International Women's Day
To honor this day, a group of highly-skilled organizers put together a constellation of powerful performances: choral singers, Flamenco dancers, a ballerina, a blues singer, some folk singers, and standing all around the performers, the work of three visual artists. The artists of political protest urge us to take heart, to be a bulwark for each other, to resist together.
A group called In Mulieribus usually sings medieval music, but today they sang a more contemporary song in Spanish. I missed the name of the lyricist, a woman, but the English translation on the screen behind them included these words:
If I love you, it’s because you are
my love, my accomplice, my all;
and out in the street, arm in arm
we are much more than two.
I love you because your hands
work hard for justice…
I love you because your mouth
knows how to cry out for rebellion…
Sue and I were so glad we could be there.
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