International Women's Day Festivities - Bread and Roses Art Exhibit at the Alma Gallery

Special International Women's Day festivities begin with the opening of the "Bread and Roses" Art Exhibit at the Alma Gallery, in Guelph - from Tues. March 3rd to Weds. March 11th.  Opening reception will be Sunday March 8, 5 - 9 p.m.  which will feature the powerful artwork from many wonderful visual, fibre and three dimensional sculpture artists, as well as, performances from female poets and music courtesy of a lady dj - this is an event to check out.  

Also on Thurs. March 5th there will be an author talk with Jean Little and Edeet Ravel at the Alma Gallery from 7 p.m. and on Friday March 6th , 7 p.m. there will be an evening of  "Women in Film" feature of short films by Canadian Women filmmakers at Ed Video, 40 Baker St. Guelph.   So there are lots to celebrate and check out in honour of all the great womyn in the world, your world...Some of the great womyn artists being featured in this "Bread and Roses" show are:  Tina Newlove, Julie Pasila, Andrea Bird, Aliki Mikulich, Grayce Perry, Annette Dyon, Janet Stanley, Marilyn Clarke, Supria Karmakar, Pat Megraw, S S, Kanika, Pearl Vangeest, Maria Pezzano, Tammy Ratcliff, Karolina Kuras, Saffron and more...

Check back later this week for new 'small' work that will be in celebration of this theme, International Women's Day, which will be available at my etsy online store...

Happy International Womyn's Day 2009.