Surrealist Women: Online Panel honoring heroines and their advocates on International Women's Day

Описание: In honor of these Surrealist Women, these heroines, we are thrilled to announce an online panel featuring some of the important female subjects of the past and present who first-hand have created and participated as a Surrealist Woman or advocated for the legacy of Surrealist Women. Please join us on International Women’s Day next Friday, March 8th at 11 am Pacific Standard Time for a special online panel “Surrealist Women” with a discussion moderated by Dawn Adès featuring a very special international group of panelists as follows:

Gloria Orenstein will be joining us from New York on her 86th Birthday as our special and surprise guest with a talk on her early meeting with Leonora and the women salons she co-founded.

Mohsen Elbelasy and Ghada Ahmed will be joining us from Cairo. Ghada will deliver a short text on her experience to Surrealism in Egypt and importance and challenged faced by Surrealist Women. Mohsen will discuss his new and best-selling extensive biography on Joyce Mansour published in Arabic by Sefsafa Publishing and a forthcoming book of translations in Arabic of Mansour’s complete prose works.

Brigitte Nicole Grice on Dorothea Tanning, will be joining us from Los Angeles to discuss the multi-hyphenate excursions of Dorothea Tanning from painting, theater, poetry, and architecture, which stand as the impetus for Chez Max et Dorothea.

Penelope Rosemont on herself and Surrealist Women, will be joining us from Chicago where she has been the founding member of the Chicago Surrealist group since 1964 and compiled the important work Surrealist Women: An International Anthology published with the University of Texas, Austin.

Kathy Lou Schultz on Suzanne Cèsaire, will be joining us from Memphis and will be speaking on the Caribbean Woman Surrealist Suzanne Cèsaire and her and the group’s relationship to André Breton.

Penny Slinger on herself, will also be joining us from Los Angeles and will be speaking on her experiences as a Surrealist Woman and her early inspiration with Max Ernst’s collage novels, and her feminist approach to the medium.

Dawn Adès will be joining us from London and will be moderating our discussion on Surrealist Women as an honored scholar of Surrealism and treasured advocate and board member for Chez Max et Dorothea.