Art Meets Activism: Reproductive Freedom Festival

Arts and Activism!

Six Hours of Reproductive Freedom and Theater!

March 20 2016

6 to 9 pm EST

Live Streaming Everywhere

Pre-Show 5:30 EST

Twenty-Five Writers, 30 Actors, 6 Directors, a 5-person camera crew on the past, present, future and timeless nature of Reproductive Freedom, Health, Rights and Justice. Under the guidance of Artistic Consultant Stacey Linnartz and with partner VirtualArt.Tv, Kathryn Jones, CEO.

People can Tweet and chat along the way. FAQs on the site make it all easy. Viewing Packets prepared by Rachel Goddard make hosting a group easy (see About Us/Make a Plan/ on ReproductiveFreedomFestival.org for a free download).

What Can You See and When?

Here's the Full Schedule! -

*INTERNAL ORDER OF HALF-HOURS MAY SHIFT

PRE SHOW (IRELAND) 5:30 pm - 6 pm: Savita by Samantha Lierens; The Renunciation by Homework Collective, Dublin, directed by Thais Flaitt Giannoccaro

HEROINES 6 pm - 6:30 pm: My Heroines by Marge Piercy; Lucky Old Lady by Marcy Arlin Playground Placenta by Melissa Bell; Terrible Virtue (excerpt) by Jessica Litwak; Hardcore Latina Punk Birth Fragments by Grisel Acosta, directed by Joan Kane

NEXT GENERATIONS 6:30 pm - 7 pm: The Pill by Laura Zlatos; Women and …? by Angela Bonavoglia; Two Girls by Allie Costa; In the Service we said and Women’s Liberation by Judith Arcana; plus High School for Health Professions Drama Club directed by Stacey Linnartz

CONFLICTS 7 pm - 7:30 pm: Cobra This! by Jeremy Rishe; Rhymes with Ryan (On the Hill) by Cindy Cooper; Certain Doom by Stephen Cedars; Pyramid Poem by Ave Maria Cross; American Girl/Igboo World by Junita Middleton, directed by Francesca Mantani Arkus

BODY POLITICS 7:30 pm - 8 pm: Goddess of Hygeia by Michael angel Johnson; On The Brink of Middle Age by Yvette Heyliger; Chained Labor by Mildred Lewis; The Prisoner by Ellen Cohen; Useless Uterus by Anne Flanagan, directed by Atonia Pettiford

DISCOVERIES 8 pm - 8:30 pm: Change of Heart, So to Speak by Kitty Chen; Mid Life Choice by Jessica Feder-Birnbaum; Papyrus by Laura Shamas; The Last Refuge by Henry Howard; directed by Marcy Arlin

WHAT WE KNOW 8:30 pm - 9 pm: Ida Mae Murphy by Debbie Miller; Ain't I A Woman by Nicole Goodwin; Sister by Mercedes Sanchez; Spare Rib (excerpts) by Winter Miller.

directed by Melanie Sutherland

CLOSING: blessed by Alix Olson

Also, throughout we'll have music: Not So Fresh Feeling and These Breasts Can Kill by Marjorie Duffield, Greg Pliska; Digital postcards from "Abortion Looks Like" created by Jenny Dodson Mistry and Nadia Chait; Electronic art from V-Card Diaries by Bree Capel and Sally Jo with filmmaker Therese Shechter (How I Lost My Virginity); Guest Hosting by Malini Singh McDonald of Theatre Beyond Broadway.

For more info and to follow the Live Stream, go to http://ReproductiveFreedomFestival.org

Date:

Mar 20 2016 - 6:00pm

Region:

United States

Location:

LIVE STREAM AT http://ReproductiveFreedomFestival.org

Event Type:

Performances