WOW - Women of the World

From 27 March 2026 to 30 March 2026, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), in collaboration with The WOW Foundation, is presenting the fourth WOW – Women of the World Festival Athens, the world’s largest event for women, femininities, and non-binary people.



Multilayered and interdisciplinary, this year’s WOW Athens program has been designed to challenge us, as well as entertain us, and celebrate the important steps taken in Greece, and across the world, on the difficult journey toward gender equality.

For yet another year, the festival’s international speakers feature iconic personalities and bold voices, including American activist and writer Tarana J. Burke who launched the Me Too movement in New York; author Rumena Bužarovska, and Professor of Gender and Development Studies and author specialized in issues of gender, poverty and social exclusion, Naila Kabeer. Once again, music is an integral part of WOW Athens, and standing out in this year’s program is French songwriter Imany, with a concert that combines music with contemporary social discourse. At the same time, the screening program proposes three documentaries that map the course of feminist movements in three different geographical and political settings: Greece, USA, and the Arab world.

From the SNFCC Lobby to the perimeter of Stavros Niarchos Park and the National Garden, the exhibitions of WOW Athens invite the public to participate in a dialog that goes beyond the boundaries of a conventional exhibition space. The interactive sculptural installation “Temple of Transmission” by “Kathe Mia Istoria” and Marina Velisioti, tells untold stories of women; the photo exhibition “Together, Visible” in collaboration with MOMUS-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, highlights multiple aspects of the female experience; and the exhibition “The Hope Brigade” presents portraits of women who are a source of inspiration and hope.

The audience will have the opportunity to enjoy two performances: Georgia Lale’s Tears for You and Me, which utilizes domestic work as a metaphor for the sacrifices often expected of women in the name of love and family; and Eva Lampara’s BETWEEN BREATHS, a poetic performance of live speech and video, where breathing becomes rhythm and silence attains space.

This year’s festival program is complemented by numerous panel discussions on critical social issues, workshops, WOW Speed Mentoring sessions, DJ sets, concerts, and the WOW Marketplace, a vibrant space of women’s entrepreneurship and activism.

For the first time this year, WOW Athens is opening its doors to everyone, offering free admission to the vast majority of its events.