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Happy SWAN Days All Over the World!
Thanks so much to all of you who are participating in the Fourth International SWAN Day. Whether you are organizing an event, attending an event, spreading the word, or giving a gift to your favorite woman artist, you are part of a growing world-wide movement. (See this year's list of events below.)
There are SWAN Day 2011 events all over the U.S. and in places as far flung as Bulgaria, Germany, Kenya, and Uruguay. Women are gathering to bring harmony to the world through music and build movements where we all can dance; to share pictures that open people's eyes and tell stories that heal their hearts.
As women and as artists, we take this troubled world in our hands and work to make it better. When we celebrate SWAN Day, we can feel the power of our joy, our commitment, and our immense collective creativity.
Thanks to all of you for your perseverance in these challenging times. Whether your celebration is large or small today, I hope that on SWAN Day you will feel the energy of women artists and allies all over the world who are cheering for you to reach your full potential.
HAPPY SWAN DAY TO ALL OF YOU!
Martha Richards, Executive Director, WomenArts
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SWAN Day Connecticut
Organizer: Jennifer Hill
Poster: Second Story Riot
More about this event>>
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P.S. Remember to Send Us Your Pictures! You can link them to our WomenArts-SWAN Day Facebook page, email them to info@WomenArts.org or snail mail to: WomenArts, 3739 Balboa Street #181, San Francisco, CA 94121. We always love to hear from you!
List of SWAN Day 2011 Events
For more detailed information about any of these events, you can visit the SWAN Day Calendar and search for the events in your region. Some of these events took place earlier this month.
UNITED STATES EVENTS (Scroll to bottom or click here for International Events)
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| Name of Event |
City |
State |
Organizer |
In Memory of Amy Gitelman:
A
Retrospective Exhibit (Visual Art) |
Alameda |
CA |
Frank Bette Center
for the Arts |
| Ruined (Play by Lynn Nottage) |
Berkeley |
CA |
Berkeley Repertory Theatre |
| What Do the Women Say?
(Middle
Eastern Poetry & Performance) |
Berkeley |
CA |
Golden Thread Productions |
SWAN Day Spa
(Spa Relaxation for Women Artists) |
Los Angeles |
CA |
Yaphattainment International &
Andrea Wilson, RKD Music |
SWAN Day Martinez
(Outdoor
Arts & Crafts Festival) |
Martinez |
CA |
Martinez Arts Association |
| Blind Spots (World Premiere
Play) |
North Hollywood |
CA |
Colette Freedman, Elise Robertson,
Jade Sealey, Helen Mary Wilson, Vanessa Waters |
| Feminist Tour of the Norton
Simon Museum (Lecture) |
Pasadena |
CA |
Margaret Danielak |
An Evening with Women of
Calypso
(Music) |
San Francisco |
CA |
Cultural Odyssey |
| Bridge Walkers (Audio and
Video Interactive Installation) |
San Francisco |
CA |
Catherine Herrera &
de Young Museum |
Celebration of Muriel Rukeyser
&Paris Press (Reading & Party) |
San Francisco |
CA |
Jan Freeman, Paris Press |
Creating Art that Ignites
Social
Change (Performance & Panel) |
San Francisco |
CA |
Tenth Annual Global
Women's Rights Forum |
| Fabulation (Play by Lynn
Nottage) |
San Francisco |
CA |
Lorraine Hansberry Theatre |
Feminist Tour of The de Young
Museum (Lecture) |
San Francisco |
CA |
Margaret Danielak |
ODC Dance 40th Season
(Featuring Women Choreographers) |
San Francisco |
CA |
ODC Dance |
| San Francisco Women's Film
Festival (50 Films in 5-Days) |
San Francisco |
CA |
Scarlett Shepard |
San Francisco Women
Artists
(Gallery Reception) |
San Francisco |
CA |
San Francisco Women Artists |
| SWAN Day - University of San
Francisco (Music) |
San Francisco |
CA |
USF Musical Collective
& Women's Center |
The Crackpot Crones
(Sketch
Comedy & Improv) |
San Francisco |
CA |
Terry Baum &
Carolyn Myers |
The Oldest Profession
(Play by
Paula Vogel) |
San Francisco |
CA |
Brava for Women
in the Arts |
Irena Sendler: In the Name of
Their Mothers (Film Screenings) |
San Jose |
CA |
Mary Skinner, Director & Cinequest.org |
| Ruined (Play by Lynn Nottage) |
Denver |
CO |
Denver Center Theatre
Company |
Women + Film VOICES Film
Festival (6 days) |
Denver |
CO |
Women + Film &
Denver Film Society |
SWAN Day Connecticut
(Rock
Music Festival & Arts Fair) |
East Hartford |
CT |
Jennifer Hill |
Zelda, Musings from the First
American Flapper (Play) |
South Windsor |
CT |
Rita Parisi-Waterfall
Productions |
| A Woman Like That (Screening) |
Washington |
DC |
National Gallery of Art |
Fourth DC SWAN Day
(Festival of
Theatre & Other Arts) |
Washington |
DC |
The Georgetown Theatre
Company |
V-Day Washington DC
(Benefit Performance) |
Washington |
DC |
The Firm DC |
SWAN Spoken Soul Showcase
(Spoken Word Festival) |
Miami |
FL |
Spoken Soul Productions |
Raize It Up Live Women's
Celebration! (Hip-Hop & Drumming) |
Miami |
FL |
Soulflower |
| The 7th Annual Vanessa Baez
Memorial Women's Lunch |
Miami |
FL |
Spoken Soul Productions |
New Seeds Festival
(Performing
Arts Festival) |
Tampa |
FL |
Silver Glass Productions |
SWAN Day in Savannah!
(Art
Exhibit) |
Savannah |
GA |
Joanne Morton |
SWAN Day Iowa City
(Gallery
Exhibit & Reception) |
Iowa City |
IA |
Nora Garda &
Arts Iowa City Gallery |
Essentialism & The Male
Gaze
(Panel Discussion) |
Chicago |
IL |
Chicago AAUW |
Jane Addams by Louise Knight
(Book Reading by Author) |
3 Venues |
IL |
Louise Knight |
| Discussion with Playwrights
Tanya Saracho & Regina Taylor |
Chicago |
IL |
Harold Washington
Library Center |
Feminist Lens Radio Series:
Seeing Peace:
Challenging War |
Chicago |
IL |
Womens Media Group |
If I Ruled the World (Jan Lisa
Huttner Lectures about Film) |
Chicago |
IL |
Harold Washington College |
| Jane Eyre (Film
Screenings) |
2 Venues |
IL |
Focus Features |
Mamadrama (Documentary Film
about Jewish Mothers) |
3 Venues |
IL |
Chicago YIVO |
Painting Tikkun Olam: Dialogue
with
Netally Schlosser (Talk & Reception) |
Chicago |
IL |
FeminIsrael, AZM, WZO |
SWAN Day at the Goodman:
El
Nogalar (Play by Tanya Saracho) |
Chicago |
IL |
Chicago AAUW/ Goodman Theatre |
SWAN Day at the Goodman:
God
of Carnage (Play by Yasmina Reza) |
Chicago |
IL |
Chicago AAUW &
Goodman Theatre |
SWAN Day at the Goodman:
Meet the Artists Discussion |
Chicago |
IL |
Chicago AAUW & Goodman Theatre |
The 9th Floor Door: Blocked
Justice
of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
(Performance & Panel)mance
and Panel) |
Chicago |
IL |
Working Womens
History Project |
Yael Bartana (Israeli Film
Screening
& Discussion with Filmmaker) |
Chicago |
IL |
Gene Siskel Film Center |
Yasmin Levy in Concert
(Ladino
Music) |
Chicago |
IL |
Old Town School of
Folk Music |
Chicago Writers Exchange
(Reading by 6 Authors) |
Chicago |
IL |
Her Story Theater |
Oy, Yente: How a Name
Became a
Noun (Lecture) |
Glenwood |
IL |
Hadassah Chicago's Zahava-Deborah
Group |
| Aviya's Summer (Film
Screening) |
Skokie |
IL |
FeminIsrael, AZM & ARZA |
| Lunch and Learn with Netally
Schlosser (Artist Discussion & Reception) |
Skokie |
IL |
AZM Chicago |
The Belle of Amherst
(Play
about Emily Dickinson) |
Farmland |
IN |
Julie Lyn Barber of
Main Street Artists |
Lady Bird, Pat &
Betty:Tea for
Three (Play about First
Ladies) |
Ft. Riley |
KS |
Elaine Bromka |
SWAN Day Covington
(Art
Auction/Book Sale/Party) |
Covington |
KY |
Katie Meyer &
Artisans Enterprise Center |
Fabric, Flames, and Fervor:
Girls of the Triangle (Play) |
Shelbyville |
KY |
Looking for Lilith
Theatre Company |
SWAN Day 2011 at PYRO Gallery
(Exhibit & Reading) |
Louisville |
KY |
Pyro Gallery |
SWAN Day at YA/YA
(Visual Art
Exhibit) |
New Orleans |
LA |
Young Aspirations/
Young Artists |
SWAN Day - March Madness
(Play
Readings) |
Boston |
MA |
Regina Eliot Ramsey |
Boston's Glass Proscenium
(Dialogue for Theatre Professionals) |
Boston |
MA |
GAN-e-meed Theatre
Project |
Woven Stories of Hope, Love
and
Healing (Spoken Word & Other Arts) |
Brockton |
MA |
Indaba Theatre
of New England |
Zelda, Musings from the First
American Flapper (Play) |
4 Venuesons |
MA |
Rita Parisi-Waterfall
Productions |
Against the Odds:Adaptation,
Translation, and Survival
(Performance Art Festival) |
Medford |
MA |
Monkeyhouse |
Creativity and Slowing Down
(Reading and Workshop) |
Northampton |
MA |
Christian McEwen & Smith College Poetry Center |
SWAN Day Northampton:
Eurydice
(Play by Sarah Ruhl) |
Northampton |
MA |
Old Deerfield Productions & Northampton Academy of Music Theatre |
I'm not a Feminist, but . . .
(Theatre) |
Pittsfield, MA |
MA |
WAM Theatre |
| Our Voices Festival V
(Boston
Women Playwrights Festival) |
Weston |
MA |
Kelly DuMar, Ann Garvin,
Wendy Lement |
Stitch 'N Time
(Textile
Workshop) |
Accokeek |
MD |
Accokeek Foundation |
The Winter's Tale
(Theatre) |
Baltimore |
MD |
The Shakespeare Factory
Players |
Running: AMOK
(Musical
Theatre) |
Oxon Hill |
MD |
Liberated Muse Productions |
| Celebration of Elizabeth
Barrett Browning's Poetry (Reading) |
Ann Arbor |
MI |
Barbara Neri |
Murderess - Hair Raising
Monologues about Women Killers (Theatre) |
St. Paul |
MN |
Theatre Unbound |
If You Can Stand the Heat:
The
History of Women and Food
(Theatre) |
Keene |
NH |
Guerrilla Girls On Tour |
Lady Bird, Pat &
Betty:Tea for
Three (Play about First
Ladies) |
9 Venues |
NJ |
Elaine Bromka |
Someone Must Wash the Dishes:
An Anti-Suffrage Satire (Play) |
9 Venues |
NJ |
Ocean County Library System |
Who Does She Think She Is?
(Film Screening) |
Morristown |
NJ |
JSDD's Wellness, Arts, Enrichment Center |
Fierce Beauty del Norte
(Art
Exhibit) |
Espanola |
NM |
Jamie Aragon, Jillann Begay, Nikki
Bustos, Miranda Lopez, Melania
Pumphrey |
Investing in Women Artists for
Social Change (Panel) |
Brooklyn |
NY |
Women's Funding Network & Martha Richards |
9th Annual Women's Big Band
Concert (Music) |
Buffalo |
NY |
Ladies First Jazz Big Band |
Women in Arts Series 2011
(Exhibit and Performance) |
Dix Hills |
NY |
Legros Cultural Arts |
Women in Arts Series 2011
(Music, Film & Visual Arts) |
Flushing |
NY |
Legros Cultural Arts |
| The Period Project: An
Anthology on Menstruation (Book Release) |
Long Island City |
NY |
Bushwick Media &
Raven S. Blackstone |
Antony & Cleopatra
(Play
& SWAN Day Honors) |
New York |
NY |
Take Wing And Soar
Productions |
Birds on Fire
(World Premiere
Musical Drama) |
New York |
NY |
Theater for the New City |
Stalina by Emily Rubin
(Book
Launch) |
New York |
NY |
Emily Rubin |
Bussman's Holiday:
The Worst
Date Ever (Theatre) |
New York |
NY |
Culture Project's
Women Center Stage |
| Catch A Falling Star (Theatre) |
New York |
NY |
Culture Project's
Women Center Stage |
Celebrating National Women's
Month (Jazz) |
New York |
NY |
Nicki Mathis |
Celebrating Women Artists
(Art Installation & Open Mic) |
New York |
NY |
International Women
Artists' Salon |
Celebrating Women In Jazz
(Jazz) |
New York |
NY |
Dona Carter and Friends |
| NYCWAM Collaboration Award
Gala |
New York |
NY |
NY Women in Arts & Media Coalition |
Women Directors Weekend
(Theatre) |
New York |
NY |
Culture Project's
Women Center Stage |
Fabric, Flames, and Fervor:
Girls of the Triangle (Play) |
New York |
NY |
Looking for Lilith Theatre
Company |
FUQs: Frequently Unanswered
Questions (Theatre) |
New York |
NY |
Culture Project's
Women Center Stage |
Helen on 86th Street
(Family
Musical) |
New York |
NY |
M & T Productions |
Hold Music
(Theatre) |
New York |
NY |
Culture Project's
Women Center Stage |
Hope Street
(Theatre) |
New York |
NY |
Polifonic Entertainment |
In the Crossing
(Theatre) |
New York |
NY |
Culture Project's
Women Center Stage |
Lady Got Chops Women's
Music
& Arts Festival |
New York |
NY |
Kim Clarke, Producer,
WomeninJazz-NYC.org |
Light of Night
(New Play
Reading) |
New York |
NY |
Cecilia Copeland &
IATI Theater |
Limitless Casting: Could the
Best Man for the Part Be a Woman?
(Panel)
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New York |
NY |
Actors' Equity Association |
Mother of God!
(New Play) |
New York |
NY |
New Perspectives Theatre
Company |
Onions Make Us Cry
(Reading of
Nigerian Play) |
New York |
NY |
Hot Ink at the
Lark Festival |
Overcoming Speechlessness
(Theatre) |
New York |
NY |
Culture Project's
Women Center Stage |
| Puberty: A Cabaret |
New York |
NY |
The Wunderkind
Consortium |
R U Nobody, 2?
(Play Reading) |
New York |
NY |
NewShoe |
| Room (Play about Virginia Woolf featuring Ellen
Lauren) |
New York |
NY |
Women's Project & SITI Company |
The Last Story (Play about the
Last Adam & Eve) |
New York |
NY |
Theater TAS |
NYWIFT Annual SWAN Day
Celebration of Women Film
Directors |
New York |
NY |
New York Women in
Film & Television |
Tea & Cake with Betty Jane
(Performance Art) |
New York |
NY |
Soho20 Chelsea Gallery |
The 20 Something Project
(Theatre) |
New York |
NY |
Culture Project's
Women Center Stage |
The 6 Project
(Theatre) |
New York |
NY |
Culture Project's
Women Center Stage |
| The Tram: One-Act Play about
Women, Roosevelt Island & Bittersweet Chocolatesocolates |
New York |
NY |
Mary Crescenzo |
| The Wild Finish (Theatre) |
New York |
NY |
Culture Project's
Women Center Stage |
| Tribute to Judith Malina
(Theatre) |
New York |
NY |
Culture Project's
Women Center Stage |
Turning Points: Women Have
Their
Say (New Play Festival) |
New York |
NY |
League of Professional
Theatre Women |
We Are (Vietnamese Play by
Nguyen thi Minh Ngoc) |
New York |
NY |
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre &
Nguyen thi Minh Ngoc |
What On Earth? Inside the Crop
Circle Mystery (Film) |
New York |
NY |
Mighty Companions & Suzanne Taylor |
When Talking Can Be Walking
(Online, Radio, TV) |
New York |
NY |
C.C. Elian |
Women in Film: Breaking
Barriers
(Panel) |
New York |
NY |
Apollo Theater |
Women in the Heights: Perspectives
(Artist Talk & Exhibit) |
New York |
NY |
Northern Manhattan
Arts Alliance |
| Women's Night: Experimental
Films |
New York |
NY |
Lili White, Curator |
| A Woman Like That (Film about painter Artemisia
Gentileschi) |
Rosendale |
NY |
Rosendale Theater |
| 24-Hour Capital
Region/Berkshires Theatre Project |
Troy |
NY |
WAM Theatre, MOPCO & Arts
Center of the Capital Region |
Swan Day Celebrating Women
Artists (Speakers, Film, Music) |
Cincinnati |
OH |
Womens Way of Ohio and
Kentucky |
An Afternoon about Artemisia
Gentileschi (Talk, Film & Panel) |
Cleveland |
OH |
Cleveland Museum of
the Arts |
Painter Tina
Pustizzi-Meschko
(Exhibit) |
Ardmore |
OK |
Studio 107 |
Collage Artist Marilyn Artus
(Exhibit) |
Oklahoma City |
OK |
Marilyn Artus |
That's What SHE Said: And OKC
StorySLAM (Open Mic Story-telling) |
Oklahoma City |
OK |
OKC StorySLAM |
SWAN Day PDX - Celebrating
Women Artists (3-day Arts Fair) |
Portland |
OR |
SWAN Day PDX |
SWAN Day 2011: Celebration of
Pittsburgh's Women Artists
(Theatre) |
Pittsburgh |
PA |
No Name Players |
Pink Saris
(Film about Women
in India) |
Pittsburgh |
PA |
2011 CMU
International Film Festival |
4th Annual SWAN DAY Luncheon
(Buffet & Artist Reception) |
Jim Thorpe |
PA |
Alessandra M. Crum |
| Ladies Choice (Exhibit) |
Lower Burrell |
PA |
Artform Gallery |
Nicki Mathis Afrikan Amerikan
Jazz Quartet (Jazz) |
Providence |
RI |
FireWorks & Nicki Mathis |
Vox Feminina 2-The Feminine
Voice
(Theatre) |
Houston |
TX |
Pandora Theatre |
| The Early Education of Conrad
Eppler (Play by Isabella Russell-Ides) |
Dallas |
TX |
Echo Theatre |
SWAN Day in Hampton Roads
(Exhibit/Reception) |
Yorktown |
VA |
ArtInspired, LLC |
Women Artists of the Northeast
Kingdom (Demonstrations &
Performance)e) |
Newport |
VT |
Memphremagog Arts
Collaborative |
Here, There & Everywhere
(Monologues by Women Playwrights) |
Port Townsend |
WA |
Key City Public Theatre |
3rd Annual ISIS
Women Arts
Festival (Arts Festival) |
Seattle |
WA |
Steel Grace Dance &
Jah Breeze Rhythms |
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| Name of Event |
City, Country |
Organizer |
SWAN Festival Bulgaria
(5 Day Music and Arts Festival) |
Sofia, Bulgaria |
Art Nova Foundation |
SWAN Day Radio Program
(Radio) |
Pula, Croatia |
Roberta Weissman Nagy |
SWAN Day Berlin:
13 poems
in a
body - part one: take two(Performance Art)) |
Berlin, Germany |
Shannon Sullivan, Performance Lab Berlin |
A Performance Life
(Performance Art) |
Cologne, Germany |
SiglindeKallnbach |
SWAN Day Kenya:
Artivists
Connecting
with Other Artivists
(Festival) |
Nairobi, Kenya |
5 Centuries Human Rights
Theatre Group |
Women in Art:
International
Group Art Exhibit
(Online Catalogue Available) |
Montevideo, Uruguay |
Noemi Silvera |
SPECIAL THANKS
WomenArts is supported by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Meyer Levy Charitable Foundation, the Peace Development Fund, East Bay Community Foundation, the Leo S. Guthman Fund, the Do A Little Fund, and by gifts of time, energy and money from artists and arts supporters around the world.
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