Launched: Cardiff, Wales July 6-8, 2018.
Details for Institute Training (2019, Manorbier).
Details for Institute Training (2018, Cardiff).
Hello! The Atlantic tern is a sea bird familiar to European surfers — it moves across geographies and national borders and is not beholden to any single state. As a symbolic icon for IWS Europe, the tern suggests the possibilities of collaboration across seas and country.
IWS Europe is the brainchild of three women who want to make a surfeminist difference in Europe: Lyndsey Stoodley, graduate student in geography at Cardiff University, Dani Robertson, founder of the organization Surf Senioritas, and Professor Krista Comer, IWS Director. At the Institute 2017 Training, held on the Stanford University campus in northern California, it became clear that the “issues of access” we addressed depended a great deal on WHERE one is talking about. In addition to presenting her research on the surf reserves, Lyndsey Stoodley was keen to found an Institute for European women, and she believed the surfer and activist Dani Roberston already was doing great work with Surf Senioritas. They would make productive partners. Because the Institute for Women Surfers was willing to share its model and also is eager to learn about other surf geographies, it made sense to establish a chapter of IWS for European women, and conduct the first training in Cardiff, Wales, where Lyndsey could oversee logistics and Dani could oversee activist operations. IWS Europe is open to any women who wish to apply, from any part of the world. But our focus is on Europe and building community between women in Europe.