The International Women's Art Programme's aims are to create a safe space for women to come together through art making to engage in positive social cohesion as multi-cultural women around the world. The projects are inclusive there are no boundries in the types of women that we work with including many agencies that support women's groups and networks.

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  1. International Womens Arts17 February 2010 at 08:59

    Inspirational Women’s Voices

    Sunday 7 March 2010
    Time: 8pm, Tickets: £6 (£5)


    Inspirational Women’s Voices is an extraordinary evening of performance, featuring the region’s finest and most inspirational professional emerging female artists working in music, dance, poetry, live art and film.

    Inspirational Women’s Voices is a not for profit event, programmed as part of Exeter Phoenix’s 2010 International Women’s Day Programme. All artists performing at Inspirational Women’s Voices will do so without a fee and Exeter Phoenix will donate all profits generated from tickets sales to Exeter Women’s Aid.

    PROGRAMME
    Holly Ebony’s life-affirming and heartfelt music sits comfortably within the genres of folk and soul as well as blues. As a thus far unsigned artist, she has self-managed her way around the county’s music festivals in recent years, developing a reputation as a powerful and captivating vocalist and receiving wide praise for her songwriting skills and delivery, which more often than not involves an original and highly enjoyable element of audience participation as part of her live set.


    Choreographer/performer Gemma Kempthorne and filmmaker Emily Keene have joined forces for Inspirational Women’s Voices and will be presenting their premiere of ‘Domestic Bliss’; an entertaining and original live performance piece about the changing role of ‘woman in the home’ over the last five decades, combining dance, film and spoken word.


    Liv Torc is fast becoming one of the country’s most outspoken and consistently hilarious stand-up poets. She is the winner of the South West heat of the BBC’s National Poetry Slam 2009, a published author and the new Bard of Exeter. She has shared a stage with John Hegley, Murray Lachlan Young, Andrew Motion and Matt Harvey. For Inspirational Women’s Voices, Liv promises to take a deliciously wicked and comical look at the human condition known as ‘being a woman right now, right here’.

    Elizabeth Jane Pennington’s recently acquired Masters degree in Theatre Practice, and intensive training in psychophysical performance with Phillip Zarrilli as well as Butoh dance training with Tadashi Endo, has helped her develop her strongly distinct performance practice, working with the body and the imagination. For Inspirational Women’s Voices she will perform her most recent solo work ‘Blood Mother’, adopted from the writings of the Spanish playwright and poet Federico Garcia Lorca.


    Ella Turk-Richards is an emerging star in the rising, making a name for herself as a unique voice on the singer-songwriter scene. She is currently in the process of recording her first EP of original compositions and will premiere some of her work at Exeter Phoenix as part of Inspirational Women’s Voices.


    International Women's Day has been observed since the early 1900's, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world, in which oppression and inequality was spurring women to become more vocal and active in campaigning for change.

    Over the past three years, Exeter Phoenix has become an increasingly important representative organisation for the UK in terms of its contribution to International Women’s Day, which takes place annually on 8th March. Through a series of events across its programming departments, Exeter Phoenix attempts to facilitate and encourage the celebration of women's achievements as well as raise awareness of the inequalities between men and women that still exist on many levels (human rights, poverty, business, politics, pay, healthcare, education, violence) in the world today.


    Inspirational Women’s Voices

    Sunday 7 March 2010
    Time: 8pm, Tickets: £6 (£5)

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