Judy Chicago. Birth Garment, 2: Flowering Shrub, 1984 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
in the dress of the body and joyful
Lyrical-musical prelude to International Women’s Day
Reading and Music
On the eve of International Women’s Day, which is celebrated on 8 March, five poets and a musician approach today’s womanhood and the female body from a variety of perspectives with poems, short prose pieces and musical sounds: from femininities, emancipation and feminism, motherhood, birth and miscarriage, to eroticism, love and desire.
Between the tender, humorous, combative, thoughtful or even garish tones, the low brass of a tuba is always interspersed. It might get loud!