Happy International Women’s Day! Today (and every day!) let’s celebrate our community of activists who are committed to closing information gaps related to gender, feminism, and the arts, on Wikipedia (and beyond).
Below are some March highlights. Many events have a virtual component so you can join wherever you are! See a full list of events here.
Happy Editing!
Art+Feminism
March 2022 Event Highlights
Canada
March 7th – March 25th
The Belkin Art Gallery Edit-a-thon 2022
Join the Belkin Art Gallery in creating and editing Wikipedia articles about women, LGBTQ2S+, gender non-binary, people of colour, Black and Indigenous artists, curators and organizations as well as feminist and activist art movements.
El Salvador
March 12th – March 30th
Editatona Art+Feminism El Salvador
Join Centro Cultural de España and Wikimedia El Salvador for three workshops and an edit-a-thon focused on the biographies of women artists in El Salvador.
Italy
March 8th
Wikigap x Art+Feminism Datathon
For WikiGap and Art and Feminism 2022 campaign, the GWMAB and the University Library Center of the University of Salerno, are hosting a datathon to improve the items relating to women present in the catalogs of Italian libraries.
Philippines
March 15th – June 15th
Art+Feminism in the Philippines 2022
The aim is to recruit more volunteers to engage in the movement and inspire them to devote their skills to developing the Wiki projects. The two target projects (Tagalog and Central Bikol Wikiquote) are still in incubator status and we aim to develop it into an official wiki project with its own domain.
United Kingdom
March 28th
Black Theatre and the Archive: Making Women Visible, 1900-1950
This Wiki workshop aims to expand and amplify knowledge produced by and about Black women, and about gender, feminism and the arts on Wikipedia.
United States
March 1st – 31st
WAM Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
The Walters Art Museum invites visitors to participate in a month-long event that will increase the visibility of women and gender nonbinary artists in the Walters collection.
March 21st – 26th
Amplifying Appalachia
This Edit-a-thon is focused on amplifying the stories and figures of under-represented Appalachian artists, writers, and other creators, particularly womxn, people of color, and LGBTQ individuals.
March 24th
Architecture+Feminism (TTU – 2022)
To celebrate International Women’s Month in March, we are remotely hosting a five-hour hands-on Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon focusing on building and extending profiles of well-known women practitioners and thinkers in architecture, landscape architecture, preservation.
Organize
It’s true that many Art+Feminism events happen during the month of March around International Women’s Day, but we celebrate events year-round! If you will be joining us this year, we want to reiterate our commitment to community care and ask that you do the same. If you’d like to join the campaign and organize an edit-a-thon, panel, or meetup, please contact us. We’ll connect you with a regional ambassador who can help you with your event planning.
If you’re curious we invite you to take a look at our suggested Timeline for Event Organizers, and our Virtual Event Resources