Liberated Muse
SWAN Day Celebrated By Liberated Muses in Washington, D.C. It’s hard to believe it’s been almost three months since the fifth international SWAN Day! We’re continuing to profile the amazing […]
Author Archives: Deborah Steinberg
Lady Got Chops
Honoring the Past While Creating the Future:An Interview With Kim A. Clarke, Founder and Organizer of the Lady Got Chops Women’s History Month Jazz Festival Ten years ago, jazz bassist […]
Black Women Playwrights’ Group Looks to the Future
For the third installment of our series on the movement for equity for women playwrights, we’re profiling the Black Women Playwrights’ Group, a Washington DC-based group that expanded its activities […]
Bringing Theatre Women Together for Change: The 50/50 in 2020 Movement
As a follow-up to last week’s post on the Los Angeles Female Playwrights’ Initiative, this week we’ll be taking a look at the movement that spawned the West Coast group: […]
Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative Brings Local Focus to National Movement
The Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative, or LAFPI, was formed almost 2 years ago by playwrights Laura Shamas and Jennie Webb as a local, West Coast branch of the national […]
Ohio Celebrates SWAN Day With a Multi-Generational Showcase in Dayton
This Saturday, March 31st, 2012, the Dayton, OH community will have the opportunity to celebrate the talent of a diverse group of women artists (and some of their male collaborators) […]
DC SWAN Day Expands Beyond Georgetown
Celebrating SWAN Day for the fifth year, DC SWAN Day, organized by The Georgetown Theatre Company, will expand its multi-disciplinary festival of women in the arts outside of Georgetown, with […]
San Francisco’s WomenROCK Collective Celebrates Four Years of Empowering Female Artists in the Music Industry
San Francisco, CA, June 16, 2010 On Wednesday, June 16th, 2010, San Franciscans will pack The Independent to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the WomenROCK Collective, a group that has […]
Interview with Sophie Dowllar, SWAN Day Kenya
By Deborah Steinberg Sophie Dowllar is the programming manager of the 5 Centuries Human Rights Theatre Group in Kenya, which uses theatre to engage communities in addressing and solving their […]
WPA Artist Mary Perry Stone Honored for SWAN Day
Dayton, OH – On Friday, February 5, 2010, 70 people, including Dayton’s mayor, braved a snowstorm to attend the opening reception of “Art Makes Us Human,” an exhibit of work […]
Harmonious Collaborations: Melodia Women’s Choir of New York City Premieres New Work by Woman Composer
Melodia Women’s Choir of New York City is an ensemble of 35 singers who perform an eclectic mix of women’s choral music under Artistic Director Cynthia Powell, often shining the […]
WomenArts Mourns the Passing of Suzanne Fiol, Photographer, Curator, and Founder of New York City’s ISSUE Project Room
WomenArts joins avant-garde artists and appreciators in mourning the death of Suzanne Fiol, photographer, curator, and founder of ISSUE Project Room, one of New York’s most important performance spaces devoted […]
San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Proves People Want Art – and Does Right By Women
Last weekend, music lovers in San Francisco enjoyed what has become a much-anticipated annual event: the free – yes, FREE – Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park. Friday, […]
Nonprofits and the Corporate Model: Bad for Social Change?
Can truly radical social movements bring about change when they work within a nonprofit structure modeled on a corporate capitalist model? Brandi Rose, a graduate student in the Arts in […]
Deborah’s Favorite Books by Women Authors
As a lover of literature, I decided to take some time off from editing the WomenArts Funding Newsletters and challenge myself to make a list of my 10 favorite books […]