In this eight-week workshop we will cover the art of making 3000 colors from only primaries, and how to use the three brush methods, four paper techniques, and three mixing methods. We will work on still lives and landscapes. On Wednesday mornings from 10 am to 1 p.m. - May 9, 16, 23, 30 and June 6, […]
Learn how to make 500 colors from primaries. Each week we will take one color and explore in depth, including color wheels. color books. and monochromatic studies. Students will learn how to create a harmonious color palette. Never make mud again! (Unless you want to.) Wednesday afternoons from 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. on May 9, 16, 23, […]
A painting workshop to unleash your inner creativity taught by local award winning artists Erin Gafill and Tom Birmingham. In this workshop you will explore various art making methods, and take a deep dive into working with color. $250 course fee plus $25 materials fee. “How much more could you create if you weren’t always […]
Another historic reading, Women on Fire: Chinese American Women Poets, Genny Lim, Kitty Tsui, & Nellie Wong, celebrate the 36th anniversary reunion of these pioneer poets. They broke ground as members of the writing collective, Unbound Feet, established in 1981. Their work challenged the gender stereotypical roles of Asian women in society and addressed issues of sexual as […]
This visual talk by the founder of the Suppressed Histories Archive explores Matricultures. Egalitarian matrilineal / matrilocal cultures show a way of being human outside the paradigm of domination. Not a mirror image of patriarchy, but a totally different way of life, in which the life support matrix is the highest good. Societies like these […]
A daylong visual journey into the female Divine in her many aspects: as Snake, as Mother, as Waters, Earth or Heavens; as Sun, Spider, Tree. Creatrix, holy Wisdom, the Fates, the Tao. Talking circle: the Meanings of Goddess, the vast spectrum of numinous Mystery: your stories, your questions. Art salon with music and the Deasophy […]
Laurel Books is proud to feature Bay Area Chinese American Women Writers, Kitty Tsui, Genny Lim, and South Korean born Amber Field in song and poetry! Genny Lim is San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate. She has been featured at Jazz Festivals and World Poetry Festivals throughout the U.S. and world, including Venezuela, Bosnia and Italy. […]
SWAN PRAGUE FESTIVAL is an international event created and produced by LAVU & PifPafPuf & RADDOX STUDIOS. It is designed to showcase the power and diversity of women’s creativity. Come and be a part of METTA SWAN this year where all in all is all we are! In space: art, installation, dance, music, poetry, mask […]
Broken Nose Theatre is pleased to continue its 2018 Season with THE OPPORTUNITIES OF EXTINCTION (Kilroys list 2017, world premiere) by Sam Chanse , directed by company member Jen Poulin*, playing June 1 - 30, 2018 at The Den Theatre (2A), 1331 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood. Tickets go on sale Friday, […]
"The Buddha achieved enlightenment while meditating under a tree. To what extent did the tree's being contribute to the Buddha's shift of consciousness?" - Melina Sempill Watts Tree is the story of 229 years in the life of a California live oak from the perspective of ... the tree. This work of fiction is imbued with […]
Deborah Slater Dance Theater uses art as a tool to explore, re-contextualize, and reframe difficult life experiences. In this piece we are asking, “What does it mean that we have gone into a behavioral retrograde at such an astonishing rate? How is it that what was inappropriate, unthinkable, cruel, ignorant, racist, and sexist… has been […]
Judith Partelow's remarkable new play A Woman's Heart explores the feminine spirit as it evolves through child-rearing, career, love relationships, and inevitable sufferings toward an integrated and joyful embrace of life. The play has been hailed as "funny, sexy, gutsy and vulnerable." Featuring three women as the playwright in various stages of her life, and one brave man […]
Deborah Slater Dance Theater uses art as a tool to explore, re-contextualize, and reframe difficult life experiences. We ask, “What does it mean that we have gone into a behavioral retrograde at such an astonishing rate? How is it that what was inappropriate, unthinkable, cruel, ignorant, racist, and sexist… has been made acceptable, even ‘normal’ […]
Join us for the Statera National Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from October 4-7, 2018. Meet with theatre professionals from all over the country for three days of networking, socializing, experience-sharing, theatre-going and more! The Statera conference is all about intersectional gender balance and our goal is to take action to bring artists who identify as female […]
Breaking the Glass Frame: Women and Animation, Past, Present, Future is an international research network that brings together scholars, educators, historians, practitioners, industry personnel, curators, programmers and viewers to explore and celebrate women’s historical and contemporary contribution to commercial and independent animation and academia. The network’s Los Angeles Symposium will take place on October 6th […]