For the past four years Dessi Dimova and the other women of SWAN Festival Bulgaria have found wonderfully creative ways to bring the spirit of Support Women Artists Now Day to […]
She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry is an excellent film directed by Mary Dore about the outrageous, often brilliant women who created the women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s. The film takes […]
Golden Thread Productions, a feisty San Francisco theatre company that focuses on plays about the Middle East, is offering discounts to two irreverent shows from Toronto that challenge expectations of Middle […]
This Saturday, March 29th, the Maiden Voyage Theatre Ensemble will celebrate SWAN Day with a choral reading of Beah Richards’ famous poem, A Black Woman Speaks at 3:00 pm at the […]
No Name Players will present the sixth annual SWAN Day Pittsburgh at 8 p.m. this Saturday, March 29 at the New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In previous SWAN Day Pittsburgh events, […]
Six powerful New York organizations will join together to celebrate SWAN Day with a screening of The Supreme Price, Joanna Lipper’s documentary about efforts to increase women’s political power in […]
For the past two years WomenArts has been working to help composer Mary D. Watkins develop Dark River: The Fannie Lou Hamer Story, a full-length opera based on the inspiring […]
For over two decades, award-winning theater artist and activist Jude Narita has put Asian and Asian- American women center stage in shows that explore and explode female stereotypes. This Sunday, May […]
When rock musician Jennifer Hill read about the first SWAN Day in 2008, she decided to create an event that would showcase women-fronted rock bands. SWAN Day Connecticut quickly grew […]
Tressa Glover and Don DiGiulio of the No Name Players in Pittsburgh, PA have created a wonderful model for SWAN Days that give voice to the women in their community, […]
Miami’s SWAN Spoken Soul Festival is an annual three-day event that is building deep community connections and includes special outreach to young people. The festival organizers place an emphasis on […]
The sixth annual SWAN Day DC, produced by the Guillotine Theatre (formerly the Georgetown Theatre Company), will feature six hours of free performances this Saturday. The festival will start at […]
There are some terrific SWAN events over the next few days that will showcase the diverse voices of women in theatre. In New York, the Culture Project’s Women Center Stage […]
Women artists are responding to the recent shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School and elsewhere by organizing for more gun control legislation. In Washington, D.C. there will be a March […]
On Tuesday, March 13, I saw Lenelle Moïse’s latest work in progress, Ache What Make, at the month-long Women Center Stage Festival in New York.Moïse is Haitian-American, and “Ache What […]