SF Women's Film Festival - April 2, 6:00 PM

Hi all,
We're having another WATA outing on April 2nd at 6PM to the San Francisco Women's Film Festival

Hope you can make it!

Women in Theatre: April Edition

Here are some of the plays opening/playing this month here in the Bay Area written by women playwrights.

Distracted by Lisa Loomer, TheatreWorks, April 1 - 26

Rita Moreno in Conversation, by Rita Moreno, Berkeley Rep, April 20

This is Not a Torture or an Engine by Erin Bregman, staged reading, Playwrights Foundation, April 28

War Music by Lillian Groag at A.C.T., March 26 - April 26

Women's Will 24 Hour Playfest, featuring local playwrights, Women's Will, April 6


I know this list is far from exhaustive, it's a first pass. I'll try to add on more plays as i find them.

Evolve and Vocalize: A Spotlight on Next Generation Leadership

An interesting looking event for emerging artists in the Bay Area sponsored by San Francisco Bay Area Emerging Arts Professionals that's being held on Sunday, April 11. Details about the event are here

San Francisco Bay Area Emerging Arts Professionals

The San Francisco Bay Area Emerging Arts Professionals is a newly-formed peer-based membership organization dedicated to evolving the professional capacities of arts administrators, managers, cultural workers and artists within the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. We work collaboratively to provide professional development and networking opportunities, as well as a fresh exchange of ideas, practices, and knowledge.

We act as a connecting point, drawing upon collective strengths and interests, to develop peer-generated solutions. By fostering strategic partnerships; and investing in the leadership capacity and literacy of members; we work for a sustainable, diverse, and progressive arts and culture sector.

Woman's Will 24 Hour Playfest April 6, 2009

For the past three years I've participated in the Woman's Will 24 Hour Playfest, but unfortunately due to an out-of-state trip I'll not be one of the playwrights writing a brand new 10 minute play overnight.



Here's how the playfest works:

• The artists (playwrights, directors, and actors) meet at 10 pm at the Julia Morgan Theatre where and when they are given their theme. (You see you have no idea what you'll be writing about prior to the event).
• The playwrights have until 7 am the next morning to finish their script and email it in. Around 10 am the directors and the actors meet and begin rehearsal.
• The actors must be off book and have all their blocking down by 8 pm when the show begins.

It's a fantastic experience as a writer and always fun to meet other artists. And the ticket sales and silent auction benefit Woman's Will Theatre.

San Francisco Women's Film Festival

The 5th Annual San Francisco Women's Film Festival is set to kick off on April 1, 2009.

The festival celebrates women in all areas of fill in select theaters and community centers across the Bay Area.

Checkout this year's schedule and films online.

WATA Monthly Meeting Tonight at Koko Cocktails

Sorry for the short notice here on the blog, but WATA is having its monthly meeting tonight at Koko Cocktails at 7pm.

Hope to see you there.

Women’s Cinema from Tangiers to Tehran

The Pacific Film Archive presents a series of films directed by women from North Africa, the Middle East and European Diaspora.

A celebration of women filmmakers from North Africa and the Middle East, as well as the diaspora in Europe, this series represents a remarkable geographic, cultural, and stylistic range. In documentaries, features, and experimental works, the directors depict urban attitudes and rural traditions, the dream of escape and the isolation of exile, and the comforts and entrapments of family. But as James Neil, co-curator of the British series that inspired this one, has said, a common theme runs through the films: “They are about women who struggle and strive against their surroundings, and they’re directed by women who have had those experiences themselves.”

Learn more about the film series online.