Event

Support Women Artists Now Day - SWAN Day Bay Area 2015

Join WomenArts for a free celebration of Bay Area women in theatre on Saturday, March 28 at 3 p.m. at Ashby Stage, 1901 Ashby Ave, Berkeley, CA.

As part of the international celebration of Support Women Artists Now Day (SWAN Day), WomenArts has designed an event that will showcase local women in theatre, share the facts about our employment, and stimulate discussion about ways to achieve gender parity in our community.

Admission is free, but space is limited. Reservations through Brown Paper Tickets are highly recommended. (http://swanday2015.brownpapertickets.com )

Please help us spread the word about this free event where you will:

** Learn about the world-wide movement for gender parity in the arts from WomenArts Executive Director Martha Richards;

** See four short plays by and about women presented in collaboration with PlayGround and Symmetry Theatre;

** Get the facts about gender parity in our community from Valerie Weak's highly-anticipated Counting Actors Project study of 500 local productions over the past 3 years;

** Celebrate & strategize next steps with us at a special networking reception following the show.

Audience members who want to continue their SWAN Day celebration into the evening are encouraged to buy tickets to the March 28 performance of Anne Carson's "Antigonick," the first play of Shotgun Players' all-women playwrights' season at Ashby Stage. For ticketing information for Antigonick, please visit the Shotgun Players website at www.ShotgunPlayers.org.