SWAN Day Connecticut
Thanks so much to all of you who are participating in the Sixth International SWAN Day. Whether you are organizing an event, attending an event, spreading the word, or giving a gift to your favorite woman artist, you are part of a growing world-wide movement. There are SWAN 2013 events all over the U.S. and in places as far flung as Australia, Bulgaria, Kenya, Sweden, and Trinidad and Tobago. (See the list below.)
In all of these communities women are gathering to bring harmony to the world through music, to build movements that inspire us to dance, to share pictures that open our eyes, and to tell stories that heal our hearts.
As women and as artists, we take this troubled world in our hands and work to make it better. When we celebrate SWAN Day, we can feel the power of our joy, our commitment, and our immense collective creativity.
Thanks to all of you for your perseverance in these challenging times. Whether your celebration is large or small today, I hope that on SWAN Day you will feel the energy of women artists and allies all over the world who are cheering for you to reach your full potential.
Sending Lots of SWAN Love to All of You!
Martha Richards, Executive Director, WomenArts
List of SWAN Day 2013 Events
For more detailed information about these events, you can search for them on the SWAN Calendar or check the WomenArts Blog to see if we did an article about them. Some of these events took place earlier in the month.
UNITED STATES EVENTS (Scroll to bottom or click here for International Events)
| Name of Event | City | State | Organizer |
| Celebration of Change | Anchorage | AK | Radical Arts for Women |
| Revive the Art Spirit! Plein Air Workshop with Elaine Carpenter | Alameda | CA | Frank Bette Center for the Arts |
| What do the Women Say? | Berkeley | CA | Golden Thread Productions |
| Cre8tive Differences – 10 Minute Theatre Festival | Hollywood | CA | Cre8tive Differences |
| Fundraiser for Feature Film: Young Women and Meth in Hawaii |
Los Angeles | CA | Melanie Seelinger and Tracy Miller |
| S.O.E. – Full-length Debut Play by Jami Brandli | Los Angeles | CA | Episodic Entity, in association with Bootleg Theater |
| Tactical Reads: “My First, My Fist” – New Play Reading | Los Angeles | CA | Los Angeles Female Playwright Initiative & The Vagrancy Theater Co. |
| Snapshot: A True Story of Love Interrupted by Invasion | Los Angeles | CA | Mitzi Sinnott |
| Inside Out PlayDate | Los Angeles | CA | The Ebell Theatre, Los Angeles |
| Martinez SWAN DAY (Outdoor Fair) | Martinez | CA | Martinez Arts Association |
| Nappy Headed Love Stories | Oakland | CA | Jovelyn Richards |
| Time Sensitive, An Original Play Written & Directed by Amy Sass | Oakland | CA | Ragged Wing |
| Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago, Film Premiere | Rancho Mirage | CA | Lydia B. Smith, Director |
| Suzanne Brooks/The Jazz Generation at the WCIC Annual Open House | Sacramento | CA | WCIC: Women’s Civic Improvement Club of Sacramento |
| Moments of Truth – A Reading of a New Chamber Musical | San Francisco | CA | Patricia Milton and Caroline Altman |
| Seven Flowers for Seven Muralists | San Francisco | CA | The Women’s Building/ MaestraPeace Collaborative |
| Adventures Of A Black Girl | San Francisco | CA | Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe |
| Our Own Paths (Film Festival) | San Francisco | CA | Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project |
| You Don’t Act Like an Indian Girl – Benefit for “Petals in the Dust” | San Francisco | CA | Thou Art Worthy, Micropixie,Petals In The Dust |
| Rhodessa Jones in The Resurrection of SHE | San Francisco | CA | Brava! For Women in the Arts presents Rhodessa Jones |
| The Last Five Years | Santa Barbara | CA | Elements Theatre Collective |
| Caged (Performance) | Santa Monica | CA | City Garage |
| Personal Landscapes | Yreka | CA | Liberty Arts Gallery |
| Athena Project’s Arts Festival | Denver | CO | Athena Project Festival |
| A Woman Like That – Artemisia Gentileschi Documentary Film | Fairfield | CT | Quick Arts Center, Fairfield University |
| SWAN Day Connecticut 2013 | Manchester | CT | Jennifer Hill |
| SWAN Day Connecticut | Manchester | CT | Nicki Mathis’ Afrikan AmerikanJazz Quartet |
| Feminist Punk Show: Priests and the Downtown Boys | Willimantic | CT | Willimantic Records |
| In Her Words (Theatre) | Washington | DC | Liberated Muse Arts Group |
| In Celebration of Women & Aging: Feminine Transitions | Washington | DC | Alyscia Cunningham Photography |
| DC SWAN Day (Day long festival) | Washington | DC | Guillotine Theatre |
| SWAN Day Jupiter Florida (Readings) | Jupiter | FL | Cynthia Morrison |
| SWAN Day Miami – Spoken Soul Festival 2013 | Miami | FL | Poetic 7 & Spoken Soul Festival Production Team |
| Soukous Sunday 2.0 with Sauda | Decatur | GA | Sauda Jackson |
| Divan – Film Screening with Q&A | Chicago & Northbrook | IL | Pearl Gluck |
| Possibilities: 3 Oak Park Artists | Oak Park | IL | Gallery Pink in Oak Park |
| Aryn Day Sweeney Oboe Recital | Muncie | IN | Faculty Artist Series, Ball State University |
| Julie Lyn Barber Voice Recital | Upland | IN | Taylor University Faculty Recital |
| In Her Shoes, Harriet Tubman | Wichita | KS | Harriet Tubman Reader’s Theater |
| Alice in Black and White – A Premiere | Louisville | KY | Looking for Lilith Theatre Company |
| Secret Burdens | Louisville | KY | Aleksandra Stone |
| SWAN Day at PYRO Gallery | Louisville | KY | Women Work/Women’s Work |
| Women in Action: A New Wave of Art, Theatre, Music, and Performance | Boston | MA | Sleeping Weazel |
| Breaking Through The Clouds: The First Womens National Air Derby | Boston | MA | Heather Taylor of Archetypal Images with Simmons College |
| WAM! Boston Film Festival 2013 | Cambridge | MA | Women, Action & the Media Boston |
| Revising With Ruth | Leicester | MA | Barred Owl Retreat |
| Femnoire: The Women’s Playwriting Festival | Lowell | MA | Image Theater |
| Cravings: Songs of Hunger & Satisfaction | Northampton | MA | Ko Theater Works/Belle Linda Halpern & Sabrina Hamilton |
| Our Voices VII Annual Festival of Boston Area Women Playwrights | Wellesley | MA | Kelly DuMar |
| Maxiworld Tango Milonga with Tango Burlesque Performance | Baltimore | MD | Maxi Gonzalez, Viviana & Isidoro Levinson, Con Artist & Bianca Dagga |
| Breaking Through the Clouds: The First Womens National Air Derby | online | MD | Heather Taylor of Archetypal Images and 21st Century Radio |
| 3/13 Womens Fest | Detroit | MI | AMCC/ILL PLAY BILL |
| Poets and Purses | Detroit | MI | SASHA Center |
| Women’s History Month: The Historical Comedybration | Minneapolis | MN | Created by Heather Meyer |
| Sticks and Stones: Fairy Tales and Other Lies As Told To A Child | Minneapolis | MN | Neva Grow Up Media Group Starring Rai Renea |
| Enchanted Evening | Minneapolis | MN | Jawaahir Dance Company |
| Cassandra’s Cabaret | Minneapolis | MN | Cassandra Shore |
| WNC Artist Showcase Reception | Asheville | NC | Hilton Asheville Biltmore Park |
| A Monument to the Risen: Emotional Labor, Intimacy and the Spaces of Sex Work | Durham | NC | Laurenn McCubbin |
| Yvonne Welbon Campaign for the Heineken Affinity Award | Greensboro | NC | Yvonne Welbon |
| Female Artist TakeOver Day | Greensboro | NC | Female Artist Collective of Greensboro |
| Grid Signals by Shuli Sade | Jersey City | NJ | Shuli Sade Studio |
| Andrea Arroyo “Femenina” | Bronx | NY | Andrea Arroyo, visual artist |
| The Women Gather Concert | Brooklyn | NY | Grace Drums |
| Talk To Me, Ginger! | Brooklyn | NY | Mariann Aalda |
| See, Hear, Taste, Touch 2013 | Brooklyn | NY | The Modern-Day Griot Theatre Company |
| April Fools Show | Brooklyn | NY | Lucia Love and Collaborators |
| The Divine Black Feminine: Elizabeth Catlett on Our Minds | Corona | NY | The National Conference of Artists (NCA) New York Chapter |
| Girls Rock 6 | Jamestown | NY | Cindy Love, Amanda Barton, Gina Vecchio, Marla Harris, Lori Burke, Kat Elfman |
| Bethany | New York | NY | Women’s Project Theater |
| Bloody Goregeous Monologues: A Celebration of Women in Horror | New York | NY | La Petite Morgue |
| Blondie of Arabia | New York | NY | Culture Project’s Women Center Stage |
| Women in the Heights – Celebrations. Curated by Andrea Arroyo | New York | NY | NoMAA Gallery -Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance |
| Su Polo Solo Art Show – Drawings, Watercolor, Collage | New York | NY | Su Polo |
| Shaheed: The Dream and Death of Benazir Bhutto (Theatre) | New York | NY | Culture Project |
| Feminine Mystique Reading Series | New York | NY | Project Y Theatre Company |
| Career Seminar: Marketing and Public Relations for the Performing Arts | New York | NY | Apollo Theater |
| Behind the Scenes: Women of Color in the Arts | New York | NY | Apollo Theater |
| Eye D (Performance) | New York | NY | Christine Toy Johnson |
| SWAN Day: The Women of Theater for the New City | New York | NY | Theater for the New cIty |
| The Godmother – Documentary Screening | New York | NY | Jeanine Corbet |
| A Shining Attribute & Why I Hate Angelina Jolie, Short Works about Women | New York | NY | One Woman Standing – New Works Series from Emerging Artists Theatre (EAT) |
| The Andromache USA Project | New York | NY | Apoloniad Productions |
| Women Inspired – Curated by Andrea Arroyo | New York | NY | Grady Alexis Gallery |
| Opening Up Possibilities for Women through Cross-Gender Casting | New York | NY | Actors’ Equity Association, Equal Employment Opportunity Committee |
| Women Stage the World | New York | NY | League of Professional Theatre Women |
| Jackie | New York | NY | Women’s Project Theater |
| Women in Arts Series- Women in Music | New York | NY | Legros Cultural Arts |
| Arts in Progress – A Fantastic SWAN Day 2013 Celebration! | New York | NY | International Women Artists’ Salon |
| SWAN Day Screening of Girl Rising – New Documentary Film | New York | NY | New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) |
| Women’s Work Presents – First Concert of 2013 Series | New York | NY | Parthenia, New York’s premiere viol consort |
| My Day When Theory of Relativity Sank In | NEW YORK | NY | Ella Veres |
| Draw NYC | New York | NY | Marcia Teusink & Jessica Houston |
| Collapse | New York | NY | Women’s Project Theater |
| Music Audition | New York | NY | International Women in Jazz |
| Dame Ethel Smyth’s “Mass in D” – The Cecilia Chorus of New York | New York | NY | The Cecilia Chorus of New York |
| Women’s Work – Second Concert of 2013 Series | New York | NY | Quintet of the Americas |
| World Premiere of the Opera/ Oratorio, The Rape of the Lock | New York | NY | Deborah Mason |
| Naked In Alaska | New York | NY | Valerie Hager |
| Tea for Three: Lady Bird, Pat & Betty | New York | NY | Elaine Bromka |
| Received Images | New York | NY | Elizabeth Featherstone Hoff |
| And Then My Head Exploded | New York | NY | NewShoe Theatre Group |
| The Loves of My Life | New York | NY | NewShoe |
| Motherhood, Anyone? | Peekskill | NY | Embark with Donna Barkman and Deb Carlin Polhill |
| Trifles by Susan Glaspell | Riverhead | NY | Airmid Theatre -Featuring Margaret Colin |
| Spring Sing | Cincinnati | OH | Womens Way of Ohio- Kentucky and Shelley Graff |
| Swan Day 2013 | Cincinnati | OH | Womens Way of Ohio- Kentucky and Women Writing for a Change |
| SWAN Day CLE – 2013 at Convergence Continuum & Ensemble Theatres | Cleveland | OH | Deborah Magid |
| Looking Back and Looking Beyond | Cleveland | OH | Maiden Voyage Theatre Ensemble |
| SWAN Day Dayton | Dayton | OH | Stacey Lane & Dara Cosby |
| S.W.A.N. Days 2013 | Burns | OR | Harney County Library/Amos Burk/Lisa Moody |
| Loren Covers the Greats | Philadelphia | PA | Loren Dann |
| SWAN Day Pittsburgh Jr. | Pittsburgh | PA | No Name Players Theatre Company |
| SWAN Day Pittsburgh 2013 | Pittsburgh | PA | No Name Players Theatre Company |
| Railroad Perspectives (Exhibit) | Scranton | PA | Claire B. Marcus |
| South Dakota Cowgirl Public Art Reception | Hill City | SD | Prairie Berry Winery |
| Forbidden Knoxville Goes Psycho | Knoxville | TN | Flying Anvil Theatre – Staci Swedeen and Jayne Morgan |
| Teco 11th Annual New Play Competition | Dallas | TX | Teco Theatrical Productions |
| Mighty Girl Art™ Spring-e Session | Reston | VA | Mighty Girl Art™ |
| Holly Near in Concert | Vienna | VA | The Barns at Wolf Trap |
| 4th Annual SWAN Day at the MAC | Newport | VT | MAC Center for the Arts |
| 5th Annual Here, There & Everywhere | Port Townsend | WA | Key City Public Theatre |
| Cosmic Spring | Port Townsend | WA | Sharon Lia Robinson |
| 5th Annual ISIS: Women Arts Festival | Seattle | WA | Steel Grace Dance |
| Voices Silenced, Voices Heard | Tacoma | WA | Jozani Productions – Johnnie Mekenya James |
| Name of Event | City | Country | Organizer |
| Walk With Me – Screening at Arts in Action | Carlton | Australia | Aya Arts and Media |
| Third SWAN Festival – Round Table Edition | Sofia | Bulgaria | Art Nova Foundation |
| Seven, A Documentary Play | Paris | France | Documentary Play about 7 Women Leaders by 7 Women Playwrights |
| Art Exhibition | Yorkshire | Great Britain | Ann Aveyard |
| SWAN Day Kenya: Artists for Peaceful Co-existence and National Cohesion | Nairobi | Kenya | 5 Centuries Human RightsTheatre Company Artists |
| Kvinnofilmfestival2013 | Uppsala | Sweden | Kvinnor för fred |
| Write Makes Right: Writing Systems & Cultural Worldviews | Ebikon | Switzerland | C.C. Elian |
| SWAN Day La-Brea – Art Activists Alive | La-Brea | Trinidad & Tobago | Studio Lafoncette -Leslie Robertson Toney |