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Wristband exchange
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Wristband exchange

Tickets can be exchanged for wristbands at the Upstairs @ The Garage box office from 1pm onwards, or from The Garage box office from 6pm onwards. Events which start before the wristband exchanges are open will allow entry to festival-goers who show their tickets.

   
   
 

Daytime

DJ Workshop with lektroLAB
11am-1pm at The Garage
LektroLAB workshops aim to teach you: plugging in a set of decks to a mixer and how to generate sounds, hands-on practice and knob-fiddling to find out what they all do, how to mix using a cross-fader, information about EQ and sound levels, the fundamentals of beat mixing, what kind of equipment you would need if you want to pursue DJing and where to go if you decide you really like it and want to get more intense lessons. Only 20 places are available on this workshop. This is a female-only workshop.

lektroLAB is a project offering DJ Lessons to absolute beginners. It is also an ongoing project that also hopes to raise the profile of females in electronic music by organising parties with female performers. The girls behind LektroLAB (Abbie, Lee and Emma) aim to demystify the whole DJ process and show that DJing is accessible to anyone willing to put in the practice. The girls themselves have skills gained from both professional training and DJ experience, and have already conducted DJ workshops in London as part of The Ether Festival and in Brussels. Emma has released an album on Rephlex under her music name lektrogirl.

Like A Virgin
12pm-1.20pm at the Hen & Chicken Theatre
Down by the river with a couple of ciders/We had the rhythm with Madonna inside us/Knicking off school/Breaking the rules. Inspired by Madonna, two girls dream about forming a band, but a looming tragedy threatens their hopes. Can music save their lives? This play is directed by Michaela Moher, who has directed plays for several fringe theatres in London, and has assisted in projects for The Shared Experience Theatre Company. 'Like A Virgin' is written by Gordon Steel. Entry is £3 for those without tickets for the festival. This is a repeat of Friday's performance.

Spoken Word Workshop with Wendy-O-Matik
12pm-1.30pm at the Union Chapel
Let Wendy help you gain motivation and confidence to take your writing to the next level of communication: Spoken Word. This workshop will enable you to refine your verbal skills, develop your own unique style, and tap into your own voice. You may bring your own work to this workshop.

Wendy-O-Matik is a spoken word performer from California. She has performed her work at non-traditional venues, allowing literature to infiltrate unexpected places. Her largest collective work, 'Love Like Rage', is published by manic d press.

Spoken word
12pm-3pm at Minibar @ The Garage
Performers will include Jeanne Marie Spicuzza, Madame Roushka's Suffragette Sing Song, Lesbo Pig, isso*keh, Feja Mira and Squandering Wrong'ens Paul Simon Sing-a-long.

Women in the Music Industry
1.45pm-3pm at the Union Chapel
A panel discussion with female musicians, promoters and journalists about the position of women in the music industry.

Scones
2pm-3pm at the Hen & Chicken Theatre
Scones is a live baking/storytelling performance. Hannah makes batches of two types of scones. The scones use the same ingredients, but the two methods she has learnt are infused with the opinions and lifestyles of her Mother and her Grandmother. Now it's time to add the context of her own generation.... Entry is £3 for those without tickets for the festival.

Hannah 'MissInTheMix' Metcalfe is a performance artist, DJ, OMSK collective member and self-made white rabbit, who has performed in London clubs, Edinburgh Fringe, Leeds Festival, Oslo and Thessaloniki.

Cross-stitch Drop-in Workshop with Sonja
3pm-6pm (drop in anytime) at Minibar @ The Garage
Design and make a cross-stitch Madonna - who could later be used to decorate a greetings card. Sonja will give individual stitching tuition; the iconic singer will take about an hour to make. All materials will be provided, though there will be a charge for these (less than £1).

Sonja's stitching expertise has graced a fashion feature in Vogue magazine. She is also renowned for making cross-stitched record sleeves in miniature.

The Actionettes Dance workshop
3.15pm-5pm at the Union Chapel
The Actionettes 'strictly amateur' dance class! Join the Actionettes for 2 hours of go-go prancing, dancing and girl-group worship. You will be taught a simple routine to a 60s girl-group classic. Wear something you feel comfortable in. No ability or experience necessary. Glittery frocks optional. This is a female-only workshop.

The Actionettes are an all-girl dance troupe with up to 16 dancers appearing at any one time. Instigated by Tourette and Crepe Suzette Actionette after an inspirational Las Vegas trip. They have appeared at Club Montepulciano, Scalarama, Duckies and regularly at their own club Sophisticated Boom! Boom!

Self-Publishing Panel
3.30pm-4.45pm at the Hen & Chicken Theatre
This discussion is chaired by Teal Triggs, who will be joined by UK zine producers to explore the way in which zines have become important vehicles for communicating and disseminating ideas and information about feminism. She will interview: Ilona Jasiewicz about her zine 'Radium Dial' which she has been writing and publishing since 1994 (currently on issue 8), Victoria Yeulet about her zine 'Pink Lemonade' and her interest in self-publishing art zines, and Anne-Marie Payne (aka Miss AMP) about her zine 'AMP', which she has produced in print and web form since 1998. Everyone is then invited to share and discuss their experiences as either readers or producers of zines.

Teal Triggs is a London-based design writer and educator. She is also co-founder of the Womens Design + Research Unit (WD+RU), whose projects have included the typeface Pussy Galore, a film about women working in design and most recently a website on social responsibility (www.deskwithdrawers.org). She has published extensively on design and feminism and is co-author with Roger Sabin of 'Below Critical Radar: Fanzines and Alternative Comics From 1976 to Now'.

Festival Organisers Panel
5pm-6pm at the Hen & Chicken Theatre
Come and meet some of the organisers of this festival and others in the US and Scotland. Find out how to run a similar festival in your own community.

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Daytime bands

Live Music
1pm-5pm at The Garage

Blue Minkies
Blue Minkies make cheap filthy pop for people who didn't like sports at school. Their boy/girl line-up gives them the means and the motive to engage in snappy call and response put-me-down slanging matches set to a soundtrack of trashy synth and thrashing guitars. The Minkies have so much fun on stage that it makes you want to go out and form your own band. That must be their genius.

Hooker
Formed in 1998, Manchester based Hooker emerged with a raw sound and short punchy songs. Hooker will leave you wanting just a little bit more...

Pretty
Pretty make electronic music with tunes. There are three of them - Sarah, Susan, and Louisa - and they come from all over. The band operate from their HQ in Cambridge which is full of wires, plugs and little buttons that flash. They've been compared to Stereolab doing the Smiths, but wouldd prefer to sound like themselves.

Carol Thomas
Carol Thomas, leader of the NYC funk/rock band ONE & TWENTY, has been breaking down walls and mingling styles for 6 years now. Her songcraft combines thoughtful, revealing words with hard-strummed, melodic chord progressions. With her pipes of soulful, searing beauty, and rock 'n' roll baddass bravado, insightful songwriting, poignant arrangements and heartfelt live performances are her trademark.

Sewing Circle
Sewing Circle are Dewi and Mifanwy. The dynamic pair bonded at a young age over a shared interest in Wonder Woman and the Frog Chorus. Though friends since school they were reunited whilst working as skiing instructors in Val d'Isere. After consulting a spirit guide, it was divined that music was the way for them to go. Their musical influences are many and varied but include Neil Diamond, Girl School and Shirley Bassey.

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Evening

Live Music, DJs and Performance Art
6pm-11pm at The Garage

Electrelane
Electrelane's earliest incarnation, started by Emma Gaze and Vertity Susman, took shape in Bighton in 1998. Taking inspiration from such diverse sources ad Nina Simone, The Stooges and Puccini. The lineup was finalised in summer 2000 with the addition of Rachel Dalley and Mia Clarke. Their music has been described as instrumental punk-pop, experimental psycho post rock, Instrumental Electronic Rock and "thrashy, twisted take on '60s garage". Their first single, 'Film Music', released in January 2000, gained immediate critical acclaim: from NME's "elegant with a murky sub-cultural edge" to Melody Maker's "tear stained and tremulous, as sad as a lover leaving for the final time". This was followed by the equally well-received Fierce Panda release "Le Song/U.O.R." in July, and then "Gabriel" on Electrelane's own Let's Rock! label in December 2000. All three sold out.

Sarah Dougher
Portland, Oregon-based singer/songwriter whose songs mix a folk style with insightful and often political lyrics. Sarah's previous bands include The Lookers, The Crabs and Cadallaca. She has just released her third album The Bluff with the help of long-time collaborators Jon Nikki and Janet Weiss (Quasi, Sleater Kinney).

Rachel Jury
The new recipe in lesbian performance poetry. No Earth Mothers, no acoustic guitars, no waterfalls guaranteed! Nine out of ten cats mewed they preferred it.

Tendertrap
Amelia Fletcher has been a vibrant center of the K universe for over ten years now, with her many experiments in crashpop propulsion starting with the punkific Talulah Gosh, which melded into Heavenly and then the graceful Marine Research. She re-emerges after a three-year hiatus with the stripped to the bone pop-perfect Tender Trap. A collaboration with Rob Pursey (Heavenly, Marine Research) and former Marine Research drummer/DJ on the sequences and keyboards, this latest amalgamation takes flight with resounding resiliency and speed. Tendertrap songs are designed to be as clear and as simple as possible: short, stripped down and with all the scaffolding removed to find out what lives inside, proving that even when rooms are completely empty they still house ghosts.

Mirah
Mirah splits her time between Olympia, making maple syrup on her family farm in Pennsylvania, and touring the US and now Europe. Signed to K records, she mixes soft melodies, minimal guitar parts and her own intimate lyrical style to create songs which are both innocent and sultry.

Charlotte Cooper
Charlotte Cooper is an author, editor, zine-monkey and journalist. Her new book, 'Cherry' (Red Hot Diva) is out now. She can play 'Louie Louie' on her ukulele. She's a good friend. A palm reader said she will die when she is 78. She doesn't mind.

DJs
Bianca (Ladyfest London)
Riz Maslen (Neo Tropic)

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After Hours

Ladyfest London Club Night
10pm-3am at Sahara Nights
Miss-Shapes, the little sister of Popstarz, gets a Ladyfest make-over with DJs Mikey and Lush playing hits from the girls of indie, punk, pop, rock, electroclash and R'n'B.... DJ Spinsta, Farzana, Vic Strap-On, Get the Wow, Delia and Future is a Dare provide the tunes downstairs in the Ladyfest Lounge, along with The Actionettes who will be performing during the night.

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