Believe in the Currency of Kindness
A Birthday Message from Our Executive Director Martha Richards As I celebrate my birthday this week, I feel blessed that I get to work with so many amazing and creative […]
Women’s Votes Count – Be Sure to Vote! (Nov 5 2012)
Women played a decisive role in the 2004 presidential elections by voting at higher rates than men. According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the rate of voter turnout […]
Arts Policy Issues On Hold With Congressional Recess
Dear Friends, We wanted to share the important message below from Americans for the Arts about arts policy issues in the upcoming elections. Martha Richards, Executive Director WomenArts From Americans […]
Women, War & Peace: 5 Part Series on Women as Peacemakers
Be sure to watch the first episode of Women, War & Peace tonight on your local public broadcasting station. This extraordinary series of documentary films produced by Abigail Disney, Pamela […]
Liberated Muse
SWAN Day Celebrated By Liberated Muses in Washington, D.C. It’s hard to believe it’s been almost three months since the fifth international SWAN Day! We’re continuing to profile the amazing […]
Lady Got Chops
Honoring the Past While Creating the Future:An Interview With Kim A. Clarke, Founder and Organizer of the Lady Got Chops Women’s History Month Jazz Festival Ten years ago, jazz bassist […]
No Women-Directed Films at Cannes – Please Sign the Petition Below
Twenty-two films will be showcased at the Cannes Film Festival this year, but not one of them is directed by a woman. A group of French feminist activists known as […]
Black Women Playwrights’ Group Looks to the Future
For the third installment of our series on the movement for equity for women playwrights, we’re profiling the Black Women Playwrights’ Group, a Washington DC-based group that expanded its activities […]
Theatre Women Organize in Los Angeles & New York/ SWAN News from Bulgaria & D.C.
Deborah Steinberg, our Director of Artist Services, has written two pieces for the WomenArts Blog this week about groups fighting for gender equality in theatre – the Los Angeles Female […]
Congratulations to SWAN Festival Bulgaria
Congratulations to the organizers of SWAN Festival Bulgaria for their second four-day SWAN celebration. The efforts have been led by musician Dessi Dimova of Art Nova Foundation. Dimova worked closely […]
Bringing Theatre Women Together for Change: The 50/50 in 2020 Movement
As a follow-up to last week’s post on the Los Angeles Female Playwrights’ Initiative, this week we’ll be taking a look at the movement that spawned the West Coast group: […]
Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative Brings Local Focus to National Movement
The Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative, or LAFPI, was formed almost 2 years ago by playwrights Laura Shamas and Jennie Webb as a local, West Coast branch of the national […]
SWAN Day: 2012 List of Events
Happy SWAN Day 2012! 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 […]
SWAN Celebrations in Kenya, Ohio, New York, and California
Dear Friends, One of the main goals of Support Women Artists Now/ SWAN Day is to help people imagine what the world would be like if women’s visions and perspectives […]
Special Guest Blog About SWAN Day Kenya
Special Guest Blog from Nairobi, Kenya: As part of our ongoing efforts to build more connections among SWAN organizers worldwide, WomenArts arranged for U.S. author/activist Deborah Santana to meet with […]