Official Information!

1st annual SWAN CELEBRATION
Support Women Artists Now
8PM SATURDAY, MARCH 29
at Medicine Park
2659 W. CHICAGO AVENUE
http://www.medparkchicago.com/
BYOB
$3 donation
with all proceeds donated to
The Fund for Women Artists

Mixed media presentations and collaborations
of music, poetry, photographs, performance by:
Salem Collo-Justin & Erika Mikkalo
Nina Corwin & Suzanne Osman
Elisa Gabbert & Kathleen Rooney
Lisa Janssen & Jennifer Karmin
Murakami Sound Machine
Lina Ramona Vitkauskas
Hanna Andrews
Brandi Homan
Becca Klaver
Jen Watman


After the evening’s performances,
DJ Melissa Grubbs will help set the tonefor mingling and general merrymaking.
Bring your dancing shoes!

Hosted by local press SWITCHBACK BOOKS
http://www.switchbackbooks.com/
SWAN DAY, conceived by The Fund for Women Artists,
is a new international holiday that celebrates women
artists. It will be an annual event taking place on
the last Saturday of Women’s History Month (March).
The first SWAN Day will take place on Saturday, March29, 2008.

The FUND FOR WOMEN ARTISTS (http://www.womenarts.org/)
is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping
women artists get the resources they need to do their
creative work. Its emphasis is on women in film, video
and theatre. Over the past decade it has raised over
$4 million (including a permanent endowment of
$425,000) and built a website that provides
networking, advocacy and fundraising services to
approximately 2000 visitors a day.

WITASWAN (http://www.films42.com/witaswan.asp) is an
informal alliance of women who are using their power
as consumers to increase opportunities for women
artists. It began as an initiative of the Illinois
chapter of the American Association of University
Women.

SWITCHBACK BOOKS is a feminist press publishing poetry
by women. Our definition of "women" is broad and
includes transsexual, transgender, gender queer, and
female-identified individuals. Founded in 2006 by a
group of students at Columbia College Chicago,
Switchback Books publishes two books a year, one of
which is the winner of the Gatewood Prize for a first
book of poetry by a woman aged 18 through 39.
Switchback Books welcomes young women writers who
aren't afraid to look for answers in all directions.