For Love of The Arts

Posted by admin on Dec 30, 2011

Cel­e­braing Women in Word & Song

TRIAAC pro­gram ops fundraiser set for March 3

Artist Judy Chicago said it well: “I believe that it is cru­cial for women artists to sit­u­ate our­selves in the con­text of our own gen­der, class and eth­nic his­to­ries and strug­gles rather than in rela­tion­ship to male histories.”

No doubt! Art is soul expres­sion iden­ti­fy­ing the life force of the human being through whom it is trans­mit­ted. That’s why in bring­ing the city city of Fort Wayne a Women’s His­tory Month cel­e­bra­tion we’ve asked three phe­nom­e­nal women to rep­re­sent their gen­der, class and eth­nic his­to­ries. On March 3rd, from 7:00 to 11:00PM, Carol Lock­ridge, Indiana’s Blues Woman of 2010, Sunny Tay­lor, Fort Wayne’s amaz­ing folk and Amer­i­cana singer-songwriter, and the insight­fully soul­ful Erika Mar­tinez, a West Coast poet and essay­ist will light up the C2G Music Hall, on Baker Street. Down­town Fort Wayne is going to rock!  

Amer­i­cans didn’t pub­licly cel­e­brate women’s his­tory until 1978. It began as a weekly cel­e­bra­tion in Sonoma County Cal­i­for­nia, encom­pass­ing Inter­na­tional Women’s Day on March 8. In 1981, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Rep. Bar­bara Mikul­ski (D-Md.) co-sponsored a joint Con­gres­sional res­o­lu­tion pro­claim­ing a national Women’s His­tory Week, and in 1987, Con­gress expanded the cel­e­bra­tion to a month-long recog­ni­tion of women’s his­tor­i­cal role in the the country’s development.

Women’s role in the arts also was over­looked.  Even with the harsh oppres­sion of slav­ery days Afrikan women managed–sometimes at their own peril–to pre­serve the cul­ture of their ances­try and artic­u­late both their strug­gles and hopes in their own words and images. In cel­e­brat­ing women’s con­tri­bu­tion to our cul­tural iden­tity, we cel­e­brate the best in ourselves.

Join us on March 3rd. Click the but­ton for ticket infor­ma­tion.Tick­ets

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