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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 18, 2009) - DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities City Arts Fellowship Grantee, Elizabeth Bruce, and CentroNía's Community Schools Program in collaboration with Ironcutter Media, LLC present Women Artists / Women Healing: Multicultural Narratives of Trauma and Survival.
This five-part facilitated panel discussion and art exhibition series gathers women artists, healers, veterans, and survivors from across cultures and disciplines in celebration of Women's History Month.
Hosted at CentroNía (1420 Columbia Road, NW) in Columbia Heights every Tuesday evening in March from 6-9pm, the goal of this program is to explore the many dimensions of women's experiences of trauma, survival and healing.
Co-produced by Elizabeth Bruce, Arts Director at CentroNía and author of the novel, And Silence Left the Place (published by Washington Writers' Publishing House), and Associate Producers Alivia C. Tagliaferri, author/documentary film-maker of Ironcutter Media, LLC and Timothea Howard, political activist / visual artist and program manager of CentroNia's Community Schools Program, the series features art, performances and discussions by notable women including:
Lisa Pegram, Cynthia Matsakis, Linden von Eichel, Eileen Wasow, Veronique Tran, Lisa Schamess, Kathy Keler, Hedieh J. Ilchi, Kimberly C. Gaines, Andrea R. Thompson, Carolyn Joyner, Julia Garcia, DC Experience Corps, Heather Bradley Kubo and the Ghandi Project, Carly Sachs, Brandel France de Bravo, Mary Grigonis, Sarah Pleydell, Poet Sistah Joy, Billye Okera, Cheryl Miner, Gloria Quirarte, Sharon J. Burton, Carolina Mayorga, Cheryl Somers Aubin, Kathleen Parrish, Rosabel Goodman-Everard, Patricia Pedraza, Laura Brylawski-Miller and Evelyn Torton Beck among others.
Schedule of Events
TUESDAY: March 3, 2009, 6-9 pm:
Society's Hell:
Surviving War, Strife, Crime, Oppression
TUESDAY: March 10, 2009, 6-9 pm:
Undone:
Finding Refuge & Cultural Survival from Displacement
TUESDAY: March 17, 2009, 6-9 pm:
Intimate Betrayal:
Voices of Survival
TUESDAY: March 24, 2009, 6-9 pm:
Psyche's Pain:
The Struggle for Psychic Renewal/Rebirth
TUESDAY: March 31, 2009, 6-9 pm:
The Fragile Body:
Restoring Health and Healing
Vending tables for participating artists/writers, as well as resource tables by community based and international non-governmental organizations addressing issues of trauma and recovery will also be present.
'Women Artists/Women Healing' is funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, and hosted at CentroNía (1420 Columbia Road, NW, Washington, DC 20009) in collaboration with CentroNía's Community Schools Program. The events are also funded in part by the Readings & Workshops Program of Poets & Writers. Inc.
For more information, visit www.womenartistswomenhealing.wordpress.com
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