Join the London Arts-Based Research Centre (LABRC) for the launch of a powerful new anthology that explores and celebrates women’s creativity across cultures, mediums, and histories.
📅 Date: Saturday, 21 June, 2025
🕠 Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm
📍 Venue: Books on the Rise, 80 Hill Rise, Richmond, London
About the Book:
Echoes of Her: Women and Creativity Unbound brings together a luminous collection of essays and poems exploring the boundless ways in which women create, resist, and reimagine the world. Edited by Roula-Maria Dib, this volume features contributions from writers, scholars, and artists reflecting on myth, music, literature, visual art, film, and feminist thought.
From ancient symbols to contemporary activism, the anthology is a moving testament to the transformative power of female creativity. Highlights include:
- Salma Ahmad Caller explores the decolonization of the feminine body and ornament in Femina Ornamentalis: Notes on The Ornamental Woman & The Multi-sensory Body.
- Andrea Mozarowski offers a moving meditation on memory, trauma, and goddess symbolism in Keeping Vigil in the Sacred Corner: From Rhombus to Goddess.
- Clara Isabel Serrano and Sérgio Neto shed light on overlooked voices in Glimpses and Reflections of Portuguese Women’s Poetry from the First World War.
- Emma Haughton challenges the gender imbalance in classical music with Breaking the Gender and Identity Boundaries of the Symphonic Form in the Twentieth Century and Beyond.
- Joana Maria Pereira explores cinematic resistance in Upside Down: Women’s Resistance in Susana de Sousa Dias’s Film 48.
- Elena Canido Muiño reclaims the radical artistry of Sinéad O’Connor in The Phoenix from the Flame.
- Paula Maher examines ethics, care, and female becoming in Spiritual Maternity in Edith Stein’s Essays on Woman and María Lejárraga’s Canción de Cuna.
- Michiyo Goda delves into Passive-Creative: Virginia Woolf, Reading, and the Flowering Feminine, exploring Woolf’s unique creative lens.
- Kristina Stamatiou shares three haunting poems—Sly God Bites Their Nails, Grandma Lights Grandad’s Cigarette Without Inhaling, and Renting Time—probing memory, aging, and identity.
- Roula-Maria Dib opens the anthology with her poem Reclaiming Sophia, a mythopoetic invocation of feminine wisdom and empowerment..
What to Expect:
🎙️ Live readings from contributors
🎨 Reflections on creativity, gender, and empowerment
📖 Book signing and informal mingling
☕ Refreshments served
This is more than a launch—it’s a celebration of the stories, struggles, and artistry that shape the feminine voice. Come join us for an evening of inspiration, connection, and creative spirit.
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