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The Creative Life at Douglass Exhibit Panel Discussion

Mabel Smith Douglass Library 8 Chapel Drive, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

The Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities (CWAH) is pleased to announce an exhibition entitled, The Creative Life of Douglass, curated by Rutgers University Libraries (RUL) Faculty Kayo Denda, Erika Gorder, and Fernanda Perrone, in celebration of the centennial anniversary of Douglass. Through archival photographs, objects, books, and video from University Archives, The […]

Reclaiming the Black Swan

Albany Senior Center 846 Masonic Avenue, Albany, CA, United States

Impromptu No Tutu, the resident dance company of Albany Senior Center, will be celebrating SWAN Day and Dance Anywhere Day simultaneously! We will create spontaneous bird dances, improvising in and around the Senior Center, first engaging the staff and lobby visitors, and then moving to the front garden and the Greenway across the street. We […]

$10.00

Red Shoe Night with the Rezonanca Music Assembly in Bosnia & Herzegovina

Muzicki Centar Rezonanca Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegowina

The Musicki Centar Rezonanca (Resonance Music Center) presents Red Shoe Night, a benefit performance their friends  with cancer, in Konjic, Bosnia & Herzegovina.  The program will feature a choral performance by the Rezonanca Assembly, as well as presentations by poets and actresses. This is the first time that the Resonance Music Center has participated in […]

11th International SWAN Day Kenya

Sadili Oval Sports & Talent Academy Off Kitengela road, Langata, Nairobi, Kenya

The theme of SWAN Day Kenya 2018 is Closing the Gap: Connecting Artists, and over 70 female artists will participate in the day-long festival this year.  There will be two sets of panel discussions in addition to many performances by musicians, poets, spoken word artists, acrobats, dancers, and more. The featured artists include Eclay Wangira, a […]

The Bride Price – A Hmong Wedding Story by Mai Neng Moua

University of Wisconsin - La Crosse 1725 State Street, La Crosse, WI, United States

Mai Neng Moua will be reading from her book, The Bride Price: A Hmong Wedding Story  at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse  on Tues, April 3, 7 PM at Centennial Hall 1309 . When Mai Neng Moua decides to get married, her mother, a widow, wants the groom to follow Hmong custom and pay a […]

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The Conversation – A SWAN Day Event

Finest City Improv 4250 Louisiana St, San Diego, CA, United States

A group of women gathered to write pieces on what affects them the most. Any subject. Political or not. What affects their lives? What are their thoughts/dreams/opinions/anger/love, poetry, monologues, spoken word, dating life,... it's all life from their perspective. The second annual installation of The Conversation, a Swan Day event, performed at Finest City Improv. […]

Five Women Poets Read in Wellfleet, MA

Judith Partelow's second book published by Scargo Hill Poets, Carry Me Back, A Woman’s Life in Poetry, is being released in conjunction with National Poetry Month, April 2018. Judith Partelow will be reading from Carry Me Back and from her first book, A Woman’s Heart, on April 12th at the Wellfleet Library (6:30-8:30 pm).  The other […]

SWAN Day Staten Island 2018 Celebration

Pride Center of Staten Island 25 Victory Blvd, Fl 3rd, Staten Island, NY, United States

S.W.A.N. Day Staten Island 2018 has reached a 5 year milestone! An international celebration honoring women artists as well as those who identify as female artists founded by womenarts.org, this year we are teaming up with the youth from GRRL POWER and local artists to bring a fully inclusive exhibit and open mic night to […]

Writers’ Night Out Featuring Judith Partelow

Cotuit Library 871 Main St, Cotuit, MA, United States

Judith Partelow's second book published by Scargo Hill Poets, Carry Me Back, A Woman’s Life in Poetry, is being released in conjunction with National Poetry Month, April 2018. Partelow will be reading from this new book and from her first book, A Woman’s Heart, for the Cape Cod Writers’ Center — Writers’ Night Out — […]

Art Party & Fundraiser for “The Last Straw” by Bryant Holsenbeck

Resource Center for Women & Ministry in the South 1202 Watts St, Durham, NC, United States

Bryant Holsenbeck is an environmental artist in Durham, NC, who makes art out of stuff people usually throw away. Some years ago, she got curious about where "away" was and discovered that there is no away. There is only out of sight. She has been making art out of recycled materials ever since in an […]

Ahmondylla Best’s “Mother-In-Law’s Meal” – A Storytime Interactive Workshop

Express Newark 54 Halsey Street, Newark, NJ, United States

Participants in this Story Time workshop for children will help bring Ahmondylla Best’s original story and song, “Mother-in-Law’s Meal,” to life through creative play, story building and imagination. Ahmondylla Best is a musician, author and performer. Her music draws on global ritual, Native American, African as well as personal and inherited American experience.  Her latest book Mother-In-Law’s […]

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Queer Memoir: Shame

The Tank 312 W. 36th St., New York, NY, United States

Queer Memoir is New York’s longest-running and most startingly earnest community-based LGBT storytelling series curated by Kelli Dunham; at every event we bring together some of NYC's best-known storytellers and folks who have never been on a stage in their lives. WITH OUR STORYTELLERS: Alix Canciello Rathini Kandavel Sophia Vazquez Pazos Angela Plugues Tiffany Leigh […]

Women on Fire: Poetry & Song

Bird and Beckett 653 Chenery St, San Francisco, United States

Another historic reading, Women on Fire: Chinese American Women Poets, Genny Lim, Kitty Tsui, & Nellie Wong, celebrate the 36th anniversary reunion of these pioneer poets. They  broke ground as members of the writing collective, Unbound Feet, established in 1981. Their work challenged the gender stereotypical roles of Asian women in society and addressed issues of sexual as […]

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Words on Fire: Genny Lim, Kitty Tsui, & Amber Field in Poetry and Song

Laurel Bookstore 1423 Broadway, Oakland, CA, United States

Laurel Books is proud to feature Bay Area Chinese American Women Writers, Kitty Tsui, Genny Lim, and South Korean born Amber Field in song and poetry! Genny Lim is San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate. She has been featured at Jazz Festivals and World Poetry Festivals throughout the U.S. and world, including Venezuela, Bosnia and Italy. […]

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Melina Sempill Watts’ “Tree” and Buddhism: Joy and Evanescence

Zen Center Los Angeles 923 Normandie Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States

"The Buddha achieved enlightenment while meditating under a tree. To what extent did the tree's being contribute to the Buddha's shift of consciousness?" - Melina Sempill Watts Tree is the story of 229 years in the life of a California live oak from the perspective of ... the tree.  This work of fiction is imbued with […]