

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Library Lecture: Lucy Wright - Folk is a Feminist Issue!
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 10 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Folk is a Feminist Issue! Uncovering the hidden women in British seasonal customs
Artist and researcher, Lucy Wright has long been intrigued by—and kinda angry about—the underrepresentation of women and those of marginalised genders in the British folk arts—especially seasonal customs. Growing up she was told that morris dancing was 'a man's dance' and that women only took part because of the 'women's lib' movement of the 1970s. It was something of a surprise then when, as a PhD student in the early 2010s, she began to uncover photographs of all-female and mixed morris dancing teams, performing in the northwest at the very start of the 20th century, more than 70 years before they were supposed to have first donned their rebellious bells. Upon discovering that carnival morris was still a thriving performance community, fully distinct from the folk revival morris dancing that she had grown up around, Lucy made it her business to learn as much about girls' morris as possible—attending and documenting practices, competitions and displays—and to look for other lesser-known contemporary folk arts and customs, especially those belonging to women and working-class communities.

In this talk, Lucy will describe some of her ongoing field-based research in the north of England—taking in juvenile jazz bands and entertainer troupes along the way—as well sharing some of the ways she is using her practice as a visual artist to advocate for a more expansive and inclusive approach to folk as 'the stuff we make, do and think for ourselves, and its radical potential'. Underpinned by her 'Folk is a Feminist Issue' manifesta, first published in 2021, she hopes to persuade you that there is more to English folk than the canon we have inherited and that it's up to us to ensure that the traditions we promote and pass on to the next generation are indicative of the change and equity we want to see in the world.

Artist Lucy J Wright is based in Leeds, UK. Her practice of sculpture and performance sits at the intersection of folklore and activism and uses her 10+ years of cited research into lesser-known contemporary and female-led folk customs as source material.

Following a stint as the lead singer in BBC Folk Award-nominated act, Pilgrims' Way, Wright received a Vice Chancellor’s scholarship from Manchester School of Art for her PhD, becoming a Visiting Research Fellow in Folklore at University of Hertfordshire in 2019.

Recent activities include solo shows at Portico Library, Manchester and Field System, Devon; group shows at Leeds Art Gallery, Kristian Day Gallery and Compton Verney, residencies at Hospitalfield and the Hugo Burge Foundation, a £40K commission from Create Berwick and features in Sunday Times Style and Weird Walk. In 2025, she was an invited speaker at the British Academy and a contributor to Claire Bishop’s ‘Ancestral Avant-gardes’.

Lucy is a ‘hedge morris dancer’,  author of the ‘Folk is a Feminist Issue’ manifesta, and originator of ‘Dusking’, a 100% invented tradition and annual participatory project for anyone who has ever wanted to dance the sun down!

Online event starts at 7.30pm

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Image: Lucy Wright, May Queen
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- **city**: London, United Kingdom
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