On March 12, women in Israel will embrace Virginia Woolf’s idea that they need a private space in which to flourish.

The 2008 International Women’s Festival in Holon, Israel, will feature Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own as its theme.

The festival’s theater, dance, music, art and literature offerings aren’t negative about men, says festival artistic director Rivi Feldmesser Yaron, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Instead, they “reveal the woman’s world and its inherent power,” he said.