Happy SWAN Day 2014!

Please visit the WomenArts Blog to see articles from this email online. Home    |    Blog    |    SWAN Day    |    Funding Info    |    Donate    |    About Us    |   Happy SWAN Day 2014!! Thanks so much to all of you who are participating in the Seventh International SWAN Day. Whether you are organizing an event, attending an event, spreading the word, or giving a gift to your favorite woman artist, you are part of a growing world-wide movement.  There are SWAN 2014 events all over the U.S. and in places as far flung as Australia, Bulgaria, Kenya, Russia, Canada, Italy, and Northern Ireland. (See the list below.) In all of these communities women are gathering to bring harmony to the world through music, to build movements that inspire us to dance, to share pictures that open our eyes, and to tell stories that heal our hearts. As women and as artists, we take this troubled world in our hands and work to make it better. When we celebrate SWAN Day, we can feel the power of our joy, our commitment, and our immense collective creativity. Section of a poster designed by Sarah Jane White for Mary Watkins' Dark River: The Fannie Lou Hamer Story. Thanks to all of you for your perseverance in these challenging times. Whether your celebration is large or small today, I hope that on SWAN Day you will feel the energy of women artists and allies all over the world who are cheering for you to reach your full potential. Sending Lots of SWAN Love to All of You, Martha Richards, Executive Director, WomenArts List of SWAN Day 2014 Events For more detailed information about these events, you can search for them on the SWAN Calendar or check the WomenArts Blog to see if we did an article about them.  Some of these events took place earlier in the month and some will happen in the next few weeks. UNITED STATES EVENTS  (Scroll to bottom or click here for International Events) Name of Event City State Organizer Performing Three Books Alameda CA Books Inc  Alameda Amber Snider, Deborah Crooks @ High St. Station Alameda CA Amber Snider and Deborah Crooks Impressions of Impressionists & Beyond Benicia CA Arts Benicia Presents Mernie Buchanan Awaken Your Queen - Intentional Creativity Play Date Benicia CA Kerry Lee & Tina Greene What Do The Women Say? Berkeley CA Golden Thread Productions Law of Seeds Art Reception and Mayoral Proclamation Brisbane CA Beth Grossman Lost In Living - Documentary About Mother/Artists Los Angeles CA Mary Trunk Blood on the Cat's Neck Los Angeles CA Theater TAS Oneira: I Dream the Self - 2nd Women Artists Group Exhibition Los Angeles CA Studio C Gallery SWAN Day Martinez Martinez CA Martinez Arts Association The Motherhood Archives Oakland CA Irene Lusztig - Filmmaker Feminist Tour of the Norton Simon Museum Pasadena CA Margaret Danielak Spotlight: Jan Wurm Richmond CA Richmond Art Center Book Reading with Author Alyscia Cunningham San Diego CA Women's Resource Center & Women's Museum of California Sausan Academy of Egyptian Dance Graduate Debut Recital San Francisco CA Sausan Academy of Egyptian Dance Caribbean Passages: An Artist's Visual Journey San Francisco CA Orlonda Uffre Crystal Springs (Premiere) San Francisco CA Kathy Rucker, Playwright Eureka Theatre Images Spanning 45 Years San Francisco CA Happy L.A. Hyder Pasha Music Night at Al-Masri San Francisco CA Sausan Academy of Egyptian Dance Party at the Garden of Allah, or Lesbians in Pre-Code Hollywood San Francisco CA Z Space/Lisa Steindler & E.H. Benedict, Playwright Sorya! We Are Still At It! San Francisco CA Theatre of Yugen Unofficial Rakkasah Festival Performance Night San Francisco CA Sausan Academy of Egyptian Dance Will Work For Venice CA Dacyl Acevedo Athena Project Arts Festival Aurora CO Athena Project Truth Be Told: Boulder's Bi-Monthly Story Slam Boulder CO Johanna Walker and Nina Rollee SWAN Day Colorado - The Creative Sojourn Carbondale CO Women Artists of Colorado SWAN Dance Carbondale CO Coredination, A Movement Studio and Gayle Embrey Six Women Play Festival Colorado Springs CO Zanne Hall The 4th Annual Women+Film VOICES Film Festival Denver CO The Denver Film Society SWAN Day Mixer and Play Reading Denver CO And Toto too Theatre Company SWAN Day CT 2014 Wolcott CT Jennifer Hill Art Soiree Fine Art Series: Exhibit for Ilona DuBuske Washington DC Art Soiree - Ilona DuBuske SWAN Day at the Avalon Washington DC Avalon Theatre Art Soiree Fine Art Series: Exhibit for Sariah Sami Najam Washington DC Art Soiree - Sariah Sami Najam Second Launching of Creative Conversation Washington DC Artrepreneur Movement with Rachel Pope Vanessa Baez Memorial Brunch Bal Harbour FL Spoken Soul Festival SUMAK Healing Arts and Gallery Boynton Beach FL Denny Reed and Nancy Nolan Women in the Arts 2014 Doral FL Museum of the Americas SWAN Community Program Miami FL Spoken Soul Festival SWAN Spoken Soul Showcase Vol. 7  - SWAN Day Miami Miami FL Spoken Soul Festival New Seeds Festival Tampa FL Silver Glass Productions Soukous Sunday 2.0 with Sauda Decatur GA Sauda Jackson Two Musicals for Charity Performance Douglasville GA Mini Broadway Bites Cypress South Duluth GA Sue Wilkinson Women of Wonders Film Fest Honolulu HI Hawai‘i Women in Filmmaking Darlin' by Joshua Rollins Chicago IL Step Up Productions End of Winter Plunge - Lost Artists Show Chicago IL The Lost Artist Colony Holly Near, John Bucchino and Emma's Revolution Chicago IL Old Town School Of Folk Music SWAN Day at the Music Box Chicago IL Music Box Theatre Swan Day Chicago Chicago IL What Up Windy Dutchman Macomb IL Tuesdai B. Perry Tribute to Women's History Month - Art Exhibition By & About Women Indianapolis IN IIC Gallery @ The Indiana Interchurch Center I Am! Evansville IN Ruth's House, United Caring Services Breaking Through the Clouds: The First Women's National Air Derby Wichita KS Kansas Aviation Museum and Archetypal Images, LLC The Triumph of Marian Anderson Wichita KS The Wichita Readers Theatre Luz, A Regional Premiere Louisville KY Looking for Lilith Theatre Company SWAN Day at PYRO Gallery Louisville KY Women Work/Women's Work SWAN Day at YAYA! New Orleans LA YAYA -Young Aspirations Young Artists, Inc. Blue Stocking Art Salon Online MA Ariane of smARTist Legal Tender: The Secret Lives of Women & Money Northampton MA A Play by Christian McEwen and Directed by Melissa Redwin SWAN Day Boston 2014 Boston MA Co-Producers: Mary Conroy and Robbi D'Allessandro We Create! Women of Color in the Arts Boston MA Marsha Parrilla/Danza Orgánica Dark River: The Fannie Lou HamerStory  South Hadley MA Mary Watkins, WomenArts & Mount Holyoke Music Dept Finding the Light Bowie MD Lisa Hayes Natural Woman: A Collage of Female Creativity Capitol Heights MD Liberated Muse Arts Group In Her Words DC, Maryland & Virginia MD Liberated Muse Arts Group SWAN Day 2014 Maryland - Go- DIVA! Act III: The Swan takes Flight LaPlata MD LBH Enterprises & Go-DIVA! Productions, Inc. Ding! or Bye Bye Dad by Jayme Kilburn Laurel MD Venus Theatre The Price of Being Female: Women Artists & The Art Market Rockville MD The Artinista Art Advisory An Evening with Dance Exchange's Paloma McGregor Takoma Park MD Dance Exchange Women - Art Exhibit Detroit MI Detroit Comtemporary & Spread Art Holly Near and Emma's Revolution Flint MI Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Flint, MI Holly Near, John Bucchino and Emma's Revolution East Lansing MI Holly Near Women's History Month: The Historical Comedybration Minneapolis MN Created by Heather Meyer Produced by Black Market Doctor Community, Collaboration & the Pilots of the First Womens National Air Derby Berkeley MO Archetypal Images, LLC along with American Inst. of Aeronautics & Astronautics Female Artist Takeover Greensboro NC Female Artist Collective Bodies of Work: A Collaboration Reading & Exhibition Omaha NE Les Femmes Folles Goddess On Earth: Women of Essex County West Orange NJ Luna Stage and Lisa Levart Tea For Three: Lady Bird, Pat & Betty McGuire AFB & West Orange NJ Elaine Bromka The Skull Beneath the Skin Brooklyn NY Anne Phelan My Book of Ruth Brooklyn NY Temple Beth Emeth Sisterhood See Hear Taste Touch 2014 Brooklyn NY The Modern-Day Griot Theatre Company Author Talk: Lost Orchard Brooklyn NY Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library The Women Gather Concert Brooklyn NY Grace Drums Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Chantal Legros Jamaica NY Legros Cultural Arts 12th Annual Lady Got Chops Women's Music & Arts Fest Jamaica NY Lady Got Chops SWAN Day Art Market! Jamestown NY Infinity Visual and Performing Arts Inc. Within Arm's Reach Long Island City NY Going to Tahiti Productions Scene and Unseen - Art Exhibit New Rochelle, Westchester NY New York Society of Women Artists (NYSWA) Women's Project Theater Presents "Row After Row" New York NY Women's Project Theater Naked In Alaska - The True Story of Stripping in The Last Frontier New York NY Valerie Hager In The Fog New York NY Rose & Stags Dying City - A 2008 Pulitzer Prize Nominated Play New York NY The Seeing Place Theater Two Rooms by Lee Blessing New York NY The Seeing Place Theater Women's Project Theater "The Architecture of Becoming" New York NY Women's Project Theater Loving Thy Self New York NY Aleathia's Original Artworks Women in the Heights – Reflections on Creating New York NY NoMAA Rendez-Vous with French Cinema New York NY French Institute Alliance Française NY Madness with Featured Guest Mia Chung at Theatrelab New York NY New York Madness LPTW Awards Celebration & Big Mingle New York NY League of Professional Theatre Women The Belletrix Exhibit New York NY Raw Space: ImageNation Behind the Scenes: Women in Production New York NY Apollo Theater Ladies Day Jazz Quartet New York NY MJ Territo Geraldine Ferraro: Paving the Way New York NY Showtime Cable Gender in Shakespeare Workshop New York NY Judith Shakespeare Company NYC F*** The Summit New York NY The Dirty Blondes A Celebration of Women’s History Month New York NY Actors’ Equity Association’s Eastern Region EEOC Sweetie - Book, Lyrics, Music by Gail Kriegel New York NY Gail Kriegel, playwright; Pat Birch, director Art Crawl for Women Artists New York NY Germaine Richier, Klara Kristalova, Mira Schendel, and Nalini Malani SWAN Day Screening + Talk: "The Supreme Price" New York NY New York Women in Film & TV (NYWIFT) Panther Woman New York NY sKribble sKratch Productions, LLC Women's Project Theater Presents "The Most Deserving" New York NY Women's Project Theater The Mother Wit Conference - April 5, 2014 New York NY The Mother Wit Conference Team mini BROADWAY bites New York NY Alice Shapiro Celebration of Collaboration! New York NY Ivy Theatre and Funny...Sheesh Productions Swan Day Monologue Jam New York NY Alacrity Project Alice Shields' Virgin Songs at North-South Consonance Chamber Concert New York NY North-South Consonance: Siri Roco, soprano; Max Lizchitz, piano Percussion & Creative Dance/Movement program New York NY Dalys E. Torres SWAN Day Celebration Potpourri! World Women Works - New Short Plays/ Screenplays by Women New York, NY Kim Weston-Moran RHYTHMCOLOR.Associates AXW screening: The Ghost Thing NY NY Another Experiment by Women Film Festival 12th Annual Lady Got Chops Women's History Month Music Fest Peekskill NY Kim Clarke -organizer Women's History Month: Literary Reading & Mini-Writing Workshop Peekskill NY NECS: New Era Creative Space Ladies in the Living Room Rochester NY Lady Parts Theatre Company Beginnings Publishing, Inc. Writing Workshop Sag Harbor NY Beginnings Publishing, Inc. Women's History Month Celebration: The I Am Project Staten Island NY Jenni S Vitek SWAN Day Staten Island Staten Island NY Elaine Mendez SWAN Day Planning Party Wellsville NY Sheila Kalkbrenner at SheilaLynnK Art Studio Entropic Me Columbus OH 83 Gallery SWAN Day Dayton Dayton OH SWAN Day Dayton and the Dayton Metro Library Choral Reading of  "A Black Woman Speaks" by Beah Richards Cleveland OH Maiden Voyage Theatre Ensemble SWAN Day 2014 Cincinnati OH Women Writing for (a) Change & Women's Way of Ohio & Northern KY Independent Women Portland OR Social Sciences Productions National Dance Week at the Fredricksen Library Camp Hill PA Egyptian Moon Dance Company RED (delicious) exhibit at The Carlisle Arts Learning Center Carlisle PA The Carlisle Arts Learning Center Community Outreach Workshops With The Femme-mynistiques Philadelphia PA The Rotunda & The Femme-mynistiques (Alexa Gold, Lady Omni Mc & Plum Dragoness Granular Memory Philadelphia PA Haylee Ebersole and Louise ORourke Poet-tree En Motion Philadelphia PA The Rotunda & The Femme-mynistiques SWAN Day Pittsburgh 2014 Philadelphia PA No Name Players SWAN Day Pittsburgh Jr. Pittsburgh PA No Name Players Granny's Got Game presented by Her Point of View Nashville TN Her Point of View New Visions, New Voices 2014 Dallas TX Southern Methodist University Garden Glimpses Photography by Mary Lou Darst Galveston TX G. Lee Gallery War Ready: In My Father's Shadow with Author Mary Lou Darst Galveston TX G. Lee Gallery Art By Joan Bristow Houston TX Art By Joan Bristow Vox Feminina V - Mom's the Word Houston TX Pandora Theatre World Theatre Day - San Antonio San Antonio TX San Antonio Latino/a Theatre Alliance SWAN DAY KICK-OFF  Alexandria VA Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association Mighty Girl Art™ at NoVA Mini Maker Faire Reston VA Mighty Girl Art™ DC SWAN Day Staged Reading Marathon Alexandria & Washington VA & DC Guillotine Theatre (formerly The Georgetown Theatre Company) Americana Women Music Documentary Film Screening Boston WA MusicBox Project House of Thee UnHoly Seattle WA paulanowevent , Sarah Rudinoff, Jen Ayers, Jody Kuehner Les Femmes Folles: West Virginia Morgantown WV Les Femmes Folles Intimates and Fools Reading Morgantown WV Les Femmes Folles INTERNATIONAL EVENTS Name of Event City Country Organizer La Medea Melbourne Australia La Mama Theatre, performed by Margherita Peluso SWAN Day Bulgaria Sofia Bulgaria Art Nova Foundation, Wonderland Events She Speaks Kitchener, Ontario Canada Flush Ink Productions Sunday Poetry presents An International SWAN Event Toronto Canada Maria Mesa & Ariel Len All-Women Comedy Training Camp Worthington Canada BAM North Productions Seven - 7 Women Playwrights Write About 7 Women Leaders Belfast Northern Ireland Playwrights: Paula Cizmar, C. Filloux, G. Kriegel, R. Margraff,Carol K Mack ,A D Smith, Susan Yankowitz Define Me -  In 1000 Words Or More  (Project Preview) Venice Italy Stacy Gibboni 7th SWAN Day Kenya - Soul of a Woman -  Yes, Imagine It Nairobi Kenya 5 Centuries Human Rights Theatre Smooth Kats (Acid-Jazz, Funk Music) Saint-Petersburg Russia Smooth Kats WomenArts 1442A Walnut Street #67 Berkeley, CA 94709 Phone: (510) 868-5096 Website: www.womenarts.org Contact Us>> (Note: WomenArts is the new name of The Fund for Women Artists, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation.) please click here to subscribe.