¡ACTIVISTA! An International Women’s Day Concert and Roundtable
An ad-hoc group of women hailing from various sectors in the arts and activism communities today announced that they have joined forces with the award-winning Chicago-based nonprofit arts presenter HotHouse and publisher Haymarket Books to curate and present an online cultural event to mark International Women’s Day. The program will be broadcast over the HotHouseGlobal streaming platforms on March 7, 2021 at 4pm CST.
The program includes performances from women-identified artists, speakers, and messages from places located throughout the world. The two–hour free event is focused on concerns that impact the lives of women and reflect issues that represent the overarching values of the producers - climate change, access to health care (clean water, housing, childcare), immigration, safe provisions for family life, economic mobility and self-determination.
Curated and Produced by Marguerite Horberg, Esty Dinur, Karima Daoudi, Claudia Norman, Viviana Benitez, Jin Won, and Haymarket Books, the program is additionally supported by HotHouse, Haymarket Books, The Mexico Now Festival, Middle East Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design.
“ We came together over several months to collectively present the voices we feel are often overlooked or altogether missing in commodified appropriations of women’s issues” says one of the event organizers, Esty Dinur.
The event will be streamed for free without paywalls (although registration is requested and donations are encouraged). Registration is via EventBrite.
The event will be streamed on Twitch.tv/HotHouseGlobal, Facebook, the HotHouse website, www.hothouse.net; and on both the HotHouseGlobal and Haymarket Books YouTube channels.
