Welcome to the 39th Annual NWMF

Welcome to the 39th Annual National Women’s We are currently brainstorming for the 40th Music Festival. Thank you for deciding to spend extravaganza in 2015. If you are interested in helping, these four days with us. be sure that we have your contact information. You can complete a form at our registration desk or go to The Festival is celebrating its seventh year in Wisconsin our website (wiaonline.org) to get on our e-mail list and our sixth year at the Marriott Madison West and ‘Like’ us on Facebook. Conference Center. The Women in the Arts Board and other volunteers have worked hard over the past year Please tell your friends what a great time you had to insure that you have an excellent experience!! at the Festival. Encourage them to meet you at the Festival next year! This year’s Festival, as in years past, is for us all to celebrate, nurture and enjoy music and art. The festival Now, go out and have a good time. is also about building a community of women (and men too; we don’t exclude anyone from attending) who come together to share our talents, our stories, our energies, our knowledge and to have a space President, Board of Directors together for a few days to simply be ourselves and enjoy who we are. The National Festival is a place to Women In The Arts, Inc / National Women’s Music Festival heal the spirit, find encouragement and to encourage and empower ourself and others. While here, we ask that you open your heart and mind to having experiences that may be outside of your usual. Table of Contents Next year will be the 40th National Women’s Music Festival and our 41st birthday. (These anniversaries WIA Board President Welcome Letter ...... 3 don’t match because we took one year off to regroup.) We want to make the 40th Festival the best ever. So WIA Board of Directors and Staff ...... 4 please let us know what artists and events will make it an outstanding Festival. We also want to know what Thursday/Friday Events ...... 5 you liked and didn’t like at this year’s Festival. We will Friday Workshops ...... 6 take to heart everything you have to tell us about your experience. You can share this all this information with Saturday Events ...... 9 us by taking a few of minutes after you get home to take the survey that you will find on wiaonline.org. Saturday Workshops ...... 9 As always, we listen to your requests. Many of this Sunday Events ...... 13 year’s performers were requested on last year’s post- Festival survey. Women in the Arts Awards ...... 14 Remember that this year the buffet breakfast will Artist Profiles ...... 17 the hotel’s regular buffet, including made-to-order omelets, bacon, sausage and other fabulous items. Workshop Presenter Bios ...... 23 The atrium is still reserved for Festival attendees to meet and share meals. Sponsors ...... 27 There are many ways you can shape the future of Marriott Conference Center Map ...... 28 the Festival. You can support us through monetary donations, becoming an annual member of Women in Market Place ...... 29 the Arts, becoming a volunteer, by fundraising within your community, helping us promote the Festival, or even better, by serving on the Women in the Arts Board of Directors. Women in the Arts Board of Directors Main Stage Stage Manager - Linda Wilson - MO Linda Wilson, President...... Kansas City, MO Sound Engineer - Kaia Skaggs - MI Ruth Rowan, Vice-President...... Cincinnati, OH Lighting Engineer - Ronda Jean - AR Sound/Stage Crew - Harriet Lindsay - MI Leslie Judd, Treasurer ...... Victoria, TX Sound/Stage Crew - Sondra Bolte - IN Mary Spillane, Secretary...... Omaha, NE Sound/Stage Crew - Carol Branson - MO House Manager - Mary Spillane - NE Cris Derrick ...... Madison, WI Asst. House Manager - Judy Carroll - NE Tess Imholt ...... Loveland, OH Emcees - Renée Janski and Jori Costello - AR Board Members Emeritus Day Stage Stage Manager - Retts Scauzillo - NY Marilyn Krump ...... Cottage Grove , WI Sound Engineer - Jill Anania - MN Jen Weber ...... Indianapolis, IN Sound/Stage Crew - Chris Bargmann - MN Sound/Stage Crew - KC Crawford - AR House Manager - Elizabeth Andersen - MO Festival Staff Living Room Host - Jori Costello and Renée Janski - AR Production Manager - Linda Wilson - MO Sound Engineer - PJ Matthews - AR Artists’ Breakfast Coordinators - Rae Baskin - IN Volunteers Carolyn Vandewiele - IN Angie Rhode – OH Janet Kienast - WI Auctioneer - Diana Cook - IN Anne Edwards – IL Jill Chadwick - OH Community Housing Coordinator - Cris Derrick - WI Blaze Women’s Football Team – WI Kirsten Krueger - WI Festival Artwork - Ursula Roma - OH Beth Fox - PA Lisa Wolfcale - WI Lois McGuinness - OH Film Festival Coordinator - Mary Spillane - NE Boye Nagel - WI Brenda Corbello - WI Lynn Schroeder – WI Growing Older/Growing Fabulous - Terry Worman - IL Casper Sunn - WI Marsha Acheson - OH Hotel Liaison - Marilyn Krump - WI Cindy Acheson – OH Marianne Ayers - NC IMS/Data Support – Kim Blackhorse - WI Cindy Redman - WI MJ Washburn - WI Interpreter Coordinator - Ruth Rowan - OH Dana Ferguson – OH Pam Allen - WI Marketplace - Ruth Rowan - OH Debbie Plaevue – WI Pamela J. Ward - WI Market Place Coordinator - Shirley Reilly - IL Debbie Poese - MO Pat Klancer – IN Performer Care Coordinator - Beth Kennon - MO Deeya Pavelle – MA Sally Fussell - WI Sara Sams - OH Shellee Botts & Ellen Dugger - MO Donna Dreiss - OH Eileen Rosensteel – WI Sharon Rourke – WI Photographers - Janice Rickert & Carolyn VandeWiele-IN Sherri Swan - WI Program Design - Linda Wilson - MO Elizabeth Sidell - IN Esther Fuller – IN Tammy Rowan - OH Publicist – Daña Adler – WI Gloria Krysiak – WI Terry Worman - IL Readers & Writers Coordinator – Becky Thacker – IN Jen Weber - IN Theresa Leneghan -WI Registration Coordinator – Kelli Sander - IL Joanie Kantor – WI Wendy Huber - WI Remembrance Room Coordinator – Sara Karon – WI Karen Gunderson - WI Silent/Live Auctions Coordinator - Kim Singleton -PA Spirituality Coordinator - Sharon Baker - MN For Your Next Fundraising Auction Transportation Coordinator – Bonnie Zwiebel - WI OR if you don’t know what to do with the items left behind by a loved one Twelve Step Coordinator - Anonymous CALL Volunteer Coordinator - Tess Imholt - OH Workshop Coordinator - Mary Spillane - NE Diana Cook NWMF Auctioneer Estate and Appraisal Consultation 219-763-3741 Thursday Schedule

3p - Registration Open Convention Center Lobby 7p - Night Stage Superior 5p - 12 Step Discussion Meeting (Closed) LaCrosse Emcees - Renée Janski & Jori Costello 5p - Marketplace Opens Michigan 6:55p - Opening Ceremony - Nan Brooks/Nano Boye 6:30p - Night Stage house opens Superior 7:00p - One Fine Day - A Film by Kay Weaver All Stage Houses open 1/2 hour prior to start of stage 7:10p - Kristen Ford Band (Sunny Pfifferling-Irons) (Unless otherwise stated) 8:10p - Mama’s Black Sheep (Laura Kolb) Names in parentheses thoughout the program are the names of the interpreters for the Deaf. 9:10p - Supervillain Fire Drill (Jenny McKitrick) 10p - Living Room Michigan A place to hang-out and relax with Jori & Renée

Friday Schedule

7:30-9:30a - Breakfast Hotel Lobby/Atrium 2-2:50p - Festival Chorus Rehearsal Diana Miriam Davidson, Director 7:30a - Registration Open Convention Center Lobby 8a-5p- Workshops - see Friday Workshop Schedule 2p - ShowCase Stage Wisconsin 8a-10p Emcees - Jori Costello & Renée Janski Room of Remembrance Open Milwaukee 2p - Irene Keenan Jr. (Jenny McKitrick) 12 Step Room Open LaCrosse 2:55p - Barbara, Linda & Laurie (Ruth Rowan) 8-9:50a Festival Chorus Rehearsal Diana 3:50p - Beth Kille (Laura Kolb) Miriam Davidson, Director 7p - Night Stage Superior 9a-1p NWMF 40th Year Herstory Project Madison Emcees - Jori Costello & Renée Janski 10a - Marketplace Opens Michigan Silent Auction Opens Geneva 7p - Gaye Adegbalola & The Wild Rutz (Jenny McKitrick) 11a - Theater Wisconsin Short Stories: True Song Tales from the American Edge 8p - Cheryl Wheeler (Ruth Rowan) Kiya Heartwood 9p - Elvira Kurt (Laura Kolb) 10:30a-1p Living Room Michigan 10p - Summer Osborne Band (Sunny Pfifferling-Irons) Open Mic/Open Jam - hosted by Renée & Jori 11p - Living Room Michigan 11a-1:30p - Lunch Hotel Atrium A place to hang-out and relax with Jori & Renée 2-4p - Beginning and Internediate Hand Drum 11p - Late Night Drum & Dance Jam Monona Percussion Workshop and Drum Chorus Rehearsal Lead by Wahru with Rani - Wahru, Director Monona 2-4p NWMF 40th Year Herstory Project Madison Friday Workshop Schedule

8:00-8:50 Rosanne Lindsay, N.D Gaia 8:00-9:40 Miriam Davidson Eleanor our ancestors to life. These women made Find Your Voice, Heal Your Thyroid Festival Chorus Rehearsal a living from their fatness long before The nature of healing recognizes that our Join like-minded women to add your own the “obesity epidemic” was created. nature is Nature. If given nature’s tools, unique, musical energy to the festival. They were the cornerstones of traveling the body has the capacity to heal itself. The chorus will perform Sunday morning entertainment for nearly 100 years and Thyroid disease asks us to pay attention on the festival main stage. their stories are being lost. Hear what to both our bodies and our voices in order they themselves have to say about being to heal. 8:00-9:40 Ruth Debra Ferron professionally fat. Meet and greet with OLOC women 8:00-9:40 Vic Ramstetter Cris Get together with other Old Lesbians 9:00-9:50 Anonymous LaCrosse Preserving Your Community’s and talk about ageism, our lives and the 12 Step Discussion Meeting Lesbian Culture Oakland Gathering for Old Lesbians this (Closed) Victoria Ramstetter, Co-Director of the summer. Ohio Lesbian Archives, will facilitate a 9a-1p NWMF 40th Year Herstory Project Madison workshop designed to help lesbians 8:00-9:40 Karen West Green Bay preserve our culture in regional archives. National Parks Road Trip: Living the 10:00-11:40 Film Series Diana Vic will share OLA’s history, from the Dream Margarita hallways in (OLA founder) Phebe’s Karen will share stories and pictures of Screening Courtesy of Wolfe Video apartment to a snug room above Crazy her 4- year National Parks road trip. She This wonderful lesbian drama tells the Ladies Bookstore in Cincinnati and has traveled over 50,000 miles in her retro tale of an undocumented Mexican nanny, finding a new home after the bookstore 1960 Shasta trailer and visited 40 National Margarita (Nicola Correia Damude, closed, in a local church. Such questions Parks, Lakeshores and Monuments. Havanna 57) whose girlfriend Jane as: What do we ask women to give us? (Christine Horne, Tru Love) is reluctant to How do we preserve photos, event flyers, 9:00-9:50 WIA Board Members Alix commit and whose yuppie employers — a newspapers, and all the ephemera of our Guess Who’s Turning 40!!! nice Toronto family, including a bi-curious lives? will all be addressed. Come with Join members of the WIA Board to Mom — are about to let her go. your questions, curiosity, dreams and brainstorm ideas for the 40th National hopes. Learn how to start your own local Women’s Music Festival. Get a sneak 10:00-11:40 Monona lesbian archives! peek into plans for the 40th anniversary Dance the Spiritual Journey and find out how you can be a part of Freda Abbott-Ayodele, Wahru and Rani 8:00-9:40 Film Series Diana making our 40th birthday celebration an Quimba Radical Harmonies EPIC event! Participants, accompanied by drum Screening Courtesy of Dr. Dee Mosbacher rhythms, will be led through a series of and Woman Vision Films. In its heyday, 9:00-9:50 Terri Worman Gaia choreographed African, and freestyle during the 1970s and 80s, women’s Women’s Herstory Jeopardy dance movements. They will learn West music offered a different message than Calling all Jeopardy fans! Come test your African dance moves tailored to fit real mainstream musical culture. It opened wits and women’s wisdom with our new bodies and those wishing to move and get doors for women musicians, producers, take on a familiar game. Will you be the the heart pumping and the blood flowing. sound and light technicians, and for new grand champion and take home a prize? They will also be encouraged to explore women-owned recording companies movement and rhythms as a spiritual and women-oriented shows. Pioneers 9:00-9:50 Cheryl Wheeler Betty journey. Accompanied by drummers like Cris Williamson, Margie Adam, and Music in the Morning Wahru and Rani Q. ***Non-dancers are Linda Tillery recall the frustrations and Start your morning on a musical note. welcome to attend and watch. the triumphs of finding women sound Bring your guitar and come jam with engineers and other professionals in a Cheryl. All are welcome to attend and 1:00-1:50 Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman Alix completely male-dominated industry. listen. Queer Issues and the Jewish Radical Harmonies features such early Community: Reflections on stars of Women’s Music as Meg Christian, 9:00-9:50 Eileen Rosensteel Holly Spirituality, Politics, and Jewish Holly Near, and Mary Watkins, as well Bodacious Beauties- The Amazing Identity as contemporary artists Indigo Girls, Ani Fat Lady Show We will explore the Jewish community’s DiFranco, Bitch and Animal, and Melissa Bodacious Beauties is an entertaining and growing acceptance and inclusion of Ferrick. touching look at the fat ladies of the circus queer Jews; the assimilation of queer and sideshow. Eileen uses real stories Jews into the larger Jewish community; and some creative remembering to bring the emergence of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, Friday Workshop Schedule

and queer rabbis; and the intersection of about the uses of poetry, our group will Let this be the time we recognize the Earth spirituality, politics, and Jewish identity. discuss the ethical, political and poetic as a living entity to which we are inextricably dimensions of individual Rich poems. bound. We will look at today’s urban and 1:00-1:50 Miriam Davidson Eleanor We’ll also exchange stories and visions rural farmers as activists of a new emerging Chorus Rehearsal about our personal/political uses of Rich’s humanity, devoted to peace and growing. See description Friday 8:00-9:40. work. 2:00-3:40 Nan Brooks Eleanor 1:00-1:50 Kristen Ford Gaia 1:00-2:40 Diane Bloom Green Bay Creating Ceremonies for Our Lives: Making the Most of Social Media Emotional Healing Through the Use Rituals to Celebrate and Support Explore how to utilize social media such of Gemstones Women as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to I will talk about the role of emotions in All religions and spiritual paths are grow your business, spread an idea, healing and discuss how stones can welcome as we explore the basics of crowd source funding and make friends. assist our subconscious in releasing the ritual and ceremony. We will create memories of our past. I will demonstrate practical plans and put them into action. 1:00-1:50 Boye Nagle & Sally Fussell Holly the healing power of crystals and lead Wear comfy clothes and bring percussion “You’re Not My Real Mommy.” a meditation to help participants unlock instruments if you have them. We will introduce new research into the blocked emotional patterns. biology of attachment and its impact on 2:00-3:40 Wahru Monona our relationships as adults, as well as the The Phrase that Plays: Beginning 9a-1p NWMF 40th Year Herstory Project Madison children we step-parent, adopt or foster. and Intermediate Afrocentric and World Beat Drumming 1:00-1:50 Rani Quimba Monona 2:00-2:50 Lojo Russo Cris Drum sound techniques, playing with Beginner Hand Drumming Covering a Cover Song balance, keeping time, how to mix in We will go over the basics of hand Lojo Russo will work with musicians to polyrhythm patterns and play certain drumming. The focus of the workshop will discover their own “voice” in a cover types of drum beats and bell patterns, be hand control, technique for base, tone, song. We will work on arrangement, playing patterns for the heartbeat bass slap, and flam, drum etiquette, and how to chording and vocal melody to re-create drum (dun drum), and how to add other play in a drum circle. a known song into something Russo percussion instruments. likes to call, “A song you don’t know you 1:00-2:40 Film Series Diana know.” Workshop materials: Musicians 3:00-3:50 Kathleen Prezbindowski Alix Cloudburst should come prepared with a song, an Coming Out Late(ly)? Later in life, Screening Courtesy of Wolfe Video instrument. throughout life, every day. Stella and Dot (Olympia Dukakis and Sharing our reflections of coming out later Brenda Fricker) are an aging couple who 2:00-2:50 Laura Cerulli & Ashland Miller Ferron in life (or at any age) and embracing new escape from a nursing home in Maine Mama’s Black Sheep: Behind the Music coming out opportunities. Discussion with and drive to Nova Scotia on a quest to be Join Ashland & Laura of Mama’s handouts about factors that can oppose legally married. Stella and Dot have been Black Sheep for an intimate acoustic or enhance living our authentic, whole, together for 31 years and have faithfully performance, where they will discuss empowered lives. accompanied one another through life’s the stories behind their songs, share ups and downs. Now in their seventies, tales from life on the road, and answer 3:00-3:50 Boye Nagle Betty Stella is hard of hearing and Dot is legally questions from the audience. Yes. Yes. Now: Experiencing the blind. Dotty’s prudish granddaughter, Molly Possibility of Change (Kristin Booth), decides the best place for 2:00-2:50 Beatty & Ferington Gaia Feelings are like Farts...you know they’re Dot is a nursing home that will provide all Senior Centers: a Resource for ALL coming but you don’t always know what’s the necessities. This forces Stella and Dot The Madison (WI) Senior Center gonna come out...or how much mess to make a bold decision: they will leave their developed a national reputation for its you’ll have to clean up afterwards. Learn hometown and make their way to Canada, efforts to include LGBT older adults. The to relocate your feelings and make space where same-sex marriage is legal– after Director and a volunteer leader explain to change your mind using a simple new three decades, can they keep their family the preparation of stakeholders to be spiritual practice. together? inclusive and discuss current programs. Tips for a welcome space in YOUR senior 3:00-3:50 Vanessa Lowe Ferron 1:00-2:40 Barbara Ann Caruso Betty center. Top Ten Tools for Being Financially What We Find There: Living Our Fabulous Lives with Adrienne Rich 2:00-2:50 Dena Eakles Holly What are all the key personal finance After a short presentation of Rich’s ideas Walk the Earth Dearly tools and how do they work together? 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Come learn how to use IRAs, employer- 4:00-4:50 Brenda Corbello Betty sponsored retirement plans, a budget, NWMF Singles Mingle credit reports, and even your taxes to set Find out your Love Language and meet Staying at your financial security plan on automatic some new folks. An activity based upon the Marriott pilot. Sample worksheets will be available. Dr. Michele O’Mara’s book, “Just Ask.” Madison West 3:00-3:50 M. Martin & S. Moran Gaia 4:00-4:50 Sandra Valls Cris Hotel Now That I’m Published Wake up and Smell the Funny Now that I’m published, I can just go during the Are you the life of the party? Are you full of write another book. Right? Only if you funny stories? Here’s your chance to do Festival? don’t care how many books you sell. Join standup comedy in a safe space. Learn Bywater Books co-owner, Marianne K. how to awaken your funny bone and Martin, and author Sandra Moran to learn The number of sleeping transform horrible into humor. what you need to do once your novel is in rooms used by the Festival print. What can you expect the publisher 4:00-4:50 Eileen Rosensteel Ferron attendees plays a crucial role to do to market your book? What should/ Body Writing in setting the costs to both you could you do as an author to market it? Expressing yourself through writing and the Festival. Their answers may surprise you. can be a liberating way to connect with your body and inner self. Inspired by 3:00-4:30 Film Series Diana The more rooms used by movement and images we will play with Training Rules words. No experience or talent required! festival-goers, the cheaper Screening Courtesy of Wolfe Video and Please bring writing tools. the rooms. Woman Vision Films Rene Portland had three training rules 4:00-4:50 Caroline Werner, MSW Gaia But if we overestimate our during her 26 years coaching basketball LGBT CAREGIVING—Share the Care room needs, we pay a at Pennsylvania State University—no Care giving is a natural part of life when penalty. Help us know the drinking, no drugs and no lesbians. you care about or love someone. We actual number of rooms used Training Rules examines how a wealthy don’t always have traditional family by women of the Festival this athletic department, enabled by the support, so getting our needs met in year. silence of a complacent university, times of an emergency or a standard allowed talented athletes, thought to be operation can be more complex if we Tell us the following: gay, to be dismissed from their college are not a member of a loving, extended team. heterosexual family. How is LGBT care 1. Your Marriott room giving different / the same? What is the number 3:00-4:40 Alexandra Kirschner Holly program called “Share the Care”? (This is The Demise of DOMA and What it 2. Your check-in date and a combination power point presentation how many nights you’re Means for Aging LGBT Adults. and discussion.) Last June, the Supreme Court decided staying in the Marriott. the fate of DOMA and forever changed 4:00-4:50 Grace Starcke Green Bay 3. The names of any the landscape of aging for LGBT adults. Visions of Ancient Goddess Images roommates sharing your With new relationship recognition, find for Contemporary Womyn room at the Marriott out what has changed in estate planning, Goddess worship is more than a gender health care, Social Security, and more. change. Explore creative decision making Questions answered! in pre-patriarchal Goddess images If you didn’t tell us these 3 through personal re-creation of these things when you checked 4:00-4:50 Gayla Drake Alix images. Discover the unapologetic joy, in, please stop by Festival Open Tuning For Acoustic Guitar humor, sexuality and reverence of these Registration to let us know. Expand your musical palette and images empowering contemporary If your plans change mid- potential with open tunings! Taught by worship of the divine feminine. internationally acclaimed acoustic guitar Festival (stay longer, stay maestra Gayla Drake. Includes DADGAD, 4:00-4:50 Anonymous LaCrosse shorter, change roommates, CGDGBD, DADF#AD, Double Drop-D 12 Step Discussion (Closed) etc.) please let us know that. and DADEAE. Unlock the fretboard and let your inspiration soar. 11:00-midnight Wahru Monona Late Night Drum and Dance Jam Saturday Schedule

7:30-9:30a - Breakfast Hotel Lobby/Atrium 7p - Night Stage Superior 7:30a - Registration Open Convention Center Lobby Emcees - Renée Janski & Jori Costello 8a-5p- Workshops - see Friday Workshop Schedule 7p - Lucie Blue Tremblay (Ruth Rowan) 8a-10p 8p - Catie Curtis (Sunny Pfifferling-Irons) Room of Remembrance Open Milwaukee 9p - Hills to Hollers (Laura Kolb) 12 Step Room Open LaCrosse 10p - All Festival Jam 8-9:50a Festival Chorus Rehearsal Diana Miriam Davidson, Director 11p - Living Room Michigan A place to hang-out and relax with Jori & Renée 8a-2p NWMF 40th Year Herstory Project Madison 10a - Marketplace Opens Michigan 11p - Late Night Drum & Dance Jam Monona Lead by Wahru with Rani Silent Auction Opens Geneva 10a - Keynote Speakers - Marianne Martin and Sandra Moran Eleanor 10:30a-1p Living Room Michigan Open Mic/Open Jam - hosted by Jori & Renée

11a-1:30p - Lunch Atrium

Noon - ShowCase Stage Wisconsin Emcees - Jori Costello & Renée Janski Noon - Orenda (Sunny Pfifferling-Irons) 1p - Edwina Lee Tyler (Laura Kolb) 2p - Sandra Valls (Jenny McKitrick) Leslie D. Judd, 1-3p - Drum Chorus Rehearsal Monona Composer Wahru, Director 2-3p - Festival Chorus Rehearsal Diana Composition – Commissions Miriam Davidson, Director Arrangements – Engraving 3p - Live Auction Mendota with Auctioneer, Diana Cook Project Coordination &

5p - Silent Auction Ends Geneva Management Make your final bids by 5p Performance

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8:00-8:50 Marianne Tromp Alix Crazy-Making Relationships and Getting are welcome and will learn many tidbits of Personal Agility On With Your Life, we'll explore the women’s and lesbian herstory. This experiential workshop will introduce troublesome relationship dynamics that you to several techniques you can use to often emerge when one partner suffers 9:00-9:50 Lisa Koch & Peggy Platt Holly enhance and maintain your mental and with a personality disorder (borderline, Comedy Workshop with Dos Fallopia emotional agility. Personal agility allows narcissistic, psychopathic), how to Peggy Platt and Lisa Koch (Dos Fallopia) you to enjoy your life as it unfolds. exit toxic relationships when the time talk about sketch comedy, parody writing, comes, and strategies for recovery in the and how to get your funny on. 8:00-8:50 Eileen Rosensteel Cris aftermath of romances that are exploitive, Tarot Exploration unstable, "all about her" --- and very toxic 9:00-9:50 Anonymous LaCrosse There are thousands of Tarot and Oracle for you. 12 Step Discussion Meeting (Closed) decks out there. How do you choose the one that is right for you? Eileen will 8:00-9:40 Film Series Green Bay 10:00-11:40 Sunn, Derrick, & Kareen demystify the process of choosing a deck Cloudburst GreenBay by explaining the many ways to use them, Screening Courtesy of Wolfe Video Medicine Songs: Singing for Healing letting you experience several decks, See Friday schedule at 1pm Join in a women's songcircle to learn and teach you a fast and effective way to songs of comfort, love, encouragement, read them. Don’t worry about memorizing 8:00-9:40 Wahru Monona peace, mindfulness, deep breathing, meanings or that you need special National Women's Music Festival letting go, and positive affirmations. powers to read the cards, this workshop Drum Chorus Practice Experience the healing properties of is designed for the beginner. Participants will practice several music firsthand. Participants will be drum patterns for the Drum Chorus invited to take turns in a recliner chair to 8:00-8:50 Women in the Arts Board Holly Performance. receive a "music massage." Women in the Arts Annual Membership Meeting 8:00-9:40 Nicky Sund & Beth Kille Greenway 11:00-11:50 Quimba & Bright Monona Ladies Rock Camp Crash Course ZUMBA® with Rani 8:00-9:15 Film Series Diana A brief taste of the Ladie's Rock Camp Are you ready to party yourself into Training Rules experience. Participants will learn enough shape? That’s exactly what the ZUMBA® Screening Courtesy of Wolfe Video and of playing an instrument or singing to program is all about. It’s an exhilarating, Woman Vision Films compose a short song and perform it at effective, easy-to-follow, Latin-inspired, See Friday description at 3pm the end of the workshop. calorie-burning dance fitness-party™ that’s moving millions of people toward 8:00-9:40 Miriam Davidson Eleanor 9:00-9:50 Brenda Corbello Alix joy and health. Since its inception in Festival Chorus Rehearsal Singles Meet-Up 2001, the ZUMBA® program has grown Join like-minded women to add your own As if the enlightening workshops to become the world's largest – and most unique, musical energy to the festival. and fabulous concerts have not kept successful – dance-fitness program with The chorus will perform Sunday morning you entertained enough, this is your more than 12 million people of all shapes, on the festival main stage. opportunity to take a fun break from it all sizes and ages taking weekly ZUMBA® and come join the Single's Mingle folks classes. 8:00-9:40 Kiya Heartwood Ferron playing some games that will have you 1:00-1:50 Terri Worman Holly The Writing Way doubled over with laughter. We will be Are You Ready for the Rest This workshop samples a variety of writing playing some new games, "Cards Against of the Life YOU Want? genres from short stories and poetry Humanity" and "Fill in the Bleep". Both will Planning on how you want to age is to songwriting. Fast paced, supportive provide an opportunity to share just a little important for you and the ones you love. and full of prompts to get you inspired bit about yourself with everyone! Perfect Join us as we explore ways you can plan and putting your heart on the page. No opportunity to get to know these lovely to live with independence and dignity - experience or musical skills necessary! folks who you see every year. and fun - for the rest of your life!!

8:00-9:40 Amber Ault, PhD, MSW Gaia 9:00-9:50 Terri Worman Betty 1:00-1:50 Nan Brooks Cris Rollercoaster Relationship D.Y.K.E. Trivia--Do you know Enough? Caring for Loved Ones with Dementia: A Recovery Skills & Strategies for Come join other trivia buffs to play a Practical and Spiritual Approach LGBTQ Women round or two of Julia Penelope’s D.Y.K.E. Let’s talk about the day-to-day joys and In this workshop, based on The Wise trivia. A prize will be awarded to the challenges, share practical tips and Lesbian Guide to Getting Free from “Trivia Mistress” of the hour. Spectators information, and explore the ways our Saturday Workshop Schedule

spirituality can guide and sustain us as and Woman Vision Films 2:00-2:50 Miriam Davidson Eleanor we care for parents, partners, and friends See description on Friday at 8am. Festival Chorus Rehearsal with dementia. Laughter and inspiration guaranteed! Facilitated by a woman who 1:00-2:50 Gaye and the Wild Rutz Gaia 2:00-2:50 Lori & Summer Osborne Ferron has cared for her family matriarchs for Sharing My Sheroes--A History of Spiritual Revolution eight years – and counting. Women in the Blues Spiritual Revolution is a chronicle of the Gaye presents the herstory of blues women soul’s journey. Summer Osborne and her 1:00-1:50 Trampf, Heyning, and Hansen Eleanor from the 1920s to today with VIDEO wife, Lori, come together to present you Wolf vs. Walker: Why we sued the CLIPS from Bessie Smith to Billie Holiday, with a fusion of music and poetry to create governor and the fight for marriage from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Big Mama an emotional odyssey of exploration equality in Wisconsin Thornton, from Etta Baker to Etta James and self-discovery. Gently and artfully The ACLU has filed a federal lawsuit and many others. She illuminates how the encouraging you to dismantle your on behalf of 8 same-sex couples in herstory of working class black women human suit to reveal the relationship that Wisconsin. Judi and Katy will share their is documented in blues lyrics. Musically, is ethereal… the soul connection. story on why they got involved, what the she highlights the many vocal techniques ACLU is doing, and an update on the (wails, syncopation, phrasing, growls, etc.) 2:00-2:50 Werner & Thering Holly case to date. that give drama and immediacy to the LGBT-Friendly Inter-generational Co-Housing performances of blues women. Several lesbians in Madison WI are 1:00-1:50 Irene Keenan Ferron participating in a multi-use redevelopment Songwriting Irene Style 2:00-2:50 Catie Curtis Cris project in Madison, which will include up We will be working with inspiration, How to Raise Funds and Awareness to 80 units of LGBT-Friendly co-housing. phrasing, arrangement and hooks. Pick for a Cause Co-housing will be defined and illustrated a subject and let’s write a song together. We’ll discuss these elements of concert with slides from co-housing projects producing: around the country. Presenters will share 1:00-1:50 Kellie Landaker Alix • A strong elevator speech, website updates on the co-housing project at Attracting the Life You Love • A plan to make the event worthwhile Union Corners and answer questions Do you drive your own life? Or is your life • Picking artist(s) and venue(s) so other women can consider doing driving you? Come listen to some real- • What artists and venues need/expect something similar in other parts of the life ideas about how to always be in the • A budget based on a realistic sense of nation. driver’s seat. Life is abundant and meant gross potential to be awe-inspiring! Attract the Life You • Contracts 2:00-2:50 Julie Hogan Green Bay Love today!! • A marketing plan "Journey Through the Medicine • Lots of volunteers! Wheel" Guided Meditation 1:00-1:50 Martin and Moran GreenBay Embark on a guided meditation through Author Chat—Why We Wrote That 2:00-2:50 Eileen Rosensteel Alix the Earth Medicine Wheel. 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40th Anniversary National Women’s Music Festival Holly Near, Alive, Tret Fure and Ruth Barrett have it on their calendars, put the date on yours! 2014 Women in the Arts Awards

Each year, the Board of Directors of In “Grandmothers of the Drum: Edwina to increase communication among all Women In the Arts presents special Tyler, Part 21,” it is written: “I know that lesbians across our various separations awards in memory of two founding that there is a level of drumming to (ability, age, class, ethnic, geographic, members of its Board, Jane which master drummers aspire. That racial, etc.” Schliessman and Jeanine Rae. deep inner level of drumming that can heal with a touch. The Spirit of Music Lesbian Connection is the free The Jane Schliessman Award mounts the Horse, takes over the worldwide forum of news, ideas and Jane Schliessman, a native of Racine, hands and drums one’s body. Broken information for, by and about lesbians, Wisconsin, came to Bloomington to meridians are rebuilt, tone by tone, slap publishing this bimonthly magazine attend the I.U. School of Law. After by slap. Healing occurs. They covet since 1974. Their longevity and graduation, she made Bloomington her the knowledge that heals. They covet discretion posting to this date via snail home and worked as an attorney for What Edwina Tyler does naturally; by mail in plain brown envelopes has the Legal Services Organization and default. Drumming in Jesus, she calls allowed LC to remain a constant and in private practice. She specialized in it; that tapping of the womb’s secrets trustworthy social contact well before women’s issues and domestic relations. that allows the medicine to pass and internet social networks. They have Her interests revolved around the manifest.” adapted and continue to maintain arts and included creative writing and integrity and confidentiality. her love for women’s music. She was We are healed by her presence. involved in the first group of 13 women “LC is a grassroots forum, written by who were instrumental in reviving the The Jeanine C. Rae Award LC`s readers, informing each other NWMF in Bloomington in 1982. Jane Jeanine C. Rae was a guiding light about information for lesbians on places was 35 when she died in 1986 of colon to many women’s journeys during to live and where to travel, lesbian cancer. the women’s movement in the 1970s B&Bs and guesthouses, websites, and early ‘80s. An ordained minister, cruises, festivals, conferences, lesbian This year’s Jane Schliessman Award psychotherapist, political activist and land and retirement communities, for Outstanding Contributions to the mother of three children, Jeanine products (books, CDs, DVDs, etc.), Women’s Music is given to Edwina touched the lives of innumerable campgrounds and retreats, lesbian Lee Tyler. women throughout her short lifetime. lawyers and realtors, as well as the She was a co-founder and co-owner of comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out Drumming and Women’s Music The Women’s Touch, Indianapolis’ first For” and much more. There are also Festivals are symbiotic thanks to Drum women’s bookstore and counseling reviews, articles and letters dealing Grandmother and Maestra, Edwina center, in 1976. She was one of the with whatever issues LC’s readers are Lee Tyler. She has pioneered the midwives to the rebirth of NWMF during thinking about, from gay marriage to playing of traditional African percussion its move from Champaign, Illinois to health issues, relationship and politics.” instruments by women, a practice long Bloomington. Her spirit continues to Contributions are voluntary, and forbidden in African culture. nurture the soul of this festival. subscriptions really are free to all Tyler taught dance and was director of lesbians. percussion studies at Dance Theater of This year, the Jeanine Rae Award for the Advancement of Women’s Harlem, performed with Capoeiras of NWMF is honored to continue Culture is given to the Lesbian Bahia, and went on to create and direct advertising and supporting this A Piece of the World, an all women Connection. honorable Institution. African dance and drum ensemble. The Lesbian Connection best introduce She has a long list of collaborations The Sarah Dwyer WIA Board of themselves in their Website: “Elsie including “Song of Lawino” with Director’s Special Appreciation Publishing Institute, the 501(c)(3) choreographer Jawole Zollar and Award is awarded to Beth Kennon director Valerie Vasilevsky; “Death of corporation that publishes Lesbian the King’s Horseman” with Nobel prize Connection, seeks to encourage a Beth jumped in with both feet when she winner Wole Soyinka; “Anarchy, Wild worldwide lesbian community. Our decided to volunteer as the Coordinator Women & Dinah” with Urban Bush mission is to provide a free, member- of Performer and Crew Care. Beth, her Women; and “Life Dance Trilogy” with driven forum of news, events, and partner and their best friend along with Jawole Zollar, which earned Tyler a ideas for, by and about lesbians. We the transportation coordinator, provide Bessie Award for achievements as a strive to facilitate all types of grassroots welcome and orientation services as composer for dance. lesbian organizing worldwide through well as transportation and meals for the our various publications. We also work performers and the stage crew. 2014 Women in the Arts Awards

Beth discovered women’s music in After an illustrious career in member since 2005. Ruth has college through a lesbian-centered college student services, business done almost every job on the board music show on a local community management and financial aid, the and then some. She has been the radio station. Soon Beth became a experiences, values and skills of Treasurer, in charge of securing radio programmer and helped produce Marilyn’s career joined WIA when Mary and organizing the interpreters and several shows but her favorite was the Byrne pleaded with audience members two hours on Wednesday nights when of NWMF at Ball State to support WIA Market Place, Vice-President and she would discover the treasures of through Board involvement. This was a fundraiser extraordinaire. She has vinyl marked with lavender tape on critical point in festival’s herstory. New done so much for Women in the Arts the covers in the radio station’s music energy was needed. Marilyn turned to and has led a busy personal life too! library. Ruth Landau of Indianapolis; and said, Ruth is a retired teacher of Deaf “I’ll join if you join.” Valuable Board students and now does freelance Beth finds it especially rewarding to be connections began. interpreting in her community; is a festival worker. She said it gives her the sign language interpreter for the opportunity to experience special Marilyn contributed to WIA as a strong Muse, Cincinnati Women’s Choir; is moments. Last year Beth had one of collaborative leader, mentoring others those moments when she was staffing into positions of leadership and service married for 28 years to her longtime the Green Room just as a musician for WIA. Her business acumen, strategic love, Marsha; and is very supportive finished her set by inviting several planning, technological resources of their beautiful daughter Tammy. of the other performers to join her in and communication style have been Ruth is dedicated to keeping a collaborative finale. They all came invaluable. Her pleasant and engaging NWMF thriving for many years to off backstage each in her own world. demeanor, appreciation for individual come as shown by her generosity Beth had only a moment to reflect on talents has added personality, of funds given over the years. Ruth how much power and energy these connection, insight and just plain fun to quietly gives of her time, cooking, women put in to their performances the sometimes overwhelming tasks of and money to anyone in need. All when collectively they looked into making a festival happen. friends know if there is a disaster, each other’s shining eyes and formed a group hug with smiles all around in The past two years Marilyn has led that they can find help at Ruth’s what Beth described as just pure joy. A the process toward completing the home. There will be plenty of food, moment to treasure. WIA/National Women’s Music Festival music and love. She has given her Handbook, providing WIA Board, time to the festival while working full Beth and her crew have done a committee members and individual time, retiring and working part time, spectacular job of providing for the volunteers with step-month-task and giving her mother the great gift performers and the stage crew. Thanks resources and timelines important to of a peaceful passage from this life. to Beth, ‘Performer Care’ is back at providing a template for successful NWMF! music festival planning toward the The 2014 Women in the Arts future continuing support for Women’s Technical Skills Award is The Sarah Dwyer WIA Board of Music and Arts Culture. presented to Jill Anania. Director’s Special Appreciation In 1982 the Coffeehouse Extemporé Award is awarded to Marilyn The 2014 Phyllis Roark Philanthropy Award is awarded in Minneapolis decided to present a Krump weekly Women’s Music Series. Carrie to Ruth Rowan Gerendasy was booking the talent and Marilyn Krump’s sensitivity to women’s Ruth is the super shero of wanted women to staff the evenings. issues came to light growing up in volunteers. Not only does she give She asked Jill to run the sound. “Here’s rural Kent, MN on one of five Krump where you plug in the mics” and “here’s Family Farms amidst a supportive and of her time and energy, she gives where you turn them up” was the only extensive family network. Her education her heart in everything she does. It instruction Jill received before mixing at both the College of St. Benedict and is this boundless, loving energy that Rosy’s Bar and Grill, but she learned as Edgewood College further nurtured makes Ruth a remarkable woman she went along. Her “mentors” in this those interests. No matter where her you cannot forget once you meet very male-dominated field have largely work took her, Marilyn focused her her. For the Festival, Ruth has been equipment manuals, textbooks, energy on helping others find ways to attended since 1986, interpreted and trial and error. succeed in reaching their goals. since 1990 and been a board 2014 Women in the Arts Awards

During that special era, the Extemp of us who experience these spaces implements, often to the amazement of hosted Elizabeth Cotton, Claudia understand. Here at the (39th!!) all of us. She is one HARD-WORKING Schmidt, Peggy Seeger, Heather National Women’s Music Festival lady. This will be Bonnie’s eighth year Bishop, Cris Williamson, Shirley and at the Michigan Womyn’s Music volunteering at the NWMF. In 2007 she Witherspoon, June Millington, Ferron, Festival, Jill is home. was asked to be the head of Security Rosalie Sorrels, Sally Piano, Judy Fjell, down in Normal, IL, based on her years Tret Fure, Lojo Russo, Connie Kaldor, “To all the tenacious women who have of security work at the Miller Stage for Debbie Fier, Rory Block, Rattlesnake worked so hard to create and maintain Milwaukee Pridefest. There she had Annie, Nancy Griffith, The Chenille these spaces through tremendous become friends with Tret and Jane, Sisters, Tête Noires, Dianne Davidson, adversity: Thank You!” -Jill who asked her to Normal. She has Alix Dobkin, Sue Fink, Robin Flower, volunteered and worked the festival in a Prudence Johnson, Deidre McCalla, The 2014 Women in the Arts variety of capacities – Security, Market Karen Mueller, Ann Reed, Lucie Blue Volunteer Award is presented to place, Auction, Artist Transportation, Tremblay, Teresa Trull, Sam Weis, Kay Bonnie Zwiebel. and general troubleshooter. This Gardner, and so many more. Bonnie Zwiebel is one of the few year Bonnie is Artist Transportation festie volunteers willing and able to Coordinator. She is a retired systems Since then Jill has mixed hundreds of do anything that might need to be analyst and lives in Madison, WI, with shows in much larger venues, toured, done ... at any time and for anyone. her daughter Leah. mixed on Broadway, and worked as an Her biggest talent is troubleshooter. IATSE stagehand. Her heart remains “It has been a wonderful event to be a She seems to thrive on being given a with the Women’s Music Series. Some part of, and I plan to continue as long problem to solve and coming up with question whether there is still a need as possible.” - Bonnie a workable solution that she willingly for women’s cultural events. Those

Mama’s Adrienne Rich Oral History Project Black Has Adrienne Rich's work influenced your personal, ethical, spiritual, political, creative development? What roles have her poetry and sHeep prose played in your life? Academic credentials Acoustic Rock are NOT required. All readers are welcome. & Blues from Investigator Barbara Caruso is a 40 year reader Baltimore, MD of Adrienne Rich's work and Professor of English Mama’s Black Sheep is honored and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Earlham College. to be a part of NWMF 2014! Thursday June 26th - Main Stage Performance Interviews in person or via electronic media. [8pm[8pm inin thethe SuperiorSuperior Room]Room] Contact Barb at [email protected] or call Friday June 27th - Workshop Performance 513-309-6981 [2pm in the Ferron Room] Meet Barb at NWMF 2014 Find our studio CD “Unmarked Highway”, our Live Workshop "What We Find There: Living Our CD “Drivin’ On”, and our brand new Single “Carry Lives With Adrienne Rich" Friday, June 27, You Home”, along with other MBS merch at the Goldenrod Booth or visit our SHEEP SHOP online! 1:00-2:20 pm www.mamasblacksheep.com Artist Profiles

Beth Kille Garth Brooks, Suzy Boggus, Melanie, Bette Midler, Maura She is a 19-time Madison Area Music O'Connell, Sylvia, Kathy Mattea, and Holly Near. If they think Association (MAMA) award-winning she is great, then you owe it to yourself to learn more if you artist from Madison, WI who has aren't familiar with her. been cranking out her unique blend of rock, country, folk and blues since Dos Fallopia 2000. From house concerts and Lisa Koch and coffee houses to headlining spots at Peggy Platt fire up festivals, her love for the stage and their wickedly funny genuine passion for performance sketch comedy shine through in all settings. She fronted the Wisconsin Area chops with social Music Industry (WAMI) award-winning band, Clear Blue satire, musical Betty, from 2002 to 2008 before launching her solo career. parody, and razor- Staunchly committed to the advancement of young musicians sharp zingers from and songwriters of all ages, Kille works as the Music Director a woman’s point of for Girls and Ladies Rock Camp Madison, hosts Madison’s view. Performing Chick Singer Night, and sits on the Board of Directors for the together since 1990, Madison Area Music Association. Dos Fallopia is best known for their semi-legendary Xmas series, “Ham for the Holidays.” The duo have also penned Catie Curtis more than 25 full-length plays, and have toured their sold-out Catie Curtis is a veteran of the singer/ stage shows in theaters in London, New York, San Francisco, songwriter folk scene, touring throughout LA, Chicago, Seattle, Minneapolis, and Indianapolis. the US for 20 years and releasing 13 CDs. Lisa has recorded 4 solo CD’s, is an alumnus of cult quartet Her credits include touring with Lilith Fair, Venus Envy, and has shared the stage with Janis Ian, Kate and winning Grand Prize in the 2006 Clinton, The Indigo Girls, and Lily Tomlin. She composed International Songwriting Competition Off-Broadway musical “27, Rue de Fleurus,” had one of her (with co-writer Mark Erelli) and recording songs sampled by Jay-Z, and she and her music appear in a duet with Kris Kristofferson. Her songs recent documentary, “Two in a Million.” She’s been seen on appear in numerous films and TV shows. LOGO, Olivia Cruises, and moonlights as an actor (Arizona She has been called a “folk-rock goddess” by the New Yorker, Theatre Co., Phoenix Theatre, Oregon Cabaret Theatre, 5th and has performed at the White House several times. She is Avenue). one veteran artist who has resolutely refused to coast along Peggy has been voted Seattle’s Best Comic for nine years, in comfort. Her 13th album, Flying Dream, is a work of both Peggy has worked as a stand-up comic around the country, continuity and courage, capturing the way she’s embraced a and has opened for Cindy Lauper, Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, season of heady change with the emotional intelligence that Kathy Griffin, and Puppetry of the Penis. She appeared in has been her songwriting signature. the feature film,“Harry and the Hendersons,” and in Seattle productions at ACT, Seattle Children’s Theatre, 5th Avenue, Alice B., Empty Space, and Cabaret de Paris. She is the Cheryl Wheeler playwright of several productions, including “The Holiday It has always seemed as if there Survival Game Show” and “Gay Deceivers.” were two Cheryl Wheelers, with fans of the New England songwriter relishing watching the two tussle Edwina Lee Tyler for control of the mic. There is Percussionist, composer, vocalist, poet-Cheryl, writer of some of dancer and actress, Edwina Lee the prettiest, most alluring and Tyler blends these entire elements intelligent ballads on the modern into more than just a performance; folk scene. And there is her evil it’s a jubilation. She has pioneered twin, comic-Cheryl, a militant trend defier and savagely the playing of traditional African funny social critic. The result is a delightful contrast between percussion instruments by women. poet and comic. She is very respected as a songwriter by A practice long thought to be her peers, which can be seen by how many of them record forbidden in African culture. Her her songs. Cheryl's songs have been covered by artists as performances feature a combination of drum, djembe, diverse as Dan Seals, Peter Paul and Mary, Kenny Loggins, songbey, conga, steel drum, calabashes, bongos, marimba, Artist Profiles kalimba, shekeres, bells, conch shells, slit drums, as well as Hills to Hollers rattles and wood blocks. Her work has been supported by a variety of foundations including, Meet the composer, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Eastman Fund and the Brooklyn Arts Council Association. Tyler has recorded solo performances and has appeared as a percussionist on various CD’s. Her recording, Drum Drama was released on audiocassette by Percussion Piquant in the 1980’s. Her recording, Things Are Gonna Change, weaves together her unique style of African, jazz and classical rhythms.

Elvira Kurt When Elvira Kurt is not writing about herself in the third person, she’s a Canadian Comedy Award winning, three-time Gemini Award nominated stand-up comic and Laurie Lewis, 2 time Bluegrass Female Vocalist of the Year; Second City veteran. The Gayest Linda Tillery, blues/roots/soul icon and founder/artistic director Show Ever, co-created, co- of the Cultural Heritage Choir; and Barbara Higbie, Grammy produced and hosted by Elvira nominated multi-instrumentalist, captivate crowds. won Best Pilot at the Banff World From the hills of Bluegrass to the hollers of the African- Television Festival, Queer as American musical experience, nascent super group, Hills to Jokes, with Elvira as host and headliner of CBC’s first ever Hollers, delves deep into the rich history of both white and all gay comedy special and Big Girl Now!, Elvira’s award black musical traditions from the American South. With a new winning one-hour CTV comedy special. Elvira’s toured North CD and a recent performance at the Edmonton Folk Festival, America as one of the hottest college acts around, nominated this powerhouse trio is enthralling audiences with soaring as both U.S. College Comedian and Entertainer of the Year. three-part harmonies, unmatched musicianship and soulful performances of both classic and original southern music. Gaye Adegbalola & the Wild Rutz Irene Keenan Jr. An accapella blues Singer/Songwriter/Musician quartet, consists of Irene Keenan Jr is an Gaye Adegbalola, extraordinary vocalist and Gloria Rain, Marta entertainer who takes her Fuentes & Tanyah listeners on a remarkable Dadze. From time journey. Her reflective and to time, this Virginia sometimes humorous lyrics based group of seasoned activists musicians would break out in are only surpassed by her song when hanging out. Now they combine four unique voices commanding and one of a kind voice. She delivers a with percussion to present a humorous, informative, uplifting powerful, dynamic and absolutely unforgettable performance and entertaining show of roots music — blues, R&B, work every time. Irene started singing and performing at the age songs, field hollers, and spirituals — in support of empowerment of 12 and has never stopped. She began playing guitar in and equality for all. her teens as she stated “I didn’t want to be the girl with the tambourine,” and has become a phenomenal musician. These women are historians, healers, visionaries and activists. They have used their voices to promote the causes of racial, LGBT, economic and women’s civil rights in events such as Jenny McKitrick voter registration fundraisers and “One Billion Rising” where Jenny is a native Madisonian, a graduate of they appeared at the Richmond Coliseum with Rebiya Kadeer, ASLIS and a nationally certified interpreter. Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, in a rally to stop violence against For over seven years, she has been providing women and girls. Sign Language interpreting services as an independent contractor in the Madison area. [email protected] Artist Profiles

Jori Costello having “no easy way to categorize the music, the real deal” With an innate gift of rhythm, she started and a “musical cuisinart”. The Kristen Ford Bandmates: out playing recorder and flute in school Phylshawn Johnson-vocals & drums and Kirsten Lamb- bands and soon moved on to guitar and vocals and upright bass joined her first band at 19. She doesn’t even know when she started playing Laura Kolb percussion, perhaps shortly after coming Laura lives in Ohio and wishes to express out of the womb. Jori has received her gratitude to deaf artists who continue recognition in the Ozark Music Awards the legacy of the Deaf community. The “Folk Artist of the Year” for 2002 and telling of their stories delights the eye “Best Solo Female Singer/Songwriter” for 2005’s Northwest and heart. [email protected] Arkansas Music Awards.’ Jori’s first CD, “Home Grown” was nominated “Best CD” in the Ozark region. She has been featured on many compilations including her song, “War Lucie Blue Tremblay Games” on the OMNI Peace Center’s Peace CD, and her The bilingual background of song, “Past the Pain” for the Arkansas Children’s Shelter. this Canadian-born singer/ Making the third Big Bad Gina in 2009, Jori continues to songwriter has proved a write and collaborate with bandmates Renée and Melodie, valuable asset, and her blending voices, styles, and genres all while switching keyboard and guitar-playing instruments from song to song. A multitude of fun! skills have provided useful We are lucky to have Jori and Renée as emcees this year. accompaniment to her Watch out! poignant, spellbinding ballads ever since she first arrived on Kiya Heartwood the Canadian music scene in 1984. Her self-titled debut Award-winning singer/songwriter album was voted a Top Ten Album of the Year by The Kiya Heartwood’s music is described Boston Globe in 1986, and on subsequent albums she has as “soulful confessions, political continued to turn personal experience into compelling song, broadside and a wicked groove. with studio recordings interspersed with concert cuts, and She is a storyteller and a poet with English lyrics alternating with songs in French. Tremblay a rock and roll edge and a folk serenades listeners with a rich, warm voice that can soar from sensibility. Kiya makes her happy a throaty purr to strong, crystal tones, her songs combining a home in Austin, TX, with her partner, soft melodic essence with a depth of feeling that is riveting, Rev. Meg Barnhouse. Her new solo particularly in her love songs. Her performing credits include acoustic CD is called The Living Tree. Kiya's latest project is appearances at New York’s Carnegie Hall and the Canadian a one woman theater show entitled Short Stories: True Song Pavilion at the 1992 World’s Fair in Seville, Spain, and she Tales from the American Edge set to be a part of the Fringe has also been heard with James Taylor and Randy Newman Festival in Edinburgh this August 2014. on National Public Radio‘s weekly broadcast of E-Town. Kiya was the founder and lead singer of Stealin Horses on Arista’s label and is one-half of the Folk-Rock Duo, Wishing Chair. Mama’s Black Sheep Is the musical collaboration Kristen Ford Band of singer-songwriters Ashland Playing out and about for the past Miller (guitar/vocals) and Laura 5 years, Kristen has written slews Cerulli (drums/vocals). Touring of songs, performed across the together since 2008 and both globe and released 4 full-length veterans of the singer-songwriter records, Most recently “Dinosaur” circuit, Miller & Cerulli will make self-produced and released this you feel like you’ve been listening spring, “Alone, Together” (2010 to their music for years. Before produced by the one woman band Mama’s Black Sheep, Ashland toured for twelve years as phenom, Audrey Ryan.) Her debut part of the award-winning acoustic duo CommonbonD, “Filthy Nasty” in 2008 on Many Doors Records was produced releasing six CD’s, performing on The Nashville Network by June Millington and Lee Madeloni. (TNN), and showcasing their music in over forty states as With yearly moves, changes in geography and a personality well as overseas. Laura previously fronted her own band, “like talking to a child with ADHD,” Kristen has been hailed as Artist Profiles

Cerulean Groove. From 2005-2008 she toured nationally and band who shared their first performance at the 20th annual internationally as a full time member of SONiA & disappear Iowa Women’s Music Festival. Exhibiting diverse talents fear. Mama’s Black Sheep has been burning up the road and multiple styles of music, Orenda (originally dubbed the touring extensively throughout the continental US and the “Iowa Power Women’s Band”) performs their songs with Caribbean playing nearly 200 shows a year. While much of tight vocals and immense skill on varied instruments in a their touring is done as a duo, they are playing at the festival way filled with the passion and magical, mystical energy of with their full band; violinist Helen Hausmann, and bassist their namesake. Robin Elder. Orenda is Gayla Drake, Natalie Brown, Laurie Haag, Kimberli Maloy, and Lojo Russo Marianne Martin Marianne K. Martin is one of the best-selling Renée Janski lesbian romance authors in the country and Renée Janski cannot remember her books have gained a wide international life without music. She begged for readership. She is the author of nine novels, a piano and by age 4 was sitting at the latest of which is The Indelible Heart. Her the keyboard for hours a day. She highly successful novels include the Lambda Literary Award started violin in her school orchestra finalists Under the Witness Tree, Mirrors, and For Now, For at 11. Then she found her voice! With Always. In 2012, she was honored with the Trailblazer Award an international career and a degree from the Golden Crown Literary Society and in 2013 she was in opera behind her, today you know inducted into the Saints & Sinners Hall of Fame. Marianne her from Big Bad Gina with her Ethno- is also one of the founding partners of Bywater Books. Her Amazon vocals, passionate electric violin, and keyboard responsibilities include managing general operations, as well kinesthetics! Janski, a minister, Buddhist and yogi, has as the Bywater Prize for Fiction, and working with Bywater’s an active spiritual lifestyle and believes that it has a huge new writers. influence on her life and music. She resides in the beautiful Ozarks of Fayetteville, AR, with her wife, RJ, and their twin Miriam Davidson sons, Thomas and Adrian – who are so supportive and rock She is the director of the Festival Choir, right beside her every day! is best known to NWMF fans as half of Renée is THRILLED to be one of your hosts and emcees for the duo Wishing Chair. Miriam is a multi- the 39th National Women’s Music Festival!! instrumentalist, arranger, singer, and conductor. She has toured for more than Ruth Rowan 15 years, playing festivals, concert halls, She has been a WIA Board Member and living rooms across the country. She since the Fall of 2005. Ruth lives is the author of several books and eight in Cincinnati, OH, with her wife, CDs with Wishing Chair. When she is not Marsha, and helps support their at home with her girl, or touring, she is the Artistic Director daughter, Tammy, who now lives of Anna Crusis Women’s Choir in Philadelphia, the longest independently. Ruth has attended running feminist choir in the country. She now lives in Philly NWMF since 1986 and began with partner Kim; their wild and woolly border collie, Bella; interpreting in 1990. She continues and the felines, Simon and Sam. to coordinate interpreting services at the festival and in 2008 began coordinating Marketplace. Orenda Ruth is dedicated to keeping NWMF thriving for many years to come. [email protected]

Sandra Moran Sandra Moran is a teacher, author and international woman of intrigue. A native Kansan, Sandra has worked as a newspaper journalist, a political speech writer and an archaeological tour manager. When she’s not running around Kansas City (literally) Orenda is a bold and talented group of women musicians or torturing college students with the who melded their solo acts into a stellar, crowd-pleasing fundamentals of anthropology, she Artist Profiles can be found in her lair listening to Pandora and making up Supervillain Fire Drill stories. Her novels, “Letters Never Sent” and “NUDGE,” are available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com, and at the Bedazzled Book Peddler.

Sandra Valls Sandra is a brash, high energy, smart, outrageously funny, Latina comic… and then some! Voted by Latina Magazine as one of the Top 33 Bad Ass Comics with Latin Roots, Sandra performs to standing room only, sold out comedy shows all over the country. Sandra ignites the stage with a powerful and Ska music from Madison, Wisconsin! electric performance in 2 Showtime hit comedy specials THE Members include: Jenna (The Baker): trombone, vocals; LATIN DIVAS OF COMEDY and PRIDE: LGBT COMEDY Becky (The Literalist): trumpet, vocals; Julia (The Personality): SLAM! hosted by Bruce Vilanch. In a time when gays and trumpet; Barbara (The Metrognome): keyboards; Darwin lesbians in the United States are still struggling and fighting (The Organizer): bass; Maggie (The Cunning Linguist): for equality, Sandra Valls unapologetically takes the road less guitar; Nicky (The Sugar Glider): drums travelled, celebrates her sexuality and steps up to the front Influences: Streetlight Manifesto, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, lines entertaining and educating folks through laughter and Mustard Plug, Bomb the Music Industry. plenty of PRIDE! Comes as no surprise that she was voted Booking: [email protected] one of Curve Magazine’s Top 10 funniest lesbian comics and Top 10 faces to watch in 2010 by Diva Magazine. Wahru Wahru is considered an accomplished Summer Osborne drummer on the Djembe’, ashiko, bongos, Summer Osborne is an award congas, and dunun. She is the founder, winning American singer- director, and leader of Sistah Ngoma, a songwriter who entertains professional multicultural women’s drum audiences throughout the US and group, and the Columbus Community Canada with her magical brand Drummers, a multicultural mixture of female and male drummers of melodic and lyrically potent in Columbus, OH, and surrounding areas. She has facilitated genre-jumping performances. drum circles for the National Women Music Festival for over She masterfully amalgamates fifteen years and many Columbus festivals, including Comfest, the human condition, spirituality, Hot Times and the Ohio Women’s Music Festival, formally truth, love and healing. When Osborne’s kaleidoscope known as the Ohio LBA. She organized and has conducted the of music is infused with her charismatic stage presence National Women’s Music Festival Drum Chorus since 2002. and naturally humorous personality, every show leaves Wahru is known for her ability to “get everybody drumming.” the listener wanting more. Summer Osborne’s only goal: to change the world by changing people’s minds about themselves… she needs LOVE, MUSIC, and YOU. The Summer Osborne Band is Sarah McCracken, Chelsey Danielle, Jen Galinski

Sunny Pfifferling-Irons Sunny is honored to be part of the NWMF Interpreting crew since 1999. She works full time as an educational interpreter and part time as a video relay interpreter. She lives with her partner and daughter on a small farm in Goshen, Indiana, where they have a small menagerie of horses, chickens, geese, and a ginormous organic garden. [email protected] NWMF National Women’s Music Festival shopping List Events Not to be Missed invites you to join us as we celebrate all of our P Festival T-Shirt

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National Women’s Music Festival 40th Year Herstory Project Madison Board Room Friday 9am- 1pm; 2-4 pm Saturday 8am-2pm

10-minute intervals, gab with us for 3 of those minutes, sign up on the door. Come and tell us your festival stories. We want to discover and share our experiences of the festival and how it has affected our lives. Who are we? Where are we going? How have you fit in? Where would you be without this festival? Tell us all about it!

1. What was your first festival? 2. What brought you? 3. How many times have you been? 4. What is your fondest festival memory? 5. How has festival impacted your life? Workshop Presenter Bios

Amber Ault, Ph.D., MSW, wrote The own healing practice. Diane presents and peace for over a decade. An Wise Lesbian Guide to Getting Free workshops and lectures on healing with advocate for food sovereignty and From Crazy-Making Relationships and stones and energy healing throughout energy independence, Dena is founder Getting On With Your Life, a handbook for the country. Diane is also the author of of Echo Valley Farm and of the nonprofit, women in toxic relationships with women two books on crystals – The KISS Guide Echo Valley Hope. She authored partners. As a sociologist, she studies to Crystals and The KISS Guide to Stone The Peace Warrior, a call to personal gender and sexuality with an emphasis Layouts. peace. echovalleyfarmwisconsin.com on LGBTQ life; as a psychotherapist, she echovalleyhope.org works with both queer and straight people Nan Brooks is committed to empowering on recovery from difficult relationships women to create rituals that celebrate our Fay Ferington completed basic nursing and building happy healthy lives. She lives and see us through the tough times. preparation in 1960, an MS in psychiatric designs and facilitates The Lesbian She welcomes women from all religions nursing in 1963 and a PhD in 1983. She Dating Seminar and Salon just for fun, and spiritual paths in her workshops. retired from the Army Nurse Corps 1990 and to help lesbians build their dating Nan is an ordained priestess of the Re- with the rank of Colonel. She served skills on the path to love. formed Congregation of the Goddess- as a clinician and educator in Vietnam International and a former Christian and on staff of the Chief of the Army Sharon Baker, is interested in women, seminary student. She is also trained Nurse Corps. Retired from faculty at the their art and music, and it is the reason in theatre arts and known to NWMF for School of Nursing at the University of that they show up year after year at the performances and emceeing in earlier Wisconsin and as director of a program National Women’s Music Festival. She years. Contact her at www.nanbrooks. for the chronically mentally ill. Since is here to experience and enjoy the com 2000, she has volunteered at the LGBT energy of this gathering and to record Madison Community Center and the your thoughts and memories of festivals Barbara Ann Caruso is a long-time Madison Senior Center, concentrating on present and past for ourselves and our student, for 40 of her 64 years, of programming for LGBT persons 50 and future. Adrienne Rich’s poetry and prose. She is beyond. Currently she serves on several an activist in Feminist, Lesbian and Queer city committees focusing on successful Christine Beatty is the Director of the contexts, and a professor of English and aging and on community services. Madison Senior Center, a multi-purpose Intersectional Women’s, Gender and municipal senior center. Under her Sexuality Studies at Earlham College. Sally Jo Fussell, LCSW is an ordained direction, the Madison Senior Center She is currently working on a project Priestess of the Re-Formed Congregation became the first nationally accredited collecting oral histories about people’s of the Goddess. She also identifies as a senior center in Wisconsin. She served use of Adrienne Rich’s work. Connect Therapist, a Ritualist, a Feminist and on the National Institute of Senior with Barbara Ann at carusba@earlham. Follower of The Wheel. As a seeker, she Centers Delegate Council in the early edu loves to learn about spiritual practices 1990’s and became their Chairperson in and to study The Goddess and Her ways. 2004 - 2006. She served on the Board Brenda Corbello is a past board member Sally uses her creative energy to write of Directors of the National Council on of Women in the Arts. Though she is no liturgy, craft altars and make spiritually Aging, Washington, D.C. from 2005 to longer single, she continues to use her based art. She is blessed to have the 2012. She is a consultant and keynote energy, sense of fun, and creativity to privilege of working with children and their speaker on senior centers, volunteerism, make being single at festival a “singular” families to learn and practice the dance caregiving, retirement, and aging issues. experience. of attachment and the creating of healthy and balanced families. She lives happily Diane Bloom established Free Spirit Ruth Debra has served on the National and in good health in Austin, Texas with Crystals in 1991. She has studied crystal Steering Committee for Old Lesbians the love of her life, Boye. healing at Katrina Raphaell’s Crystal Organizing for Change (OLOC) for the Academy in Hawaii and with Melody’s past seven years. She has a long history Kristin Hansen is an attorney with the Teacher’s School in Denver. She was of activism in the Peace and Justice, American Civil Liberties Union. one of only 35 teachers in the world women's and LGBT movements. She co- to initially be accredited by Melody to founded a shelter for battered women, Julie Hogan, Reconnect Spiritual teach her curriculum. Diane teaches a free mammogram program, and has Sanctuary(reconnectspiritually.com) Reiki and basics of energy healing at been on numerous non-profit boards. in downtown Beaver Dam is owned & the Milwaukee School of Massage. She operated by Julie Hogan. Her studio is a Reiki Master Teacher, a Light Body Dena Eakles has been speaking on offers Guided Meditation, Reiki, as graduate, Numerologist and has her sustainable living, community farming well as Shamanic Energy Healing in Workshop Presenter Bios the traditions of the Ancient Inca. Julie naturally reversed a diagnosis of Kathy Prezbindowski has facilitated has trained at Golden Light Healing, Profound Hypothyroidism in less than a free coming out groups for lesbians for 18 completing the Earth Medicine Wheel, year. She learned that profound healing years. A biology professor for 40 years, and has also had the honor of learning comes from taking profound measures: she is also a psychiatric-mental health styles of energy healing and ceremonies digging deep, altering patterns of belief, nurse and author of six books. Kathy from the Shamans of Peru & various and working on body, mind, & spirit as has written numerous documents on the American Indian Nations. She offers one. She believes that if given the tools coming out process and has presented workshops & personal sessions where Nature provides, the body heals itself. forty+ diversity trainings. In 1976 Kathy she shares the life changing teachings Rosanne recently launched her book, " won custody of her two young daughters that have sculpted her Soul’s journey. The Nature of Healing, Heal the Body, in the first lesbian custody case in eastern Heal the Planet." Washington state. An active board Molly Indura, visionary reader and member of Tacoma Lesbian Concern and healer has over 20 years’ experience Vanessa Lowe is attending the National Puget Sound OLOC, Kathy also works as a professional clairvoyant. In that Women's Music Festival for the first with (and loves!) The Old Lesbian Oral time she has read thousands of people. time. Vanessa was involved in restoring Herstory Project. She has developed her own system of the Sisterspace Women's Festival in reading energy called the See the Light 2006. She's presented personal finance Rani Quimba is one of Sistah Ngoma’s Inner Sight System and teaches others to workshops at that festival and in other original members. She has studied with open to access information clairvoyantly. venues for more than 20 years. Vanessa Wahru for several years and has also You can read more about Molly at www. lives in Philadelphia and works in the attended workshops presented by Ubaka bethelight.org financial services industry. She received Hill and Nurudafina Pili Abena, She is her MBA from the Wharton School in considered an accomplished drummer in Alexandra Kirschner is one of Lambda 1998. She's also an economic justice the djembe’ and dunun traditions. Rani Legal’s current experts addressing activist and LOVES helping women build was a member of the NWMF’s first drum thousands of Legal Help Desk inquiries strong financial lives. chorus and has participated in this festival each year. She specializes in how the as a workshop presenter, assistant overturn of DOMA continues to affect Rev. Nano Boye Nagle, MLA is an facilitator for the late night drum jams couples, and follows regulatory changes interfaith Minister of Universal Sufism and in performances with Sistah Ngoma. and court decisions that impact access to and a Chaplain of Arts Ministry. Drummer, She also has performed with Judy state and federal benefits. With her J.D. minstrel, singer, theologian, poet, Piazza, Nuru, Wahru and others at the from Seattle University School of Law counselor and healer, she is available for National Women Music Festival, the Ohio and more than three years of experience Weddings, Holy Unions and other Rituals. Womyn’s Music Festival and Wimfest. as a Help Desk specialist at the Midwest She is currently working on a collection Rani’s own drum group, Heartbeat, has Regional Office, Kirschner works directly of daily meditation poems. She moved to performed in Ohio. with Lambda Legal’s staff attorneys to Austin, TX last year to live happily ever evaluate emerging legal concerns in after with the love of her life Sally Jo. Vic Ramstetter is a writer, activist and various states, monitor data from our co-director of the Ohio Lesbian Archives. national Help Desk, and ensure expert Marianne K. Martin is co-owner of legal response to the myriad issues Bywater Books and is the award winning Eileen Rosensteel is a bodacious raised by “the demise of DOMA.” author of ten novels of lesbian fiction. Bohemian based in Madison, WI. She She is a three-time Lambda Literary finds inspiration in stories of foremothers Kellie Landaker, B.A., Law of Attraction Foundation Award finalist, was awarded and the sacred every day. Her work Practitioner, Certified Life CoachKellie the Trailblazer Award by the Golden has been published and performed in has spent her 30+ year career in the Crown Literary Society, and has been a variety of places including, We’Moon, social work field helping others. She inducted into the Saints & Sinners Breadcrumb Scabs, and Minnesota learned about the Law of Attraction six Literary Festival's Hall of Fame. Fringe. years ago. She has learned to beautifully transform her world using the Law of Sandra Moran is the author of Nudge Grace Starcke is active in her local Re- Attraction, gratitude, love and service. and Letters Never Sent, which was formed Congregation of the Goddess- finalist for the Edmund White Award for Crossroads in Indianapolis and a student Rosanne Lindsay, N.D. is a writer, Debut Fiction. She teaches anthropology in Women’s Theological Institute. She is mother, and Naturopathic Doctor at Johnson County Community College dedicated to building the congregation as practicing in the Madison area. Through in Overland Park, Kansas. a resource for her community and as a diet and lifestyle changes, Rosanne way to support women in their search for Workshop Presenter Bios a personal relationship with the Goddess. prior to retirement. After volunteering LGBT Aging Issues Network of American She plans and offers rituals and study for 20 years, she is now the LGBT Society on Aging. She loves presenting opportunities to this local circle. She is Senior Advocate for OutReach LGBT on a variety of topics, including also works in a prison ministry to bring Community Center in Madison, WI. Her caregiving, brain health, and identity the Goddess to incarcerated women. 20-hour/week position is funded by both fraud. We are proud to recognize Terri as the City of Madison and Dane County, the coordinator of our newest workshop Casper Sunn, Cris Derrick and WI. track, Growing Older Growing Fabulous. Betty Kareen have all been “threshold singers” - providing songs of comfort and Karen West, National Parks Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman was ordained healing for people who are seriously ill, Photographer has shot 40 parks, by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical people who are dying, and people who lakeshores and monuments as part of her College in 2003 and has been the are grieving. Casper Sunn used the 5 year "National Parks Road Trip." She spiritual leader of Congregation Shaarei training and inspiration of her mentors and her partner Susan are on the road Shamayim in Madison, WI for the past 11 as the foundation for a Madison women’s full time in a 1960 Shasta retro trailer. years. She has been actively involved in group of volunteer threshold singers: many social justice issues and is currently the teachings of Hildegard of Bingen, Terri Worman is the AARP IL Associate writing a curriculum on teaching the Israel- Kay Gardner’s Music as Medicine and State Director, Advocacy & Outreach Palestinian conflict. She and her partner, “Women with Wings” singing circle, and and an LGBT Aging Issues advocate Rabbi Renee Bauer, have two children. the Deep Listening meditations of Pauline and presenter. She is past chair for the Oliveros.

Susan Thering is the director of Design Coalition Institute, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to Sustainable Futures, Affordable Housing, and Environmental Justice. Design Coalition Institute is taking the lead in organizing for co-housing at Union Corners in Madison. Sue holds two professional degrees (Architecture and Landscape Architecture) with a focus on affordable “green” housing and community design, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Science with a focus on social and political science aspects of social change.

Judi Trampf and Katy Heyning will celebrate 25 years together this year. They live in Madison, Wisconsin and work at the University of Wisconsin- Whitewater.

Marianne Tromp writes computer software in an agile environment for her day job. She is interested in how she can program herself to be eager for what life has to offer. Her other workshops include: Using Virginia Satir's Interaction Model; Rekindling the Spark (with Carol Chapman) and Inspire Yourself.

Caroline Werner is a 73-year-old lesbian with a Master's Degree in Social Work. She was a case manager for seniors

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Note to self.... invite all my friends to join me at the 40th Anniversary Festival, July 2-5, 2015 in Middleton WI.

Go biking or walking along Middleton’s award-winning community trail system. Check out Middleton’s outstanding mix of restaurants and retailers. Visit the historic downtown area. There is so much to do in Middleton. http://visitmiddleton.com/ 2014 National Women’s Music Festival Approved Operating Budget

Printing 2014 NWMF Operating Budget ‐ $109,415 & Graphics $5,500 Credit Card Postage & Insurance/Licenses Fees/Bank Expense Storage $2,000 Festival $3,500 $1,500 Merchandise $2,025 Advertising/Marketing/ Registration $7,650 Stage ‐ Performer Expense $41,690

Travel $10,750

Hotel Expense Stage ‐ Equipment $24,300 Rental $10,500 2013-2014 Women in the Arts, Inc. Finanical Report

00 2014 National Women’s Music 2014Festival WIA Approved Operatating Operating BudgetBudget - $109,415

Printing 2014 NWMF Operating Budget ‐ $109,415 & 2014 NWMF Operating Budget - $109,415 Graphics Stage - Performer Expenses $41,690 $5,500 Credit Card Postage & Insurance/Licenses Fees/Bank Expense Storage $2,000 Stage - Equipment Rental $10,500 Festival $3,500 $1,500 Hotel Expense $24,300 Merchandise $2,025 Travel $10,750 Advertising/Marketing/ Advertising/Marketing/Registration $7,650 Registration Festival Merchandise $2,025 $7,650 Stage ‐ Performer Printing & Graphics $5,500 Expense $41,690 Credit Card Fees/Bank Expense $3,500 Travel $10,750 Postage & Storage $1,500 Insurance/Licenses $2,000

Budget Expense Total $109,415.00

Hotel Expense Stage ‐ Equipment $24,300 Rental $10,500

2013 NWMF Expenses ‐ $108,563 Insurance, Licenses, Refunds $1,132 Administrative $2,228 Postage & Storage Line of Credit $859 repayment $7,486 Credit Card Fees/Bank Expense $2,897

2014 NWMF Operating Budget2013 - $109,415 WIA Expenses Printing & Stage - Performer Expenses 00$41,690 Graphics $108,563 $4,157 Stage - Equipment Rental $10,500

Hotel Expense $24,300 Festival Stage ‐ Performer Travel $10,750 Merchandise Expenses $38,432 $4,495 Advertising/Marketing/Registration $7,650 Festival Merchandise $2,025 Advertising, Marketing, Printing & Graphics $5,500 Registration $5,148 Credit Card Fees/Bank Expense $3,500 Postage & Storage $1,500 2013 NWMF Revenue $109,642 ‐ November 1, 2012 to October 31, 2013 Insurance/Licenses $2,000

Campaign & GrantBudget Expense Total $109,415.00 Travel $14,381 $5,664.54

Registration $10,031.00 Stage ‐ Equipment Rental $9,821 Silent Auction Pre Festival Sales $3,506.00 $34,697.00 Hotel Expense Marketplace $17,529 $2,436.90

Donations Pending $5,180.00

Pre Fesitival Fund Raising/Donations $17,322.00 2013 WIA Revenue 00 Breakfast With the $109,642 Artists $15,420.00 November 1, 2012-October 31, 2013 Live Auction $15,385.00

Local Glen Arbor Sun editor took an evening spin on the newly completed Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail section between the Dune Climb and Empire. It’s a beautiful, hilly ride! Along the way, he interviewed Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Deputy Superintendent Tom Ulrich and Duneswood Resort owner Debbie Rettke, about how this leg of the trail differs from the Dune Climb-to-Glen Arbor leg, what the expanded trail means for the National Park, and for local biking in general, and how folks have reacted to it so far. See more at: http://glenarborsun.com/ riding-the-new-sleeping-bear- heritage-trail With the new bike trail right in front of Duneswood it makes perfect riding for Fall Color Season or Spring Morel Mush- room hunting.

Breakfast with the Artists

Sunday - June 29th - 9-11am Eleanor Ballroom Tickets available at the Registration Desk for $3000 Who will you be eating breakfast with this Sunday?