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For Immediate Release
BROADWAY WOMEN CELEBRATE NEW HOLIDAY
AT LINCOLN CENTER LIBRARY
New York, NY – March 23, 2009 - New York’s League of Professional Theatre Women will host a panel of award-winning Broadway artists in honor of the second international SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now Day). The panelists will discuss PERFORMANCE COLLABORATIONS: How Women Theater Artists Make It Happen at the Bruno Walter Auditorium of the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 28, 2009. Admission is free.
The League’s panel is part of a world-wide SWAN Day movement that aims to increase visibility, funding, and employment for women artists. The panel will feature Robyn Goodman (producer of In the Heights, winner of the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical, founder of Second Stage Theatre), costume designer Carrie Robbins (designer of over 30 Broadway shows including the original production of Grease), playwright/performer Lisa Kron (2 Tony nominations for her Broadway production of Well); director Leigh Silverman (Well, Beebo Brinker Chronicles); Holly Hynes, costume designer for the New York City Ballet; and Barbara Cohen-Stratyner, Director of Exhibitions for the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Following the panel, the public is invited to tour the League’s exhibition, CURTAIN CALL: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance, on the first floor of the library in the Oenslager Gallery.
The range of events for SWAN Day 2009 is as diverse as the artists involved. In San Francisco, there will be a four-day women’s film festival; in Washington, D.C., an exhibit of Mary McFadden’s fashion designs at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. In New York City there will be 20 events including a showcase of women’s short films organized by New York Women in Film and Television, the Lady Got Chops jazz series in Brooklyn, a carnival at the Women’s Project, a discussion with playwrights Kia Corthron and Migdalia Cruz at Revolution Books, premieres at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, and dance events in Queens and the Bronx. Groups in the U.S., Kenya, Germany, Canada and Ghana are planning their second annual festivals, while new events will take place in Jamaica, Argentina, Israel, and China.
SWAN Day was conceived by Martha Richards, Executive Director of The Fund for Women Artists in San Francisco, and Jan Lisa Huttner, the force behind Chicago’s Women in the Audience Supporting Women Artists Now (WITASWAN). The holiday is coordinated by The Fund for Women Artists through a special website at www.SwanDay.org where visitors can post events on an interactive map, download free promotional materials, learn fundraising basics, and find out about proposed SWAN Day events.
The Fund for Women Artists is a non-profit organization that helps women artists get the resources they need by providing free online funding, networking, and advocacy information, and by building alliances of women artists and supporters. The Fund for Women Artists’ website serves over 500,000 visitors a year.
For more information about The Fund for Women Artists, please visit www.WomenArts.org.
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