Artemis Singers is a lesbian feminist chorus comprised of women with diverse backgrounds who are dedicated to performing music written or arranged by women. The chorus works to effect positive change in cultural attitudes toward women and women artists, as well as to increase the visibility of lesbian feminists.

Our goal in selecting and performing music is to provide an emotionally moving, spiritually and aesthetically uplifting, and politically motivating experience to our audience. We want to entertain, amuse, and educate; to highlight historical, political, and personal events and experiences common to women; and most of all, to share a sense of community with our audience. We put on public concerts once or twice a year, as well as performing at private functions and fundraisers by invitation.

Membership is open to all women singers, regardless of musical background. No audition is required.

We are a self-directed chorus; we have no paid director. Women who choose to direct Artemis Singers may direct one or many songs, and we may have six or more different directors during the course of any single performance. Our music is selected at meetings open to any member who chooses to participate.

OUR HERSTORY

We have performed in the following venues, among others:
  
  The Admiral Retirement Apartments
  Bailiwick Lesbian Theatre Initiative
  Berry United Methodist Church
  Broadway United Methodist Church
  Center on Halsted
  Chicago Cultural Center
  Chicago Historical Society
  Circe Women in the Arts Festival (Lansing, MI)
  Cleveland Institute of Music (Diane Benjamin’s “Where I Live” with Windsong)
  DePaul University Pride Week
  Gay Games VII (Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park)
  Harmony House (benefit performance)
  Harold Washington Library (Pride)
  Ibeji International Women's Festival (The Field Museum)
  Indiana University (National Women’s Music Festival)
  Irish American Heritage Center
  James R. Thompson Center (State of Illinois Building)
  Kindred Hearts Coffeehouse
  Loyola University
  Mountain Moving Coffeehouse for Womyn and Children
  Northeastern Illinois University (with Margie Adam)
  Palmer House (GOAL-Gay Officers Action League)
  Prairie Moon Bookstore (Women’s History Month)
  Rape Victim Advocates benefit performances
  Roosevelt University
  Sister Singers Network International Women's Choral Festivals in
    Madison, Wisconsin
    Kansas City, Missouri
    Houston, Texas
    Cincinnati, Ohio
    Grand Rapids, Michigan
    San Diego, California
  Skokie Theatre
  Sulzer Regional Library
  Unity of Chicago
  University of Illinois Pavilion
    (National Anthem for Lady Flames game)
  University of Illinois at Chicago (Unsettling Feminisms Conference)
  Women & Children First Bookstore
  Woodstock Unitarian Universalist Church (with Trisha Alexander)
  Various commitment ceremonies and memorials