Women’s Art and Activism at the Bellarmine Forum
Meg Patch
This year’s Bellarmine Forum at Loyola Marymount University is the first to focus on women. The forum is a weeklong celebration of women artists and activists. This week (October 24-30), poets, painter, musicians, actors, performance artists, dancers, and scholars from Los Angeles will be brought together to discuss and display art, which exemplifies the relationship between art and politics, and to honor the accomplishments of women. Examples of events this week are a performance and lecture by the Guerilla Girls on Monday at 7:30pm with an introduction by Gail Wronsky in Ahmanson 1000, afternoon teas Monday through Thursday from 4-5 with various music performances, readings from writings of Afghani women, and conversations with Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights. There are many different interesting lectures and performances going on through out the week that cover a wide variety of topics, so make sure to check out the pamphlets located in the top floor of University Hall as you walk in (next to the Political Science Village). There is also an ongoing art exhibition titled The Purpose of Being located in the Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. Student Art Gallery that is open from 10am-5pm daily with a reception given by the L.A. artists and LMU student collaborators on Friday, October 29th from 5pm-7pm. Each exhibit focuses on women and their efforts to create social change through their art form.
http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/thebellarmineforum.htm
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