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 Houston Shows Interconnections of Artists
One of Houston’s most celebrated Hollywood movie directors, Michelle Mower, will be sharing her industry insights at SWAN Day Houston this Saturday.
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.
Musica Femina – An Historic Exhibit in Vienna Celebrates Women Composers
Musica Femina will be an ambitious exhibition designed to honor women composers with an immersive installation of art, architecture and sound at Vienna’s Orangerie at Schönbrunn Palace .
“Made in Her Image” Empowers Future Women Filmmakers
Made In Her Image is a non-profit dedicated to advancing girls and non-binary youth of color in film, media, and technology. It’s goal is to nurture future film pioneers and revolutionaries.
WomenArts & Symmetry Theatre Team Up With Mexican Artists for SWAN Day
WomenArts is collaborating with Symmetry Theatre on two SWAN Day performances featuring Mexican and U.S. actors in a special bilingual adaptation of Julia Cho’s “The Language Archive.”
Radical Inclusion at Sound Theatre in Seattle
Sound Theatre’s 2018 season is called “The Human Family: Toward A Radical Inclusion,” and features artists living with disability in classic comedies, a world premiere, and a reading series.
Nominations are Open for the ICWP 50/50 Applause Awards
Nominations are open for The International Centre for Women Playwrights 50/50 Applause Awards, which recognize theatres that are producing women’s plays for 50% of their seasons.
Pakistani Theater Reclaims Public Space in the Wake of Terror
Pakistan’s Theatre Wallay is using theatre to help communities reclaim schools, movie theaters, and other public spaces which have been targeted as venues for terror.
Leading Women: Four Theaters Name Women to Top Posts
Four major American theaters have filled top leadership positions with women theatre-makers this winter. Hopefully it’s the beginning of a major shift.
WomenArts Partners with Statera Foundation for SWAN Day 2018
WomenArts is thrilled to announce that we will be partnering with Statera Foundation to coordinate Support Women Artists Now Day/SWAN Day 2018.
Announcing the SWAN Day Song and Photo Contests!
We had so many great entries in our SWAN Day Song Contest and Photo Contest last year that we have decided to do them again!
Women’s Marches and Women’s Plays This Weekend!
There will be over 250 Women’s Marches this Saturday and Sunday to mark the anniversary of the protests of President Trump’s inauguration.
There’s Still Time to Make a Gift to WomenArts
For 23 years WomenArts has been building a powerful global community of women who are using their creativity to work for peace and justice. Please join us!
Martha’s Birthday Message – Finding Hope in a Ukulele
WomenArts Executive Director Martha Richards discovers the joys of playing a ukulele and the ways that creativity can help us survive tough times.