If you are registered to vote in San Francisco, please join with more than 70 local arts and homelessness organizations to support Proposition S, a measure that seeks to reclaim the city’s […]
The Democrats have asked for input about their party platform in preparation for their annual convention at the end of this month. The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture has […]
If you had a place of your own, what would it be? A Place of Her Own is a residency/workshop program where 15 women artists, mainly Asian-American, ages 25 – […]
On April 18, 2016, the Dallas Museum of Art unveiled Pas de Deux (Plaza Monument), an outdoor sculpture featuring two larger than life figures by the acclaimed British sculptor, Rebecca […]
Andi Zeisler was born in the 1970s and she witnessed the intense backlash against feminism in the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1995, the same year that WomenArts was founded […]
The International Centre for Women Playwrights has established the 50/50 Applause Awards to increase awareness about women playwrights and to applaud theatres that achieve gender parity in their playwright selections. […]
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The We Are Here! Festival (WAH! Fest) will provide a dynamic platform for diverse women choreographers, musicians and visual artists creating contemporary work through a feminist […]
HAMBURG, GERMANY – The second annual SWAN Day Hamburg will feature visual art and music by refugee and migrant women artists currently living in Germany on Sunday, May 1 from […]
I knew that one day I would write an opera about the struggle of African Americans, because an opera would give me the space to express the fear, the anger, the […]
WomenArts mourns the passing of Anna Patty Duke Pearce, better known as Patty Duke, on March 29, 2016 at age 69. Duke played on Broadway starting at age 12 as […]
Flagship Ensemble Presents Site-Specific Second Skin SANTA MONICA, CA – The Flagship Ensemble presents Second Skin, a site-specific ghost play written, directed and performed by women on the beaches of San […]
“This year’s SWAN Prague Festival will feature over 30 women artists from around the world, and every artist will bring something unique . . . We felt there was […]
“Every single year this event somehow significantly changes a woman’s artistic career. A sisterhood is formed . . . artists start producing their own events with SWAN sisters, or they […]
I always love reading the listings that people submit for our SWAN Day Calendar because they give me a snapshot of a world that I do not see in the […]
“SWAN is the only space that brings peace and fun as we continue talking about our struggles. I organize a lot of political work . . . SWAN Day is different. […]