Support Women Artists Now Day is an annual international grassroots celebration of women artists that takes place during March and April. If you are organizing an event featuring women artists during those months, please feel free to post them on our Support Women Artists Now Day/SWAN Calendar.
‘This Joyous, Chaotic Place: He Waiata Tangi-ā-Tahu’ is a multi-media project to celebrate poet and lesbian activist Heather McPherson (1942-2017) and her peers in the Aotearoa New Zealand’s women’s art and literature movement of the 1970s and 1980s. It is a #suffrage125 project, funded by Creative New Zealand and includes an exhibition, a collection of […]
This is the 16th Annual Lady's Got Chops Festival, a grassroots event created and organized by New York native, Kim Clarke, who is a parent, bassist, guitarist, composer, bandleader, website developer, educator, and earring designer. There will be performances throughout the month of March in venues around New York City as well as Los Angeles, CA and […]
Join us for an inspiring afternoon on Saturday, March 17 as we hear from phenomenal women in the Metro Washington, DC area who will share their thoughts on creative wisdom: setting goals, breaking boundaries and staying innovative over 40 (and beyond). A networking reception follows the program. Panelists: Mei Mei Chang: As a mixed media […]
This three-day festival of readings and performances, including theater, music, and conversation, will challenge the stereotypes of Jewish women’s lives and elevate their voices. Sample events are below; complete schedule available from this link. Tickets for each day are available, as well as tickets to the Celebration held Tuesday from 6 – 8 PM. Or purchase the […]
This three-day festival of readings and performances, including theater, music, and conversation, will challenge the stereotypes of Jewish women’s lives and elevate their voices. Sample events are below; complete schedule available from this link. Tickets for each day are available, as well as tickets to the Celebration held Tuesday from 6 – 8 PM. Or purchase the […]
This three-day festival of readings and performances, including theater, music, and conversation, will challenge the stereotypes of Jewish women’s lives and elevate their voices. Sample events are below; complete schedule available from this link. Tickets for each day are available, as well as tickets to the Celebration held Tuesday from 6 – 8 PM. Or purchase the […]
Women Artists from DC offer FREE performances and film screenings in celebration of SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Day. On Saturday, March 24, 2018 from 2:00-5:00pm, Guillotine Theatre and Women in Film & Video will host the 11th Annual DC SWAN Day, a free event featuring FREE Music, Theatre and Storytelling Performances, and Film […]
Created by award-winning filmmaker Andrea Kalin, First Lady of the Revolution depicts the life of Henrietta Boggs, a reluctant Southern belle who finds her way to Central America in the 1940s in search of freedom and adventure. Instead, she is swept up in political upheaval, when her new husband is elected president of Costa Rica. This […]
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 […]
This forum will look at concepts of 'gender' in Southeast Asia from the perspectives of various communities in the Nusantara, in particular, the Bugis community. Invited speakers will discuss how the concept of 'gender' is portrayed in the different mediums - from films, literary texts as well as how they are performed in societies. ----- […]
This year marks the 14th year of the Vanessa Baez Memorial Women’s Brunch, an event created to remember the short life of Vanessa Baez, a mother, daughter, and sister who demonstrated extraordinary courage while battling sarcoidosis. Each year this brunch fosters a growing sisterhood of creative and inspiring women in Miami joined together while "Celebrating […]
Chicava HoneyChild and WoW Cafe Theater are honored to welcome revolutionary womanist scholar Max Dashu for a weekend of events: WOMEN'S DANCE Friday April 20th, 2018 Drink in a global view of women's communal dance, from ancient paintings, rock art, sculpture and murals, to modern photos of dancers. Then ourselves dance the sacred Round. WOMAN […]
Feminist Practice Many people in today's society identify as feminists but we often don't verbalize HOW we're feminists. For this meeting, we will talk about feminism as a practice and how it manifests in daily life with personal stories and anecdotes. (RE)PRESENT 2018: What do we want from Feminism and how can we achieve it? […]
This visual talk by the founder of the Suppressed Histories Archive explores Matricultures. Egalitarian matrilineal / matrilocal cultures show a way of being human outside the paradigm of domination. Not a mirror image of patriarchy, but a totally different way of life, in which the life support matrix is the highest good. Societies like these […]
