Woman Scream 2014 Closes With Resounding Success!

Woman Scream 2014 Closes With Resounding Success!
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 04/07/2014

The fourth edition of the Woman Scream International Poetry Festival closed last March 31, 2014, with resounding success. More than thirty countries dutifully joined this innovative project, carrying out more than one hundred events around the world to commemorate the month of women, adding poetry and art, in all its manifestations, and conveying messages against violence. The initiative, launched in 2011 in the Dominican Republic, has spread worldwide with the support from multiple institutions and partners in solidarity with the cause.

The recital We Are Heroines! took place in the Dominican Republic from March 1st to March 31st together with the official launching of the new image of the trade mark “Woman Scream” and the closing in Italy and Mexico with recitals and lectures. From start to finish there were poetry readings, lectures, seminars, and art exhibits by women, concerts by women artists, performances, theater, and the presentation of a circus mixed with poetry, among other innovations that were part of the long chain of events that were held simultaneously. The committed countries participating in this feat were: the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, the United States, Canada, Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Peru, Honduras, Haiti, Panama, Guatemala, Bolivia, Chile, Portugal, Brazil, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Australia, Bosnia – Herzegovina, Kosovo, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Angola, Ghana and South Africa.

The Women Scream festival was launched by Dominican writer Jael Uribe, President of the International Women Poets Movement (MPI), Inc., and it grows each year as it is being translated into several languages ??thanks to the altruism of hundreds of people and also thanks to initiatives that support their work, thereby allowing the Woman Scream to echo beyond borders, breaking the silence for a noble cause. Uribe thanked each and every one of the coordinators who participated from their cities and who she called the real heroes and heroines of this cause and, most especially, to those who have worked from the beginning of the project, for having believed in the greatness of this dream and, as she said at the opening of the festival in the Dominican Republic, “Thank you for making my dream something of yours.” –

More details about the festival events may be found in http://www.gritodemujer.com

This March 2014, the following persons collaborated with Woman Screams:
PUERTO RICO: Zulma Quiñones, SPAIN: Pedro Luis Ibáñez, Nuria de Espinosa, Mujeres Creativas del Vallés, Virtudes Reza, María Sánchez, Ana Belén, Juan Francisco González, Centro Canario de Estudios Caribeños – El Atlántico,  the Workshop “Espejo de Paciencia” Poetry Workshop, Anabel Cendrero, Antonia Cerrato, Rosa Garde, Amnisty International Malaga, GEMS Education in Andalucía, Red Mariposa, MIGAS Association, Namasté Cultural Associtation, Dana Vignati, Liisa Lahdenmäki, Isabel Ascensión Martínez, Irel Faustina Bermejo, Pedro Vera, Ascensión García, Beatrice Borgia, Ivonne Sánchez, Idoia Carramiñana. MEXICO: Mónica Gameros, Casa José Emilio Pacheco, Maya Lima, Abrazando México Women Association, Enma Obrador, María Luisa and Rocío Alarcón, Francisco Gutiérrez, Alicia Meza, Alexandra Botto, Lucía Yépez, Rocío Prieto Valdivia. ARGENTINA: Gito Minore, Margarita Mangione, Maria Cristina Drese, Stella Maris Leone, Culture Secretariat of Pehuajó, Alcira Ross, Marta Macías, Mariana Vacs, Alejandra Méndez, Mabel Pereyra, Gabriela Fabiana Rivero. COLOMBIA: Lorena Trespalacios Janne,  Ana María Gómez. COSTA RICA: Teresita Aguilar Mirambell, Carlos Díaz Chavarría. NICARAGUA:María Augusta Montealegre. BOLIVIA: Rosse Marie Caballero, Daniela Lu Gonzales, Dr. Viruz, Cecilia De Marchi Moyano, Coral Arteaga Menacho, María Natusky Zapata, Yellcka Kippes, Daniel Gonzalo Rodríguez. PERU: Socorro Isabel Barrantes. PANAMA: Dayra Miranda Olmedo. ECUADOR: Paulina Soledad Jaramillo. GUATEMALA: Chelita Aguilar, Andry Oliveros, Rosario Jerez, Poetry Slam Xela, Donald Josué Urízar. HONDURAS: Indira Flamenco. CHILE: Mónica Tapia, Silvia Ozorio. PORTUGAL: Círculo de Escritores Moçambicanos na Diáspora. BRAZIL: Tânia Diniz and Lìvia Tucci. USA: Angelina Llongueras, Free Poets Collective, Colin Haskin, Dorothy Payne, Blanca S. Otero, Sylved Marrero, Mery Larrinua, Pilar Vélez, Fundación Entre Nosotras (Among Us), Yudelka Guerra, Berkis Contreras, Vincularte Hispanoamerican Arts and Cultural Organization, Vanessa Torres. CANADA: Friends of the PoeTree, Ama Luna. FRANCE: Prisca Melyon-Reinette and Stephanie Melyon-Reinette (Nèfta Poetry), Gerald Toto, Prisca Melyon-Reinette, Anansi Office’Elle, Viviane Melyon, Espace Viv’Elle. HAITI: D’Elles Feminist Organization, Darline Guilles. RUSSIA: Teresita Calderón. KOSOVO: Ilire Zajmi. GREECE: Helena Stagkouraki.GHANA: People of Equal Thoughts and Spirit P.O.E.T.S. SOUTH AFRICA: Tralone Khoza. NIGERIA: Temi Bamgbose. ZIMBABWE: Batsirai E Chigama. TANZANIA: Neema Komba, La Poetista.  MOROCCO: Bouchrail Echchaoui. GERMANY:Patricia Colchado Mejía. AUSTRALIA: Saba Vasefi, Perth Poetry Club, WAPI (WA Poets Inc.), Elio Novello. ITALY: Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Napoli, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: Enesa Mahmi?. UK:Jenn Hart, ArtulScribe UK.