Extras:Events
Upcoming Events
10 May 2024 — 10 May 2024:
AmmanLight Workshop 2024
Amman Light Workshop 2024 is an event where professionals and students can learn and have fun together. Amman Light is a group of light installations by students and professionals in the lighting…
14 May 2024:
Losing the Plot? Navigating Motherhood as a Freelance Lighting Designer
For the last 20 years, Katy Morison has worked in theatre lighting and has been a parent for the last 7 years. In this seminar, Katy will explore the challenges and barriers mothers face whilst…
23 May 2024 — 23 May 2024:
Clerkenwell Design Week
darc magazine presents... Women's groups, why do we need them? Representatives from Women in Lighting, Women in Office Design, Women Lighting Professionals, Women in Architecture, and the…Past Events
8 Mar 2024 — 6 Apr 2024:
Collected Light – Hong Kong
Presented as part of the Henderson Art@Central programme, which runs through March 2024, the exhibition is supported by Women in Lighting and showcases a collective of eight multidisciplinary women…
8 Mar 2024:
WIL 5th Anniversary
We will be holding our 5th Anniversary event at Light and Building in Frankfurt. The Women In Lighting project began on March 8th, International Women’s Day in 2019 and on March 8th, 2024, in…
7 Mar 2024:
WIL X IALD Frankfurt Pecha Kucha Event
As part of the events at Light + Building 2024 in Frankfurt, the IALD is honored to join @womeninlightingWe invited six speakers, three men and three women present in a PechaKucha style who had 20…
1 Feb 2024:
Play with Light
Linda Salamoun and Carlijn Timmermans are organising “PLAY WITH LIGHT” in Rotterdam. If you’re interested, send a mail to Linda: [email protected]16 Jan 2024 — 18 Jan 2024:
Light + Intelligent Building Middle East 2024
Some of our WIL ambassadors will be present in Dubai for the LIBME show and we look forward to meeting up in January. There will be a special fireside chat with Sharon Stammers talking to Florence…24 Apr 2023 — 28 Apr 2023:
WIL Lounge at Prolight + Sound
Europe's leading fair for event and media technology, Prolight + Sound 2023 is supporting the Women in Lighting project with the premiere of the “Women in Lighting Lounge” where we will be…
17 Jan 2023 — 19 Jan 2023:
WIL at Light Middle East
Jan 17th LME Awards - Shortlisted Products Pitch at the Specifiers Arena with the possibility for Peer Voting as well. Product design panel including WIL ambassador for UAE, Sakina…22 Nov 2022 — 23 Nov 2022:
APERITIVO at Light22
To celebrate the end of the first day of Light 22, formalighting are holding a traditional Italian Aperitivo on their stand for the WIL Community and any WIL Male Supporters - please join us and…
18 Nov 2022:
WIL at LDI
LDI in collaboration with WIL, will be hosting short 30-minute talks by dynamic women in the lighting industry on a series of different topics!Amy D. Lux: Considerations For The Built…
14 Nov 2022 — 25 Nov 2022:
Collected Light – London
Collected Light Exhibition comprises six artworks created by six different female artists, curated by Sharon Stammers and Martin Lupton of Light Collective and displayed at boutique gallery,…
24 Jun 2022:
Expectation – WIL Taiwan+China Workshop
Women In Lighting Taiwan and China organised a workshop on the evening of June 24, 2022, in Taipei, Taiwan, which was sponsored by Forma Lighting and its local partner Konson Trading Co., Ltd. The…
29 Apr 2022:
Gender in Lighting and Dark Sky Forum
On the evening of April 29, 2022, the Taiwan Dark-sky Association (TDA) invited two representatives from the International Women in Lighting (WIL), Ya-Hui Cheng and Jenna Liu to talk about gender…
16 Dec 2021:
WIL Holiday Gathering
Join formalighting and the Women in Lighting team to celebrate the holidays with a unique social gathering in the 8-bit metaverse known as Gather Town! Create your own avatar, wander round our…
22 Sep 2021:
Women in Lighting for Gender Equality
Visit the [d]arc room pop up to hear the panel discuss Gender Equality in the Lighting Industry. The 50:50 panel includes Krishna Mistry (Mistry Lighting), Ruth Kelly Waskett (Society of Light and…
16 Sep 2021:
Introduced Lighting Design as a separate subject in Universities
I, Ana Tanveer Abdullah, WIL ambassador, introduced and established lighting design as a separate subject in architecture and interior design curricula at major universities in Pakistan. The…
14 Sep 2021:
Moving Lights
There was a live demo from Ayrton from their Paris showroom, a talk by UK lighting designer Aideen Malone, a presentation on architectural moving light products from formalighting and a talk from…9 Sep 2021:
Hacking With Light… When Evening Comes
During Milan Design Week, the light installation "Hacking With Light...when evening comes" - in collaboration with Moroso and formalighting, will be the stage for the meeting organised by…5 Aug 2021:
Women & The Lighting Profession – Understanding their role
What is it about the lighting profession that has helped women to succeed? It could be argued that in lighting, unlike other design disciplines like architecture or interior design, women have…
17 Jun 2021:
How Very Queer: LGBTQ+ Identities in the Lighting Industry
This program is presented in partnership with: NORTH AMERICAN COALITION OF LIGHTING INDUSTRY QUEERS (NACLIQ) WOMEN IN LIGHTING (WIL) WOMEN IN LIGHTING + DESIGN (WILD) Thank you Francesca, Sophie,…10 Jun 2021:
The WIL Awards 2021
We celebrate the WIL Award recipients with an online event – watch live and share your comments on YouTube.
8 Mar 2021:
WIL Global Gathering
The Global Gathering event is an online event to celebrate International Women’s Day, the 2nd anniversary of the project and to connect our growing network and community together. All are welcome.
28 Jan 2021:
Light on the brain: the science of light and learning in lock-down
Women in Lighting are proud to host Dr Shelley James on her mission to share the latest research and, more importantly, practical solutions, so that you can stop your lighting harming your kids -…
8 Dec 2020:
WIL Social Roulette #4
Following on from the massive success of our first 3 events we are taking this one global - no geographical aim, just join from everywhere. This event on Tuesday December 8th is aimed at lighting…
12 Nov 2020:
WIL Sessions at LuxLive 2020
WIL sessions at Lux Live are supported by SLL and ILP Video-on-Demand Programme Roundtables 12th Nov 2020 14:00 — 14:40 Roundtable with live Q&A moderated by Juliet Rennie Kael Gillam, Kaye…26 Oct 2020 — 6 Nov 2020:
LIT Fest
Celebration of Light in Mexico, with Light Collective and WIL Ambassador to Chile, Paulina Villalobos.16 Sep 2020 — 18 Sep 2020:
[d]arc room 2020 livestream
With over 54 speakers, the line up includes WIL Ambassadors:Sakina - UAEAlla - JordanYah Li - SingaporeAnnukka - FinlandClaudia - PeruFrancesca - USAMartina - R.A.W bloggerKatia - WIL Content…20 May 2020:
Dismantle the Default
The Women In Lighting Project hosts an Oubaitori session with eight women from the Society of Light & Lighting and the Institution of Lighting Professionals sharing their stories.
16 May 2020:
International Day of Light 2020
A massive thank you to everyone that participated in our social media call to action #WILunderthesamesky , on the International Day of Light. A brilliant response with beautiful color tones from…
16 May 2020:
The first partnership between WIL Brazil and WIL Mexico
Our WIL ambassadors Paula and Magali hosted an online meeting to engage WIL from both countries and to share a moment on the International Day of Light.
