Category: Arts

ASWM’s mission extends to the influence of scholarship in Women and Mythology on the arts. These posts highlight some of our activities and members.

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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 .

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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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Scholar Salon: Filmmaker Emily Packer’s Vision of Mythic Motherhood on the Border

February 22, 2020
2pm Eastern Standard Time

ASWM Online Scholar Salon with Filmmaker Emily Packer

La Frontierra Chingada is a 2015 poetic non-fiction film about motherhood on the US-Mexico border. Mythic figures like Tonāntzin, the Virgin Guadalupe, la Llorona and la Chingada, manifest themselves at Friendship Park–a space where families on either side of la frontera can come together, but meet there under extreme conditions of surveillance. Guided in part by conversations with the filmmaker’s matrilineal family, the film concerns itself with relationships betweenwomen’s bodies, space, and the shared land and history in the San Diego-Tijuana region.

 

Scholar Salons with Emily Packer, Filmmaker

Emily Packer is an experimental non-fiction filmmaker with an interest in border culture and border theory.  She says, “A huge part of my trepidation in making this film was about not wanting to presume to be able to make a relevant film about the border as an Anglo American filmmaker.  But I think it’s incredibly important for white artists to make reflexive work about the border, given that we are implicated in its existence, and that our understanding and perspective shift is necessary to improve the situation (which includes death, dehumanization, and forced separation of family). At some point I gave myself permission to trust that I could make meaningful art about the border, and that the story I had to tell was important.”

See the one-hour film, available now in ASWM’s member-only resource library, and join us for a conversation with Emily about crossing and transforming borders that separate us. The Salon discussion will be moderated by Natasha Redina, a filmmaker and ecotherapist who is a member of ASWM’s advisory board.

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“Masks of the Goddess” On View in Retrospective Exhibition

Featured ASWM artist Lauren Raine is holding a retrospective art show of her beautiful Masks of the Goddess Project.  She describes her work this way:
In May I will be concluding the 20 year MASKS OF THE GODDESS PROJECT, which began as an Invocation to the Goddess at Reclaiming’s Spiral Dance in San Francisco in 1999.  I have been so privileged to collaborate with Priestesses, Playwrights, Dancers, Ritualists, Community Organizers, Photographers, Choreographers, Writers, Singers, and Psychologists in sharing the “Faces of the Goddess”. The spirits of so many collaborators are in every mask and photograph.  It’s my hope that as the masks leave me, they’ll go out to be used by others, to continue their work in some way. 
Just want to thank you and all of the amazing women I met at the Women and Mythology Conferences I have attended.  If you or anyone you know will be in SF at that time, please be most cordially invited to the Opening, or to see the show.
She has also just revised and added to my book “The Masks of the Goddess”, which is a collection of photos and archives, and  is available at http://www.blurb.com/books/9353862-the-masks-of-the-goddess .

May 5-July 28  at Arise Gallery at Womanchurch

678 Portola Drive, San Francisco, CA