Changing Minds on women’s lives

The Women and Media Collective (WMC) Sri Lanka marks 25 years of activism for women’s equality this year.

The exhibition titled ‘Changing Minds’ will be held at the Lionel Wendt Art Gallery from October 8 to 11. It will showcase women’s activism for social justice, social transformation and peace as well as contributions to this activism by contemporary women artists and photographers.

Women photographers whose work will be on display would be given the opportunity to discuss the experience of photographing their subjects, and define what they wanted to convey.

The women’s painting exhibition intends to recognize the work of ten women artists who have come forward to support the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the WMC.

An innovative component of the four-day celebration will be a screening of the winning entry in a short film competition that called on people to send in one minute movie clips made with a mobile phone, on any aspect of women’s lives and experience in Sri Lanka.

Those interested can get registered and upload their films on to a site created by WMC from any part of Sri Lanka.