Every powerful woman has someone who inspired her. This March, we’re highlighting those heroes — the mothers, mentors and icons who’ve lifted us up and showed us what’s possible. From life lessons to moments of sheer grit, these stories are tributes to the women who make us stronger. Join us in celebrating female role models who’ve changed lives.
Our performer line-up:
Team 20s Skye Cusack is a Dulgubarra-Yidinji and Indonesian writer who has somehow made a career out of ‘constructive complaining’ — otherwise known as activism. Skye founded the creative advocacy agency Project Loudly, is a reporter for the ABC and is working with the publisher Magabala Books to develop a fiction manuscript.
Team 30s Dr Morley Muse is an award-winning Chemical, Environmental, and Renewable-Energy Engineer, co-founder of iSTEM Co. and DEIR.AI, and Board Director at Women in STEMM Australia. A champion for equity and diversity in STEM, she drives innovation in energy transition and workforce inclusion, earning accolades for her transformative leadership and social impact.
Team 40s Jaclyn Crupi is a book editor, author, event moderator and bookseller. Her book, Garden Like a Nonno, was shortlisted for an Indie Book Award and longlisted for an ABIA. Her children’s book, The ABC Kids Guide to Loving the Planet, won the Environment Award for Children’s Literature.
Team 50s Sarah Hayden is a qualified social worker, equine-assisted psychotherapist, author and Mayor of Golden Plains Shire. She is also mum to five amazing kids, including actor, author and autism advocate Chloé Hayden. Her first book is Parenting Different: How to raise your neurodivergent kids to be their authentic, awesome selves.
Team 60s Jo Peck worked in advertising for 35 years, co-running Melbourne's first female-led agency, Working Girls Advertising, for 20 of those years. She is now retired and writing for pleasure. Suddenly Single at Sixty is her first book.
Team 70s Mig Dann is a Naarm/Melbourne-based artist, writer and researcher who completed her PhD in 2022. Her work is informed by memory and forgetting, absence and presence, feminism, queer culture and decades of lived experience. Her work has been exhibited both internationally and nationally in solo and group shows.
Generation Women is an award-winning cross-generational storytelling night founded in New York in 2017, Sydney in 2018 and Melbourne in 2020. Each month, six women of note read an original piece on a theme. Of those, one is in her 20s, her 30s, her 40s, her 50s, her 60s and her 70s+.
Hosted by Rebecca Lister. Produced by Donna Logue, Hopepunk Productions. Created by Georgia Clark.
7-11 DAWSON ST, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056
DOORS AT 6.30 PM, SHOW AT 7 PM
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