The Library Stage – Herstory Exeter
Discover the Exeter main stage – featuring the Herstory poets, Beyond Face, NGAIO and more!
The Rougemont Room – Herstory Exeter
See the full-line up on The Rougemont stage including Build Your Warrior and Makaton Jukebox
Makaton Jukebox
Infectious classic pop meets Makaton from a choir of women working and living with non-verbal individuals.
Build Your Warrior
Explore ideas of personal empowerment and personal weakness with a roof-raising line-up of artists.
Beyond Face
A library, a place where we might expect to be quiet, to read words from a page, inside our heads, to not speak out loud. Well, not here…
Fiona Benson
Fiona’s powerful poetry commissioned for Herstory explores historical experiences of fertility, birth control and healthcare.
Exeter Poets
Curator Polly Russell discusses British Library exhibition Unfinished Business, while the Herstory poets sharing more about their commissions.
Representation in the South West
Ngaio, Maia Thomas and Lennie Goodings ask how we can meaningfully improve local representation.
Shagufta K Iqbal
Inspired by the Cradley Heath Chain Makers, Shagufta’s commissions poems explore the strength and collective spirit found across unions.
NGAIO
Bear witness to singer, lyricist and DJ NGAIO as they storm the Library Stage at Herstory Exeter.