusion, we forge a better world. And when women themselves are inspired to be included, there's a sense of belonging, relevance, and empowerment.
Collectively, let's forge a more inclusive world for women. These are some (of many) women who inspire us at AB:
Irene Rossi
Our very own Irene! There is a serious age gap in the Music Industry, more of an age canyon you could say. I can count the women aged 45+ that I know on one hand. I’m really happy that Irene started working at AB because she’s an example of how, as a woman in the sector, you can be experienced and assertive and driven and energetic and young. Irene is an inspiring example because of the energy that she conveys, her knowledge of the world of Brussels youth, her enthusiasm and assertive communication style - and all that with a pink fur coat. (KVH)
Amélie Van Hoorebeke
Amélie Van Hoorebeke established Les Fabuleux (originally Gentle Promotion) in 2009 after a decades-long career as Promotion Manager and Product Manager for independent label V2 Records Belgium. She says she’s always in search of fresh ‘mini-pancakes’ at festivals, but she has a nose for many things. With her direct approach, she is straight forward in moving ahead, and I am happy to follow in her wake. (LP)
Zoë Devaux of DJ Zouzibabe
Zoë Devaux is Artistic Director and head of the Citizen Program (awareness, security of visitors and equal representation of all genders and sexual & racial backgrounds on the line-ups) of Paradise City Festival. She also founded Rebel, a feminist collective that organises club nights, film screenings and talks, as well as launching a podcast: ‘En Backstage’.
Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother - on the right)
Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother) is an impressively inspiring musician who smoothly surfs from noise to hip hop, from free jazz to electronica and improv. Since 2017, AB has been offering her a stage for her diverse projects (from Irreversible Entanglements to Moor Mother or in collaboration with Farida Amadou) as a sign of esteem. As curator, she often puts underrepresented artists on her programme. She is an activist as well as a lecturer at the University of Southern California’s Thorton School of Music. She also runs the artistic collective Black Quantum Futurism that organises workshops and teach-ins in her hometown of Philadelphia.
Claire O'Neill
Claire O’Neill, co-founder of A Greener Future, which works with and supports the live sector to improve the sustainability of events, tours, venues and festivals.
Charline D’Hoore
Charline D’Hoore – music freak and up-and-coming producer. She plays in the band of Pommelien Thijs & Mayorga, and also has a project of her own: Archie X.
Noname (Fatimah Nyeema Warner)
Fatimah Nyeema Warner, better known as Noname, is an American rapper, poet and activist. She also runs the Noname Book Club, a platform for important work by authors of colour. She became known as a rapper and slam poet in 2010, but her big breakthrough didn’t follow until 2013, through her contribution to the track 'Lost' on Chance the Rapper's mixtape 'Acid Rap'. In 2016, she released her genius debut mixtape 'Telefone'. This was followed in 2018 by her debut album 'Room 25', which received even more praise, if that’s possible. Her second album 'Sundial' is only just out and is, as always, a delicious mockery of all things capitalist, racist or patriarchal. (EN)
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