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Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Chantal Legros

Chantal Legros

On Sunday, March 30th, 2014 at 3:00 pm, Legros Cultural Arts, will host a SWAN Day event commemorating the life and achievements of Chantal Legros, their Founder and Executive Director […]

This entry was posted in Dance, Music, SWAN, Theatre on March 26, 2014 by Martha Richards.

LA Female Playwrights Initiative Brings SWAN Day to Hollywood

LA FPI SWAN Poster

The intrepid LA Female Playwrights Initiative brings SWAN Day to Hollywood this Saturday with their SWAN Day Action Fest, a free festival of playreadings and connections on March 29 from 10:30 […]

This entry was posted in Employment, SWAN, Theatre on March 25, 2014 by Martha Richards.

No Name Players Present The Sixth Annual SWAN Day Pittsburgh

SWAN Day Pittsburgh

No Name Players will present the sixth annual SWAN Day Pittsburgh at 8 p.m. this Saturday, March 29 at the New Hazlett Theater, 6 Allegheny Square, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In previous SWAN Day Pittsburgh events, […]

This entry was posted in Dance, Film, Music, SWAN, Theatre, Video, Video Included in the Post, Visual Arts on March 25, 2014 by Suma Nagaraj.

The Supreme Price Explores Women’s Challenges in Nigeria

Hafsat Abiola

Six powerful New York organizations will join together to celebrate SWAN Day with a screening of The Supreme Price, Joanna Lipper’s documentary about efforts to increase women’s political power in […]

This entry was posted in Arts & Politics, Film, SWAN, Video Included in the Post on March 20, 2014 by Martha Richards.

Denver’s Women + Film VOICES Film Festival

Lovely Louise

Denver’s Women+Film VOICES Film Festival is an annual week-long showcase of documentaries, features and short films celebrating the best in women-centric programming – either films written or directed by women or films […]

This entry was posted in Film, SWAN on March 20, 2014 by Martha Richards.

Hawaiian Women of Wonders Film Festival

Hawai’i Women in Filmmaking are celebrating SWAN Day this year with their second Women Of Wonders Film Festival on March 29 and 30.  The 2-day festival presents films directed by women […]

This entry was posted in Film, SWAN on March 20, 2014 by Martha Richards.

Granny’s Got Game – Documentary About Senior Women Athletes

Granny's Got Game

A new women’s arts organization in Nashville, Tennessee called Her Point of View is celebrating SWAN Day on March 25 by presenting Granny’s Got Game by Angela Gorsica Alford, an inspiring […]

This entry was posted in Film, SWAN on March 19, 2014 by Martha Richards.

Athena Project Arts Festival Presents 3 Weeks of Denver Women Artists

Government Issued Long Johns

The Athena Project, a group of professional women artists in Denver, has organized an ambitious three-week festival which will feature a world-premiere play by Erin Wagoner,  workshops of four new plays […]

This entry was posted in Art Forms, Dance, Music, SWAN, Theatre, Visual Arts on March 14, 2014 by Martha Richards.

Yuriko Doi Performs Male Kyogen Role at Theatre of Yugen

Yuriko Doi

As one of the very few classically trained female practitioners of the Japanese Noh and Kyogen theatre styles, Yuriko Doi has focused on bringing innovative East-West fusion work to Western […]

This entry was posted in Art Forms, Dance, SWAN, Theatre on March 14, 2014 by Roberta D'Alois.

It’s Female Artist Takeover Weekend!

Congratulations to the women of Greensboro, North Carolina on their second annual Female Artist Takeover city-wide festival of women artists. Last year, they had a one-day event with 50 women artists and […]

This entry was posted in SWAN on March 7, 2014 by Martha Richards.

Legal Tender: Women & the Secret Life of Money

Legal Tender Poster

When the Recession broke in 2008, writer Christian McEwen noticed that the media focused almost exclusively on male stories – either the scandalous behavior of the men on Wall Street or […]

This entry was posted in Arts & Economics, SWAN, Theatre on March 7, 2014 by Martha Richards.

Early Bird Discounts Offered for Fannie Lou Hamer Opera!

Fannie Lou Hamer

Until March 4 only, WomenArts is offering Early Bird Discount Tickets to the East Coast premiere of Dark River: The Fannie Lou Hamer Story, an opera by Mary D. Watkins […]

This entry was posted in Harmony, Music, SWAN, WomenArts on February 21, 2014 by Martha Richards.

DC Women’s Voices Theater Festival – Participating Theaters

Washington, DC

Last week WomenArts did a blog about the 8-week city-wide Women’s Voices Theater Festival in Washington, DC, which is scheduled for September and October 2015. WomenArts wrote to Arena Stage […]

This entry was posted in Theatre on February 20, 2014 by Martha Richards.

Art + Feminism Adds 100 Women Artists to Wikipedia

If you have ever tried to research women artists on the Internet, you know that it can be a frustrating process.  Younger women artists may have websites, but many women […]

This entry was posted in Arts & Social Justice on February 14, 2014 by Martha Richards.

44 DC Theatres Plan City-wide Women’s Play Festival

Molly Smith, Arena Stage

Forty-four theatres in Washington, DC will each produce a world-premiere play written by woman in Fall 2015 as part of the Women’s Voices Theatre Festival.  Three cheers for the co-organizers […]

This entry was posted in Employment, Theatre on February 10, 2014 by Martha Richards.

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