It’s vital to us to acknowledge that advocacy and the arts go hand in hand. We acknowledge that entertainers frequently draw from their shared experiences, such as institutionalised racism.
It is not just our responsibility to offer our platform for artists to share their tales, since they matter, but our obligation to actively take down the systems that perpetuate racism. We the Women was born out of a place of advantage (having actually been established by Nathalie I, 2 white women) and we can not simply benefit from our diverse area; we have to do the work to ensure their location in society is one rooted in equality.
Based out of Los Angeles, the all-female cumulative is seeking to smash sex barriers for female entertainers and also the traditional theatre mould whilst making certain black voices are not only magnified, however provided an equivalent footing by taking their disruptive online theater experiences— most especially they hosted a wake for 2019 at the renowned Hollywood Forever Cemetery— online during the global pandemic. Incredibly, their new Wake/Rebirth series allows us to grieve the past and look ahead with want to the future.
We support Black Lives Matter unconditionally as well as black artists will constantly have a place, voice and system in our neighborhood. It is currently our work as white ladies of advantage to amplify their voices as loudly as we can.
We promise to continue to educate ourselves, discover, make every effort and also pay attention to do far better everyday to support our cumulative goal. Because spirit, We The Women is matching any contributions made to National Bailout Fund, Black Visions Collective, Color of Change, NAACP Legal Defense and also 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 objective of 5K.
For the previous two years till this March, We The Women group would assemble in Echo Park or West Hollywood, jumping between coffee shops and beverages spots to meet with various other female-identifying creatives. Like every person else, we’re currently on Zoom and Google Hangouts, brainstorming methods to combine our love for theatre with the on the internet realm as well as maintain our network of doing musicians artistically promoted.
Women, as it turns out, certainly know exactly how to keep creating in a situation. Normally, the pandemic has actually required live events producers almost everywhere to be much more innovative with their work.
We held our yearly charity event in January (The Wake for 2019) and also because we are no longer presenting a traditional piece of live theatre in LA this summertime, we determined to repurpose our funds to sustain a Digital Wake/Rebirth, designed to showcase woman artists reacting to our prompt from worldwide.
We The Women’s Wake and also Rebirth occasions explore the cycle of life and also growth, death and loss, and also expansion and regression. With an international dilemma on our hands, it felt appropriate as well as all-natural to open the entries to any type of female-identifying creatives worldwide. Examining all of the incredible innovative job and also discovering so many emerging lady musicians has actually aided our whole group endure quarantine. We’re thrilled to share all of the innovative original work in our Wake and also Rebirth collection, currently included electronically on @wethewomencollective on Instagram.
This collection has been exceptionally uplifting and also is a true testimony to the reality that art can and will certainly sustain all. We have been amazingly thrilled by all the fantastic entries that came in from around the world and also really feel as though there is a light at the end of this tunnel.
Writers are still creating, singers vocal singing, professional dancers dancing, and also players playing— willpower is an intoxicating medication, and I really feel hopeful and confident by the truth that as long as we continue to beam a light as well as create on females’s voices, as We The Women has actually done, our sector will grow in the right direction.
We stand with We The Women in their goal to magnify female voices.