The Women’s Surf Festival will host a special event to celebrate International Women’s Day in Noosa on Wednesday 8 March, during the Noosa Festival of Surf.
It will be an incredible day of surf inspiration, workshops, art and film with a whole lot of fun with female surf legends and specialists.
Festival director Selena Morgan said, “The WSF is for women of all ages and surfing abilities. Our purpose is to embrace our wider female surfing community to connect and get inspired for their next wave.”
Surfer, mother, wife and Noosa Councillor Amelia Lorentson said: “Women should support each other as often as we can and whenever the opportunity arises. In the water, and out of the water. Let’s celebrate our womanhood and inspire others to do the same.”
The WSF x IWD Celebration starts at 7am with a stellar line-up of workshops and talks featuring:
* “Ocean Breathe and Confidence”: Sally Howe, Function Breath Training, Apnea Survival Instructor. This interactive workshop brings surfing and freediving insights together to provide a deeper understanding of what the human body and mind go through when dealing with intense situations, particularly when underwater in tumbles and hold downs.
* “Train Like a Women. Power by Design”: Candice Land, WSL Exercise Physiologist and Exercise Scientist. Don’t sell yourself short by using training techniques designed for men and then applied to women. Women are different. Period. In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to tap into the strength designed into your body as a female so that you can power up your surfing. These exercises will be ones to keep in your quiver for a lifetime.
* “The Mindful Surfer”: Sarra Robertson, founder and owner of Land and Sea Therapy. This workshop will seek to explore and discuss emotional resilience in surfing, vulnerability and coping, gender neutrality and bias, competitiveness and personality types, and acts of respect – activism for you, by you, for others, as a way forward.
* “Ocean Women Creators”: Fireside chat with Danny Clayton: – Founder + Owner, Salt Gypsy, Gill Hutchinson – Author Surf Life and Heidi O’Brien – Noosa based artist. Hear from a panel of strong independent ocean women creators and learn what inspires their lives and work. A refreshing discussion that uncovers common values of collaboration, new thinking and creating change.
* “The Modern Rise of Women’s Professional Longboarding”: Forum hosted by Belén Alvarez Kimble and Sarra Robertson with John Brasen – Editor Pacific Longboarder Magazine and guests. The modern rise of women’s professional longboarding in Australia during the mid to late 90s and into the 2000s is best told through the platform that the Noosa Festival of Surfing provided then, as it does now.
The Women’s Surf Festival is rapt to have Salt Gypsy join the celebration.
Swing by to style yourself out for the line-up from Salt Gypsy’s mobile surf wardrobe rack, and try out their range of demo surfboards from longboards, mid-lengths, soft tops and twin fins.
The WSF x IWD Celebration Film Night features a collection of inspirational films celebrating surfing women from independent filmmakers around the globe, including the Australian premiere screening of Femme Ocean, Toronto Women Film Festival award-winning documentary.
Join a special Q and A with Lucy Small and guests at the Noosa Surf Museum.
The Women’s Surf Festival will be sharing the good vibes with the “she-to-sea” female collective of local artists, photographers and surf brands. And supporting charity SurfAid, with raffle proceeds helping to improve the lives of women and children in international remote areas connected through surfing.
Event details:
WHEN: Wednesday 8 March 2023, starts 7am AEST
WHERE: NFOS Beach Bar, Main Beach, Noosa Heads
ENTRY: Tickets on sale now. WSF x IWD Celebration tickets include a delicious grazing brekkie served with chilled bevvies, speaker and workshop sessions & goodie bag. For more information, visit womenssurffestival.com/
