Patricia Caicedo is a soprano and musicologist who has dedicated her career to expanding the canon of classical vocal music to include more composers from Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. She invites singers to participate in an annual global celebration called the International Day of Latin & Iberian Art Song.

WomenArts sends its congratulations to our colleagues in Nairobi, Kenya and in New York City who are hosting events celebrating women artists this Saturday, March 29. The Kenyan women have organized an amazing day-long festival, and the New York women are showing a film about the pay equity trail-blazer, Lilly Ledbetter.

WomenArts is proud to announce that it has formed a partnership with San Francisco’s Brava for Women in the Arts to support the creation of new works by women artists. WomenArts is co-sponsoring five of Brava’s artist projects during 2024 and plans to support additional projects over the next three years.  

With our next presidential election less than two months away, White Snake Projects, an activist opera company in Boston, is offering Mary D. Watkins’ opera about civil rights activist, Fannie Lou Hamer – a powerful reminder of the intense struggle over voting rights in the U.S. sixty years ago. 

On March 30, 2024, women artists in Nairobi, Kenya celebrated their 16th annual Support Women Artists Now Day with a festival of music, dance, and spoken word, as well as visual arts and crafts. How have they survived the political and economic upheavals in their country, and what can we learn from them?

In her wide-ranging book, “All About Love: New Visions,” the brilliant feminist scholar, bell hooks, explored the ways that sexism, classism, racism, and capitalism have limited our capacity to love each other. She urged us to use radical love to transform society. Three years after her death, her ideas are gaining traction.