Latest Festival News
Sing For Hope Performs at International Women's Festivals in Santa Barbara, California 2/18/10
Women Unite in Santa Barbara to Celebrate Accomplishments, Philosophies and Connections at the Third Annual International Women’s Festival March 5th and 6th 2/9/10
Women’s Festivals Coming to Limerick, Ireland 2/11/09
Women’s Festival Co‐Founder Invited to Global Forum in Indonesia 2/5/09
Women’s Festivals Co-founder, Mary Schnack, Conducts Communications Training in Kenya 12/08/08
California Women’s Festival Celebrates International Women’s Day with Style and Substance 11/17/08
California Women’s Festival Calls on Speakers for any of the Festival’s Key Themes: Personal, Professional, Political, Philanthropic, and Planet: 10/6/08
Women’s Festivals co founder, Mary Schnack announces: International Women's Business Conference to be Held in Kenya: 10/01/08
Women’s Festivals to Provide an International Forum for Celebrating Accomplishment and Stimulating Positive Change: 2/12/08
Inaugural Yavapai Athena Leadership to be Awarded: 1/25/08
Come explore the importance of Cultural Competence and Why it Matters: 1/17/08
Leading Orgs Unite to Celebrate Women By Pat Lynch, Host of Speak Up!
Speak Up! invites women, and also men, who “speak” to women in terms of their values, their goals and their strong sense of community, to address issues, opportunities and successes that need to be heard by a larger audience of women leaders. Listen here!
2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate & 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient, Muhammad Yunus speaks at CSU Channel Islands campus on February 26, 2010 at 4:00pm. View flyer for more details.
Sing for Hope to make its California debut on Saturday March 6, 2010 at the International Women’s Festival in Santa Barbara.
Founded by opera singers with a desire to lift their voices for social change, Sing for Hope mobilizes over 600 world-class artists–from classical musicians to photographers to Broadway performers–who donate time and talent in our volunteer service programs that benefit schools, hospitals and communities. For more information, please visit us online. Sing for Hope is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
"What Sing for Hope does is wonderfully simple. It maintains a roster of compassionate, world-class artists who donate time and talent to the humanitarian causes that inspire them."
- Dr. Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Sing for Hope Board Member
Women’s Festivals announces Mimi Donaldson as a keynote speaker for the 2010 festival.
Mimi excites, educates and entertains audiences including over 50% of the Fortune 100 companies. She frequently shares the stage with prominent keynote speakers such as Colin Powell, Elizabeth Dole and Maya Angelou. Mimi is a Past President of the National Association of Women Business Owners. Visit Mimi's website to learn more about her upcoming book Necessary Roughness: New Rules for the Contact Sport of Life.
Watch a video highlighting the 2009 Women's Festival as part of Santa Barbara Channels Nonprofit Spotlight. Watch now!
NAWBO Santa Barbara featured on KEYT's In Foucus program. Watch now!
Mary Schnack, WF co founder and her daughter Erika at the Inaugural Ball.
Erika was also an important volunteer at all the Women’s Festivals, serving
ss assistant producer!
Past Women’s Festival speaker, Lucia
De Garcia is awarded the Silver Rose from the World Academy of Arts and Culture
at the XXVIII World Congress of Poets for the best poem in Spanish “Puente Hacia
el Reino de los Cielos” (Bridge to the Heaven's Realm) in Acapulco, Mexico October
10, 2008
Women's Festivals salutes the 2008 Athena Award Winner Ellen Simon and the Goddess Aretimis Awardees Honored in Greece in May 2008.