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Happy SWAN Days All Over the World!

Thanks so much to all of you who are participating in the Third International SWAN Day.  Whether you are organizing an event, attending an event, or posting materials online, you are part of a world-wide movement that is growing stronger every year. (See this year's list of events below.)

There are SWAN Day 2010 events all over the U.S. and in places as far flung as Paris, Nairobi, Berlin, and Australia. These celebrations remind us that women artists all over the world are enriching their communities and creating change every day.

Remember to Send Us Your Pictures  & Comments!  You can email us at info@WomenArts.org or snail mail to: WomenArts, 3739 Balboa Street #181, San Francisco, CA 94121.  Thanks!!

Not on our SWAN Day List? If you know of a SWAN Day event that is not on the list below, please write to us, and we will be happy to add it.

Best Wishes for a Happy, Peaceful, and Prosperous SWAN Day!

Martha Richards, Executive Director, WomenArts


SWAN DAY EVENTS 2010

For detailed information about these events, please visit the SWAN Day Calendar>>

UNITED STATES EVENTS (Scroll to bottom or click here for International Events)

Name of Event City State Organizer
Celebration of Change
Art Exhibit & Reception
Anchorage AK Radical Arts for Women
Celebration of Change
'Masqueerade' Benefit
Anchorage AK Radical Arts for Women
Patagonia 1st Annual
SWAN Day
Patagonia AZ Artists of the Mt. Empire of Southern Arizona
Persimmon Tree:
Winter Issue 
Berkeley CA Persimmon Tree: An Online Magazine of the Arts by Women Over 60
Annual Sacramento Community Women of Color/Diversity Day Sacramento CA International Association for Women of Color Day
Heather Woodbury’s
"As The Globe Warms"
Los Angeles CA Heather Wooodbury's
Fomenting Arts 
Tenacity, Guts and Grace:
Greater South Bay SWAN Day
San Jose CA Alameda Art Works
Wordstreaming - A
Creative Writing Workshop
Menlo Park CA Wordstreaming
MediaARTS 2010: Algo-rhythms of heart/break/beats San Francisco CA Ninth Street Independent Film Center / Colibrita Productions
Story Circle Los Angeles CA Yaphattainment International
DIVAfest San Francisco CA EXIT Theatre
The Great Idea Tour Burlingame CA Deborah Crooks and Jean Mazzei
Tribal at The Nile 2010 Bakersfield CA Tribal Moon Rising
Reparations! Los Angeles CA Strike the Rock Foundation for Women and Children Worldwide
"Firstborn" Premiere at the
Berkeley Black Rep Theater
Berkeley CA Golden Pen Entertainment,
Director-Writer Tiffany Golden
The All Women
Clown Cabaret
San Francisco CA Pi: The Physical Comedy Troupe & The Clown Conservatory of S.F.
Who Speaks for Wolf San Pedro CA Strings & Things Puppet Theatre
Hope and Regeneration Oakland CA Eastmont  Municipal Branch Library
SWAN Day Crafts Fair Martinez CA Martinez Arts Assocation
Reading of New Play
by Anita Simons
La Jolla CA Anita Simons
Reading of Mad Pete - A New
Play by Denize Springer
San Francisco CA Denize Springer, playwright
SWAN Day Celebration
& Grand Opening
Idyllwild CA The Chakra Shack, A Women's Art Collective
Threshold Choir - Tenth
Anniversary Celebration
Oakland CA The Threshold Choirs, Kate Munger, Director
Releasing the Dancer Within:
Women Over 50 Who Move!
Albany CA Impromptu No Tutu, Greacian Goeke, Artistic Director
The Yin Energy Festival San Francisco CA Phoenix Rising, Hanuman Center Co-Production
SWAN Day Moorpark CA Moorpark College
Swan Day at the Inner City
Youth presented by G.E.T.I.T
San Francisco CA Inner City Youth
Women's Freedom Song Worldwide CA Womensfreedom
song.com
3rd Annual Redefining
Femininity - Women Warriors
San Pedro CA Gallery Azul
6th Annual San Francisco
Women's Film Festival
San Francisco CA San Francisco Women's Film Festival
"Heretics" at San Francisco
Women's Film Festival
San Francisco CA San Francisco Women's Film Festival and WomenArts
Celebrate SWAN Day in
Oakland, CA
Oakland CA Frisbie Streey Art
D'Lo's "Ramble-ations" San Francisco CA Brava For Women in The Arts
"Beebo Brinker Chronicles"
(West Coast Premiere)
San Francisco CA Brava for Women in the Arts
Talk by Carolyn See,
Writer & Novelist
Santa Monica CA Santa Monica Bay Women's Club
SWAN Day
Photography Show
Denver CO The Art Institute of Colorado
SWAN Day CT 2010 Hartford CT Jennifer Hill
Cognac and Coffee Washington DC Social Art and Culture
3rd Annual
DC SWAN Day
Washington DC Georgetown Theatre Company
City of Ocoee, Florida
Proclaims SWAN Day
Ocoee FL Kris Bauske
Spoken Soul Festival 2010 Miami FL Spoken Soul Productions LLC& Poetic 7
SWAN Spoken Soul
Showcase Vol. 3
Miami FL Spoken Soul Productons LLC& Poetic 7
Aunt Chloe: A Journal of
Artful Candor
Atlanta GA Aunt Chloe: A Journal of Artful Candor
...And Then He Kissed Me Milledgeville GA Georgia College & State University
Documentary Screening-
"Who Does She Think She Is"
Atlanta GA ArtMamas Atlanta
Mrs. Caliban Chicago IL Lifeline Theatre Company
A True History of the
Johnstown Flood
Chicago IL Goodman Theatre
The Shipment Chicago IL Museum of Contemporary Art
Louise Knight on Jane Addams Chicago IL Jane Addams Hull House Association
HERstory Torn Asunder: New Perspectives on Women's History Chicago IL Women's Media Group
Soundings: The Chayah Drawings Chicago IL Michele Feder-Nadoff
Film Screening:
My Grandfather's House
Chicago IL WITASWAN + Chicago YIVO + 6 Additional Sponsors
Film Screening: Luboml:
My Heart Remembers
Skokie IL WITASWAN + Chicago YIVO + 6 Additional Sponsors
Celebrating SWAN Day:
Why Here & Why Now?
Chicago IL College of Complexes
Women & Film:
A Historical Perspective
Glenview IL Glenview IL Branch (AAUW)
Paloma Querida Chicago IL Luna Negra Dance Theater 
Meet The Schvesters! Chicago IL KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation
If I Ruled The World Chicago IL Harold Washington College
Illinois Women Film/Video Presentation 2010 Chicago IL Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery
1020 2010 Chicago IL The Studio at 1020
Swan Day, Celebrating
Women Artists
Fort Wayne IN Sophia's Portico, Inc
Pieces Wichita KS Angeline Edmondson
SWAN Conversation on
Women and the Arts
Louisville KY Actors Theatre of Louisville & Kentucky Foundation for Women
Women Artists of the WPA Versailles KY Pat Choate with the Woodford County Library
Alexandria, LA SWAN Day/
IWD Celebration
Alexandria LA Stories For The Stage
Our Voices Festival IV Weston MA Boston Area Women Playwrights
March Madness - 4th Annual
SWAN Day Readings
Boston MA Regina Eliot-Ramsey
The Gecko in Winter Cambridge MA in vivo Productions
Women Connecting
Through Art
Stoughton MA Henson Jackson Art Gallery
The Vagina Monologues Cambridge MA Cambridge, MA, V-Day Campaign 
Fearless Creation Collaborative Cambridge MA Emily Beattie & SWAN Day MA
A WAM Welcome - Theatre Benefit at Barrington Stage Pittsfield MA Women's Action Movement Theatre
Fe-mail Gallery Talk Great Barrington MA Berkshire Art Kitchen
Karen & Suzi's Daily-ness
of Art Workshop
Great Barrington MA Berkshire Art Kitchen
Who Does She Think She Is?
Movie Screening & Discussion
Great Barrington MA Berkshire Art Kitchen
Kristy Simmons Art Opening Bethesda MD Tai Sophia Institute
Mainely Monologues Portland ME Carolyn Gage,  Laura Emack,  Linda Britt,  Lindsay Harris Friel,others
Reading of "Unlocking Desire"
Play by Barbara Neri
Hamtramk MI Planet Ant Theater
Cassandra's Cabaret Minneapolis MN Cassandra Shore
Enchanted Evening Minneapolis MN Jawaahir Dance Company
Woven from the Land:
Women.  Prairie.  Culture.
Minneapolis MN Teresa Konechne
KOPN Women Performers Columbia MO KOPN FM
Pastries and Paper Arts Charlotte NC Women Centered Art Co-op
Eve's Diary  Jackson NJ Jackson Public Library -
Michele LaRue, performer
Monologue Mania Throws the Book at Domestic Violence West Orange NJ Monologue Mania
"Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire" Mount Laurel NJ NJ Council of Jewish Women - Horizons Speakers Bureau - by Michele LaRue
"Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire" Morristown NJ The Morristown & Morris Township Library - Michele LaRue, performer
Tales Well Told: “Heartsease” &“The Rathskeller & the Rose” Bridgewater NJ Bridgewater Library - Michele LaRue, actress
"Someone Must Wash the Dishes: An Anti-Suffrage Satire" Medford NJ Medfor Leas & Horizons Speakers Bureau - Michele LaRue, actress
SWAN Day/Santa Fe Santa Fe NM Sallie Bingham and Leslie Dillen
Pecong featuring
Phyllis Yvonne Stickney
New York NY Take Wing And Soar Productions, Inc.
Filmmaker Louise Vance
on CNN's "Amanpour"
New York NY Louise Vance,
Seneca Falls Film Project
Miss Lulu Bett New York NY The WorkShop Theater Company
The Wonder  New York NY The Queen's Company
Theatrical Reading  New York City NY Dramatists Guild of America with Playwright, Kris Bauske
Wonder Bread New York NY Danusia Trevino
Things That Don't Happen:
Modern Love Songs
New York NY Project Y Theatre
SWAN Day Event Brooklyn NY Ruby Streak Trapeze Studio/
The Velveteen Rainbow
Towards A New WPA: Play
Reading & Panel Discussion
New York NY WomenArts, NewShoe, Cherry Lane Theatre, League of Professional Theatre Women 
2010 New York
Maria Irene Fornes Festival
New York NY NYU/INTAR
Savor the Flavor -
Dinner and a Show
New York NY New Perspectives Theatre Company
"Someone Must Wash the Dishes"
& "Eve’s Diary"
Garden City NY Nassau Community College
8th Annual Lady Got Chops - Women's Music-Arts Festival New York, NY NY Kim Clarke and Women in Jazz
The Last Story New York NY Theater TAS
Women in the Arts:
Art Exhibit & Reception
New York NY Legros Cultural Arts
Women in the Arts Series:
Women in Music
New York NY Legros Cultural Arts
The Soup Show New York NY NY Neo-Futurists Desiree Burch, Cara Francis and Erica Livingston
"Miss Lulu Bett" - A Reading
with Music By Zona Gale
New York NY Womens Project Theatre
Women in the Arts Series:
Women in Dance
New York NY Legros Cultural Arts
SWAN Day Benefit at
Borders - Manhattan
Manhattan NY Coni Ciongoli-Koepfinger's Candledancing
Women in the Arts Series: Networking Event New York NY Legros Cultural Arts
VintAGE AfterGlow New York NY NY Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts and Media
Feminist Gaze & Spectatorship New York NY Bluestocking Books
The Spring and Fall of
Eve Adams
New York NY Theater for the New City
Seneca Falls Film Screening
& Panel with Filmmaker
Rochester NY Louise Vance,
Seneca Falls Film Project
NYWIFT Celebrates
SWAN Day
New York NY New York Women in Film & Television
Down the Rabbit Hole -
The Musical
Brooklyn NY Written and Performed by Erin Jividen, directed by Angela Astle
Seneca Falls Screening
Columbia Univ/Barnard College
New York NY

Louise Vance,
Seneca Falls Film Project

"Art Makes Us Human" - Mary
Perry Stone, 1909-2007
Dayton OH Missing Peace Art Space
Chickspeare! Columbus OH Rosebriar Shakespeare Co. & Columbus Civic Theater
A Show of Respect Dayton OH Helen Broadfoot
"Her Story" Ardmore OK Studio 107 and Ardmore Contemporary Dance Company
The Blue Stocking Experiment
& SWAN Day Celebration
Oklahoma City OK Feminist Art Project -- Oklahoma Chapter
SWAN Day PDX Performance Showcase and Art Exhibit Portland OR SWAN Day PDX
SWAN Day in Burns, Oregon Burns OR Harney County Library
Swan Day Luncheon Lehighton PA Spirit Creations Indian River Art Guild
SWAN Day Celebration Danville PA Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble
International Women's Day Philadelphia PA Women's Caucus for Art
A Celebration of
Pittsburgh's Women Artists
Pittsburgh PA No Name Players
Green Light Arts Debut Philadelphia PA Green Light Arts
Women's Reading and
Art Share for SWAN Day
Philadelphia PA Big Blue Marble Bookstore
Conjure: Calling up the Spirit of Struggle, Resistance, & Liberation Austin TX Generic Ensemble Company and 3Collective
Our American Ann Sisters Performance Afton VA Performers Exchange Project (PEP)
Women Create in the Northeast Kingdom Newport VT Memphremagog Arts Collaborative
First 15 -Women Who Write
Wild Words
Seattle WA Flying Elf Productions
2nd Annual ISIS:
Women Arts Festival
Seattle WA Jah Breeze Rhythms/ Steel Grace Dance and the UW Ethnic Cultural Center
The Butcher of Baraboo Madison WI Kathie Rasmussen Women's Theatre
A Room of One's Own
Feminist Bookstore SWAN Day
Madison WI Sandra Adell, Author
Betty's Summer Vacation Morgantown WV M. T. Pockets Theatre Company
International Events
Name of Event City, Country Organizer
It's A Wrap Maffra, Australia Mandy Rowe
SWAN Day Berlin 2010 Berlin, Germany Performance Lab Berlin
Inspiration Spring:
Female Artist 
Berlin, Germany MusenTritt
Performance of Sugarbaby,
A Play by Siglinde Kallnbach 
Cologne, Germany Siglinde Kallnbach
Verdict of Sorcery: The Salem
Witch Trials for the YouTube Gen
Paris, France Carla Tomé (Co-Writer and Director.)
Gender Blending Paris, France Galerie Michel Journiac - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Creative/Digital Media Meet Up -
International Women's Day
Cardiff, Wales, UK Welsh Music Foundation and CardiffGirlGeek
SWAN Day Ghana Tamale, Ghana Rural Women & Children's Development Organization
Being Fed Up - Video Spot Rome, Italy Cinepuck and Unesco
SWAN Day Kenya Nairobi, Kenya Five Centuries Human Rights Theatre Group


Special Thanks

SWAN Day 2010 is made possible by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lambent Fund of the Tides Foundation, the Leo S. Guthman Fund, The Sister Fund, the Loreeen Arbus Foundation, and by gifts of time, energy and money from artists and arts supporters around the world.


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