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Welcome from Siren Nations’ Executive Director and Producer, Natalia Kay:

Welcome to Siren Nation’s 3rd festival! We have been producing events and fundraising for well over 5 years now, and are very excited that we have managed, with much love and support from the community, to be here to produce our 3rd festival. Gets us thinking about the 5th festival, just a couple years down the road, but it will be a milestone for sure. As long as you keep coming out to support our events, we will still be here 5 and 10 years from now!

Despite the economy, this is a great time to be an artist in Portland, and we are thrilled to be a part of such a vibrant and exciting artistic community. This is truly an exciting time to an artist or supporter of arts in Portland. The city has dedicated millions of dollars to the arts, ensuring that Portland will continue to enjoy a culturally and artistically rich quality of life. Many bands and musicians from Portland are sharing what is best about this city on tours around this country and beyond. Musicians who have performed at Siren Nation are touring nationally and internationally, and we are incredibly proud to watch them succeed. This year’s festival lineup is chock full of an amazing array of talented women, most from Portland, and each of them a rising star in her own right.

This year’s selection of films allow us to not only showcase women filmmakers, who still remain vastly outnumbered (at least in Hollywood) by their male counterparts, but also focus on a diverse group of women who have blazed a trail in politics, music, spoken word, and ranching. Their stories serve as an inspiration and a reminder that we would not be here without all the women pioneers who came before us.

Thank you for joining us in a weekend of celebrating women in the arts. For those of you who are artists, please continue making your art and sharing it with the world. For those of you who appreciate the arts, please continue to go out and support women making and sharing art in our community. Together we can keep the arts alive and propel women to greater visibility.