The first SWAN Day RI International Holiday Event
Saturday, March 29, 2008
at the
Artists' Exchange
50 Rolfe Square
Cranston, RI 02910
Celebrating Music, Art, and Fearless Femmes in Film
SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Day is a new international holiday celebrating
women artists. This new event will take place annually on the last Saturday in March,
designated by Congress as Women’s History Month.
As a symbol of international solidarity, there will be events featuring women
artists all over the world.
SWAN Day RI, a day-long festival featuring women from a wide variety of disciplines,
will be held at the Artists’ Exchange in Cranston, RI. Artisans will showcase their
work in booths, while performing artists will be heard and seen throughout the day.
Scheduled performances include folk, jazz, and classical musicians, the spoken word,
and screenings from fearless femmes in film, events for children downstairs,
and a raffle of over 18 different items from great area businesses and artists
featuring and led by women.
This grass-roots festival is being spearheaded by Toni Pennacchia of MergingArts Productions
and Anne’s Cordial, a Providence-based band, whose members are Erin Reed Ferenbaugh,
Eva Kendrick, and Natalie Markward.
After searching for a venue for the event, the organizers teamed up with the
Artists’ Exchange in Cranston, a non-profit arts collaborative that offers classes and
events for adults and children in a variety of disciplines.
There will be two blocks of film shorts showcasing filmmakers from California to Ireland.
They are a mix of fun, sexy, and melancholy shorts--documentary and narrative,
live and animated--from two to fifteen minutes each.