During the month of March, we celebrate women and the contributions and achievements they have made throughout history, culture, arts, and society. The Office of Arts and Culture offers a list events celebrating strong women all over Dallas, from our cultural centers and our partners!
- The Women’s Chorus of Dallas: Voices of Women Concert 2022
- J Erik Jonsson Central Library (1515 Young St.)
- Saturday, March 26, 2022 @ 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
- The Women’s Chorus of Dallas unites again with choral singers from area colleges and high schools to celebrate women’s contributions by performing work by women composers, including the world premiere performance of a new piece by Rosephanye Powell.
- Nitashia Johnson: The Beauty of South Dallas
- South Dallas Cultural Center (3400 S Fitzhugh Avenue)
- Show will run from February 11 – March 19, 2022
- The South Dallas Cultural Center is pleased to present The Beauty of South Dallas created by artist Nitashia Johnson. The project documents the neighborhood of South Dallas and several of its residence, business owners, and community leaders.
- JooYoung Choi: Songs of Resilience From the Tapestry of Faith
- Crow Museum of Asian Art (2010 Flora St)
- February 12, 2022 to September 04, 2022
- Through painting, video, sculpture, animation, music and installation art, multidisciplinary world builder JooYoung Choi documents the interconnecting narratives of a highly-structured, expansive, fictional land she has created and titled the Cosmic Womb. In her work, she explores issues of identity, belonging, trauma and resilience through the sci-fi/fantasy genre, inspired by the media of her childhood and her ongoing research on identity and the media representation of girls, women, intersex, transgender and non-binary people of color.
- Guadalupe Rosales: Drifting on a Memory
- Dallas Museum of Art (1717 N Harwood St)
- NOW Through July 10, 2022
- Rosales develops installations that combine photography, ephemera, video, and sound, creating immersive and sensorial spaces that activate personal and collective memory. Her practice redresses the historical erasure and misrepresentation of Latinx communities in Southern California and beyond, while encouraging others to take an active part in celebrating and preserving their cultural histories.
- Morgana Wilborn: The How To Be Project: Ten Plays for Racial Justice
- Bishop Arts Theatre Center (215 South Tyler St)
- Through – March 6, 2022
- Bishop Arts Theatre commissioned ten Black playwrights to pen a one-act play inspired by and in conversation with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s book HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST. At a time where Black authors including Ta-Nahasi Coates, Nikole Hannah-Jones, and other prominent Black writers are engaged in conversations about America’s racial reckoning, THE HOW TO BE PROJECT seeks to produce works that continue the dialogue in the enduring struggle for racial justice.
- The Elevator Project presents Do No Harm
- Wyly Theatre (2400 Flora Street)
- March 10 – 19, 2022
- Do No Harm, Soul Rep co-founder Anyika McMillan-Herod’s newest play, was commissioned by theologian Dr. Evelyn Parker and the Association of Practical Theology. The play explores the story of three enslaved women – Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy – who were experimented on without anesthesia by Dr. J. Marion Sims, credited as “The Father of Modern Gynecology.” The Elevator Project is a program of the AT&T Performing Arts Center.
- Tiana Kaye Blair: RAGE
- Studio Theatre (2400 Flora St)
- March 31 – April 9, 2022
- Funded by OAC’s Arts Activate program, RAGE is a one-act play that explores the stories of Black US-ian women throughout the history of the United States. Ten women take their place on stage to share their stories of strength, resilience, perseverance and struggle across the history of the nation. This production is also part of the Elevator Project at the AT&T Performing Arts Center.
