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GIRL GERMS: GOFF’S TEEN DREAM

You read that right, at GOFF we’re all about the girl gang and that includes our teen dreamers! A special session for young feminists will happen on Saturday 13 September starting at 2pm and ending with an all-ages screening of The Punk Singer! The whole event will be hosted by the incredible Anna Barnes, bringing her Fairy GOFFmother magic to a day of zine-making, girl bands, DJing, nail art, activism, cosplay, and a documentary about the hero of Riot Grrrl, Kathleen Hanna. Last year Anna hosted the one and only Tavi Gevinson at MWF’s Rookie Day celebrations so we’ll crush on both of them by osmosis at Girl Germs, okay?

Riot Grrrl herobabe, Kathleen Hanna, fronting the legendary Bikini Kill in the 90s

If you wanna see this dream become a reality we would love to have your support over at our GOFF Pozible page. With only five days to go, we still need 25% of our target to stage this festival, including this absolutely bangin’ session! To prebook and secure your ticket to Girl Germs, head over and choose the $25 pledge and the first twenty will have priority. After the Pozible campaign wraps up, tickets to the whole Girl Germs session will be $30, so you’ll save yourself a fiver.

When tickets for the full festival program go on sale, punters will be able to book for the film screening only, at 4.30pm during Girl Germs. This session is all-ages and everybody is welcome!

We’re so incredibly excited at GOFF HQ because all we want is for feminists of every age to feel like there are lots of us, that there are fun and amazing things happening, that we can fight our fight and party hardy, that activism is more than just megaphones and barricades, and that we’re all in this together. Girl Germs is gonna be such a kick and we can’t wait to meet y’all at GOFF this September!

P.S. If you want us to send you printable flyers and posters, and we’ll hook you up. Splashing this around school is a good way to make sure you have your whole girl gang together on the day.

Fairy GOFFmother: Anna Barnes

Our second Fairy GOFFmother is Anna Barnes!

Anna BarnesANNA BARNES is an award winning young adult non fiction writer and playwright.

Her plays and monologues have been performed around Australia and in 2013 she was awarded the Sydney Theatre Company’s Patrick White playwrighting award. She is currently developing new work with Bell Shakespeare and the Griffin Theatre Company.

She spent her teenage years making zines and joining countless bands that would never play a single gig. In 2009 she and close friend and amazing babe, Eliza Sarlos (Amazing Babes, Scribe 2013) created a blog (fyi or die) where they talked about all things music, feminism, reality TV and basketball.

In 2012 her first book, a non-fiction book for girls, Girl! The Ultimate Guide to Being You, was published by Penguin Australia. In April 2013 Girl! was named as one of the Eva Pownall Notable Books of 2013 by the Children’s Book Council of Australia. She regularly speaks to girls at schools about topics as varied as how to make your own media tools and how to improve self esteem. In 2013 she was host to Rookie Mag’s Tavi Gevinson (USA) for the Melbourne Writers Festival’s Rookie Day and this year returns to MWF to host Amazing Babes with Eliza Sarlos.

We’ve some special plans for girls at GOFF, and Anna is a big part of them – we can hardly wait to tell you what’s in store! Suffice to say, with Anna at the helm, it’s gonna rock.