Artists & Arts Activism

The Company of Sirens is a social action, feminist theatre company founded in 1986. Its mandate is to develop new productions to inspire social change and has created works addressing issues such as sexual harassment, day care, racism, pay equity and women and work.

This subsection contains material exploring the intersection of various modes of artistic expression with feminist and other forms of activism. It contains a wide range of items related to feminist artworks, including commentary, posters, theater, graphic art, photos, buttons, music, and more, as well as material examining the role of art in the movement for feminist and social change.

Archival Materials

Audio
A Si Katali

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Musical Artist/Group:

    The Red Berets

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    Other
Bread and roses

  • Year created:

    --

  • Musical Artist/Group:

    Catherine Silverglen

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Fight Back

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Musical Artist/Group:

    The Red Berets

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Gonna Rise

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Musical Artist/Group:

    The Red Berets

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
It’s My Body – Medley

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Musical Artist/Group:

    The Red Berets

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Moving Mountains

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Musical Artist/Group:

    The Red Berets

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Oh Come All Ye Shoppers

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Musical Artist/Group:

    The Red Berets

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Old Woman

  • Year created:

    1973

  • Musical Artist/Group:

    The Red Berets

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Union Maid

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Musical Artist/Group:

    The Red Berets

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
We Will Not Be Denied

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Musical Artist/Group:

    The Red Berets

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women Walk More Determined

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Musical Artist/Group:

    The Red Berets

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

Buttons

The Company of Sirens was a social action, feminist theatre company. Its mandate was to develop new productions which inspired social change and alternative action for women.
Be a Siren Scream

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Mama Quilla II was a Toronto-based women's rock band from 1977-1982. The band headlined at the Bi-National Lesbian Conference in 1979. A revised line-up of musicians formed The Parachute Club in 1982.
MQ (Mama Quilla) II

  • Year created:

    1977

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
The art show Still Sane hit the Vancouver art scene in 1984. It told the story of Sheila Gilhooly's entrapment within the phychiatric system in the late 60s and early 70s, when homosexuality was still a category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and sexism was rife in the profession. Twelve months later the book Still Sane rolled off the presses of the local feminist publisher Press Gang, bringing the show's compelling mix of feminist, lesbian and mad politics to a wider audience.
Still Sane

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
The Company of Sirens is a social action, feminist theatre company founded in 1986. Its mandate is to develop new productions to inspire social change and has created works addressing issues such as sexual harassment, day care, racism, pay equity and women and work.
The Company of Sirens

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
The button was made for a 1983 art exhibit from a "woman's perspective" held at the Partisan Gallery in Toronto.
Women’s Perspective ’83 – Partisan Gallery

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

Documents
Canadian Theatre Review – Summer 1985 – Feminism and Canadian Theatre

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Chants for the 1981 International Women’s Day March

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
EveryWoman’s Almanac 1983 – The Red Berets

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Graphic Feminism – Graphic Art of the Ontario Women’s Movement, 1970-86

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Isis: B.C. Women Artists Catalogue – 1974

  • Year created:

    1974

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Isis: Distribution and Production Pamphlet – 1975

  • Year created:

    1975

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Isis: Festival Tour Catalogue – 1974

  • Year created:

    1974

  • Author(s):

    Het Van Bentham , Judie Slind

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Isis: Interlock Chapter – Goddess of Life Show

  • Year created:

    1975

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Isis: Women’s Media 1976 Catalogue

  • Year created:

    1976

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Lorna Boschman – Feminist Stand-up Comedienne

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
thumbnail of Native Women in the Arts
Native Women in the Arts

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Partisan Gallery Presents: Women’s Perspective ‘83

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Report on West Word VI – August 1990

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Six of 1001 Nights of Performance Programme (Toronto)

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Spirit of Turtle Island: Native Women’s Festival

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Sticks & Stones: A Women’s Theatre Collective

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
The Red Berets - Lyric Sheet for "No More Shit" From the Red Berets Songbook
The Red Berets – No More Shit

  • Year created:

    --

  • Author(s):

    Chris Mills

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Lyric sheet for 'We Won't Go Back' Permission for this page from SingOut! magazine
The Red Berets – We Won’t Go Back

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
The Red Berets Flyer

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
The Red Berets: Who We Are

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Toronto Clarion – March 12, 1983 (Excerpt)

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Perspective ‘83: An Exhibition of Women’s Art

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

Ephemera

The Red Berets costume always included a red beret - sometimes a logo t-shirt too
The Red Berets: Costume

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

Films

Still from the film "A Writer in the Nuclear Age" featuring Margaret Laurence, an older white woman with short brown hair and glasses, speaking to the camera.
A Writer in the Nuclear Age: A Conversation with Margaret Laurence

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Terre Nash

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
Image of a woman standing in front of a microphone while performing.
Amisk

  • Year created:

    1977

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Alanis Obomsawin

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    Quebec
Screenshot of Lillian Allen, a Black woman with short hair wearing a yellow and brown blouse, performing Birth Poem on stage.
Birth Poem

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    Ontario
Still of Lillian Allen, a Black woman with short hair wearing a yellow jumpsuit, singing "I Fight Back" on stage.
I Fight Back

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    Ontario
Still from the film "Marker of Change" depicting a stone slab with a description of the Montreal massacre etched into it.
Marker of Change: The Story of the Women’s Monument

  • Year created:

    1998

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Moira Simpson

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    British Columbia
Still from the film "Our Dear Sisters" featuring Alanis Obomsawin, an Indigenous women wearing braids and a dress, sitting in an arm chair and talking to the camera, with her young daughter in her lap.
Our Dear Sisters

  • Year created:

    1975

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Kathleen Shannon

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
Still from the film "Portrait of the Artist--As an Old Lady" featuring Paraskeva Clark, an elderly white woman with grey hair wearing a red checkered blouse, singing animatedly.
Portrait of the Artist–As an Old Lady

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Gail Singer

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
Still of Lillian Allen performing The Subversives. She is joined on stage by many women, who are all dancing.
The Subversives

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    Ontario
Still from the short film "Unnatural Causes" depicting Lillian Allen, a black woman with short black hair wearing colourful overalls, speaking to the camera and writing the words "no rest, no rest" on a white brick wall.
Unnatural Causes

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Maureen Judge

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    Ontario

Periodicals

Fireweed: A Women’s Literary and Cultural Journal

Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly – Issue 10 – Spring 1981

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Publisher:

    Fireweed Inc

  • Author(s):

    Anne Mclean, Anne Collins, Greta Hofmann Nemiroff, Margaret Atwood, Mary Meigs, Clara Oakley Call, Elda Concordia, April Marshall, Ellen Bass, Anne Szumigalski, Roo Borson, Karen Frazier, Erin Mouré, Marilyn Bowering, Arny Christine Straayer, Meagan Ward, Beth Wilcox , Gay Bell

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly – Issue 11 – 1981

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Publisher:

    Fireweed

  • Author(s):

    Rhea Tregebov , Janet Patterson , Susanna Benns, A.S.A Harrison, Pamela Godfree, Anna Jean Mallinson, Rina Fraticelli, Edie Hoffman, Ann Pearson, Yvonne M. Klein, Linda Gustaphson, Thelma McCormack, Jeanne Harrison , Kerri Kwinter

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly – Issue 12 – 1982

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Publisher:

    Fireweed Inc

  • Author(s):

    Carolyn Smart, Sarah Diamond, Joanna Hubbs, Gillian Robinson, Lina Ladron de Guevara, Bronwen Wallace, Theresa Bacon, Ellen Bass, Ethel Harri, Maureen Harris, Pamela Oxendine, Susan Swan, Carole Itter, Ann Mathers, Susan H. Poteet, Helen Weinzweig, Donna E. Smyth

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly – Issue 13 – Summer 1982

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Publisher:

    Fireweed Inc

  • Author(s):

    Jovette Marchessault, Marie Lafleur, Chavah Mintz, Anne Cameron, Francie Wyland, Cy-Thea Sand, Mary Schendlinger, Frances Rooney, Sue Golding, Jane Creighton, Nicole Brossard, jan mcmillin, Josée Yvon, Ellen Quigley, Jane Rule, Susan Poteet, Susan G. Cole, Susan Sturman, Mary Meigs, Midi Onodera, Pamela Hori, Coral Arrand, Ann Pearson

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly – Issue 14 – Fall 1982

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Publisher:

    Fireweed Inc

  • Author(s):

    Cynthia Flood , Bibbi Lee, Shirley Endicott Small, Judy Posner, Carole Yawney, Neila Gupta , Carlyn Moulton, Yvonne Klein, Robin Belitsky Endres, Paula Cornwall, Judi Stevenson, Lilian Allen, Erin Mouré, Pamela Williams, Susan Eckenwalder

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly – Issue 15 – Winter 1982

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Publisher:

    Fireweed Inc

  • Author(s):

    Rosemary Donegan, Joyce Mason, Kay Armatage, Carlyn Moulton, Lisa Steele, Varda Burstyn, Carol Condé, Renée Baert, Sharon H. Nelson, Joyce Wieland, Merilyn Fairskye, Martha Rosler, Mary Kelly, Deborah Barndt, Linda Lok, Dawna Gallagher, Azélie Zee Artand

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly – Issue 16 – 1983

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Publisher:

    Fireweed Inc

  • Author(s):

    Clarita Roja , Cecilia Green, Kerri Sakamoto, Claire Harris, Prabha Khosla, Karen Pheasant, Makeda Silvera, Sylvia Hamilton, Suniti Namjoshi, Ayanna Black, Esmeralda Thornhill, Anita Gore, Dee September, Nila Gupta, Dora Nipp, Pam (Afua) Cooper, Himani Bannerji , Martha Panchano, Juliette Iserhoff , Desiree Hinkson

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly – Issue 18 – Winter/Spring 1984

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Publisher:

    Fireweed Inc

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    listing_language_english
Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly – Issue 2 – 1979

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Publisher:

    Fireweed Inc

  • Author(s):

    Gay Allison , Elizabeth Brady, Lynne Fernie, Rina Fraticelli, Hilda Kirkwood, Charlene Sheard, Carole Spearin McCauley, Catherine Wright, Christine Bearchell, Gianna Patriarca, Cécile Cloutier, Klara Balla, Janis Rapoport, Nancy Prasad, Kathleen McDonnell, Ruth Cooperstock, Margot Livesey, Kathryn Jordan, Gwen Hauser, Karen Lynne-Henderson , Liz Nickson, Jeanette Urbas, Maria Jacobs, Joy Parks, Libby Scheier

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly – Issue 44/45 – Summer 1994

  • Year created:

    1994

  • Publisher:

    Fireweed Inc

  • Author(s):

    Michelle Alfano, Mehri Yalfani, Myriam Chancy, Claudia Gahlinger, Zaffi Gousopoulos, Kyo Maclear, Rozeena Maart, Nancy Chater, Ana C.P. dos Santos, Sandra Haar, Silvana Hernando, Marusya Bociurkiw , Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood, Rachel Kalpana James, Cathy Daley

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly – Issue 5/6 – Winter 1979 / Spring 1980

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Publisher:

    Fireweed Inc

  • Author(s):

    Elizabeth Brady , Rina Fraticelli, Jane Rule, Barbara Astman, Pamela Fishman, Linda Rahm, Anne McLean, Marilyn Julian, Janice Steinberg, Jovette Marchessault, Marge Piercy, Penny Kemp , S.E. Carlisle, Lorna Uher, Ellen Quigley, Lorraine Vernon, Marian Bluger, Vancy Kasper, Helene Rosenthal, Daphne Marlatt, Mariana Valverde, Joan Murray, Barbara Godard, Susan J. Wolfe , Nancy Nicol, Nicole Brossard, Denise Boucher, Josette Feral, Carolyn Bayard, Suzette Henke, Gloria Feman Orenstein, Maija S. Blaubergs, Michèle Jean, Susan H. Poteet, Anne Bolgan

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly – Issue 66 – 1999

  • Year created:

    1999

  • Publisher:

    Fireweed

  • Author(s):

    Linda Eisenstein, Claudette Cohen, Rita D. Costello, Twinkle Reyes, Carrianne Leung, Karen Stewart, Christina Springer, Eva Tihanyi, Julianna Whiston, Rachel Sohn, Jennifer Blair, brenda simmers, Jennifer Hoofard, Crystal Hurdle, Jane Byers, Joy Hewittt Mann, Elizabeth Smith, Helen E. Colclough Melbourne, Unity Durieux, Cathy Stonehouse, Elisabeth de Mariaffi, Lisa Pasold, Rebecca Lee Yates, Amy Wack, Sandra Morris, Christina K. Hutchins, Carolyn Jo Doran, Kathleen Marie Hankinson, Sarah B. Wiseman, Jennica Harper, Bridget Wayland, Sarah Hope Denbigh, Jennifer Harris

  • Language:

    English
Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly – Issue 68 – 2000

  • Year created:

    2000 or after

  • Publisher:

    Fireweed

  • Author(s):

    Janean Williams, Sandra Rabadzievski, Percy Lezard, Kathleen Olmstead, Margarita Miniovich, Elizabeth Ruth, Roewan Crowe, Camilla Gibb, Jerri Jerreat, Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha, Kristy-Ly Green, Chocolate Waters, Luise Ondarra, Rona G. Altrows, Gena Smith, Barbara J. Sibbald, Beth Follett, Tamara Rae, Francesca L’Orfano

  • Language:

    English
Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly – Issue 7 – Summer 1980

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Publisher:

    Fireweed Inc

  • Author(s):

    Constance Brissenden, Lorraine Segao, Joanne Gormley, Robin Belitsky Endres, Margaret Dragu, Nina Levitt, Martha Fleming, Lisa Steele, Polly Fleck, Betsy Warland, Maria Kaufman, Ellen Quigley, Susan Poteet, Lynne Fernie

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly – Issue 8 – Fall 1980

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Publisher:

    Fireweed Inc

  • Author(s):

    Peggy Smith Baker , Valerie Harris, D. Ann Taylor, Susan Taylor, Marie-Clair Rouyer, Ann Cipriani, Joss Maclennan, Robin Belitsky Endres, Maya Deren, Rosemary Aubert, Susan Glickman, Cathy Ford, Laura Sky, Catherine Mcloed, Kate Lushington, Elizabeth Chitty, Susan Britton, Gloria Orenstein, Susan Poteet, Chris Bearchell, Anne Cameron

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly – Issue 67 –1999

  • Year created:

    1999

  • Publisher:

    Fireweed

  • Author(s):

    Molly Charbonneau, Allyson Mitchell, Devra Pollack, Miss Mariko Tamaki, Zahra Dhanani, T.J. Bryan, Alexis Vaughn, Kerry Daniels-Zraidi, Amy Walton, Carol Latchford, Anna A. Hillen, Leanne Cusitar, Cathy Robb, Emily Pantin, Bytch Femme, Lisa Ayusa, C.M. Donald, Sharmylae Taffe-Hetcher, Chubbalicious, Pretty Porky & Pissed Off, The Fat Avengers

  • Language:

    English

Matriart

Matriart – Vol. 2, No. 1 – 1991

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Publisher:

    Women's Art Resource Centre

  • Author(s):

    Shirley Bear, Jane Ash Poitras , Marilyn Dumont, Joane Cardinal-Schubert , Susan Hare, Shirley Cheechoo, Tracy Kim Bonneau, Toby Burning, Joy Asham Fedorick, Teresa A. Smith, Mary Longman, Cheryl Henhawke, Marie Annharte Baker, Jean Marle Iron, Gail Duiker, Carla Murray , Mary Anne Barkhouse

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English

Nightwood Theatre’s Night Talk Newsletter

Nightwood Theatre’s Night Talk Newsletter – Vol. 2, No. 2 – Winter 1991

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Publisher:

    Nightwood Theatre

  • Author(s):

    Kate Lushington, Phyllis Berck, Christine Moynihan

  • Language:

    English
Nightwood Theatre’s Night Talk Newsletter – Vol.1, No.2 – Winter 1990

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Publisher:

    Nightwood Theatre

  • Author(s):

    Banuta Rubess, Kate Lushington

  • Language:

    English
Nightwood Theatre’s Night Talk – Vol. 4, No. 3 – Spring 1993

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Publisher:

    Nightwood Theatre

  • Author(s):

    Heather Young (Publisher), Kate Lushington (Editor)

  • Language:

    English

Suvaguuq

Suvaguuq – Vol. 8, No. 2 – 1993

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Publisher:

    Pauktuutit

  • Author(s):

    Linda Archibald, Ruby Arngna’naaq, Rhoda Karetak, Bernadette Immaroitok

  • Language:

    Other

Photos

Arlene Mantle participates in the solidarity rally organized to support CIBC VISA workers on strike in 1986. Photograph by Amy Gottlieb.
Arlene Mantle at Solidarity Rally for VISA Strikers

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Photographer:

    Amy Gottlieb

  • Region:

    Ontario
Twenty women pose in front of the Isis touring van in Vancouver 1974. The women include Isis members and representatives from each town on the tour. Each town tailor made its own 2-3 day festival. Kathleen Shannon, the director of the Working Mothers Series and the founder and first executive producer of Studio D of the National Film Board, flew in from Montreal to give us workshops on how to hold a meaningful film discussion.
Isis Touring Van and Festival Organizers

  • Year created:

    1974

  • Region:

    British Columbia
Photo of ISIS Women & Film Festival poster displayed at ARTSPEAK Gallery Exhibit (2009). The theme of the Exhibit was "Persistence: An Archive of Feminist Practices in Vancouver".
Isis Women and Film Festival

  • Year created:

    2000andafter

  • Region:

    British Columbia
Scanned photograph of six members of Isis collective in a garden. Four members are standing and two are sitting on the ground.
Isis: Members of the Collective, 1975

  • Year created:

    1975

  • Region:

    British Columbia
The union leadership of the Metro Library Strike organized fun days on the picket lines as a creative way to attract attention, win support and build pressure on the politicians responsible for running the library. Here members of CUPE Local 1582 watch the poets and singers on the arts and letters solidarity picket, acknowledging the work of the Music and Fine Arts departments. Front row left to right: M. Gordon, Susan Willis, Gerry Haley. Back row Bob Adams, Susan Reed
Metro Library Strike – Arts and Music Solidarity Picket Day

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Photographer:

    Rob Laycock

  • Region:

    Ontario
Undated photo of The Clichettes, Left to right: Janice Hladski, Louise Garfield, Johanna Householder. Photographer: David Hlynsky
The Clichettes

  • Year created:

    --

  • Photographer:

    David Hlynsky

  • Region:

    Ontario
Photo of The Clichettes taken by Pamela Harris. Left to right: Louise Garfield, Johanna Householder, Janice Hladski. Used with permission of photographer.
The Clichettes

  • Year created:

    --

  • Photographer:

    Pamela Harris

  • Region:

    Ontario
Undated photo of The Clichettes. Left to right: Louise Garfield, Johanna Householder, Janice Hladski. Photo by David Hlynsky.
The Clichettes

  • Year created:

    --

  • Photographer:

    David Hlynsky

  • Region:

    Ontario
Janice Hladski, Louise Garfield, and Johanna Householder as The Clichettes in an undated photo by Pamela Harris. Photo used with permission of photographer.
The Clichettes

  • Year created:

    --

  • Photographer:

    Pamela Harris

  • Region:

    Ontario
Undated photo of The Clichettes. From left to right: Janice Hladski, Louise Garfield, Johanna Householder. Used with permission of photographer Pamela Harris.
The Clichettes

  • Year created:

    --

  • Photographer:

    Pamela Harris

  • Region:

    Ontario
Photo of The Clichettes performing Go to Hell in "She-devils of Niagara" (1986) created my Marni Jackson and The Clichettes. Left to right: Louise Garfield, Johanna Householder, Janice Hladki. Photo: David Hlynsky
The Clichettes: Go to Hell

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Photographer:

    David Hlynsky

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
The Clichettes in Out for Blood, performed at the Factory Theatre Studio Cafe Lab. Louise Garfield (standing, left), Janice Hladski (standing, right), Johanna Householder (seated). Photo by David Hlynsky.
The Clichettes: Out for Blood

  • Year created:

    --

  • Photographer:

    David Hlynsky

  • Region:

    Ontario
Photo of Louise Garfield, Johanna Householder, and Janice Hladski performing as The Clichettes in Out for Blood. Photographer: David Hlynsky.
The Clichettes: Out for Blood

  • Year created:

    --

  • Photographer:

    David Hlynsky

  • Region:

    Ontario
Photo of Janice Hladki, Johanna Householder, and Louise Garfield performing as The Clichettes in She-Devils of Niagara at Factory Theatre in Toronto. Photo: Ben Lechtman Photography.
The Clichettes: She-Devils of Niagara

  • Year created:

    --

  • Photographer:

    Ben Lechtman Photography

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Red Berets playing outside the US consulate in Toronto at the Against Cruise Testing (ACT) Demo on April 23, 1983.
The Red Berets – Against Cruise Testing (ACT) Demonstration (Toronto)

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Photographer:

    Helena Wehrstein

  • Region:

    Ontario
Members of The Red Berets at the Against the Cruise Missile Testing (ACT) Demonstration outside Old City Hall, Toronto, April 23, 1983.
The Red Berets – Against the Cruise (ACT) Demo (Toronto)

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Photographer:

    Wally Seccombe

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Red Berets at the Feminist Working Class History Conference at University of Toronto - October 1, 2005
The Red Berets – Feminist Working Class History Conference (University of Toronto) – October 1, 2005

  • Year created:

    2000andafter

  • Photographer:

    Helena Wehrstein

  • Region:

    Ontario
Members of the Red Berets attend the GLARE Fight the Right protest on September 26, 1981.
The Red Berets – GLARE Fight the Right Event (Toronto) – September 26, 1981

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Photographer:

    Helena Wehrstein

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Red Berets at Toronto City Hall on International Women's Day 1981.
The Red Berets – International Women’s Day 1981 (Toronto)

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Photographer:

    Wally Seccombe

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Red Berets at Toronto City Hall on International Women's Day, March 7, 1981. Photograph by Wally Seccombe.
The Red Berets – International Women’s Day 1981 (Toronto)

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Photographer:

    Wally Seccombe

  • Region:

    Ontario
Members of The Red Berets at Toronto International Women's Day, March 7, 1981.
The Red Berets – International Women’s Day 1981 (Toronto)

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Photographer:

    Helena Wehrstein

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Red Berets sing at Convocation Hall for International Women's Day in Toronto on March 7, 1981. Photograph by Wally Seccombe.
The Red Berets – International Women’s Day 1981 (Toronto)

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Photographer:

    Wally Seccombe

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Red Berets at Toronto International Women's Day, March 7, 1981.
The Red Berets – International Women’s Day 1981 (Toronto)

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Photographer:

    Helena Wehrstein

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Red Berets at Toronto International Women's Day, March 7, 1981.
The Red Berets – International Women’s Day 1981 (Toronto)

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Photographer:

    Helena Wehrstein

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Red Berets perform at Harbord Collegiate, Toronto on International Women's Day (IWD), March 7, 1981. Photograph by Wally Seccombe.
The Red Berets – International Women’s Day 1981 (Toronto)

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Photographer:

    Wally Seccombe

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Red Berets perform at Toronto City Hall on International Women's Day, March 6, 1982.
The Red Berets – International Women’s Day 1982 (Toronto)

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Photographer:

    Liz Martin

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Red Berets at Convocation Hall, University of Toronto on International Women's Day, March 5, 1983. Photograph by Wally Seccombe.
The Red Berets – International Women’s Day 1983 (Toronto)

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Photographer:

    Wally Seccombe

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Red Berets at Convocation Hall (Toronto) on International Women's Day, March 5, 1983.
The Red Berets – International Women’s Day 1983 (Toronto)

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Photographer:

    Wally Seccombe

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Red Berets perform for International Women's Day event in Toronto on March 5, 1983. Photograph by Wally Seccombe.
The Red Berets – International Women’s Day 1983 (Toronto)

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Photographer:

    Wally Seccombe

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Red Berets at Convocation Hall in Toronto for International Women's Day on March 9, 1986. Photograph by Wally Seccombe.
The Red Berets – International Women’s Day 1986 (Toronto)

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Photographer:

    Wally Seccombe

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Red Berets perform at Convocation Hall, University of Toronto on International Women's Day, March 8, 1986.
The Red Berets – International Women’s Day 1986 (Toronto)

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Photographer:

    Helena Wehrstein

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Red Berets sing as part of the Toronto International Women's Day actions in 1990. Photograph by Amy Gottlieb.
The Red Berets – International Women’s Day 1990 (Toronto)

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Photographer:

    Amy Gottlieb

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Red Berets at Control of Our Bodies Rally, Queen's Park, May 16, 1982. Photograph by Amy Gottlieb.
The Red Berets at Control of Our Bodies Rally (Toronto)

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Photographer:

    Amy Gottlieb

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Red Berets perform at Control of Our Bodies Rally, Queen's Park (Toronto), May 16, 1982.
The Red Berets at Control of Our Bodies Rally in Queen’s Park

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Photographer:

    Helena Wehrstein

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Red Berets take part in the event Gays and Lesbians Against the Right Everywhere (GLARE) on September 26, 1981.
The Red Berets at GLARE Day – September 26, 1981

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Photographer:

    Helena Wehrstein

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Red Berets came together to perform at the Labour History Conference in Hamilton on May 26, 2002.
The Red Berets at Hamilton Labour History Conference

  • Year created:

    2000andafter

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Red Berets at Queen's Park, May 16, 1982.
The Red Berets at Queen’s Park – May 16, 1982

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Photographer:

    Helena Wehrstein

  • Region:

    Ontario
Some members of The Red Berets pose for a photo at rehearsal - October 28, 1984
The Red Berets at rehearsal

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Photographer:

    Helena Wehrstein

  • Region:

    Ontario
Photo taken at Red Berets rehearsal on October 28, 1984.
The Red Berets at rehearsal

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Photographer:

    Helena Wehrstein

  • Region:

    Ontario
A photo of some members of the Red Berets taken at a rehearsal in 1984.
The Red Berets at rehearsal in 1984

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Photographer:

    Liz Martin

  • Region:

    Ontario
Helena Wehrenstein, Conductor of The Red Berets.
The Red Berets Conductor

  • Year created:

    --

  • Photographer:

    Liz Martin

  • Region:

    Ontario
This photo was taken during the discussion day organized by The Red Berets on June 10, 1984. "Notes on a Discussion" are included in the material about The Red Berets.
The Red Berets’ Discussion Day – June 1984

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Photographer:

    Jane Springer

  • Region:

    Ontario

Posters
A Vision in the Darkness

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Region:

    Ontario, Quebec

  • Language:

    English and French
This poster is for the celebration held for the 1988 release of Lillian Allen's album Conditions Critical. A well-known artist and activist, Allen received the Juno Award for Best Reggae/Calypso Album for Conditions Critical, as well as for her earlier release Revolutionary Tea Party.
Lillian Allen – Album Release Celebration

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Visual Artist:

    Sunday Harrison

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Poster for the premiere of the 1985 videotape of "No Small Change - The Story of the Eaton's Strike" presented by Emma Productions. The videotape is by Ruth Bishop, Marusia Bociurkiw, and Harriet Hum. Poster photo credit: Francine Dick.
No Small Change – The Story of the Eaton’s Strike

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Visual Artist:

    Francine Dick, Pat Jeffries

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Radio Feminist International

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
This poster for "Sizzle City: women's nuclear reactions" advertises a feminist anti-nuclear guerrilla theatre performance for International Women's Day Celebrations in Toronto. The performance includes four sketches satirizing the government's lack of concern for the dangers of nuclear technology.
Sizzle City: anti-nuclear guerrilla theatre by feminists (Toronto IWD)

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Poster for The Clichettes show "Half Human, Half Heartache", a Passe Muraille Seed Show, and performed at the Horseshoe Tavern.
The Clichettes Present Half Human, Half Heartache

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Poster for The Company of Sirens: Channels of Passion, an evening of performance and part of "Coming Together Again" at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE).
The Company of Sirens Present: Channels of Passion

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
The Power of Music: Singing for Social Change

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
The Power of Music: Singing for Social Change – The Red Berets

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
The Red Berets – As We Go Marching, Marching

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Perspective ’83 – Partisan Gallery Poster

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Visual Artist:

    Joss Maclennan

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English