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International SWAN Day' or Support Women Artists Now Day, is a day devoted to celebrating the work of female creatives around the world. It is usually held on the last Saturday of March, and anyone from around the world can celebrate it.Jan Lisa Huttner (co-founder of International SWAN Day) wanted to increase the power for women in movies and theater by giving them a voice and urging more females to go see female made movies. She wrote and published a book called [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615564895/ Penny's Picks: 50 Movies by Women Filmmakers], which focuses on female made movies and gives the start of the early ages of International SWAN Day. "The films are there, but what's missing is the audience. Through our support for women filmmakers, we can redefine what consumers everywhere get to see on their movie screens," she says in her book.[1] Before International SWAN Day was born, Huttner created an organization called [https://ff2media.com/thehotpinkpen/whos-penny/whats-witaswan/ WITASWAN] (Women in the Audience Supporting Women Artist Now!) whose members mission is to see at least one film every month that is directed or written by a woman. The organization meets at least once a month to watch and support female made movies.[2] The idea came after Huttner read a study from San Diego State University called “The Celluloid Ceiling,” which reported that little had changed for women filmmakers during the years. As a response to it, Huttner addressed the quotes in Kennedy’s article and her work to support women began by supporting women on screen. After a while, Linda Henning Cohen, then Program Vice President the Illinois division of the American Association of University Women (AAUW-Illinois), asked Huttner to present a workshop about “The Celluloid Ceiling” at the 2003 Spring Convention. "In April 2007, Huttner suggested to AAUW-Illinois’ Program Vice President Lois Strom to invite Richards to speak at the 2007 Spring Convention in Bloomington." In 2004, the AAUW-Illinois Board of Directors decided to create a new project.[3] Huttner has won numerous awards for her stories and film reviews, including IWPA awards for which she was recognized. She has won three Silver Feather awards for IWPA.[4] Huttner was working as a health-care computer consultant and she kept an Excel spreadsheet to rate the films she saw with her husband, Richard Miller. She believed that men and women have different responses to different kinds of movies. On Valentine’s Day 2002, Huttner started a Web site, called Films42.com, where she recommends movies suitable for both sexes. Now she has a site devoted to female filmmakers called FF2 Media. Huttner likes to write reviews for Web sites including Critic Doctor, which critiques film critics; Reel Chicago; and Women’s eNews.[5] Huttner is an award-winning American film critic and feminist activist who contributes to Chicago's JUF News and many columns for other publications,, such as the Huffington Post. She manages two blogs - "The Hot Pink Pen" and "Second City Tzivi," which are now found under the umbrella FF2 Media.[6] Huttner invited Martha Richards, the Executive Director of WomenArts, to speak at an American Association of University Women conference in Bloomington, in April 2007. The mission of WomenArts is to increase the visibility of women artists in all art forms. WITASWAN showed that there were women audience members who wanted to see more work by women, and Richards had built the WomenArts Network, an online directory of over 1,600 women artists from all over the world so the two women became two unstoppable forces in creating the new SWAN Day movement.[7] Richards is the Executive Director of WomenArts and prior to that she served as Executive Director of Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College and as Managing Director of StageWest, a LORT theatre in Springfield, Massachusetts. She has a B.A. in Economics from the U.C. Berkeley and a J.D. from U.C. Hastings College of Law. She is also a member of the California bar and was one of the founding directors of California Lawyers for the Arts and the Women’s Fund of Western Masssachusetts.[8] International SWAN Day timeline: 2002: Huttner reads about the “Celluloid Ceiling” and takes action by writing a letter to the Times, and when they published it, a new project was launched. 2003: Huttner collaborates with Program VP Linda Henning Cohen, to have a workshop at the AAUW-Illinois Spring Convention. 42 people attend in total who watched A Jury of Her Peers together. AAUW-Illinois branches began inviting Jan to come speak. 2004: President Kim Benziger and the AAUW-Illinois Board ask Huttner to provide an update for the five Fall District Conferences. After weeks of brainstorming a decision was made that all can be swans. [9]The birth of International SWAN Day was born from a car conversation between Richards and Huttner who envisioned SWAN Day as an annual event that could serve both artists and audience members all around the world. The idea was to create a database, a place where all women artists feel safe to express and be themselves. In June of 2007, the two activist females announced their plan to celebrate “International SWAN Day” on March 29, 2008 in honor of March as Women’s History Month. The idea is that in the Woman's month women can support and inspire each other. During the first year of its birth, there were approximately 150 events in a dozen countries and thousands of women artists around the world who have have created SWAN events and continue to do so. Huttner has organized film events featuring women film directors for SWAN Day every year – first in Chicago and then in New York. She continues to write about women in film.[10] In general, women in the arts don't get the recognition they deserve like most of the males in the industry. There have been very few female directors nominated even at the Oscars. Female filmmakers don’t get the attention they deserve and that is why these organizations and International SWAN Day are important because audiences have to make conscious decisions about what they choose to watch. Otherwise, as the author claims "nothing will change."[11] In the beginning of October, 2018, in Milwaukee, WI, a historic gathering took place - Richards passed the SWAN Day torch and leadership to Statera Arts. The nonprofit organization was co-founded by Executive Director Melinda Pfundstein. The gathering included SWAN Day organizers from all around the world and gave a chance to SWAN women to connect, see each other in person after years of friendships. The 12th Annual SWAN Day is this March 30, but events will take place throughout March and April. Pfundstein urges everyone to participate in International SWAN Day. After the torch was passed she has two main goals. The first goal is to increase the visibility of women artists in the form of events featuring women in theater, dance, music, the visual arts, and film and video. According to her, it is hard for female artists to get the publicity they deserve. The organization's second goal is to provide opportunities for women to discover the power and joy of working with each other and network. SWAN events are great for collaborations and networking.[12] Statera Arts is working to bring women into full and equal participation in the arts. "We believe that art holds the power to remind us all of what is possible; that all benefit when art is made by and for more people. Almost 90% of mainstream film and TV programs are written and directed by men, and most perpetuate stereotypes about gender, race, class and other issues. Although a few men are able to create wonderful women characters, we believe women artists are much more likely to create the stories women audience members need," says Pfundstein. The WomenArts board selected StateraArts because they mutually see International SWAN Day as an alignment with their mission. "We felt that StateraArts would embrace SWAN Day as an integral part of their work instead of just an add-on. I am on the Advisory Board of StateraArts and actively involved as a mentor to Melinda Pfundstein. I will continue to be involved as a writer and mentor. And Jan is very involved in planning SWAN Day New York. She is also training young women to be film journalists through her company, FF2 Media," said Richards. "SWAN Day gives women opportunities to work together and cheer each other on. I have heard from many artists that it has inspired them and given them a sense of community. It is hard to quantify this kind of thing, but SWAN Day has started many friendships among women artists. I think that this network of collaborators that we are building may turn out to be our biggest long-term contribution to the field."[13] Over the years there have been numerous and hundreds of International SWAN Day events organized throughout the world, such as [https://www.swandayct.com/ SWAN Day CT], SWAN Day Miami, SWAN Day Kenya, [https://blatherfrombrooklyn.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/swan-day-screening/ SWAN Day NY] and many more. Anyone can participate in [https://www.courant.com/search/?q=swan+day International SWAN Day] by organizing an event or by going to see a film by a woman writer and/or director. The event usually takes place on March 30, 2019. There have been over 1,1900 SWAN Day events in 36 countries in the past 11 years. The event can be a performance, exhibit, rally, parade, workshop, or any other activity that draws attention to women artists or raises money for women artists in the community.[14] The plannings for this year's International SWAN Day have began. There are free calendar listings for each event. This will be the 12th Annual SWAN Day celebration. The founders encourage everyone to join the movement.[15] NotesSWAN Day - resubmit |
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