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Author: David Bola
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David - Hi Agata, thanks a lot for sitting down with us. Looking back, where do you think that Girls* To The Front started?
Agata - It started in 2015. Before that, Ola (the other co-founder of G*TTF) and I were already doing stuff together, but we were only deejaying, doing small parties, basically for us and for our friends. And then we felt like we wanted to make something more. Basically to have more people come to our DJ sets (she laughs).
We thought that concerts were cool and wanted to organize some. We chose them to be featuring women artists only because, well, we enjoyed music created by women.
We didn't have a precise intention at first, when the idea was created, to have a feminist message there. But then we realized that they're almost no Polish bands - I mean at least alternative bands - in our scene that were women fronted or only consisted of women.
That's when we thought, okay, there is a problem and we must do something about it. We knew that there are very active women-only bands abroad, but we couldn't really book them. We didn't have the money nor the...
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