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POW 2022 Festival Gets Support from Kent Community Foundation
The annual Power of Women Festival in Thanet is an opportunity to celebrate women
As part of the 2022 Power of Women (POW) Festival, primary school aged children will be invited to celebrate International Women’s Day by drawing a woman who inspires them. The children from year three will be invited to choose a woman who is inspiring, to draw in an initiative called ‘Inspiring Windows Drawing Challenge’ From the pictures that are created, POW will select twelve drawings to put on public display on the Turner Contemporary Terrace.
Each March POW curates a festival that includes workshops, exhibitions, performances, music, comedy, film, panel talks, theatre, and dance, both in person and online, for a local and global audience. Kent Community Foundation awarded POW a grant of £3,045 to support an artist to deliver workshops for children in five Thanet primary schools for their ‘Inspiring Windows Drawing Challenge’.
Danielle Sharma, POW Thanet, said, “The Inspiring Windows Drawing Challenge received such positive feedback in 2021 that we knew there was a real appetite for this type of engagement with local schools. Our artist has been working with children throughout February and we have some fantastic pictures and some very inspiring women from which to choose the twelve pictures that will be put on display on the Turner Contemporary terrace in Margate.”
Josephine McCartney, Chief Executive, Kent Community Foundation, said, “ The five Primary Schools selected for this POW project are based in Thanet’s areas of highest deprivation where children affected by significant socio-economic disadvantage would otherwise be unlikely to engage with local arts of cultural activities. We particularly liked that POW was nurturing an ongoing relationship with these schools as part of their commitment to make the arts accessible to everyone in Thanet and were delighted to award them funding towards this project.”
