Bradford Maternity & Midwifery Festival 2026
Wednesday 24 June 2026
Cedar Court Hotel, Mayo Avenue, Rooley Lane, Bradford, BD5 8HW
The Power of Love exhibition contains 150 documentary photos of births, a short film with Margareta 92, a music video art work: ”Birth Metal”, (in collaboration with Fred Estby, from the world-famous Death Metal band Dismember), a ”Birthday Party” with doula & cultural interpreters (shown at the UN Women’s Conference, NYC, 2019) and independent works such as ”The Empress Section” and ”Ode to the Womb”.
The images and the contemporary narrative about birth affect our expectations and also our experiences of childbirth. Often stories about births tell about pain and difficulties that the woman is saved from by the midwife or the doctor. While the other dimensions of birth – its profound existential meaning – is not accommodated at all.
In the exhibition the dimensions beyond the medical, appear, and also the possibilities that can be found in birth; what I call the Power of Love.
Contact details :elisabethubbe@gmail.com, +46 736003229, www.elisabethubbe.se
