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Feminist Activism as Performance

• Tuesday 6 March, 7:30pm, HochX

How is performance used as a tool for feminist activism? How do feminist activists employ performance, and how do performance artists express feminist activism through their work? This evening of performance, lectures and discussion is dedicated to the late Diane Torr, performance artist and gender activist.

The weekend of January 21st, there is going to be a global initiative to promote gender parity in theater by staging readings of unproduced plays and screenplays - International Women's Voices Day. Readings can be public or private. Anyone participating can email IWVD@womensvoicesDC.com to show solidarity with this effort.

A recent article on Artsy, written by Karen Chernick recalls the late 20th century period of feminist performance art.

"As a new wave of the feminist movement began to crest in the 1960s and ’70s, women artists turned to the then-uncharted field of performance. “One of the things about performance and the area that I went into was that it wasn’t male-dominated,” artist Joan Jonas explained in 2014. “It wasn’t like painting and sculpture.” Adopting a new medium meant greater freedom to experiment, without fear of comparison to the generations of male artists that preceded them."

Double Edge Theatre of Rural Massachusetts Awarded National Arts Grant for Creative Placemaking
 

We have received news that Double Edge Theatre has been selected, out of almost 1000 applicants, to receive the ArtPlace America National Creative Placemaking Fund.