Digital Theatre Plus Celebrates International Women's Day 2018

We are shamelessly sharing a mailshot sent to us by one of our biggest subscriptions, Digital Theatre Plus.  It comes from their Community Manager, Alesha Tatum Howe:-

Digital Theatre+  wants to take this moment on International Women's Day to celebrate the contributions made by women on stage, backstage and behind the scenes.

At Digital Theatre+, their curation of the 900+ resources on the platform includes a commitment to diversity. This means you and your students have access to productions, interviews and study materials from famed practitioners and academics, including from the industry's leading women.

What to watch on International Women's Day A fascinating exchange between Harriet Walter and Professor Carol Rutter – an in-depth discussion of ‘Shakespeare’s Women Today’ and female roles, Shakespeare’s language and musicality, gender-blind casting, sexuality in performance, and a whole lot more. Our insightful interview with Complicite Co-Founder Annabel Arden and Artistic Director Catherine Alexander. DT+'s treasure trove of interviews with some of the most skilled and creatively courageous women in theatre. Just some we recommend watching today include: Juliet Stevenson, Imelda Staunton, Julie Walters, Zoe Waites, Meera Syal, Vicky Featherstone, Alecky Blythe, Katrina Lindsay and Imtiaz Dharker. There are some many inspirational women featured on DT+, but we hope you enjoy these recommendations with your students and colleagues on this significant day. Let us know what you and your students enjoy watching on Twitter! Happy International Women's Day.

International Women's Day (8 March 2014) with Routledge

We heard that publishers Routledge are celebrating International Women's Day by offering free access to a selection of journals. Read on ... 

'Saturday 8th March marks International Women's Day. In celebration, Routledge have put together a free to access collection of articles from a wide range of journals.'

96 years ago, before there was an International Women's Day

Whittaker is sorting through a donation, and encountered Rev H. R. Haweis' book, Music and Morals.  Intrigued, we glanced at the contents page.  The heading, 'People who play the piano' looked interesting.  Are pianists more or less moral than other folk?

"Most young ladies play the piano as an accomplishment.  A girl's education is as much based on the pianoforte as a boy's is on the Latin grammar, and too often with similar results." [...] " ... the piano makes a girl sit upright and pay attention to details ..."

 No, it's not being added to stock.  Good to know that times have changed a bit, though! See my earlier posting, today.

International Women's Day in the Performing Arts

'Whittaker', being a performing arts library, wishes to commemorate International Women's Day as it particularly affects the performing arts.  Do share any relevant links with us!

Here's the first - on the UN Women website, we find the One Woman Song.

Glasgow Women's Library is up early today with a blogpost by Magi.  (Not, admittedly, performing arts, but certainly women and libraries.)

The Musicians' Union posts details of the Women of the World music festival on Sunday 9th March, here.

Have you come across Women in Music? It's a national organisation: http://www.womeninmusic.org.uk/

There's also an International Alliance for Women in Music: 
http://iawm.org/




If you tweet, you might like to follow the #EverydaySexism hashtag, a project which was featured by the BBC a couple of days ago.

There's a London Concert for International Women's Day: the London Oriana Choir has a concert of music by women composers, at St Andrews Holborn tonight:-
http://www.londonoriana.com/current-season/

What's missing from this list?  Drama and theatre!  Please share any relevant links! 

India Today features TV star Toral Rasputra aka Anandi of Balika Vadhu, telling us what International Women's Day means to her. Read it here.

Meanwhile, Bollywood salutes the spirit of women, in the Indian Express today.  Here ...

At 9.45 pm on a Friday night, a good blogger doesn't just arbitrarily stop blogging.  Three cheers for the collective of researchers at the University of Sussex, who this evening notified me of their Reframing Activism blog.  Today they were highlighting the British Library's first oral history archive of the early days of feminism: Sisterhood and After.  Not content with one good blogpost today, they also hosted a guest blogpost by film-maker, actor and musician Jodi Nelson: Feminist Social Media Praxis. Jodi was asked a provocative question: "re_activism:What do you think the 21st century feminist looks likes?"