V-Day and Ashé Cultural Arts Center pay tribute to the women of New Orleans and the Gulf South. Written by 16 New Orleans’ women, Swimming Upstream is a powerful theatrical production that tells the soulful stories of women who lived through Hurricanes Katrina and Rita with grace, rage and great resiliency, punctuated by a flair for story telling, humor, and music that comes from being New Orleanian. Swimming Upstream is A Testimony, A Prayer, A Hallelujah, An Incantation. The performance will feature the full New Orleanian cast of Anne-Liese Juge Fox, Karen-kaia Livers, Troi Bechet, Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes, and Susan Wentz, and singers, Michaela Harrison, and Leslie Blackshear Smith.

Proceeds will benefit V-Day and Ashé Cultural Arts Center.

Read the Houston Press blog: "Swimming Upstream Comes to the Alley, One Night Only"