“Women: A Creative Force”, a full day of art, community, & theatre, a collaboration with Women Hold the Key, Vashon Repertory Theatre, and Vashon Center For The Arts.
All activities are free with the exception of VRT’s incubator series performances.
Schedule:
7.30am – 9:30am: Free coffee, pastries and conversation.
7:30am – 9:00pm: Gallery exhibitions, “Women Make Glass”, “Into the Unknown”, and Gift shop hosts jewelry by Stephanie Benson.
10:00 am – 5:00pm: Creativity Tables where YOU create art, lead by women artists. See details below.
2:00pm: VRT Incubator Series, “Becoming Awesome”, by Y York, play reading in the Kay White Hall. See details below.
4:30pm – 6:00pm: Happy Hour featuring mocktails and cocktails by Nashi Orchards, beer, wine, and mixed drinks. Cash bar.
7:30pm: VRT Incubator Series, “Mercy”, by Elizabeth Heffron and Hope Wechkin, musical play reading in the Kay White Hall. See details below.
VCA GALLERY (all day)
“Women Make Glass” , first of its kind exhibition, with a collection of 15 PNW women glass artists and their unique glassmaking art. Artists exhibiting: Cappy Thompson • Jenny Pohlman & Sabrina Knowles • Debora Moore • Kait Rhoads • Karen Willinbrink-Johnsen • April Surgent • Carol Milne • Jen Elek • Morgan Peterson • Megan Stelljes • Bri Chesler • Nancy Burgess • Lydia Boss
“Into the Unknown”, by Tininha Silva, is a collection of large woven sculptures gracing our 40′ atrium wall. Her work is an ongoing self-reflection on emotional depths, losses, thoughts of resilience and new journeys. It’s about wanting to embrace uncertainty with a willingness to trust the process and a mindset of continuous learning.
Jewelry by Stephanie Benson. Stephanie’s premier body of work is a cultivation of her metalsmithing mastery and a holistic design approach. With silver and gold as her canvas, Stephanie uses the color in her stones to inspire healing through the connection of the mind, body and spirit.
CREATIVITY TABLES (10am – 5pm)
sponsored by Women Hold the Key
Creating art as a form of resistance and creation of joy.
We invite you to join us making a variety of art, some to take home, some to contribute to the collective. You’ll be inspired, creative and connected for the day – both to your own artistic strength and to the strength of art as a powerful tool of resistance and resilience.
Stephanie Benson
“Getting creative with Collage”, steep yourself in gratitude, and create collage thank you cards to take home with you a offer to your friends, family, and others in gratitude.
Suzanne Hubbard
“Weaving in Community” is a participatory community weaving project. Fourteen strands are held by fourteen people. Together you weave, and as you weave, and while the weaving moves independently, the process becomes the community fabric. You notice that everyone is supporting your thread and you are supporting theirs, resulting a beautiful chevron pattern which appears like a rainbow, unexpectedly from the woven threads.
Patricia Toovey
“The Santuario of Listening”
It is a simple space
designed to define a place
to sit and listen inside yourself
or to someone who needs to be heard
with reflection back.
ALL EVENTS LISTED ABOVE ARE FREE TO THE PUBLIC
INCUBATOR SERIES OF WOMEN PLAYWRITES (peformances 2pn & 7:30)
Vashon Repertory Theatre
VRT’s fifth annual”Incubator Series” of new plays is a series of playwright readings dedicated to NW women playwrights (March 6 – 9). One special day celebration of plays is on March 8, for International Women’s Day.
2:00 pm, “Becoming Awesome”, by three-time Incubator Series contributor Y York, is a young woman’s coming of age story with a tender twist.
7:30 pm, “Mercy”, a musical by Elizabeth Heffron and Hope Wechkin, brings to the stage Seattle Theatre star Sarah Rudinoff to lead a cast of the Island’s best singer/actors as they make their way through the ups and downs of trying to save lives in a crazy healthcare system.