Feminist festival for International Women's Day 2026
On Sunday, March 8, from 2 to 6 p.m., a feminist festival will take place at the Kreativfabrik Wiesbaden as part of International Women's Day. Under the motto "The stage is (y)ours! Visible, colorful, loud." the event focuses on women and their perspectives in the performing arts.
The stage is (y)ours! Visible, colorful, loud.
What is the Feminist Festival about?
Stages are places of visibility. They show whose voices are heard, whose experiences count, and whose knowledge is given space. The Feminist Festival therefore sees the stage not only as a place of artistic expression, but also as a public space for perspectives, attitudes, and dialogue.
On this day, women take center stage: with their art, their voices, their knowledge, and their experiences. Dance, music, theater, and poetry meet personal texts, humorous contributions, and professional inspiration. The result is a program that moves, informs, and connects.
The festival invites people of all ages to experience art, exchange, information, and social inspiration in a variety of forms.
The 2026 motto: The stage is (y)ours! Visible, colorful, loud.
The motto "The stage is (y)ours!" stands for a stage that belongs to women and is shaped by them. Visible, colorful, and loud not only describes the diversity of the program, but also a clear stance. Women take up space, show presence, and highlight issues that often receive too little attention in everyday life. The festival invites you to get to know these perspectives and engage in conversation together.
Feminist background
For centuries, the performing arts were dominated by men. For a long time, women had no access to the stage or creative roles. Even today, inequality is evident in many areas. Women are less likely to be represented in leadership positions, and their perspectives are less visible or reduced to stereotypical representations.
This structural disadvantage does not affect all women equally. Origin, age, and social attributions reinforce existing inequalities. Feminist perspectives address this issue. They raise awareness, question role models, and create new spaces. The Feminist Festival deliberately takes up these issues and brings them to the stage—in an artistic, personal, and informative way.
Program
The stage program combines artistic expression with social issues. Dance, music, theater, spoken word performances, and information alternate throughout the program. Professional artists, dedicated groups, and diverse perspectives come together to create a varied program. In addition to artistic contributions, the festival also provides food for thought and invites visitors to listen, reflect, and engage in dialogue.
Event information
The Feminist Festival will take place on Sunday, March 8, 2026, from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Kreativfabrik Wiesbaden. Admission is free. The Kreativfabrik building is not wheelchair accessible. Doors open at 1:30 p.m.
The 2026 program items
Zariefe dance group
Genre/Art form
Oriental dance & Persian tribal
Description
The Zariefe dance group combines oriental dance with elements of Persian tribal dance. The focus is on moving together to music—powerfully, fluidly, and in dialogue with one another.
Themes/focus
Dancing in a group strengthens body awareness and promotes connection to one's own body. It is about the joy of movement, self-awareness, and an inspiring form of community. But it is also about bringing cultural influences to the stage and making diversity visible.
Selia Ribskis
Genre/Art form
Literature/Short story (fantasy & dystopia)
Description
Selia Ribskis is a student and already the author of two published fantasy novels ("Demons Winter" and "Demons Spring"). In her writing, she gives important social issues a platform and uses fantasy as a mirror of reality.
Themes/focus
In her short story for International Women's Day, Selia explores women's rights in the past, present, and future. She asks why women are indispensable for a functioning society and what a world would look like in which women's rights played no role.
Luisa Gentemann aka Looping Lulu
Genre/Art form
DJane
80s/90s/00s, Hits & Trash
Description
Looping Lulu stands behind the turntables as a DJ to play music that is fun and brings people together. She started out for a very simple reason: when she was out partying, she felt there weren't enough women behind the DJ booth. So she decided to change that herself. Her sound is energetic, danceable, and influenced by the 2000s and 2010s, the decades she grew up in.
Themes/focus
Girls, girls, girls. Visibility of women, joy of partying, feminist attitude, and that clearly, loudly, and with humor.
Performance group of the flamenco school JALEO
Genre/Art form
Flamenco dance
Description
The performance group of the JALEO flamenco school presents a cheerful and varied flamenco dance program full of rhythm, expression, and energy. The dancers of JALEO are working professionals who dance flamenco several times a week in their free time. Dancing gives them self-confidence, courage, and inner strength, and provides a space to express their feelings. On stage, flamenco becomes an expression of female power, cohesion, solidarity, and freedom. At the same time, the dance stands for discipline and hard work, carried by joy, passion, and shared applause.
Themes/focus
Discipline, concentration, diligence, joy, fun, pride, and solidarity.
Dr. med. Renate Michel-Lambertz
Genre/Art form
Keynote speech – Gender medicine/women's health
Description
Physician and gender medicine specialist Dr. Renate Michel-Lambertz talks about women's hearts and why gender-sensitive medicine is vital. Dr. Renate Michel-Lambertz is a specialist in internal medicine and cardiology as well as a preventive medicine specialist. She worked for many years at the German Clinic for Diagnostics in Wiesbaden and has been working in her private practice in Rüdesheim since 2013, focusing on prevention and cardiology. Gender medicine is a particular concern of hers. As a founding member of the working group on gender medicine in cardiology, she has been committed to highlighting gender-specific differences in medicine for many years.
Topics/focus areas
Cardiovascular prevention, gender medicine, echocardiography, interdisciplinary diagnostics
Lecture
title: "Women's Hearts"
What is it about?
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women – and yet they are often detected too late. Women's hearts are affected differently than men's, they show different symptoms, and they often underestimate their own risk. Even medical professionals are still heavily oriented toward male norms. The lecture highlights why prevention, early detection, and gender-sensitive medicine are crucial and how much health potential can be gained as a result.
Essential 5
Genre/Art form
Vocal ensemble
Pop, rock & jazz – from solo to quintet, with piano accompaniment
Description
Five voices, one shared sound – emotional, versatile, and accessible. Essential 5 is a vocal ensemble that takes to the stage with five voices and a wealth of emotion. Their repertoire ranges from well-known classics to current songs from pop, rock, and jazz. Sometimes as solo voices, sometimes as a quintet, they create a varied sound that connects and moves the audience.
Themes/focus
Joy of singing, diversity, community, musical expression, emotion
Lara & Marscha
Genre/Art form
Pop music – vocals & guitar
Description
Lara and Marscha perform together on stage, combining music with political activism. Their performances are characterized by their commitment to a vibrant democracy and a feminist and open society. Through song and guitar, they address topics that are often uncomfortable and highlight structural inequalities.
Themes/focus
Participation, solidarity, women's empowerment, democracy, and diversity.
Fatima Kabiri - Web & Sketch Easily explained
Genre/Art form
Strategic web design, visual storytelling, sketchnoting
Description
Fatima Kabiri is a web designer and visual storyteller. She helps women gain visibility and develops websites that show personality and have an impact. Using sketchnotes and visual storytelling, she translates complex content into clear images and understandable structures. At the Feminist Festival, she captures the events live in sketchnotes and makes the women who are on stage that day visible.
Topics/focus areas
Visibility of women, clarity in business, effective websites, visual storytelling, making complex things simple
Wiesbadener FrauenTonVerein
Genre/art form
Choral singing – accompanied and a cappella
Description
The Wiesbaden FrauenTonVerein is a four-part women's choir that has been in existence since 1995. With great joy in singing together, the choir presents a colorful repertoire from different countries and genres. Lively, cheerful, and dreamy songs come together, as diverse as the women themselves who stand together on stage.
Themes/focus
Joy of singing, community, musical diversity, cultural openness
Organizers
AK Women's and Girls' Policy Wiesbaden
Aidshilfe Wiesbaden e. V.
AWO Wiesbaden e. V. - Nurdan-Eker Women's Shelter and Counseling Center for Women
BerufsWege für Frauen e. V.
CASA e.V. - Center for Activating Neighborhood Work SIRONA e. V
. Women's Health
Center Women's Shelter – Regional Diakonie Wiesbaden Rheingau-Taunus
Women Help Women e. V.
Women's Museum Wiesbaden
IB Südwest gGmbH, Hesse Central, Youth Migration Service
INTAKT – the girls' refuge
Georg-Buch-Haus Youth Center Klarenthal
Children's and Youth Center Biebrich
Children's and Neighborhood Center Sauerland (KBS)
Municipal Women's Department of the State Capital of Wiesbaden
MAK – Girls' Working Group of the State Capital of Wiesbaden
Mädchentreff Wiesbaden e. V.
pro familia Counseling Center Wiesbaden
Social Service of Catholic Women e. V. Wiesbaden
Biebrich Neighborhood Center / Democracy Life in Wiesbaden
wif e.V. – Encounter & Counseling
Wildwasser Wiesbaden e. V. – Specialist counseling center against sexual violence
ZORA Drop-in and counseling center for girls and young women
Municipal Women's Representative
Address
Schlossplatz 6
65183 Wiesbaden
Postal address
65029 Wiesbaden
Arrival
Notes on public transport
Bus stop Dern'sches Gelände, Luisenplatz and Wilhelmstraße.
Telephone
- +49 611 312448
- +49 611 313905
Information on accessibility
- Barrier-free access is available
- The WC is barrier-free