2020 Brigit Award for Excellence in the Arts

Max Dashu and the Suppressed Histories Archives

The Association for Study of Women and Mythology Board of Directors has selected Max Dashu and the “Suppressed Histories Archives” as 2020 recipient of the Brigit Award for Excellence in the Arts.  The award is given in recognition of her decades of contributions as American feminist historian and artist focused on female iconography, mother-right cultures and the origins of patriarchy, along with extensive teaching, publications and cultural as well as political activism.

Max’s creation of the “Suppressed Histories Archives”, researching and documenting women’s history, makes the full spectrum of women’s history and culture visible and accessible through more than 15,000 slides and 30,000 digital images. Her work as work as a feminist art historian features pan-cultural & global inclusion of women shamans and priestesses, witches and the witch trials, folk religion and pagan European traditions, and evidence in support of egalitarian matrilineages.

Past winners of the Brigit Award include Layne Redmond, Lydia Ruyle, The We’Moon Collective and Anna Crusis Women’s Choir.

See the 2020 Brigit Award letter, and learn more about the  Suppressed Histories Archives and Max’s publications and artwork.

Virtual Film Festival for Women’s History Month

To commemorate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, Women Make Movies (WMM) is hosting a virtual film festival that highlights the new releases in our Transnational Feminist Film collection.

Women Make Movies provides services to filmmakers and educators, and distributes over 700 films by and about women worldwide. WMM has worked with ASWM to bring the best of women’s films to our events and film series.

Throughout March, festival attendees will receive free access to select films about women from around the globe. New films will be added each week and will be available for viewing at no cost for the duration of the festival (March 1 – March 31, 2020).

Our thanks to the women of WMM for bringing us together in this way to celebrate women’s lives this month and every month!

You may sign up here to enjoy the 2020 free films.

Wendy Rule to Perform at 2020 Conference

We are pleased to announce that internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Wendy Rule will perform on Friday evening of our 2020 conference. 

“Hearing her perform live is an incredible experience that can easily be described as atmospheric, bewitching, and Otherworldly.”--Kelden Mercury

Wendy Rule, photo by Karen Kuehn

With the release of her latest double album ‘Persephone’,  Wendy’s work  continues to defy categorization. This exciting  project is  “a beautifully evocative retelling of the Ancient Greek myth of the Goddess Persephone’s descent into the Underworld and the ensuing grief of her mother Demeter, the Goddess of the Grain.”

Since her first album Zero was released in 1996, this visionary songstress has combined elements of gothic, folk, world, ambient and cabaret music, and crossed over into Pagan and New Age categories with her many mythological, esoteric, and ritual references. Renowned for her extraordinary voice and live shows that blur the line between music, ritual and theatre, Wendy has gained a loyal following in Australia, the USA, Europe and the UK. From the most intimate solo house concerts to large festival gigs, Wendy takes her audience on an otherworldly journey of depth and passion.

In 2014 Wendy relocated from her hometown of Melbourne, Australia to the USA, and is now living in the beautiful High Desert city of Santa Fe, New Mexico – allowing her an even stronger connection to her ever growing US fanbase, and providing daily access to the wild Nature that inspires her unique and transformational work. 

“I follow a very eclectic, improvisational, ever-changing Magical path, focused on Nature and her cycles. I honour the Light and the Dark in equal measure. I’m in love with the Moon, and have honoured every Dark and Full Moon for decades.”

Learn more at  www.wendyrule.com  Or join her Patreon site to hear special monthly concerts based on the astrological sign of the full moon .

Scholar Salon 4

ASWM Scholar Salon 4 “La Frontierra Chingada:Mythic Motherhood on the Borderlands” with Emily Packer, Filmmaker and moderated by Natasha Redina. Recorded live online Wednesday, February 22, 2020. Feature Film screening and presentation by the filmmaker.

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Announcing Scholar Salon 4

Scholar Salon 4: "La Frontierra Chingada"

Join us for the Salon with filmmaker Emily Packer
Wednesday, February 22
2:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Association for the Study of Women and Mythology is inviting you to a film screening and a follow-up Zoom meeting.

"La Frontierra Chingada" is a poetic film about mythic motherhood and transformation at the US-Mexico border.a

Then join the discussion with Filmmaker Emily Packer!

Wednesday, February 22
2:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

 

Emily Packer, Filmmaker

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