by Melissa S. Green

Bent Alaska presents a slideshow of photos from Celebration of Change 2012: Moving Forward, which was held Saturday, April 21 at UAA’s Wendy Williamson Auditorium. Thank you RAW & all the great performers, stage crew, & volunteers for a fantastic Celebration of Change!

Celebration of Change: since the first show on September 19, 1983 at the Red Ram Motor Lodge at 5th and Gambell (now the Dami Japanese Restaurant), Celebration has arguably been the premiere social and arts event each year for the Anchorage women’s community. Last Saturday’s show at Wendy Williamson Auditorium on the campus of University of Alaska Anchorage was the culmination of months of behind-the-scenes work by board members and volunteers of Radical Arts for Women (RAW) — including a long day’s tech rehearsal at the Wendy Williamson for stage crew, tech crew, and performers to make sure everything would be ready for the audience.

Celebration of Change is an annual show by (and fundraiser for) Radical Arts for Women (RAW), a lesbian and feminist philanthropic organization which funds Alaskan women art projects. It is respectfully an all-women produced and performed show aimed to give Alaskan women a venue to learn skills in event production and encourage their individual artistic talents.

Thank you to all the board members and volunteers of RAW, including all the people both on stage and off stage, who brought us this 28th great show in the proud history of Celebration of Change.

Whether or not you were able to be there, we hope you’ll enjoy this slideshow. You can also view the photos in my Celebration of Change 2012 set in my Flickr photostream.

All photos by Melissa S. Green.