Switchback Books (www.switchbackbooks.com) will host an event on Saturday March 29, 2008 at 8 p.m., featuring mixed media presentations and collaborations of music, poetry, photographs, performance and more.
The event, taking place at the newly opened
Medicine Park (www.medparkchicago.com) space, aspires to stress and support the artist significance of the vibrant female artistic community in the Chicago area.
Artists participating in the event include author and poet
Kathleen Rooney with poet and Absent editor
Elisa Gabbert, poet and Milk Magazine co-editor
Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, poet and musician
Jen Watman, poet
Erika Mikkalo with artist
Salem Collo-Justin, poet
Nina Corwin with musician
Suzanne Osman, multidisciplinary artist
Jennifer Karmin with poet and editor of MoonLit
Lisa Janssen, a performance by
Murakami Sound Machine and readings by Switchback Books editors and poets
Brandi Homan, Becca Klaver and
Hanna Andrews. After the evening’s performances,
DJ Melissa Grubbs will help set the tone for mingling and general merrymaking. Event organizers suggest you bring your dancing shoes and BYOB.
SWAN DAY, conceived by The Fund for Women Artists, is a new international holiday that celebrates women artists. It will be an annual event taking place on the last Saturday of Women’s History Month (March). The first SWAN Day will take place on Saturday, March 29, 2008.
A $3 donation is requested and all proceeds will be donated to The Fund for Women Artists
