our hearts twenty one special with karan hamstead at deutsche of l a global media farm in bali. the big debate with four international women who speak up. ladies and gentlemen. thank you over the warm welcome to this special edition of art's twenty one at the global media forum today here in bonn my name is karen homestead and it's a great pleasure to be here eight months into the post me two era we've seen it spawn countless other protests most notably the time's up campaign and the interesting thing and striking thing about these protests is that they started in the cultural sector which raises of course the questions how powerful is culture how powerful are women in culture in the wake of me to time magazine made the silence break or. as its collective person of the year for two thousand and seventeen saying their actions unleashed one of the highest velocity shifts in our culture since the one nine hundred sixty s. well we'd like to see just how much that statement can hold up can this movement empower women globally or are we with our western perspective perhaps overestimat