It’s crucial to us to recognize that activism and the arts go hand in hand. We acknowledge that performers often draw from their shared experiences, such as institutionalised racism.
It is not just our obligation to lend our system for musicians to share their stories, because they matter, however our responsibility to proactively take down the systems that perpetuate bigotry. We the Women was substantiated of a location of opportunity (having actually been established by Nathalie I, 2 white women) and also we can not just take advantage of our varied community; we need to do the job to see to it their location in culture is one rooted in equal rights.
Based out of Los Angeles, the all-female cumulative is seeking to smash gender obstacles for female performers and the standard theatre mould whilst guaranteeing black voices are not just intensified, however given an equivalent ground by taking their disruptive real-time theatre experiences– most significantly they hosted a wake for 2019 at the legendary Hollywood Forever Cemetery– online during the global pandemic. Strongly, their new Wake/Rebirth collection permits us to mourn the past and also look forward with intend to the future.
We sustain Black Lives Matter unconditionally and also black musicians will certainly constantly belong, voice and system in our neighborhood. It is currently our work as white females of benefit to intensify their voices as loudly as we can.
We promise to remain to enlighten ourselves, find out, listen as well as aim to do better everyday to sustain our cumulative mission. In that spirit, We The Women is matching any kind of contributions made to National Bailout Fund, Black Visions Collective, Color of Change, NAACP Legal Defense as well as Educational Fund, The Bail Project, Black Lives Matter, Reclaim the Block, Communities United Against Police Brutality, Justice for Tony McDade, Justice for Breonna Taylor I Run with Maudto reach our goal of 5K.
For the past two years up until this March, We The Women group would meet up in Echo Park or West Hollywood, jumping in between cafe and also drinks spots to meet various other female-identifying creatives. Like every person else, we’re now on Zoom and also Google Hangouts, brainstorming ways to combine our love for theater with the on-line realm and also keep our network of carrying out artists artistically stimulated.
Females, as it ends up, certainly recognize just how to maintain developing in a crisis. Normally, the pandemic has actually required real-time events manufacturers anywhere to be even more creative with their work.
We organized our yearly fundraising event in January (The Wake for 2019) as well as since we are no more organizing a traditional item of live theatre in LA this summer, we determined to repurpose our funds to support a Digital Wake/Rebirth, developed to display lady artists responding to our prompt from all over the world.
We The Women’s Wake and also Rebirth events discover the cycle of life and death, development and loss, and development and regression. With an international crisis on our hands, it felt natural and also appropriate to open up the submissions to any type of female-identifying creatives worldwide. Assessing every one of the amazing imaginative work as well as learning more about numerous emerging female musicians has helped our whole team survive quarantine. We’re enjoyed share all of the imaginative original work in our Wake and Rebirth collection, currently included digitally on @wethewomencollective on Instagram.
This collection has been incredibly uplifting and also is a true testament to the fact that art can and also will withstand all. We have actually been extremely excited by all the fantastic entries that was available in from worldwide and feel as though there is a light at the end of this tunnel.
Writers are still composing, vocalists vocal singing, professional dancers dance, and gamers playing– perseverance is an envigorating medicine, and I feel optimistic and hopeful by the truth that as lengthy as we remain to produce as well as shine a light on females’s voices, as We The Women has done, our sector will certainly expand in the ideal instructions.