SWAN Day 2018 Photos from Around the World
As usual, we were blown away by the amazing creativity and diversity of SWAN artists. We loved seeing the photos of your events and wanted to share some of our favorites.
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Happy Support Women Artists Now Day 2018!
Happy Support Women Artists Now Day 2018! Take time on SWAN Day to tell a woman artist how much you appreciate her creativity. There is tremendous power in these simple acts of recognition.
SWAN Day Kenya Celebrates Its 11th Year With Over 70 Artists!
The theme of SWAN Day Kenya 2018 is Closing the Gap: Connecting Artists, and over 70 female artists will participate in the day-long festival this year.
SWAN Day Milwaukee Celebrates “Women & Nature”
SWAN Day Milwaukee, now in its third year, invited women artists to explore women’s artistic and spiritual connections to nature, and how these roots nourish one’s work, activism and daily living.
Art Became the Oxygen: An Excellent Resource Guide for Artist-Activists
The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture has just published Arts Became the Oxygen: An Artistic Response Guide. The free, downloadable, 74-page booklet is an excellent new resource for artists who are […]
DC SWAN Day Celebrates 10 Years with Music, Theatre, Poetry & Visual Art
Activist Spotlight: Catherine Aselford, DC SWAN Day. Ten years ago, when Catherine Aselford saw the announcement for the very first SWAN Day, she immediately sent WomenArts a note saying it […]
Merry Lynn Morris Invents a Wheelchair Fit for Dancing
Special Guest Blog by Lea Marshall A dancer glides across the floor in a long arc, arms outstretched, ending in a hypnotic spin. The audience breathes with her, delighting in her […]
The Dress Project: Exploring Women’s Power Through Women’s Clothes
Special Guest Post By Ophra Wolf. Seventeen vastly different dresses hang suspended just off the wall, visible to passers-by through the large storefront windows of the Space Create Gallery in […]
“We Are Here!” Festival Celebrates Women in Dance, Music & Visual Art
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The We Are Here! Festival (WAH! Fest) will provide a dynamic platform for diverse women choreographers, musicians and visual artists creating contemporary work through a feminist […]
SWAN Events in California, New York & Houston
Flagship Ensemble Presents Site-Specific Second Skin SANTA MONICA, CA – The Flagship Ensemble presents Second Skin, a site-specific ghost play written, directed and performed by women on the beaches of San […]
SWAN Prague Festival Gathers Women From Many Countries
“This year’s SWAN Prague Festival will feature over 30 women artists from around the world, and every artist will bring something unique . . . We felt there was […]
Happy Support Women Artists Now Day 2016!
I always love reading the listings that people submit for our SWAN Day Calendar because they give me a snapshot of a world that I do not see in the […]
SWAN Day Kenya 2016 Builds Bridges & Connects Artists
“SWAN is the only space that brings peace and fun as we continue talking about our struggles. I organize a lot of political work . . . SWAN Day is different. […]
Estrogenius Festival, SWAN Day DC, and Wooden Fish Ensemble
Estrogenius Presents Its 15th Annual Festival of Women’s Voices NEW YORK, NY – Congratulations toEstrogenius on their 15th annual festival of women’s voices! Their 2016 festival has included plays, dance, […]
Is Your SWAN Event Accessible to All?
Whether you are hosting an art exhibition, a concert, a play or a party for SWAN Day, there are many steps you can take to make sure that you are […]