Before the festival and our performers sail off into the sunset, we want to leave you with our festival legacy: a spotlight on two themes, which if given more attention, could make the world a better, fairer place! Female composers for many reasons have been kept out of the limelight. This final Saturday of the festival is dedicated to these female composers and voices who have striven to be heard in what is still a male-dominated artistic world. Female composers will be presented, alongside important feminine stories, and BYOM’s own composer Antonija Pacek will play her compositions emphasising the plight of the world’s oceans and paving the way for Sunday’s theme – nature. The environment and our swift destruction of the planet deserve our urgent attention. The programmes dedicated to birdsong, woods, and oceans remind us of our responsibility to care for and guard our beautiful, natural world. With the end of the festival, our work does not end here; no, our work is only just about to start!