WomensMedia.com http://www.womensmedia.com/ The Venus Theatre By Emily Schwend, WIFP June, 2005 The aptly named "Venus Theatre" in downtown DC is producing the city's foremost feminist theater. In a time of theater that is marked by more revivals than original shows, the Venus Theatre is formidable not only for its almost guerilla feminism, but for its willingness to produce new and never-before-seen plays. The voices and visions of women in the arts have been underheard and overlooked since the beginning of theater. To promote the honest portrayal of women on stage, backstage, even in the audience, both new and old works by women must be produced. The Venus Theatre takes risks. The company produces out-of-print plays on women's suffrage, as well as producing shows that many of the more rigid and cautious DC theatres would shun. They work to change the future and defy ingrained stereotypes by touring schools and museums, creating improvisation workshops for the public, and developing youth theater programs. The Theatre recently closed its successful and award-winning show in the attic of the Warehouse Theatre, Cigarettes and Moby Dick, an explicit and provocative play about two women in a turbulent relationship. They have not announced the title of their next production, but, chances are, it will be just as exciting and thought-provoking for the audience. As they say on their website, Venustheatre.org, "the women in our audience tend to become unified and sometimes even healed and men tend to have a greater understanding of what the world looks like through female eyes." Everyone can benefit from the Venus Theatre, because they provide an accurate portrayal of women that no one has clearly seen before stage. They show women in roles that are honest and complicated. They give female directors, stagehands, set and lighting designers and playwrights a chance to work with material that challenges them as women. Venus Theatre:  http://www.venustheatre.org By E.J. Yi, WIFP May, 2005 WomensMedia provides the latest in-depth material to help working women advance. Its aim is to provide more in-depth material for working women than has been available on the Internet. This website consists of four sections, resources, book, discussion, and learning club. Each of them have useful tips for struggling women at work and home as well. Some of them are from renowned people who give professional tips. But it is not all about WomensMedia.com. Indiscussion section, you can post what you want to share with other members or you simply ask help for from others like how to balance between your work and family. One of recognizable thing of this site is that it shows a list of members, which lets you contact themto communicate more personally and intimately. Especially its Coaching and Self Improvement sections are unique and helpful in that on-going discussion is possible. If you are willing to pay a little bit to join its customized service, Learning Club, you can make like-minded women and send an email mini-lesson and activity each week. You read the lesson, print it and start your personal book, click the link to be lead directly to your private discussion board where you can discuss the lesson with friends. In Computers Are For Girls section, they provides lots of tips to help you girls see hot fun and useful computers can be, then when these girls are women, they'll most likely be using computers at work, but they won't enjoy the technology salary benefits. This is where WomesMedia think they can make the biggest difference. This is when girls-in great numbers - decide computers are for boys. They also won't be involved in designing software products that appeal to women. Three professional women with experience in management training and educational publishing founded WomensMedia with a belief that today's male business culture, women need to carry a few more tools than men, but fortunately for women, this is not difficult. To Top