All About Women 2026: Satellite Stream

All About Women returns to the Sydney Opera House on 8 March to celebrate International Women’s Day.

All About Women is one of the Sydney Opera House’s flagship festivals, a day of talks and discussions exploring ever-evolving questions on gender, culture and equality.

Excitingly, 2026 also marks the return of the All About Women Satellite program in which a selection of talks from the festival will be made available to community groups across the country, including right here at NERAM.

Satellite Timeline

Raising Boys Watch Live from 10:30am – 11:30am AEDT on Sunday 8 March 2026

Zadie Smith Watch Live from 1:00pm – 2:00pm AEDT on Sunday 8 March 2026

About the individual sessions

RAISING BOYS with Jess Hill, Zac Seidler, moderated by Jamila Rizvi
10:30am – 11:30am AEDT – Live

From Andrew Tate to algorithmic rabbit holes, this panel will unpack the real forces shaping boys today – and what parents can do beyond panic and blame.

Bringing up boys isn’t getting any less complicated. One minute they’re sweet, funny little humans. The next, they’re parroting some podcast bro who insists “patriarchy isn’t real” and “grindset” is a personality.

Shows like Adolescence and books like The Anxious Generation tapped a nerve. As toxic masculinity is loudly (and often rightly) called out, a generation of boys is confused and ashamed – and the algorithm is happy to lead them down dark alt-right rabbit holes. It’s part of the reason the Australian government introduced age restrictions for social media accounts.

So how do we cut through the bro-fluencer noise to raise resilient, emotionally literate boys?Investigative journalist Jess Hill (See What You Made Me Do) and clinical researcher and men’s mental health expert Zac Seidler unpack the cultural forces shaping boys today and how adults can guide them with compassion.

ZADIE SMITH, hosted by Michaela Kalowski
1:00pm – 2:00pm AEDT – Live

Literary powerhouse and north-west London legend, Zadie Smith unpacks our cultural chaos with both subtlety and precision. When the best ideas risk being flattened into feed-friendly takes, she dares us to resist the comfort of simple narratives.

Buckle up for an eye-opening conversation inspired by her latest essay collection, Dead and Alive, which spans politics on both sides of the Atlantic, cinema, galleries, Glastonbury and the question of who gets to make art.

With her trademark mix of intellect and irreverence, Smith unpacks our culture. Expect razor-sharp insight and a reminder that in a fractious, doomscrolling world, curiosity is always our best line of defence.

How to Watch

Date: Sunday 8th March
Time: 10:30-11:30am & 1-2pm
Location: Mazda Gallery at the New England Regional Art Museum
Cost: $0