! t h g i l t o p S r e b m e M Athena Project About: Athena Project's mission is to empower women through the arts to create a world with gender equity where women's voices are amplified. We strengthen the Denver community through developing and showcasing women and girls' artistic contributions, while inviting new audiences into the creative process. We believe that “women'' means many things and can be a complicated term. We recognize that the term “women'' does not automatically include all aspects of the gender spectrum. We want to create a safer space for the expression and growth for all women, non-binary, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. Since 2012, we’ve had the honor of working with over 2,100 women artists, and have developed 54 new plays, given 202 performances, and reached 362,734 audience members - and counting! Our programs include: Plays In Progress Series (PIPs) Since 2012, PIPs provide the opportunity, annually, for several plays by women to be developed/workshopped for audiences. PIPs provide playwrights with dramaturg, director, actors, & minimal design elements. Playwrights receive feedback from artists & audience members that they can use to continue development of their play. The opportunity to have a play roughly staged or even heard out loud is a critical component to new play development. We held a PIP Series weekend virtually on June 5 and 6, resulting in the most diverse slate of actors, dramaturgs, directors, and playwrights in Athena's nine year history! Curating Art for Impact curates/creates entertainment for local organizations, performed at organizational functions to raise awareness about their mission. Past programming includes a flash mob to welcome Michelle Obama in collaboration with The Women’s Foundation and curating entertainment for Womxn’s March Denver 2019 and 2020. And most recently working with K Contemporary art gallery and Holly Porterfield on a program called #ArtFindsUs which brought art to communities last summer. For 2021, we are collaborating with the Center for Colorado Women’s History 16
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