Speech Debelle asks 'where are all the women?'

Speech Debelle, Mira Calix, Rachel Portman and Janis Susskind will discuss their views in a panel to be chaired by influential music journalist Miranda Sawyer. This event will take place at Kings Place on Monday 24 May, 7pm as part of Bird's Eye View's Sounds and Silents series.

Birds Eye View is curating this event in collaboration with the PRS for Music Foundation to demonstrate its commitment to developing and supporting women across the arts: only 7% of film directors and 12% of screenwriters are female. This gender imbalance also exists in the music business – only 14% of PRS for Music's registered creators and writers are women.

Vanessa Reed, Co-Director of PRS for Music Foundation said "If we want women to maximize their creative talent, we need to work across the creative industries so that we can understand the barriers and to raise awareness of the current status quo. Bird's Eye View's Sounds and Silents series - which features live scores for film written by cutting edge female artists - is the ideal platform for this debate."

For more information see http://www.birds-eye-view.co.uk/kingsplace