(Once when Words of Choice went on tour during the election season, Guerrilla Girls On Tour emailed a wonderfully upbeat note with some download handouts, "You Have the Power to Choose: VOTE!" Just the right thing in a moment of harried travel!)
Guerrilla Girls On Tour, as it explains on its website, is "an anonymous touring theatre company of 26 women trained in a variety of comedic theatre techniques who develop unique and outrageous activist plays, performance art and street theatre. We have presented over 200 performances and workshops around the world addressing reproductive rights, war, sex trafficking, hunger, herstory/history/hirstory and violence against women."
With the motto, "Changing the World One Sexist City at A Time," the group undertakes bookings at colleges and elsewhere, where it presents its signature shows. Members use the names of deceased theatre artists -- Aphra Behn is one, Lorraine Hansberry is another -- and wear half-face masks that look a little, well, gorillalike. In fact, you can download a mask for free here.
The Guerrilla Girls on Tour group was formed in 2001 by former members of Guerrilla Girls, a group of women's art activists who began challenging sexism in the visual arts, starting in 1985. The original Guerrilla Girls became known for sharp graphics and the use of wit and irony to jab at the male-dominated art world. Some of its work is even on display at the Museum of Modern Art in NY (2nd floor), and its origins are described in the Lynn Hershman Leeman film Women, Art, Revolution(also highly recommended!)
Guerrilla Girls on Tour has taken up the gauntlet in the theatre world -- challenging theatres to open their doors to artists of color and women (only about 20 percent of new plays produced are by women, if you can believe that!) The group also uses the medium of theatre to raise awareness about societal misogyny through performances and workshops.
Now, Guerrilla Girls on Tour is making available Limited Edition Portfolios of its first 16 posters under the title, "Monkey Business, The First 10 Years." Some can be seen here and others here or maybe here. To find out more about the Portfolio, email: posters(at)ggontour.com.
Upcoming on the Guerrilla Girls On Tour schedule, October 24-29, 2011 at Rollins College with Feminists Are Funny, part of the Winter Park Institute; November 4-30 with Man As Object: Reversing the Gaze at the SOMArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco; November 9 & 10, 2011, at the College of Staten Island, NY with Feminists are Funny, and a poster making workshop; and January 12, 2012,at CERES Gallery in NY, 547 West 27th Street, with a Meet the Artist lecture at 6:30 pm. Click on calendar here.
Where else to find Guerrilla Girls On Tour:
Facebook: GuerrillaGirlsOT
Tumblr: GuerrillaGirlsOnTour
YouTube:In Hungary
Audio Clip: GGOT Song
Photos:Galleries
Twitter: GuerrillaGsOT
My Space:guerrillagirlsontour
Website: www.guerrillagirlsontour.com
Posted by Cindy Cooper
Pictured above: Screen Shot from Guerrilla Girls On Tour Campaign Email
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