NMR Artist Spotlight: Exclusive Interview with Poet and Spiritual Artist Irina Kuzminsky (aka Irinushka) Today on the New Music Resources Artist Spotlight Series we will focus on the mesmerizing music and poetry of Artist Irinushka. FIND OUT MORE AT IRINUSHKA.COM What inspires your music? What is your story? The impetus to all my work has come from my poetry. In fact, dance, music and poetry have always been a part of my life, and poetry is at the heart of my work. I started writing music as a result of Dancing with Dark Goddesses, a one woman dance, poetry and music fusion performance which I created first to accompany the launch of my first poetry collection Dancing with Dark Goddesses (Awen 2009) at the Heaven's Gate William Blake Festival in England. The show needed a music track and I soon realized I would need to create it myself. Since then I have gone on to perform the show in the UK (Stroud, Bath), New York (Manhattan Theatre Source, Dixon Place, Producers Club),...

"How YOU can celebrate International Women's Day " - Crazy Creative Life "How YOU can celebrate International Women's Day" - Crazy Creative Life. Regardless of your political beliefs, women and men can celebrate the achievements of women in their life today and work on coming together to solve some of the world's most difficult social issues through positive communication. Celebrate the achievements of women in YOUR life today with International Women's Day! I am celebrating by spending time with my family and enjoying the music of female artists and composers. Check out these playlists below: 100+ Women Composers Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjAMKjw2orjiPKxqbj1907N9XyfWs5M7U Electroacoustic Works of Sabrina Pena Young https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjAMKjw2orjhCtS1RWSq4Y5UJSWVqBqq8 Wikipedia List of Female Composers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_composers_by_birth_date DOWN...

THE  AVIVA   PLAYERS   Mira J Spektor - Artistic Director & Friends   Celebrate our 40th Season with 3 Programs in 2015 At  OPERA   AMERICA  - 330, 7th Ave NYC   FRIDAY OCTOBER 16  -  7:30 pm Aviva   Players  & Downtown Music Productions present:  Songs, Piano Rags & Chamber Music Including Vocal Duets & the Piano Trio by Fanny Mendelssohn Mimi Stern-Wolfe - Music Director /Piano, Hillary Schranze - Soprano,  Darcy Dunn - Mezzo Soprano , Lynn Bechtold - Violin, Mary Wooten - Cello  WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 4  -  7pm   Aviva   Players  & Bank Street Films present:  A Double Feature of Chamber  Opera  Films  Travel to the Romantic Past of 1816 in Mira J Spektor’s VILLA DIODATI   & to the Future with Sci-Fi Virtual Reality in Sabrina Pena Young’s LIBERTARIA TUESDAY DECEMBER 1  -  7:30pm Aviva ...

Murray State University will be hosting the "Acousmatic Evening" as an informal lecture/recital in FAH Room 623 Tuesday November 9th. Admission is free. Concert starts at 3:30. Limited seating available. Sabrina Peña Young will be hosting the lecture/recital. This is an ideal event for classes interested in electronic music, music history, feminism, and women's studies. We invite you to come out. "An Acousmatic Evening" will provide the audience a selection of curated electronic music including fixed media sound diffusion and video projection. The International Alliance for Women in Music is a global network of women and men working to increase and enhance musical activities and opportunities and to promote all aspects of the music of women. The program of six electroacoustic compositions has been selected from 22 entries from seven countries for the IAWM 2010 Annual Concert. The official performance of these works takes place in the Musée des moulages de l...

Regional Deadline: Annual Recurring March 1 - The primary goal of the Art Meets Activism program is to support feminist artists and organizations in the development and implementation of art activities that are directly focused on social change in Kentucky. Applicants should be able to demonstrate their commitment to feminism and their understanding of the relationship between art and social change. Applicants may request funds for a range of artistic activities including: arts education programs focused on women or girls, community participation in the creation of new art forms, artist-centered projects involving non-traditional venues or new partnerships between artists and activists, and artist-centered projects with social change themes or contents. Each year, KFW awards a total of $100,000 in grants, typically between $1000 to $5000 each. Contact for current application: Kentucky Foundation for women 1215 Heyburn Building 332 West Broadway Louisville, KY 40202 Phone: (502) 562-004...