In Karlstad, the day is celebrated through the Festival of Sisterhood at the Arena in the Library House, at the Värmlands Museum there will be a concert among the exhibitions and for the third year in a row, Interflora will adorn several female statues in the city with flowers "to give the woman luminous power in the public space". Karlstad Football also plays its first match with its newly formed women's team just this day.

Arvika organizes a number of activities and music at the Ritz. In Sunne everyone is invited to a guided tour in the forest around Kalvhöjden in Gräsmark - women participate for free this day. Årjängs municipality celebrates with afternoon tea at the library.

The libraries in Värmland provide book tips for books about and by women.

Just in time for the Women's Day, Almi Värmland also writes that the proportion of women in the county's corporate boards amounts to only 19 percent and that the development has basically stalled in recent years - read more about the board mapping here.

International Women's Day is celebrated across much of the world - in the clip you can hear about how the day came to be.