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Henriëtte Brouwers is a performer, teacher and director. She studied dance and theater in the
Netherlands, corporeal mime and 'theater of the oppressed' in Paris. Henriette is the associate director
of Los Angeles Poverty Department since 2000 and collaborator/ producer of RFKinEKY, a
community-based re-enactment of Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 trip to investigate poverty in Appalachia.
Brouwers developed the 'Weeping Women" performance series based on Mexican legends. She
directed Pomona College students in 'Weeping Women and War,' 'La Llorona, Weeping Women on
Skid Row' with LAPD, performed on Skid Row and at a national conference on women and poverty at
Scripps College, and 'La Llorona, Weeping Women of Echo Park' with a group of Latino Women in
Echo Park.
DENISE M BROWN
Leeway Foundation
Executive Director
1315 Walnut Street suite 832, Philadelphia, PA 19107
phone 215-545-4078 fax 215-545-4021
denise@leeway.org
Denise Brown is executive director of the Leeway Foundation, a Philadelphia-based arts funding
organization whose mission states: "Leeway Foundation supports women and trans artists and cultural
producers working in communities at the intersection of art, culture, and social change. Through our
grantmaking and other programs we promote artistic expression that amplifies the voices of those on
the margins, promotes sustainable and healthy communities, and works in the service of movements
for economic and social justice."
JAMIE J BRUNSON
First Person Arts
Executive Director
1 South Broad Street, 17th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19107
phone 267-402-2058
jamiej@firstpersonarts.org
ANN BRUSKY
John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Performing Arts Coordinator
608 New York Ave., Sheboygan, WI 53081
phone (920) 458-6144 fax (920) 458-4473
abrusky@jmkac.org