Read: AMERICAN THEATRE MAGAZINE | 2023 AGE Legacy Playwright Recipients Announced 

Mildred Lewis, DeLanna Studi, and Hope Villanueva will each receive $10,000 to support their acclaimed but under-produced work.

Oct 5, 2023

Read: BROADWAY WORLD | 2023 AGE Legacy Playwright Recipients Announced

Advance Gender Equity in the Arts presents the 2nd Annual AGE Legacy Playwright (ALP) grants, created by founder Jane Vogel Mantiri and led by AGE Program Director Andréa Morales.

Sept 29, 2023

Read: BROADWAY WORLD | AGE and deNovo Initiative Partner for 2023 AGE Legacy Playwright Grants 

AGE’s partnership with deNovo will amplify playwrights who have powerful wisdom and narratives to share.

April 17, 2023

Listen: MEGAPHONE | Speaking Your Truth: Ways We Can Create Change

Minita Gandhi joins Nancy Harris to discuss the collective experience of the pandemic, the importance of pluralism, and ways in which we can create change. 

May 31, 2022

Read: ArtDeadline | Advance Gender Equity in the Arts (AGE) opens submissions for new AGE LEGACY PLAYWRIGHTS Grant

Newest grant opportunity from Advance Gender Equity in the Arts, specifically for individual playwrights!

March 4, 2022

Read: BROADWAY WORLD | Artists Rep and Advance Gender Equity In The Arts Partner To Launch New Mentorship Program For BIPOC Artists

The seeding of IGNITE into a local Portland theatre company, now named PATHWAYS.

February 18, 2022

Read: THE IMMIGRANT STORY | Jane Mantiri: Coming Full Circle At Last

The immigrant founder of Advance Gender Equity in the Arts says she often did not fit in

– until she found theater.

August 29, 2021

Read: BROADWAY WORLD | Advance Gender Equity in the Arts Announces IGNITE Theatre Partners

On “Drawing a New Line of Inheritance”.

May 13, 2021

Read: AMERICAN THEATRE | Advance Gender Equity in the Arts Announces IGNITE Theatre Partners

The start of the IGNITE program!

May 12, 2021

Listen: FOOLISH VOICES | Jane Vogel Mantiri

Interview with Jane Vogel Mantiri on the current global health crisis. 

May 22, 2020

Awarded: AGE | Advance Gender Equity in the Arts Announces 2019 AGE Equity Grants Recipients 

July 12, 2019

Read: REWIRE | What to Know About Starting Your Own Non-profit

Jane Vogel, founder of Advance Gender Equity in the Arts (AGE), shared her experiences of getting AGE off the ground and offered advice for vetting and launching your own big idea.

April 6, 2019

Listen: Who Am I To Stop It | Pigeonhole Podcast Episode 11: Intersectional Gender Equity in the Arts (Encore)

This is an encore presentation of a 2017 interview with Jane Vogel of Advance Gender Equity in the Arts (AGE) and filmmaker Gigi Williams. Advancing equity is not the same as increasing diversity. I’ve talked to people who genuinely celebrate being able to tick off “diversity boxes” when they hire an artist or a speaker for their organization. Woman? Check. Woman of color? Check. Woman of color with a disability? Check check check. This. Is. Not. Equity. That’s tokenizing and dehumanizing. And it’s not getting us closer to equity to feel proud that you hired someone who checks boxes because you’re still putting the focus on how great you are for thinking of it.

We talk about unconscious (or implicit) bias, intersectional equity, and the ways that art, theater, film, and stories have the capacity to advance equity and justice. In the conversation, we mentioned #NowMoreThanEver that Jane asked we use when promoting the unconscious bias symposium that AGE was putting on at the time. We recorded on January 20th, 2017. As we’re on the cusp of the possible nomination of Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, we all have to keep pushing, activists and artists alike.

October 6, 2018

Awarded: AGE | Advance Gender Equity in the Arts Announces 2018 AGE Equity Grants Recipients 

June 26, 2018

Listen: SoundCloud | Telling Native Stories to Rehumanize Native People

Recording from our live event.

April 24, 2018

Read: MMT | What Happened to Meyer’s Art Goals?

Here are some examples of arts and cultural initiatives that Meyer Memorial Trust has funded in the past two years and how they would have fit under the redesigned Building Community goals and outcomes.

March 12, 2018 

Listen: ARTSLANDIA | Breaking the Silence: Age Bias in the Arts

Interview with Jane Vogel and Amanda Squires on age discrimination.

January 4, 2018

Awarded: AGE | Advance Gender Equity in the Arts Announces 2019 AGE Equity Grants Recipients 

June 27, 2017

Read: AMERICAN THEATRE | Age & Gender Equity in the Arts will present Unconscious Bias Symposium in partnership with Portland State University

Symposium to focus on gender equity in the arts

March 1, 2017 

Read: WOMEN ARTS | Innovative Non-profit Works for Age & Gender Equity in Portland, Oregon

Activist Spotlight: Jane Vogel, Advance Gender Equity in the Arts

February 16, 2017 

Listen: Who Am I To Stop It | Unconscious Bias Symposium: Achieving Gender Equity

Pretty soon, you’re going to hear a ton more about an amazing symposium put on by local non-profit Age & Gender Equity in the Arts (AGE). It’s called Unconscious Bias: Achieving Gender Equity. 

November 22, 2016

Read: COHO PRODUCTIONS | Meet Jessica Dart, CoHo’s Artistic Fellow

Meet Jessica Dart – CoHo Production’s first Artistic Fellow supported in part by AGE in the Arts

September 26, 2016

Listen: KBOO | Stage and Studio – Keeping it Safe in Theatre

Jane Vogel of AGE joins host Dmae Roberts of KBOO Radio to discuss how to eliminate power structures in theatre that don’t lead to harassment and abuse.

June 28, 2016

Read: OregonArtswatch | At the Drammys: A Voice for Equity

OregonArtswatch: Portland’s Age & Gender Equity for the Arts is fighting for equal opportunities in the performing arts.

June 20, 2016