PERFORMERS + SCREENINGS

Afia Walking Tree is a cultural ambassador, spiritual activist, empowerment guide, leadership development advocate and trainer. Her lyrics are evolutionary teachings, addressing present-day issues of social justice, freedom, healing and self-love. For over 25 years, Afia Walking Tree has served as director of her brainchild, Spirit Drumz, an international organization that prioritizes women and youth of all cultures to utilize African Diasporic song, permaculture, drumming, dancing, and storytelling to activate empowerment and healing. Afia is accompanied by Mar Stevens, Regina Wells, Colette Eloi, Daktari Shari Hicks, and Brianna Franklin.
afiawalkingtree.com

San Francisco-based Melody of China's mission is to promote Chinese classical, folk and contemporary music, and to provide quality entertainment through the synergy between an ancient cultural tradition and youthful, multicolored American culture.
melodyofchina.org

Morley's warm and soulful voice often gets her compared to Annie Lennox and Roberta Flack. And she uses that gorgeous voice as an instrument of change. Using music to facilitate dialogue, she works with teenagers from domestic and international conflict zones as well as organizations such as Face to Face/Faith to Faith, the Door, the Lower East Side Girls Club, Code Pink and the Fortune Society (a program that facilitates reentry into society from prison), to name a few.
morley.org

Farasha is a full-service fashion consulting company that offers services ranging from styling, photo and film production to runway show execution and management of temporary storefronts in diverse markets. Farasha operates as a women’s retail clothing and accessories pop-up boutique that also serves as a showroom featuring emerging global designers based in Park City, Utah.

Owner and founder Vanessa DPW is a seasoned stylist and world traveler who has scouted unique designers from around the world. Farasha has created a niche platform to house, celebrate, and embrace fashion-forward, up and coming designers, as well as identify emerging trends that are discovered throughout the owner's travels, and then make them available to you at a pop-up boutique.

The GLIDE Ensemble sing, plays, claps and sways, spreading the spirit of empowerment in an infectious message of diversity, acceptance and love. Dreamed into reality in the late '60s by Rev. Cecil Williams, music remains one of the pillars of GLIDE's Ministry. Steeped in protest and visions of a more just and loving world, the music has spanned the anti-war, civil and human rights battles, and supported Black Panthers, United Farm Workers, Gay Liberation and Marriage Equality, just to name a few.
glide.org/ensemble

GlobalGirl Media is dedicated to empowering high school-age girls from under-served communities around the world through media, leadership and journalistic training to have a voice in the global media universe and their own futures.
globalgirlmedia.org

The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus was birthed in 1978 and had its first performance on the steps of city hall at the candlelight vigil for slain City Supervisor Harvey Milk. The Chorus launched a movement of LGBT Choruses that now spans the globe with over 180 in North America alone. SFGMC has been at the forefront of movements from the fight against AIDS to equality for all. Its music has also traveled the globe, changing hearts and minds along its journey.
SFGMC.org

Grammy-winning songwriter/producer Tena Clark has used her pen, once again, to fight for inequality and justice. Her latest composition, entitled My, My Mississippi, will be premiered at TEDWomen and performed by the San Francisco Gay Men's Choir and the GLIDE Ensemble Memorial Choir.
tenaclark.com

"50/50" is a new 20-minute film by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Tiffany Shlain that asks: Where are we really on the greater arc of history of women and power? And what’s it going to take to get to a 50/50 world — not just politics and boardrooms, but truly shifting the gender balance to be better for everyone. "50/50" will be premiering at TEDWomen.
letitripple.org/films/50-50