SUMMER 2012

Feminists Are Funny

at the 9th Women's

Playwrights International

 Conference in Stockholm

This summer we are proud to be touring to Sweden for
the first time - performing a special edition of
 Feminists Are Funny at the 9th Women's Playwrights
International Festival in Stockholm on August 18th. 
The National Theatre of Sweden - Riksteatern - is the 
host of the Conference and the theme this year is the
 democratic stage. Will we see you in Stockholm? 
It's a great opportunity to meet women in theatre, build
 networks and create genuine, lasting contacts between 
like-minded women playwrights from around the world. 
For more info visit the conference website:  
http://wpic.riksteatern.se/

SAVE THE DATE:

WE ARE THEATRE

SPEAK-OUT

Protest sexism in theatre September 24th at the

Cherry Lane Theatre in NYC 

What do Theresa Rebeck, Kate Bornstein, Shay Youngblood, Brighde Mullins, Caridad Svich, Andrea Lepcio, Honor Molloy, Kathleen Warnock, Laura Shamas, Penny Jackson, Paula Cizmar and Velina Hasu Houston have in common?  Their short plays are featured in WE ARE THEATRE  - a speak out about the lack of parity for women playwrights. Organized by Guerrilla Girls On Tour!, 50/50 in 2020 and the Women’s Initiative members of the Dramatists Guild, WE ARE THEATRE is an afternoon of monologues, skits, songs and scenes addressing sexism in theatre.  By raising our theatrical voices we will advocate on behalf of the millions of women theatre artists around the globe via and take steps towards a day when gender parity in the performing arts will be the status quo.

 

For updates re tickets for WE ARE THEATREfollow our facebook page  http://www.facebook.com/WeAreTheatre

Institute for Women and Art - FEMINIST FETE!

June 5th was a fabulous Sunday. We celebrated the opening of our exhibit "Feminist Masked Avengers" at Rutgers Institute for Women and Art!

GGOT, Josephine Baker

Aphra Behn with Guerrilla Girls BroadBand member, Gerda Taro

The exhibit lasts until September 7th. For more info visit: http://iwa.rutgers.edu/home/

Feminist Masked Avengers EXHIBIT Opens June 1

I became a Guerrilla Girl in 1997 and lead the Girls into their primary activity for the next three years - addressing discrimination in the theatre world. In 2001 the original Guerrilla Girls group split into three groups: Guerrilla Girls On Tour! is one of those groups.

This split was preceded by lots of going back and forth between lawyers representing members who were no longer anonymous – FYI, you can’t sign a legal document as a dead woman artist. I agreed, with three other former Guerrilla Girls, to form Guerrilla Girls On Tour! a touring theatre company that would continue fighting discrimination with humor and fake fur. Another new group, Guerrilla Girls BroadBand did the same. But problems surfaced when the new herstory of just how our new groups came about was not embraced and celebrated by all. I realize that change is not always welcomed and that sometimes the truth is a bitter pill. But here’s the upside – sexism still runs rampant around the globe and Guerrilla Girls On Tour! is actively fighting it with humor and scary statistics.

(Two of our most popular posters)

In 2001 Guerrilla Girls On Tour! took a forward swan dive into the future and began our new mission – to make great comedies about feminist ideas and tour them around the world. In one week we will be exhibiting the video and visual works that cropped up out of our touring theatre along with the work of the other new Guerrilla Girl groups as well as some of the work of the original collective at Rutgers. The show runs June 1- July 18. This will be a chance for all to see where we’ve been, how far we’ve come and the complex journey we’ve been on.

(Me in front of part of our exhibit - a huge collage

from workshops we've led around the globe listing

the issues that participants want to address)

What we now refer to as the “banana split” will be on view for the first time since 2001. Guerrilla Girls On Tour! will make sure it has extra whipped cream and a cherry on top! See you there! – Aphra Behn

(Maya Deren in front of one of our video displays)

Feminist Masked Avengers: Guerrilla Girls, GuerrillaGirlsBroadBand and Guerrilla Girls On Tour!

http://iwl.rutgers.edu/calendar_2011.html