Friday WOW Festival Day Pass
Be here for the first day of the world’s biggest festival celebrating women, girls and non-binary people, featuring world-class speakers, artists and activists.
Your Day Pass gives you access to a packed day of talks, workshops, comedy, performances and more, as people of all genders and life experiences come together to explore urgent questions shaping our lives.
Join conversations on topics from climate change to technology, joy and solidarity, young people’s activism to political instability, and the future of work, power and care.
This year’s edition brings together WOW’s other festivals Shameless! and Boys & Men into WOW London for the first time, so festival-goers can also choose to explore their themes.
In Shameless! we look at how to end sexual violence, while Boys & Men events tackle everything from the manosphere to men’s role in the fight for gender equality.
Saturday and Sunday Day Passes are also available, with a different line-up each day, as well as separately ticketed events including Gisèle Pelicot & Tarana Burke in Conversation. More events to be announced.
WOW celebrates women, girls and non-binary people, takes a frank look at the obstacles they face and discusses solutions for change. Since 2010, WOW has reached five million people across six continents.
Need to know
A limited number of early bird tickets are available.
Times & tickets
Dates, times and prices
Dates & times
05 Mar 2027, 10am
Standard entry
from £35 + £4 booking fee
Ticket prices may be adjusted without notice to reflect demand.
Concessions
Learn more about concession discounts
Refunds and exchanges
Find out more about our refund and exchange policy
Become a Member
Members get free entry to the Hayward Gallery and the first chance to book our entire programme of events, including go-down-in-history gigs, concerts with world-class orchestras, and talks from cultural icons and political giants.
Join today from £60
Access
Some events included in the day pass are British Sign Language interpreted (BSL) and/or Captioned.
You can join our free Access Scheme through your online Southbank Centre account or via email.
Find out more about our Access Scheme
For your visit
This event is held at the Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre
The Royal Festival Hall is open six days a week.
Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 11pm
Monday, closed.
Plan your visit
The Royal Festival Hall is home to our largest auditorium as well as The Clore Ballroom, National Poetry Library, Members’ Lounge, Festival Bar & Kitchen, Ballroom Cafe and Skylon restaurant.
Getting here
Our address is Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.
The nearest tube stations to us are Waterloo and Embankment; Waterloo is also the nearest train station. And more than 20 different London bus routes pass within 500 metres of our venues. More information on getting here by rail, road or river is available on our Getting here page.
We’re cash-free
Please note that we’re unable to accept cash payments across our venues.
Access
We’re working hard to remove barriers, so that our facilities and events can be accessible to as many people as possible.
All help points, toilets, performance and exhibition spaces at the Southbank Centre are accessible to all, as are the cafes, bars and restaurants. We also have excellent public transport links with step-free access.
All information about booking wheelchair spaces, step-free access, blue badge parking, access maps and guides and other help available whilst you’re here, including details about our Access Scheme, can be found on our Access page.
Food & drink
On Level 2 of our Royal Festival Hall you can grab a slice of life by the Thames with drinks and freshly made pizza at our Festival Bar & Kitchen which opens out onto our Riverside Terrace. You can grab a coffee and a slice of freshly made cake from our Ballroom Cafe. Or alternatively enjoy destination dining in the restaurant at Skylon.
From coffee to cocktails, filling favourites to fine dining, plus some of London’s best street food – it’s all here at the Southbank Centre.