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Event SW16: Japan’s Powerful Women
July 3rd at 18:00 - 19:00
Free
Author and raconteur, Lesley Downer, bubbles with excitement and fascinating detail, telling stranger-than-fiction tales of empresses, novelists and warriors, courtesans and geishas. This talk will cure you of any stereotypical preconceptions you might have had about Japanese women being ‘submissive’.
Hosted by Talks at Six. Booking suggested via its website.
The 2026 festival will run from Saturday 13 June to Sunday 19 July.
