VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS & LECTURES
WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
SPRING 2021
1) VIRTUAL POSTER MAKING WORKSHOP
Address issues effecting you within your community, the nation or across the globe in this 2 session poster making workshop. The workshop begins with a discussion of what makes a good piece of protest art and the evolution and philosophy behind some of Guerrilla Girls / Guerrilla Girls On Tour’s famous posters and street theatre actions. Participants break out into small groups to work collaboratively on creating a new poster. Works-in-progress are presented and the workshop ends with a planning session that walks participants through the process of distributing their ideas. For anyone with a passion for combing activism and art. Each session is 50 minutes long.
2) HOW TO ROCK YOUR FACE MASK – the art of activism, virtual ZOOM Lecture
An interactive presentation detailing how one person can use their creativity to push against the status quo. “HOW TO ROCK YOUR FACE MASK” is an insiders look at what went behind the posters, protests, fax blitzes, speak outs and street theatre actions the Guerrilla Girls used to attack and expose sexism and racism in the art and theatre world and beyond. It includes a step by step guide to the art of collaboration, how to gather stats, generate ideas, fund projects, ensure response and guarantee momentum. It also sheds light on the use of storytelling to weave together the fabric of a movement designed to effect change. 50 minutes.
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UPCOMING LECTURES and WORKSHOPS:
January 7 Artist In Residency Concordia College, MN
February 3, Nonfiction Workshop
February 5, Playwriting Workshop
February 17, Venus Theatre, DC
March 24, The Art of Activism, Fargo, ND
March 26, The Greatest Indoor Reading Series
PAST WORKSHOPS:
November 19 – Poster Workshop, Cornell College SOLD OUT
June 26 from Noon to 4PM EST SOLD OUT
May 29, 2020 from Noon to 4PM EST SOLD OUT
May 8, 2020 from Noon to 4PM EST SOLD OUT
CHECK OUT POSTERS CREATED IN PAST WORKSHOPS
Your lecture and workshop inspired our our students to find new ways to have a voice and work for social justice. – Christina Penn-Goetsch, Cornell College
Inspiring, insightful, hilarious and fun – PUSH/PUSHBACK challenged the audience to think about how misogyny and sexism infiltrate the arts and left us with ideas about how we can use activism and art to change the world. – Missoula Art Museum
AN INTERVIEW WITH A GUERRILLA GIRL – SWANN AUCTION GALLERIES
Donna Kaz is a writer, director, choreographer and activist, who has led the theatre troupe, “Guerrilla Girls on Tour” for the past two decades. A Guerrilla Girl herself, who has written a memoir entitled UN/MASKED, Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl On Tour, Lauren Goldberg, our vintage poster specialist, asked Donna to unmask yet again and share some insight into her own experiences with the movement.
Guerrilla Girls On Tour stands in solidarity with our Black members and the Black members of our community and the world in the fight for justice and equality. We must do better, speak out, drive out hate and prejudice. We must continue to support, promote and celebrate our diverse world. Black art matters. Black stories matter. #BlackLivesMatter
WE LOVE MASKS!
