Creative Action: Gender and the Arts

Posted by on February 10, 2006

“Creative Action: Gender and the Arts” by Women’s & Gender Studies Program, UNC Greensboro, N.C., March 30-31, 2006.
http://wgs.uncg.edu/secondary_pages/conference/index.html

The Program in Women’s and Gender Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro is organizing a conference to examine how the arts can be used for social and political action. This includes examining how expressive mediums of all types–dance, theatre, music, film, literature, visual arts, animation, puppetry, and other forms–are used to raise social consciousness and rethink identity norms such as of gender, class, and sexuality, in political protest, or to incite violence and encourage intolerance.

We hope to stimulate interest in the arts as they intersect or converge with social and political concerns, whether it be within the arts professions or in the broader community. The conference committee is interested in a range of research methodologies and analytic techniques, interdisciplinary approaches, and intersections.

Featured events include a residency/performance by the Guerilla Girls on Tour and a new play from the North Carolina Touring Theatre Ensemble. The Guerilla Girls on Tour’s performance, “Feminists Are Funny”, will be the culmination of a two-day residency that includes a poster/performance workshop “From Attitude to Activism”, and “Street Theatre Tactics,” a workshop for anyone interested in exploring creating short dramatic pieces to be used as a protest tool. Mexican filmmaker Maria Novaro will be present for a discussion of her film “Without Trace”.