Extras:Activities

12 March 2023:

2023 WIL Activities

Happy International Women’s Day to WIL and WIL Supporters All Over the World! This year the WIL project isn't bringing you an event. Instead, we call upon you to help us create a global gathering of information by completing our survey.

23 February 2023:

Pretty in Pink on a Dark Street

The live performance, Pretty in Pink on a Dark Street, is a collaboration between designer Marina Menéndez-Pidal and dance artist Anastasia Bezruchko. The work is just as much about femininity as it is about the role lighting plays at night.

18 November 2022:

2022 WIL Activities

Many events happning this November: WIL INDIA at LDA ACETECH Mumbai, WIL at LDI Las Vegas, WIL Portugal film screening. Collected Light Exhibition and book launch in London!

15 August 2022:

1ST INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF LIGHT ART

Paulina Villalobos, the WIL ambassador in Chile speaks with UK based Liz West, Aleksandra Stratimirovic in Sweden and Jen Lewin in the USA in an online session.

15 August 2022:

WIL Taiwan+China Workshop: Expectation

WIL Taiwan and China organised a workshop on June 2022, with the theme being "Expectation".

20 May 2022:

Gender in Lighting and Dark Sky Forum

Taiwan Dark-sky Association (TDA) invited WIL ambassadors Ya-Hui Chen and Jenna Liu to talk about gender in lighting and to discuss the prospects of night lighting.

20 December 2021:

2021 WIL Activities

As 2021 draws to a close and we can put all the challenges of the year behind us, we look back proudly on what the WIL community has achieved and also forward with excitement to our plans for 2022.

20 September 2021:

#womeninlightingUKfacts

The majority of us in the UK lighting industry believe there is a fair gender balance in our workplaces. Is it true?

29 July 2021:

How Very Queer: LGBTQ+ Identities in the Lighting Industry

Thank you Francesca, Sophie, Marien, and Alana for educating us and telling your stories!!

9 April 2021:

Logo competition - WIL Mexico

WIL Mexico held a competition to create a new version of the WIL Logo specifically for local activities, and also created an amazing booklet inspired by UN Women with 12 small actions with big impacts to help us get to equality.

18 February 2021:

WIL Russia Brochure

The WIL Russia group has created a book profiling women working in lighting in Russia.

26 November 2020:

2020 WIL Activities

WIL SOcial Roulette #4: Meet fellow lighting designers in 3 min convsersations, matched randomly over an hour

25 October 2020:

WIL Sessions at LuxLive 2020

The LuxLive Digital Festival is a free, two-day, virtual event for the lighting community.

29 May 2020:

International Day of Light 2020

16th May: #WILunderthesamesky and WIL Brazil+Mexico held an online meeting

6 May 2020:

WIL in Lockdown

Whether your country is still in lockdown or easing out of it, we would like you to answer three questions about your experience of the Covid Crisis.

8 March 2020:

8 Mar 2020 // International Women’s Day: #WILforEqual

Join the International campaign EachforEqual by posting a picture using the equal sign with your hands.

8 November 2019:

2019 Activities

Upcoming events featuring WIL ambassadors and interviewees: Lux Live on 13 Nov + WIL NYC Launch Party

8 November 2019:

Pecha Kucha 2019 Rotterdam

At PLDC in Rotterdam, we had an amazing Pecha Kucha with 12 international female speakers.

8 November 2019:

[d]arcroom 2019 panel: Stepping out of the Shadows

A diverse panel of designers shared their journey within the industry and how their career has been affected based on who they are or where they came from.

11 October 2019:

First Italian roundtable of WIL

The first Italian round table was a time to meet and discuss future concrete steps towards enhancing Italian lighting professionals. 12 professionals from planning, teaching, journalism, production, art and research.

30 August 2019:

International Day of Light 2019

WIL created a social media campaign on the International Day of Light on May 16th where we asked women to post a shadow photo of themselves and a male colleague.

25 June 2019:

WIL at Clerkenwell Design Week

"Women In Design" was hosted by WIL UK Ambassador Greta Smetoniute, with panelists Lauren Lever, Katia Kolovea, Faye Robinson and Anna Kharchenkova.

3 March 2019:

8 Mar 2019 //  International Women’s Day: #BalanceforBetter

The International Women’s Day 2019 campaign theme of #BalanceforBetter is a call-to-action for driving gender balance across the world. This is completely in line with one of the outcomes we want to achieve with this project. As well as creating an inspiring digital platform for women working in lighting, we…