Connect – Create 

Women have powerful stories to share. Their everyday is their own stage, and they survive on a journey of emotional reconciliation within themselves, navigating a path in their community and connecting with those around them with resilience, humour and insight. 

Sharing stories makes the world a better place, brings us together to make sense of our world and discover who we really are, while deepening our understanding of others. Join in! Join a workshop, come to a live performance, submit your film or script. 

Powered by a company of diverse female actors, musicians, writers, producers, filmmakers and artists, VOW has was founded in 2018 to allow women to speak and imagine. Since then, it has encouraged over 1,500 First Nations and diverse women in Australia and internationally to create and share their unique story and has engaged with nearly 200 women in workshops across Sydney and regional NSW. It has presented 100 stories in 46 live shows from regional communities in Wagga Wagga, Dubbo and Goulburn to metropolitan communities in Ryde, Ultimo and Leichhardt.

In the digital realm, since 2020 the Voices of Women Podcast has streamed on Apple Podcasts. Voices of Women has co-produced 10 short and 2 feature films screened across world, including at the United Nations Women Conference in Rwanda, London and New York. The film Entanglement won the London International Story Prize and several international film awards. Voices of Women also presents the annual Voices of Women International Short Film and Script Festival.

Artistic Director Lliane Clarke was awarded the Multicultural NSW Arts and Culture Medal NSW in 2022 and the collaborative script she devised for Women of the Riverina was nominated for an AWGIE (Australian Writers Guild) Award 2026. She is a Member of Institute of Community Directors Australia (ICDA) and Compact Alliance Multicultural NSW.

Voices of Women has been funded by local governments in Ryde, Dubbo and Wagga Wagga; the NSW Government departments Create NSW and Multicultural NSW and the Australian Government Departments of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Creative Australia and Home Affairs and private donors and Foundations including the Carla Zampatti Foundation. It has worked collaboratively with over 50 local arts and cultural organisations across Sydney and NSW.

Voices of Women works with First Nations advisors in all Country’s where we make a creative space. We proudly encourage all cultures to contribute to these creative projects.

We acknowledge the Gadigal and Wangal people of the Eora nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which we produce and share stories. We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present.