Letters Live from the Archive: International Women's Day - Olivia Colman, Gillian Anderson + more
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- Watch our Letters Live from the Archive film in celebration of International Women's Day, featuring Olivia Colman, Rose McGowan, Daisy Ridley, Gillian Anderson, Ncuti Gatwa, Jordan Stephens and many more phenomenal performers.
Every year International Women’s Day on March 8th provides an opportunity to shine a light on the continuing global fight for gender equality, whilst also celebrating the innumerable achievements of this vast, marginalised percentage of the population.
In the years since Letters Live began, talented performers have been breathing life into countless pieces of correspondence by women, to women, about women - letters overflowing with wisdom, fury, love, and humour. These are some of our favourites, featuring Olivia Colman, Gillian Anderson, Daisy Ridley, Adwoa Aboah, Caitlin Moran, Jordan Stephens and many more incredible performers.
Letters Live have produced 3 shows on International Women’s Day over the years. In fact, the last Letters Live production shortly before the pandemic hit took place on March 8th, 2020 to close the 10th anniversary of the Women of the World Festival at the Southbank Centre, London.
This video is available for free but, if you can, please consider making a donation to our nominated charity for this release - The Women of the World Foundation.
The WOW Foundation was created by Jude Kelly CBE in 2018 to run the global movement that is WOW - Women of the World Festivals. The Festivals began in the UK in 2010 to celebrate women and girls, taking a frank look at what prevents them from achieving their potential, raising awareness globally of the issues they face, and discussing solutions together. It is the biggest, most comprehensive and most significant festival dedicated to presenting work by women and promoting equality for women and girls.
To date, WOW has reached over 2 million people in 17 countries on six continents, providing a platform for people of all kinds, to change attitudes, bring communities together and provide a unique space for people to work together towards gender equality in their own communities.
If you enjoy this video, please do donate whatever you can. Your generosity will help further the work of The WOW Foundation ensuring gender equality garners the spotlight it requires.
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Voiceover - Louise Brealey.
For more about Letters Live and our shows celebrating the enduring power of literary correspondence through outstanding performances: www.letterslive.com
Every moment was a brilliant masterpiece. 👏 An emotional rollercoaster of exquisitely written, & spoken sincerity.
In one word, brilliant.
This is a wonderful video 😄
I love this series So much. Thank you
Adwoa has a beautiful voice
All great performances. Delighted to hear the brilliant Caitlin Moran for the first time :)
Brilliant
Friend of Sarah-Louise here! So great to hear her reply read out! All o f the submissions were brilliant, but i'm obviously biasd.
Absolutely brilliant. Letters Live tears it up yet again. An outstanding selection of Readings , inspiring; upsetting; uplifting, hilarious.
What a truly wonderful gift that continues to give. Long may it may continue to inspire all of us.
So many wonderful letters! Thank you.
So great!!!
Many words of wisdom ,some blunt and honest truths and lots of genuine laughs!!
What a great way to celebrate international women's Day!!!
Thank's for the amazing live Letters
And happy woman's day sisters
Thank you Letters Live. A brilliant compliation.
I didn't know I needed these 52 minutes so much. Thank you!
Thank you Letters Live for all that you do in bringing alive these wonderful and often quite forgotten pieces of the human condition.
All of these submissions were brilliant and much needed to be heard, so thank you for letting us hear what they have to say. ❤️
How great this is🙏❤️
This was fantastic. I've shared with my friends, my teen daughters and husband.
instablaster...
Happy International Women's Day
So exited! Women Day 2021 Greetings from México 🇲🇽 #8M
Starting with Louise Brealey good choice!
Also her reading and narration are both very good.
Louise's voice❤️
Missed this on The Shows Must Go On. Thanks for uploading it here!
Devine!
This is such a great treat. Thank you letters live. Happy Women's Day. Women, may you all attain your fullest potential
Lovely!!!
Thank you Letters Live, my favourites were the funny ones
Happy International Women's Day)
Thank you! that was wonderful.
I love Caitlin Moran.
Stronger together.
Thanks letterslive.
Congratulations.
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Todas as mulheres falam a mesma língua...a língua do amor.
Todas as mulheres têm a mesma cor...a cor do respeito.
Todas as mulheres têm a mesma raça...a raça da luta.
Parabéns a todas as mulheres do mundo.
Parabéns a todas as mulheres que fazem a nossa vida melhor.
Parabéns a todas as mulheres que existem dentro de cada uma de nós!
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Thanks you very much.
THANK YOU SO MUCH LETTERS LIVE!! I LOVE IT!! WE'RE SO STRONG TOGETHER!! But hey, don't get me wrong pls but where is Sophie Hunter? I remember a letter from a mother of a little girl with cancer. It would be great to see her in this video. 😍
Wow, I enjoyed that cover of running up that hill a lot. I like it far better than the original, and that is not something I would say often about a cover!
Goose bumps - that cover of the Kate Bush song was just amazing. Please can you send a programme list from today of all the letters read and by whom and would love the name of that last singer too? Thank you.
Goosebumps indeed! She's phenomenal. Her name is Roxanne Tataei. Go check her out. Thank you for watching.
Amazing event as usual. Can't find the link to donate
You can find the link in the video description. Cheers
Why can't they call it rape. When did sexually assaulted become the words? Cowardice
Agreed. Call it what it is, violence committed against another human being. No forgiveness for the perpetrator, no softening of the terminology because the best identifier is somehow too shocking for some to hear.
Perhaps it's a step between not talking about it at all and telling the full truth of rape. Maybe we will be able to say rape more clearly because of these comments. Keep on commenting as you find this hesitancy. Thank you for the rest of us.
Thanks letterslive.
Congratulations.
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Todas as mulheres falam a mesma língua...a língua do amor.
Todas as mulheres têm a mesma cor...a cor do respeito.
Todas as mulheres têm a mesma raça...a raça da luta.
Parabéns a todas as mulheres do mundo.
Parabéns a todas as mulheres que fazem a nossa vida melhor.
Parabéns a todas as mulheres que existem dentro de cada uma de nós!
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Thanks you very much.