Maria brings a wealth of experience and a unique creative perspective to her new role. By: Chloe Rabinowitz  for Broadyway World Nov. 16, 2023 Bechdel Project a leading feminist arts incubator, has appointed of  Maria Aparo  as its Co-Creative Director. A distinguished multidisciplinary artist, producer, former sex worker, and activist, Maria brings a wealth of experience and a unique creative perspective to her new role A Fearless Trailblazer in the Arts Maria Aparo is no stranger to pushing boundaries. Her true passion lies in developing new works that question and subvert societal norms, while blurring the lines between art and life. Known for her audacious projects, including constructing a black box theater in the desert for  The Living Theater 's "No Place To Hide" at Burning Man, Maria's artistic journey has been marked by innovation. Her identity as a world-renowned "fetish queen," YouTube star and, sex worker's rights advocate, revolutionize...

November 5th & 6th at Bechdel Project Headquarters. By:  Chloe Rabinowitz  for Broadway World Oct. 16, 2023 Bechdel Project , in developmental partnership with  Atlanta Reclamation Studios , presents staged readings of Mavens of St. Catherines Island, part of the newly launched Interstate Program, November 5th (5pm) and November 6th (7pm) at Bechdel Project Headquarters in Greenpoint, Brooklyn (252 Green St. 3rd Floor)  Click Here Written by Catherine Mew and SR Gentry and featuring Tanyah Hope Anderson, Denise Arribas , LaLa Cochran , Tamalyn Meller, Eden Mew , and Kiersten Wallace, Mavens of St. Catherines Island is a new full-length ghost play from an all Atlanta based team with unique arrangements of folk music in its second year of development with support from the Nexus Fund and The Warhol Foundation. On Christmas Eve 1901, the third massive hurricane in a decade threatens Georgia's northern barrier islands. With all the ships of a diminished fleet on the r...

A Greenpoint Open Studios group show of millennial artists curated by Laura June Kirsch . On June 10th and 11th from 12 to 6 pm, Bechdel Project (252 Green St), as part of their Community Space Program , will host the work of five artists who have been shaped by being a part of the last generation to experience life pre-internet. Each brings a unique, playful style and flavor to the show. An additional resonance for the show comes from the history of the Bechdel Project’s home, which was once the studio space of pioneering installation artist Judy Pfaff . Pfaff was a part of The Whitney Biennial in 1981 and 1987, was awarded a Guggenheim in 83, and has since received numerous awards and recognitions, including the MacArthur Genius Award.     BECHDEL PROJECT ( Maria Aparo, Lucy Flournoy, & Jens Rasmussen, Co-Creative Directors ) is a non-profit feminist arts incubator in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. You can learn more about their Development, Education, and Advocacy p...

BECHDEL PROJECT and Ensemble Studio Theatre Announce the   World Premiere Reading of Jeanne Dorsey’s play, THE KIT: MADE BY MARTHA, as Part of the Alfred P. Sloan 2023 First Light Festival. Bechdel Project and Ensemble Studio Theatre will present the world premiere reading of Jeanne Dorsey’s play, The Kit: Made by Martha, directed by Jackson Gay, on May 7th (3pm)  and 8th (7pm) in New York City at Alchemical Studios ( 50 W 17th St.) Reserve tickets here. Commissioned by the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project , and developed with support from Bechdel Project’s year-long ROO Residency , The Kit: Made by Martha explores the life and work of Martha Goddard, inventor of the first standardized rape kit. While working a crisis hotline for runaway teenage girls in 1972 Chicago, Goddard ponders how rape could be investigated as an actual crime rather than a made-up story. At a time when sexual violence in America is rarely prosecu...

  AN INVITATION Bechdel Project invites you to attend a consciousness-raising discussion on how men might take a more active role in ending sexism and male domination. Sunday, March 12th, 2:30pm at Bechdel Project headquarters in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. All men are born good. All men were raised in a culture of male domination. Men have been trained to think of themselves as the preferred sex. Men have been trained to think of "female" traits as weak and inferior. All of this has had an incredibly negative effect on women (and men) worldwide. At this time, men wield the majority of political and economic power in the world. Yet, it is almost exclusively women who lead the work on ending sexism. It is never the job of a marginalized or victimized group to fix their oppressors. What, then, is the role that men should play in ending sexism and male domination, and how might that look? We hope you'll join us for an open discussion, for men (all genders welcome), facilitated by...

We're excited to collaborate with Todd London to create a three-day retreat here at BECHDEL PROJECT this coming weekend as part of The Third Bohemia!!! Founded in 2011 by Todd London, The Third Bohemia is a series of national gatherings of independent theatre artists, along with artists and thinkers from other fields, focused on sharing, teaching, and making work. The goals of these working sessions—or mini-camps, include: 1) To inspire and energize the participants in hopes of fueling their ongoing work; 2) To incite cross-disciplinary thinking and creation; 3) To explore the potential of peer-artist-to-peer-artist teaching; 4) To seed the national theatre's native creativity by connecting its artists outside of existing institutional structures; 5) To create a fluid, self-determining national theatre of artists. Following Bechdel Project's values, which encourage its artists to bring their whole selves, this 3B will be unique. The retreat has been carefully structured a...

Bechdel Project, a feminist arts incubator, which awarded its year-long ROO Residency to Jeanne Dorsey in May, is launching its latest initiative, the FIFE Fellowship , and the writers that will make up the inaugural fellows. The FIFE is a multi-year, artist-led fellowship for feminist writers that provides support to develop stories that have the power to change the world. The fellowship draws inspiration from the writing of bell hooks' and takes its name from her book, Feminism Is For Everybody (FIFE), and focuses on the concepts of intersectional feminism, building diverse community, and the wholistic integration of art into life. (Bechdel Project is a family-positive space and encourages radical self-care for artists.) Throughout the fellowship, each writer will have access to Bechdel Project's studios in Greenpoint, Brooklyn to write, workshop, and present work along with guidance and support from the Bechdel Project staff. Fellows will be provided enrichment opportunitie...