{"id":5584,"date":"2016-03-22T08:15:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T00:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/women-take-centre-stage-at-athena-festival\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:07:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:07:35","slug":"women-take-centre-stage-at-athena-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/women-take-centre-stage-at-athena-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Women take centre stage at Athena Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Straight off the back of International Women\u2019s Day \u2013\u00a010 March\u00a0\u2013\u00a0the Curtin-hosted Athena Festival celebrated women in music, showcasing some of Australia\u2019s most talented musicians.<\/p>\n

Orchestrated by the Curtin Student Guild, Athena featured well-known artists Asta, Abbe May, Tired Lion, Nicole Millar, Bad Ezzy and up-and-coming outfit, Mosquito Coast. DJs from the Curtin Electronic Music Appreciation Society (EMAS)<\/a> also supported these headliners on the festival stage and into its after party.<\/p>\n

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Abbe May on stage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tired Lion saw in the sunset at the Athena Festival.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI think [the Athena festival initiative] is fantastic, absolutely fantastic,\u201d says Curtin student, Alicia Drew. \u201cWe\u2019d heard of the bands, and thought we\u2019d go down to be part of it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Athena\u2019s headline act, Asta, shared with us how other female artists had influenced her work.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I started listening to Adele I starting writing a lot on guitar, and that was really inspiring,\u201d Asta says. \u201cThen I discovered Annie Lennox, Madonna, Whitney Houston \u2013 lots of 80s artists really inspired me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Asta at the Athena Festival.<\/figcaption><\/figure>As a young artist still at the beginning of her career, Asta admits that her success over the last few years still seems a bit surreal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are moments where I do pinch myself,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I think it\u2019s just a constant pinch. It\u2019s just a constant feeling of \u2018is this real?\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the Athena Festival done and dusted, Australia can now add itself to the list of countries, along with the United States, United Kingdom and China, which have hosted female-led festivals.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was pretty cool to have an all-female line up, especially after International Women\u2019s Day,\u201d says Athena festivalgoer, Mandy Humphreys.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt tied with women\u2019s week and was supported by Triple J,\u201d says fellow festival attendee, Steve Myers. \u201cAnd they\u2019re some great bands, so I thought I\u2019d go along.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the Athena festival\u2019s main aim was to provide a platform for some of Australia\u2019s female artists, it also worked to raise money for the Patricia Giles Centre<\/a>, which provides accommodation and counselling for women and children affected by domestic violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To celebrate International Women\u2019s Day, Curtin hosted Australia\u2019s first female-led music festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":5585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-5584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Athenafest_Asta.jpg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Curtin University"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 17:08:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5584"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=5584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}