SWAN Day Connecticut
Organizer: Jennifer Hill
Poster: Second Story Riot
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
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, 1442A Walnut Street, Suite 67, Berkeley, CA 94709. 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 Womenin the Arts | |||
| Irena Sendler: In the Name of Their Mothers (Film Screenings) | San Jose | CA | Mary Skinner, Director & Cinequest.org |
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| Ruined (Play by Lynn Nottage) | Denver | CO | Denver Center TheatreCompany | |||
| 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-WaterfallProductions | |||
| A Woman Like That (Screening) | Washington | DC | National Gallery of Art | |||
| Fourth DC SWAN Day (Festival of Theatre & Other Arts) |
Washington | DC | The Georgetown TheatreCompany | |||
| 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 WashingtonLibrary 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 Filmabout Jewish Mothers) | 3 Venues | IL | Chicago YIVO | |||
| Painting Tikkun Olam: Dialogue withNetally 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 |
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| The 9th Floor Door: Blocked Justice of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (Performance & Panel) |
Chicago | IL | Working WomensHistory 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 ofFolk 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 |
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| 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 ofMain 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 LilithTheatre 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 Theatreof New England | |||
| Zelda, Musings from the First American Flapper (Play) | 4 Venues | MA | Rita Parisi-WaterfallProductions | |||
| 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 RaisingMonologues 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 SoarProductions | |||
| 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’sWomen Center Stage | |||
| Catch A Falling Star (Theatre) | New York | NY | Culture Project’sWomen Center Stage | |||
| Celebrating National Women’sMonth (Jazz) | New York | NY | Nicki Mathis | |||
| Celebrating Women Artists(Art Installation & Open Mic) | New York | NY | International WomenArtists’ 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) |
New York | NY | Actors’ Equity Association | |||
| Mother of God! (New Play) | New York | NY | New Perspectives TheatreCompany | |||
| Onions Make Us Cry (Reading of Nigerian Play) |
New York | NY | Hot Ink at the Lark Festival |
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| 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 |
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| 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 inFilm & 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 Chocolates |
New York | NY | Mary Crescenzo | |||
| The Wild Finish (Theatre) | New York | NY | Culture Project’sWomen Center Stage | |||
| Tribute to Judith Malina (Theatre) |
New York | NY | Culture Project’sWomen 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 andKentucky | |||
| An Afternoon about Artemisia Gentileschi (Talk, Film & Panel) | Cleveland | OH | Cleveland Museum ofthe 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 ofPittsburgh’s Women Artists(Theatre) | Pittsburgh | PA | No Name Players | |||
| Pink Saris (Film about Women in India) |
Pittsburgh | PA | 2011 CMUInternational 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) | 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 | |||
| INTERNATIONAL EVENTS | ||||||
| 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 ) |
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 RightsTheatre Group | ||||
| Women in Art: International Group Art Exhibit (Online Catalogue Available) | Montevideo, Uruguay | Noemi Silvera | ||||
SPECIAL THANKS
SWAN Day 2011 and WomenArts were 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.