More catching up. This first time event organized by Hollins students starts Saturday in the Dumas Center, 108 1st St. NW in Roanoke. Admission $10, $15 for both days, students $5, Hollins students free.

SUMMARY: A rockin’ weekend of shenanigans in ART of ALL KINDS, with food, friends, Artist Talk backs, and work that will make your imagination SOAR!!! Come join us for a fun-filled weekend!!

Schedule:

1pm- Outdoor Dance Installation (1st Ave.)
2pm-Live Dance and Theatre
4:30pm- Film and Live Music
7pm- Physical Theatre Production- After ALL
8:30- Reception with- Music, Refreshments, Food
Visual Art, Photography, Sound Installation, and visual installation On Display all day

What’s it all about?

Counterbalance Festival provides a service to over 25 female artists, encompassing works of theatre, dance, photography, poetry, film, visual art, and music to come together to produce a weekend-long festival in Roanoke Virginia.. My main objective is to explore our ethical responsibility of making high quality female artists’ work accessible to the community.

Why all Women?

There is a system, that today may not intentionally exclude women from the arts, but that respects art by males as a part of a system. The art we’re used to seeing in museums and galleries is made by over 90 percent men- so an aesthetic is developed from a male perspective that becomes a standard. Any artists with perspectives outside of this standard take years to be appreciated- thus making the fight to be seen and heard much needed for Female perspectives in art. Weʼre here to change that model in the town of Roanoke. Thus our title: Counterbalance… to balance out the imbalance we find in the art world today.

ARTISTS:

Isabel Barnes
Yasmeen Boiragee
Danielle Branche
Erica Bruce
Esther Cheng
Patricia Cope
Liza Deck
Rabiah Khwaja Gohar
Courtney Gorman
Terrakah Harold
Clarissa Harris
Jasmine Kettenacker
Kailen Kinsey
Lucy de los Rios
Lexi Mondot
Sandra Meythaler
Amanda Miller
Kayla Oelhafen
Alia Roberts
Megan Robinson
Lachelle Roddy
Julia Wheatly Schneider
Jacqyln Sommerman
Emma Sperka
Lisa Ann Thomas
Cal Thompson
Nancy VanNoppen
Star City Hoopers