Happy SWAN Day 2016!

Happy Support Women Artists Now Day 2016! Dear Women in the Arts & Media Coalit, 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 news. The papers are full of endless violence and discord, but SWAN Day lets me see a world of women who continue to dream and create in spite of all that chaos. My SWAN Day wish is that you will look at the list of SWAN events below and see that world too. On SWAN Day we celebrate our global unity and also the unique individual voices of the women artists next door. There are thousands of talented women artists all over the world who are making wonderful contributions to their communities year after year. SWAN Day is a day to recognize and thank these women. Please take some time to make a direct connection with at least one woman artist on SWAN Day. Talk to her in person, give her a call, write her a note, or send her a gift – do anything that shows that you appreciate her creativity. There is tremendous power in these simple acts of respect and recognition, and they provide models of the supportive attitudes and behavior that we want to spread around the world. Thanks so much to all of you for making SWAN Day 2016 a wonderful success.  We encourage you to seek out the work of women artists on SWAN Day and every day. Together we will build a world where women artists get the respect they deserve. Sending Lots of SWAN Love to All of You, Martha Richards, Executive Director, WomenArts List of SWAN Day 2016 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  City State Organizer Art from the Heart Exhibit Tucson AZ WomenKraft Art Center Erika Oba – A Celebration of Women in Jazz Berkeley CA Erika Oba & Jean Fineberg Multi-media Celebration of Middle Eastern American Women Artists Berkeley CA Golden Thread Productions Story Café with Jovelyn Richards Berkeley CA Jovelyn Richards The Invisible Project - A Staged Reading Berkeley CA Anton's Well Theater Company Three Concerts of Hyo-shin Na's Music for Asian Zithers Berkeley, San Francisco CA The Wooden Fish Ensemble WomenArts Night at PlayGround Berkeley CA WomenArts & PlayGround BookEnds: Reading of a New Comedy (Play) Hollywood CA Brittny Roberts Second Skin (Site-specific performance) La Jolla, Santa Monica CA Kristin Idaszak and Kate Jopson In Good Company: Celebrating Women Artists Livermore CA Susan Kraft Allison Anders' Film Screening "Gas Food Lodging" Los Angeles CA Seeking Our Story Generation Sex - World Premiere (Play) Los Angeles CA Teatro Luna Johanna Super Happy Bedtime Revue: A Traumedy Los Angeles CA Johanna Buccola She's History! Los Angeles CA Amy Simon The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman by Carolyn Gage Los Angeles CA Break The Mold Productions The Workout Room Movie Los Angeles & Online CA Kena Monique, Erika Rogers, & Roni Brown Urban Rez Los Angeles CA Cornerstone Theater Company Viva La Muxer Los Angeles CA Las Fotos Project SWAN Day Martinez Martinez CA Martinez Arts Association American Mary/I've Been On Tumbler/Better Day Release Party Oakland CA Alexandra Naughton Lake Lady First Friday CD Listening Party Oakland CA Lake Lady Umbrella Procession & Dance Oakland CA Impromptu No Tutu She's History! San Diego CA Amy Simon Celebrating the Beats San Francisco CA Wendy Loomis Chinese Whispers: Golden Gate San Francisco CA Rene Yung Eating Pasta Off the Floor - A Solo Show San Francisco CA Maria Grazia Affinito / The Marsh Marry Me a Little: A Wedding/Anxiety Cabaret San Francisco CA Katie Zaffrann Mechanics of Love (Play by Dipika Guha) San Francisco CA Crowded Fire Theater Muse Ecology Album Release San Francisco CA Conspiracy of Venus Poets & Composers Salon San Francisco CA Phoenix Rising Round 3 of Shortlived Short Plays San Francisco CA PianoFight Savernack Street: MoonABC San Francisco CA Elisabeth Ajtay The Quality of Life San Francisco CA Michael Shipley The Vanessa Verlee Variety Show #8 San Francisco CA Vanessa VerLee The Very Perry Show San Francisco CA Kate Perry WAH! Fest 2016 (We Are Here!) San Francisco CA CALI & CO dance/Matt EL Womxn are Perfect! (Exhibit) San Francisco CA Galeria de La Raza Evening of Dance: Athena Project Festival Denver CO Athena Project Evening of Jazz: Athena Project Festival Denver CO Athena Project The Ghosts of Us - World Premiere (Play) Denver CO Athena Project Women + Film Festival Denver CO Women + Film RTD Light Rail Pop Up Performance Golden CO Athena Project Nicki Mathis Sings New Britain CT Nicki Mathis SWAN Day Connecticut 2016 New Britain CT Jennifer Hill DC SWAN Day 2016 Washington DC Guillotine Theatre The Punk, Snow White And The Bitch (Film) Washington DC K Y Fina Yeung Beignets Coffee and Conversation — Book Signing Jupiter FL Donna M. Carbone Vanessa Baez Memorial Women's Brunch Key Biscayne FL Spoken Soul Festival Seven Lakewood Ranch FL Gulf Coast UN Women SWAN Day Miami – Spoken Soul Showcase 9 Miami FL Spoken Soul Festival The Fannie Lou Hamer Story: Opera by Mary D. Watkins Decatur GA Agnes Scott College 180 Degree Rule Chicago & Online IL Babes With Blades Theatre Company Bindis and Bruises & Encuentros Chicago IL Chicago Danztheatre Free Speech & the Transcendent Journey of Chris Drew (Film) Chicago IL Nancy Bechtol Jamie O'Reilly March Concerts Chicago IL Jamie O'Reilly Lost Artists Colony Features Edgy Women Artists Chicago IL Nancy Bechtol Pride Films and Plays SWAN Day: Women Artists Open Mic Chicago IL Rivendell Theatre Ensemble Swan Day Chicago 2016 Chicago IL What Up Windy/ILA Materials Obsession Artists Reception Oak Park IL Gallery Pink Center of the Universe Project Prairie Village KS Maura Garcia & KCIC Harriet Tubman- An Activist, A Humanitarian, A Leader Wichita KS Angeline Edmonson SWAN Day in Louisville Louisville KY Louisville Free Public Library Art & Noise Boston MA Jessica Grace Leahy Women's Day Art, Networking Event Boston MA Can't Wait Productions Telling Truth & Beauty: Writing, Telling and Playing Back Personal Stories Great Barrington MA Kelly Du Mar Annie Baker's Adaptation of Uncle Vanya Northampton MA Linda McInerney Serious Play!'s Endgame Project Northampton MA Serious Play Special Stockbridge MA Rachel Siegel Hick: A Love Story (Play) Baltimore MD Terry Baum Breaking Through the Clouds (Film) Columbia & PBS MD Heather Taylor About A Plane Crash (Film) Durham NC Qathi Hart Owning It – Digital Arts Screening Lincoln NE The Cube Last Flight of The Mercenary Morristown NJ Karen J.P. Howes Meet, Greet, and Voice: The SWAN Narrative Continues Reno NV L. Martina Young Power Moves Bronx NY BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance AoT + IVP Brooklyn NY Astronomy on Tap Ladies First Jazz Band with The Buffalo Dolls Buffalo NY Ladies First Jazz Band A Moment in Time: Photographs by Jane Stevens New York NY Ceres Gallery Annette McCarty Solo Exhibition New York NY Annette McCarty Another Experiment by Women Film Festival New York NY Another Exeriment by Women (AXW) As Muslim Women … New York NY Muslim Women's Story Lab BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez – Documentary Screening & Talk New York NY Third World Newsreel Behind the Scenes: Women in Dance New York NY Apollo Theater Education Program Can – A Documentary by Pearl J. Park – Screening & Talk New York NY Third World Newsreel Celebrating Artistic Women and Entrepreneurship New York NY Def Dance Jam Change Artists – Using the Arts to Leverage Positive Change New York NY UN Commission on Women Estro 2016: Short Plays! New York NY EstroGenius Festival Fast Forward – March 15 New York NY Dixon Place January New York NY MultiStages Katie Goodman's CD Recording at The Triad New York NY Katie Goodman Mothers of Invention New York NY Apollo Theater Live Wire Music of Beth Anderson and Laurie Spiegel Performed by Pianist Joseph Kubera New York NY Jeffrey James Arts & the Composers New coLABoratory Project: Black Moon New York NY Judith Shatin New Eyes on Alice Austen: Scholars' Roundtable New York NY Alice Austen House and the Whitney Museum of Art Percussion With Passion Workshop New York NY Dalys Torres Salon Creative Lounge 2016 New York NY The International Women Artists' Salon & OPTimistiks Silent Witnesses (Play) & Talkback: Life After the Collaboration Award New York NY Women in Arts & Media Coalition Smashing the Patriarchy: All-Women NYMadness New York NY NY Madness Swan Canal at New York's Got Talent New York NY Jess Grippo SWAN Day Screening & Reception: BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez New York NY New York Women in Film & Television & Others The Emma Goldman Trilogy: 3 Plays by Jessica Litwak New York NY Jessica Litwak The Three-Mile Limit New York NY Theater for the New City Theatrical Reproductive Freedom Festival New York & Online NY Words of Choice Untamed: Hair Body Attitude, Short Plays by Black Women New York NY National Black Theatre Waitress on Broadway (Play) New York NY WITASWAN Washer/Dryer by Nandita Shenoy New York NY Nandita Shenoy/Ma-Yi TheatreNew York Wild Child: Third Play in the Trilogy "Women You Thought You Knew" New York NY Wilson Exclusive Talent & Bronx Guerrilla Productions Women in Art Exhibit New York NY Ward Nasse Gallery Women of New York - A New Play New York NY Ege Maltepe Book of Queens Queens NY Emily Blake Staten Island Unlimited: The Borough's First Triennial of Photography Staten Island NY Alice Austen House SWAN Day Staten Island Staten Island NY Elaine Mendez Entertainment SWAN Day 2016 Allegany County Wellsville NY Sheila Kalkbrenner You Are What You Wear White Plains NY Marcy B. Freedman SWAN Day 2016: Ohio- Kentucky Womens Way & Women Writing for (a) Change Cincinnati OH Women Writing for (a) Change Reading of "Ballast" by Georgette Kelly Ashland OR Reading the Kilroys List Women With Wings 20th Anniversary Concert Ashland OR Women With Wings Oregon 365 Women/SWAN Day Matinee Readings Eugene OR Oregon Contemporary /Northwest Ten Festival Finding Our Voices (Free Preview) Bloomsburg PA Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble See Art Salon: Louise Bourgeois & Salma Aratsu Carlisle PA Carlisle Arts Center SWAN Day Jr. (Pittsburgh) Pittsburgh PA No Name Players SWAN Day Pittsburgh 2016 Pittsburgh PA No Name Players Rebecca Warren: The Main Feeling Dallas TX Dallas Museum of Art SWAN Show at G. Lee Gallery Galveston TX G. Lee Gallery Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (All Female Cast) Houston TX Boiling Point Players "Bodies Exposed" — Recent Works by Lisa Nigro & Karola Rotter San Antonio TX Contemporary Art Month SEVEN in Seattle Seattle WA Women's Center/U. Washington The Gun Show : Art Exhibit Seattle WA Cynthia Linet SWAN Day MKE Milwaukee WI Jamie Bilgo Bruchman INTERNATIONAL EVENTS Name City Country Organizer Support SWAN Day! Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina CURE Foundation SWAN Day Bulgaria Sophia Bulgaria Dessi Dimova SWAN Prague Prague Czech Republic Galerie GUD, and A Maze in Tchaiovna Heirs: Berlin Premiere (Film) Berlin Germany Sascha Just SWAN Gathering of International/Migrant Women Artists / of Color Hamburg Germany Aster V. Delgado And Life Walks Quite Straight  Caino Italy Valbona Xibri 9th International SWAN Day Kenya Nairobi Kenya Sophie Dowllar & SWAN Kenya Crackpot Crones/Lilith Theater San Miguel de Allende Mexico Terry Baum, Carolyn Myers QUICK LINKS Home |  Blog  |  SWAN Day  |  Funding Info  |  About Us  | Donate