SWAN Day: 2012 List of Events

Happy SWAN Day 2012!

SWAN Day Pittsburgh

SWAN Day Pittsburgh
Organizers: Tressa Glover &
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Thanks so much to all of you who are participating in the Fifth 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 2012 events all over the U.S. and in places as far flung as Bulgaria, Spain, Kenya, and Canada. Women are gathering to bring harmony to the world through music, to build movements where we all can dance, to share pictures that open people’s eyes, and to 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


List of SWAN Day 2012 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 in the month.

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

Name of Event City State Organizer
Benicia in Bloom (Visual Arts) Benicia CA Mernie Buchanan Studio & Gallery
Andrea Brachfeld and Phoenix Rising Jazz School Berkeley CA Jazz School
The Multicultural Flute / Instrumentalists Master Class Berkeley CA Jazz School
What Do the Women Say? (Readings) Berkeley CA Golden Thread Productions
Dynamics of Light Filled Landscape Painting with Julie Houck Carmel CA Carmel Art Institute
Painting Clouds and Skies with Julie Houck Carmel CA Carmel Art Institute
Transformixer (Open Mic & Networking) Culver City CA Yaphattainment International
Open House/Art Sale/Fundraiser El Cerrito CA Laura Chenault
Sister Cities  (Theatre) Hollywood CA Towne Street Theatre
Hoodoo Love  (Theatre)  Hollywood CA AGS Theatre
Tohubohu! Extreme Theatre Ensemble Los Angeles CA Rachel Rosenthal
Macbeth: A Bloody Exploration of Obsession, Sex, and Gender Roles  (Theatre) Los Angeles CA The Illyrian Players Theatre Company
Collaborations Conversation (Discussion & Networking) Los Angeles CA Theatre Mab Town Hall, Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initaitive, Theatricum Botanicum
Seven: (Play about 7 women human rights activists) Los Angeles CA Paula Cizmar-Catherine Filloux-Gail Kriegel-Carol K Mack-Ruth Margraff-Anna D Smith-Susan Yankowitz
SWAN Day Martinez Crafts Fair Martinez CA Martinez Arts Association
Atomic Intuition  (Theatre) Oakland CA Ragged Wing Ensemble
Love Balm For My SpiritChild: Staged Reading Oakland CA Arielle Julia Brown
Second Sundays with the Songwriter Collective Oakland CA Deborah Crooks, Kate Burkart and Vanessa Lowe
Under the Influence of…The Music & Poetry of Abbey Lincoln Oakland CA Black Jazz Ensemble Theatre
Romantic Realism Paintings by Ione Citrin Pasadena CA Ione Citrin
Talking With…by Jane Martin  (Theatre) Sacramento CA Resurrection Theatre
SWAN Day in Balboa Park (Multi-Disciplinary) San Diego CA All Women Artists
A Singular Story  (Theatre) San Francisco CA 3Girls Theatre, Associate Playwright Margery Kreitman
Andrea Brachfeld and Phoenix Rising Jazz School San Francisco CA The Yoga Society of San Francisco
COPUS at 50 Mason Social House (Music) San Francisco CA COPUS
Hardware Store Indian  (Theatre) San Francisco CA 3Girls Theatre, Associate Playwright Robin Bradford
Loose Knit – A Play by Theresa Rebeck San Francisco CA University of San Francisco – Performing Arts & Social Justice Program
52 Man Pickup (Play by Desiree Burch) San Francisco CA Brava Theatre
8th Annual San Francisco International Women’s Film Festival  San Francisco CA Women’s Film Institute
Magician’s Choice (New play reading) San Francisco CA 3Girls Theatre
Not Without Our Women – a new musical San Francisco CA 3Girls Theatre, Associate Playwright Patricia Milton
Saving Andrea (Staged Reading) San Francisco CA 3GIRLS THEATRE, Founding Playwright Suze Allen
The Right Thing by AJ Baker  (Theatre) San Francisco CA 3Girls Theatre
To Be Merry (Theatre) San Francisco CA 3Girls Theatre
What About Ben? by Lee Brady  (Theatre) San Francisco CA 3Girls Theatre
Fireside Concert with NY Flutist, Andrea Brachfeld Santa Clara CA Mission College Performing Arts Series
Charlie: An Adventure  (Theatre) Santa Cruz CA Red Egg Theater
SWAN Day Colorado (Month Long Multi-Disciplinary Festival ) Carbondale CO SWAN Day Colorado
Women+Film Voices Film Fetsival Denver CO Denver Film Society
Tower Concert Pagosa Springs CO Shannon Sullivan
SWAN Day Connecticut Fifth Anniversary Hartford CT JENNIFER HILL
Staged Reading on SWAN Day New Haven CT The ProduceHERS
DC SWAN Day Washington DC The Georgetown Theatre Company
Rachel Rotenberg: New Work Exhibit  Washington DC Hillyer Arts Space,  artist:Rachel Rotenberg
I’m Every Woman: A Women’s History Month Swan Day Event Washington DC Liberated Muse Arts Group
MAS(k) Attack! Social Commentary in the Artform of Mas (Carnival Costume Design) Washington DC Studio Lafoncette Photography
SWAN Community Program (Arts Education) Miami FL Spoken Soul Festival
Fifth Annual SWAN Spoken Soul Festival Miami FL Spoken Soul Productions LLC
Vanessa Baez Memorial Women’s Brunch Miami FL Spoken Soul Festival
Raize It Up Live! Tribute To Women In The Arts! Miami FL Soulflower
Through A Dusty Window in Africa (Photos) Atlanta GA Jackie Rice
Queen Afua’s New Book Atlanta GA Sacred Sistrum Productions
American College Dance Festival Albany GA Georgia College Department of Theatre, Julie Mulvihill
If I Ruled the World with Jan Lisa Huttner Chicago IL Harold Washington College
Flames of Injustice: The Triangle Factory Fire’s Legacy (Theatre) Chicago IL AAUW Chicago Inc. Branch and Working Women’s History Project
Screening with Israeli Filmmaker Dalit Kimor Chicago IL University of Chicago
Screening with Israeli Filmmaker Dalit Kimor Chicago IL Columbia College Chicago
Penny’s Picks Book Launch (Jan Lisa Huttner) Chicago IL Women & Children First Bookstore
Tribute to Author Marie Waife-Goldberg Chicago IL KAM Isaiah Israel
Film: Women Unchained (Beverly Siegel) Chicago IL Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Film: Retrace (Judit Elek) Chicago IL Gene Siskel Film Center
Intertwined Identities (Moroccan Music with Vanessa Paloma) Chicago IL Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
The Convert (Play by Danai Gurira) Chicago IL Goodman Theatre
SWAN Day at the Goodman Theatre Dinner Chicago IL WITASWAN
Film: Ladino: 500 Years Young (Rina Papish) Chicago IL Yasmin Levy
Film: Pink Ribbons, Inc. (Lea Pool) Evanston IL Talking Pictures Festival
Film: Miss Representation (Jennifer Siebel Newsom) Evanston IL Talking Pictures Festival
Film: Chava Alberstein: What I Am Now (Sivan Arbel) Skokie IL Chicago YIVO
DivaFest – A Celebration of Women Playwrights Indianapolis IN IndyFringe
Swan Day Kywopho: Lexington, Kentucky Lexington KY Kentucky Women Photographers Network
SWAN Day at PYRO Gallery Louisville KY WomenWork/Women’sWork
SWAN Day – Crochet Chicken Workshop with Ruth Glaser Newport KY Kentucky Haus inside Kentucky Pickens at the Levee
SWAN Day – Bow Making Techniques by Peggie Brunyate Newport KY Kentucky Haus inside Kentucky Pickens at the Levee
SWAN Day – Fiber Art Demonstration with Joy, Rose and Elizabeth Galbraith Newport KY Kentucky Haus inside Kentucky Pickens at the Levee
SWAN Day New Orleans: Women Artists Open Mic  New Orleans LA Diana Shortes, Marsha Masterson, Veronica Russell, Amy Woodruff & others
2012 SWAN Day Boston  (19 Women Artists) Boston MA SWAN Boston
Film: of Invisible Women, a documentary by Susan Davis, Steve Mills, and Susan Valdez Boston MA SAG/AFTRA
Women, Action & the Media Film Festival 2012 Cambridge MA Women, Action & the Media Boston
Roots 2 Resistance Art and Activism:10,000 People in 60 Days Campaign! Florence MA Denise Beaudet
24hr Berkshires/Capital Region Women Playwrights’ Project Lenox MA Women’s Action Movement Theatre, MOPCO
Fem Noire Women Playwrights’ Festival Lowell MA Image Theater
Truth,  An Opera about Sojourner Truth Northampton MA Old Deerfield Productions
Women of Will (Play with Tina Packer) Northampton MA Northampton Academy of Music
Our Voices VI Annual Women Playwrights Festival (Daytime Sessions) Weston MA Our Voices
Our Voices VI Annual Women Playwrights Festival (Evening Readings) Weston MA Boston Area Women Playwrights
Little Patuxent Review: Literary Journal Social Justice Issue Reading Columbia MD Little Patuxent Review
Bold Hope 2012: 4 New Plays Laurel MD Venus Theatre Play Shack
Film: Breaking Through the Clouds: The First Women’s National Air Derby (Heather Taylor) Laurel MD Heather Taylor of Archetypal Images, LLLC
Film: Breaking Through the Clouds: The First Women’s National Air Derby (Heather Taylor) Frederick MD Heather Taylor of Archetypal Images, LLLC
Film: Breaking Through the Clouds: The First Women’s National Air Derby (Heather Taylor) Hagerstown MD Heather Taylor of Archetypal Images, LLLC
Orchestra Performance of Vivian Adelberg Rudow’s Spirit of America Owings Mills MD Orchestra of St. John’s at Har Sinai Congregation
WAMMFest – Women And Minorities in Media Festival (Audio and Video Festival) Towson MD Towson University/WAMMFest
Donna Jackson (Visual Arts Project) Detroit MI DMJStudio
Film: “a woman like that”  An Afternoon  With Artemisia Gentileschi (Ellen Weissbrod) St. Louis MO Ellen Weissbrod, Filmmaker and The Saint Louis Art Museum
Women in Performance: Lady Roundtable & Show Omaha NE Les Femmes Folles & X-Rated: Women in Music
Soup ‘n Cinema Celebrates Women’s History Month Omaha NE Les Femmes Folles
Reel Jersey Girls: A Century of Women Filmmakers Asbury Park NJ Fort Lee Film Commission
“Lady Bird, Pat & Betty:  Tea for Three” (Theatre) New Hanover Township NJ Elaine Bromka
“Lady Bird, Pat & Betty:  Tea for Three” (Theatre) Waretown NJ Elaine Bromka
Write-a-thon Albuquerque NM Shannon Sullivan & Joey Juschka
House Concert Albuquerque NM Shannon Sullivan
Interpretations 23 (Composer Bun-Ching Lam & Trombonist Monique Buzzarté) Brooklyn NY Bun-Ching Lam & Monique Buzzarté
Mother Wit: Echoes From The Womb (Theatre) Brooklyn NY The Griots Healing Circle in Partnership With Words & Visions Theater
Alice Shields’ Mioritza – Requiem for Rachel Corrie to be performed by Monique Buzzarté Brooklyn NY Interpretations Concert Series, featuring Trombonist Monique Buzzarté
Women in Arts Series 2012 Corona NY Legros Cultural Arts
Matters of the HeART (Music) Greenburgh NY Mary Crescenzo Band
Jazz Vespers In Harlem Harlem NY Antoinette Montague
Film: “a woman like that”  An Evening With Artemisia Gentileschi (Ellen Weissbrod) Hempstead NY Ellen Weissbrod, Filmmaker
Women Create (Month Long Multidisciplinary Festival) Jamestown NY CAW WNY
RingShout for Reproductive Justice: Freebirth  (Interactive Multi-media) Manhattan NY Betty’s Daughter Arts Collaborative, LLC
Women Directors’ Weekend (Theatre) Manhattan NY Women Center Stage
Ache What Make Lenelle Moïse (Theatre) Manhattan NY Women Center Stage
Swell (Theatre) Manhattan NY Women Center Stage
After Hours (Theatre) Manhattan NY Women Center Stage
Shaheed: The Dream and Death of Benazir Bhutto (Theatre) Manhattan NY Women Center Stage
Dictee: bells fall a peal to sky (Theatre) Manhattan NY Women Center Stage
1st Generation Nigerian-American Project (Theatre) Manhattan NY Women Center Stage
Pete the Girl (Theatre) Manhattan NY Women Center Stage
Vibesolos Spring 2011: A Brand New Evening of One-Girl Shows (Theatre) Manhattan NY Women Center Stage
Foreign Bodies (Theatre) Manhattan NY Women Center Stage
Faith (Theatre) Manhattan NY Women Center Stage
Rebecca Hart (Theatre) Manhattan NY Women Center Stage
Women Center Stage 2012 Festival Wrap Party  Manhattan NY Women Center Stage
A Special Women’s Appreciation Month Concert Mt Vernon NY PJS Jazz Society/Antoinette Montague
Lady Got Chops Women’s History Month Music Festival New York NY Kim Clarke
Unreachable Eden (Theatre) New York NY Theater for the New City–Barbara Kahn
The Vagina Monologues (Theatre) New York NY 2012 Hunter V-DAY Vagina Dream Team
Beat Chick (Theatre) New York NY WorkShop Theater Company
Salon sYmphoNY (Performance Art) New York NY International Women Artists’ Salon and Art Boundaries Unlimited
Women’s Work Presents Second Concert of 2012 Series New York NY Pianist Mary Kathleen Ernst is Featured Performer
Real Stories on Stage (Panel Discussion at the Apollo Theatre) New York NY Lisa Cortés, Katti Gray, Katori Hall, Alia Jones-Harvy, Tamara Tunie
Behind the Scenes: Women in Theatre (Panel Discussion at the Apollo Theatre) New York NY Carin Ford, Stephanie Klapper, Mari Nakachi, Wendy Seyb, and  Linda Twine
30 Plays Celebrate 30 Years (Women’s Theatre Festival) New York NY League of Profesional Theatre Women, and Playwrights Gallery
White Sugar in a Black Pot (NY Film Premiere)  NYU First Run Film Festival 2012 New York NY Writer-Director: Rachel I. Johnson
Between A Rock and A Hard Place (Musical Theatre) New York NY Fran Handman, Mark Farnen and Lucas Syed
World Premiere of the Off-Broadway play, Teresa’s Ecstasy by Begonya Plaza New York NY Cherry Lane Theatre
Reading of ADA: Opera about Ada Byron (Kim Sherman, Margaret Vandenburg and Lisa Rothe) New York NY Center for Contemporary Opera
G.E.M.S: A One Woman Show (Theatre) New York NY Pamela Jackson
Satan’s Whore: Victoria Woodhull (Theatre) New York NY Theater for the New City
Women In Front Of and Behind the Camera Film Series New York NY The African Diaspora Film Festival
Dramatists Guild Footlights Event New York NY Dramatists Guild
Salon Creative Lounge – Celebrate the Women Who Artify (Multi-Disciplinary) New York NY International Women Artists’ Salon
SWAN Day Screening: Miss Representation (Jennifer Siebel Newsom) New York NY New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT)
SWAN Day Reception & Networking Event New York NY Legros Cultural Arts
Pianist Jenny Q. Chai’s Carnegie Hall Debut New York NY Ear To Mind
Shakespeare-a-Thon II:  Comedy Tomorrow, Tragedy Tonight! (All-women casts) New York NY Judith Shakespeare Company
Take What Is Yours – A play about Alice Paul and the Suffrage Movement New York NY Erica Fae, Jill A. Samuels
At the Other Side of the Earth (Lesbian Pulp Fiction Punk Opera) New York NY Riot Girl Opera – Marie Incontrera
The Missing 3rd Festival Show (Films) New York NY Another Experiment by Women Film Festival
R U Nobody 2?  (Theatre) New York NY NewShoe Theatre Group
If I Did This (Theatre) New York NY NewShoe Theatre Group
World Premiere of the Opera/Oratorio, The Rape of the Lock New York City NY Deborah Mason
Women of Another Planet (Theatre & Music) Peekskill NY Peekskill Playhouse – Mary Crescenzo, Artistic Director
Musical Tribute to Phoebe Snow Peekskill NY Mary Crescenzo and her Band
International Swan Day Cincinnati (Multi-disciplinary Festival) Cincinnati OH Womens Way Of Ohio and Kentucky
SWAN Day Dayton (Multi-generational, Multi-disciplinary Festival) Dayton OH Stacey Lane
Grandma Gatewood:  Ohio’s Legendary Hiker (Bette Lou Higgins) Oregonia OH Eden Valley Enterprises
SWAN Day PDX Performances and Art Exhibit Portland OR SWAN Day PDX
SWAN Day Pittsburgh 2012 (Multi-disciplinary Festival) Pittsburgh PA No Name Players
Body & Soul: The Courage and Beauty of Breast Cancer Survivors Haverford PA Jean Karotkin
Swan Day  Trip to NY Art Expo Normal Square PA Indian River Art Guild
Vox Feminina 3 (Theatre) Houston TX Pandora Theatre
USA Projects: Joan Fabian: Culture by Color: A Mapping Painting Series San Antonio TX Joan Fabian / USA Projects
Friends of Music Concert Featuring Composition by Jamie K. Sims Richmond VA St. Mark’s Church, Jamie K. Sims, Composer
SWAN DAY Art Show and Celebration Yorktown VA ArtInspired, LLC
Here, There, & Everywhere–A Celebration of Women Playwrights Port Townsend WA Key City Public Theatre, Port Townsend, WA
SWAN DAY Screening of Profiles: Women in the Arts Northwest Seattle WA La-Tonia Denise Willis
DramaQueen Swan Day Celebration (Staged Readings of One-Act Plays) Seattle WA DramaQueen
Good Girls Guide: Dominatrix for Dummies (Theatre) Seattle WA Eleanor O’Brien
The Bearing Public Sculpture Project (Sculptor: Ildikó Kalapács) Spokane WA The Bearing Public Sculpture Project
Denise R. Banda Swan Day Fundraiser (Visual Artist) Brookfield WI Denise R. Banda

INTERNATIONAL EVENTS

Name of Event
City Country Organizer
SWAN Festival Bulgaria (Multi-Disciplinary Week-Long Festival) Sofia Bulgaria Art Nova Foundation
The Invisible Red Thread: Free Documentary Screening Richmond Hill, Ontario Canada The People’s Picture Co./Richmond Hill Public Library
Taking Root – The Vision of Wangari Maathai: Free Documentary Screening Richmond Hill, Ontario Canada The People’s Picture Co./Richmond Hill Public Libary
SWAN Day Kenya (Multi-Disciplinary Festival) Nairobi Kenya Five Centuries Human Rights Theatre
Homage to Louise Bourgeois h(and) Ana Mendieta (Performance Art) Mallorca Spain Alonso and Marful
Dones x Dones – Women x Women & Women’s Wall (Visual Arts) Barcelona Spain Katia Muñoz
International Mail Art Project – Women’s Issues (Visual Arts) Valdemoro Spain Colectivo Femenino Art Esencia – Katia Muñoz
Cultural Disentanglements (Online Video) Basel Switzerland C.C. Elian