queer arts festival - Queer Cultural Center

queer cultural center presents
the 12th Annual National
nqaf
Queer Arts Festival
2009
Welcome to the 12th National Queer Arts Festival
70 exhibitions & performances from May - July
Presented by the Queer Cultural Center
This year’s theme is Threads. We celebrate Threads in our visual arts show, our fashion
spectacular, San Francisco is Burning, and throughout the Festival’s performances and
screenings.
Threads create fabric – literally and figuratively – the fabric of our many queer communities.
Festival artists explore the threads that bind, mend and sometimes unravel in this
spectacular fabric.
You are a vital part of this fabric: whether the warp or the woof, you will find yourself
within this Festival. You’ll find events that reflect your own life stories or take a chance
and explore someone else’s stories. Why not do both? We have stories in every artistic
discipline presented by every kind of queer (and that’s a whole lotta queer!).
When you attend a Festival event, most of your ticket money goes directly to the artists. So,
in a sense, you are commissioning new queer art along with us. We at the Queer Cultural
Center (Qcc) consider our audiences to be our producing partners.
The National Queer Arts Festival offers the best exchange rate in the country: your dollar
brings you the most exciting, challenging arts you’ll see all year. Where else can you find
our best emerging and established artists – live queers on stage! – for about the same price
as a movie?
I look forward to seeing you at the Festival!
- Pamela S. Peniston, Artistic Director
Photographers: Qcc would like to thank the following photographers who captured our
artists for this catalog. Patronize these artists in their own right when you need great images!
Iman Al-Dabbagh, D. Rita Alfonso, Rhiannon Argo, Justin Beck, David Beeler, Roveen
Bhansalii, Diana Blackwell, Bonnie Blanchard, King Bob, Brian, Amanda Brooks,
Cathy Cade, Dwayne Calizo, Brittany Brown Ceres, Mark Chester, Lydia Daniller, Trane
DeVore, Victor Douglas, Jess Dugan, Teri Elam, Joanna Eldredge, John Foley, Selena Fong,
Jonah Gabriel, Rick Gerharter, Jen Gilomen, Melissa Gira Grant, Sarah Grant, Hilary Grove,
Rosie Haber, John Huseby, Kina, Sarah King, Harris Kornstein, Cole Krawitz, Emil Lebsack,
Hattie Lee, Christine Marshall, Daniel Martinez, Molly McClure, Rose Miller, Andy Mogg,
Juliette Monheit, R. E. Morrison, Jorg Muller, RJ Muna, Max Be Nimble, Leilani Nisperos,
Amelia Mae Paradise, Diicie Paschall, Beth Pickens, Ali Rappaport, Robert Q. Risher, Ginger
Robinson, Sally Ann Rodriguez, Colleen Rooney, Diane Sabin, Diedre Schoo, Emelie Sonh,
David Steinberg, Dex Thompson, Julie Underhill, Ms. V, Jean Weisinger, Austin Young
Mission Statement
Founded in 1993, The Queer Cultural Center (Qcc) is a multiracial community-building organization
that fosters the artistic, economic and cultural development of San Francisco’s LGBT community.
We implement our mission by operating programs that commission and present Queer artists, that
promote the development of culturally diverse Queer arts organizations and that document significant
Queer arts events taking place in San Francisco.
By presenting, exhibiting, screening and documenting queer artists’ work, Qcc contributes to the
development of a multicultural perspective on the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender experience.
2009 NQAF STAFF
Pamela Peniston – artistic director
Jeff Jones – development director
Rudy Lemcke – online programs director
Beth Pickens – program manager
Chris Dunaway – production manager
LaVette Virden – business manager
Tirza True Latimer – curator, Threads
Rudy Lemcke – curator, Threads
Matt McKinley – curator, Threads
Pamela Peniston – curator, Threads
Allison Smith – curator, Threads
Tina Takemoto – curator, Threads
Courtney Dailey – exhibition coordinator, Threads
Tamara Loewenstein – exhibition coordinator, Threads
Chris Dunaway – Facebook marketing
DenDesign – graphic design
PS Print – festival printer
Tavi Clark – box office manager
BOARD
Trilce Santana – President
Bertha Amador, Blackberri, Jeff Jones,
Alicia Kester, Rudy Lemcke, Pamela Peniston,
Tina Takemoto, Juan Alberto Tam
ADVISORY BOARD
Dr. Marcy Adelman, Cheryl Dunye
Venues
Discipline Symbol Key:
= Comedy
= Dance
= Film/Video
= Lit/Spoken Word
= March/Rally
= Multidisciplinary
= Music
= Salon/Discussion
= Performance/Theater
= Visual Art
= Workshop
All Qcc events are sliding scale,
with No One Turned Away.
For the complete event schedules
and artists’ bios, please visit
www.queerculturalcenter.com
Tickets for these
events available at
www.brownpapertickets.com
Artists’ Television Access ________________________ 992 Valencia St @ 21st St
BRAVA Theater Center __________________________ 2789 24th St @ York St
Center for Sex & Culture _______________________ 1519 Mission St @ 11th St
CounterPulse _________________________________ 1310 Mission St @ 9th St
Dolores Park _______________________________________ Dolores @ 18th St
El Rio _________________________________ 3158 Mission St @ Cesar Chavez
Femina Potens _______________________________ 2199 Market St @ Sanchez
First Unitarian Universalist Church ______________ 1187 Franklin St @ Geary
The Garage ____________________________________ 975 Howard St @ 6th St
GLBT Historical Society _____________________ 657 Mission St & 499 Castro
Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory ___________________ 1519 Mission St @ 11th St
Roxie Cinema __________________________________ 3117 16th St @ Valencia
SF LGBT Community Center ___________________ 1800 Market St @ Octavia
SF Public Library _______________________________ 100 Larkin St @ Grove
SOMArts _____________________________________ 934 Brannan St @ 8th St
Theater Artaud ________________________________ 450 Florida St @ 17th St
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts __________________ 701 Mission S @ 3rd St
May 7 - 31
EPIC: Visualizing Heroes Within
SOMArts Gallery
FREE
A multi-media exhibition curated by Rico Reyes
showcasing queer Asian & Pacific Islander (API)
artists, opens May 7, 5pm.
Presented in association with Asian Pacific
Islander Cultural Center’s 12th Anniversary
United States of Asian America Festival.
May 9 - June 13
Men’s Theatre of Praxis: Body Ties-Together for Strength
The Garage, Saturdays, 10am – 12p (some extra hours for planning and rehearsals)
$17/ class or $70 entire 6 wk. workshop (pre-paid before May 7th)
Limited financial aid
6 week somatic movement healing laboratory and presentation. Join other men in this
accessible, fun, focused Saturday morning laboratory for healing and connection.
Using “The Body” as our jumping-off –point, we’ll explore attitudes about the “ideal
man’s body.” Engage in a variety of intense, somatic healing and awareness practice,
art and theatre for healthy life and community. Directed by Michael Page, register at
www.theatreofpraxis.com or 415-467-4653.
May 14 - June 6
Strings
Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory, 8pm (Thursdays-Saturdays)
$10-$15
Two brothers craft a play about fiddles and family demons. Is it
memory or fantasy? Whose story is this? The connections they
make surprise them both in Guerrilla Rep’s world premiere
by Terrence Beswick (hotshot); directed by John Caldon and
featuring Juan Carlos De La Rosa and Michael Rodriguez.
May 30 - June 7
6th San Francisco Sex Worker
Film, Art & Music Festival
For details & more info visit: www.sexworkerfest.com
San Francisco Sex Workers Festival was established to showcase
sex worker filmmakers and performers. Our 6th Biennial Sex
Worker Fest includes music curated by Mariko Passion, St. James
Infirmary’s Party at the Paradise, Army of Lovers’ male sex worker
performance curated by Kirk Read and movies!
May 31
EPIC! The GAPA Men’s Chorus
20th Anniversary Concert
SOMArts, Reception - 6pm/Program - 7pm
FREE
A performing arts showcase celebrating the 20th Anniversary
of the GAPA Men’s Chorus. The Chorus starts off with
classical pieces followed by Americana and Pop selections
as well as a multi-lingual blend of songs in Vietnamese,
Indonesian, Tagalog, Japanese and Mandarin.
May 31 - June 1
This Many People: The LGBT Seniors Project
The Garage, 8pm
$10-$20
AIRSpace presents OutLook Theater Project in a
play-in-progress focusing on issues of community
and isolation in an aging LGBT population. The play
is based upon personal histories of LGBT Seniors
generated through collaboration with New Leaf and
the Lavender Seniors. Funded by SFAC.
June 3
Smash the Church, Smash the State
SF Public Library – Main Branch, 5:30pm
FREE
Readings & book launch for Smash the Church, Smash the
State: the early years of gay liberation, an anthology of
writings edited by Tommi Avicolli Mecca about the
radical gay liberation movement which sprung up after
the Stonewall Riots - 40th anniversary this year.
June 3
Risky Business: Old Surfers of the Second Wave
LGBT Center – 4th Floor, potluck 7pm / event 7:30pm
$12-$20
Old lesbian radicals don’t die, they just keep
writing poems! Elana Dykewomon, Carla Trujillo,
Reid Gomez and Jewelle Gomez read from new work
and old, sing with Debbie Fier and talk about what
makes a revolution---mostly sex and politics.
June 3
The Garage All Stars, Part I
The Garage, 8pm
$10-$20
Garage All Stars: Philip Huang presents
Ovaries & Corduroy, a journey into the depths of
tastelessness, race-baiting and Tina Turner; Laura
Arrington presents Thirty Minutes of Wonderful, inspired
by southern ladies and set in a Louisiana living room.
June 3 - 4
Formerly Known As…
a mini-festival of art by male sex workers
The Center for Sex & Culture, 8pm
$10-$20 sliding NOTA
Kirk Read’s Army of Lovers presents two nights of art, video
and performance by men who’ve worked in the sex industry.
These programs feature men of different ages and backgrounds,
bringing together guys who most often operate in isolation.
June 4
Nature Is So Gay!
The Garage, Art Reception: 7pm/Show 8pm
$12-$20
Finally, an answer to Nature versus Nurture!
Lezzy lions, frogs that transition, faggy raccoons
and monkeys that swing both ways! Beloved
homo-writers and visual artists, Ali Liebegott
and Nicole J. Georges, showcase artwork and
performance revealing the gay old times of the
queer animal kingdom.
June 4
Open Eyes, Queer Film Night
Femina Potens Art Gallery, 7pm
$10-$15 (Cash only at the Door)
Open Eyes, Queer Film Night stars local
artists’ provocative, critical and engaging films.
Featuring Madison Young’s Art House Sluts one of the most avant garde and visceral lesbian
features of the decade. www.feminapotens.org
June 4 - 6
in/divisible
CounterPULSE, 8pm
$15 NOTA, Call 1-800-838-3006
Revealing the division between human
instinct and social tyranny, Sonya Smith
& Brittany Brown Ceres, negotiate sensual
entwinement, hidden limitations and visceral
emotion, for an evening of fluid and frenzied dance.
June 5 - 6
Sex Workers Film Festival
Artist’s Television Access 7pm [6/5]
Roxie Cinema, 12pm – Midnight [6/6]
Join us for the 6th Annual San Francisco Sex Worker Film, Arts &
Music Fest featuring performance, parties and politics! Sex worker
movies include international documentaries, narratives and erotica.
For schedules, tickets and times visit http://www.atasite.org/ and
http://www.roxie.com. Check out our entire calendar of events:
http://www.sexworkerfest.com
June 5
Laye(Red)
SOMArts, 7:30pm
$12-$20
Can a cute t-shirt fund the revolution? With pop-cultural
appropriation of Blackness and the legacy of cotton
production under chattel slavery, how do Black queer and
trans folks imagine fashion as resistance? Thisway/Thatway
messily explores the junction of consumerism and activism
in this intermedia spectacle of fashion, movement and video.
June 5 - 6
Hazardous Waste Project:
Sowing The Seeds Of Love, Life, Lust and the Bomb
Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory, 8pm
$12-$20
An exploration of how society marginalizes underground artists of
color, POZ performers and the danger they pose to the mainstream,
small-mindedness and the status quo. The performance is set in an
apocalyptic world in which saviors are a chanteuse, a punk rock
duo, Humpty Dumpty and an elementary school teacher.
June 5 - 28
plus 6/24 & 6/25
Dancing @ The Garage
The Garage, 8pm-Fridays/Saturdays; 5pm-Sundays
$20
The San Francisco Moving Men present Dancing @
The Garage, an evening of athletic dance, music and really
cute boys-featuring testosterone driven choreography with
a queer perspective and a pop sensibility.
June 6
Smash the Church, Smash the State
SF Public Library Main Branch, 2pm
FREE
Panel discussion on the gay liberation movement of the
early 1970’s. Featuring Blackberri, Paola Bacchetta, Martha
Shelley, Tommi Avicolli Mecca, Steven Dansky and others
who were part of the post-Stonewall movement that shook
the world. Cosponsored by the GLBT Historical Society.
June 6
Rally the Troupes
SOMArts, 7pm & 9:30pm
$15- $20
Bay Area favorites are back for their 5th year
of Rally the Troupes!! Drew Montana brings
you an eclectic mix of drag kings, queens
and burlesque artists from the Bay Area and
beyond. Rally the Troupes 5 is an event you
will not want to miss!
June 6 - 28
Identity
Visual Art Show Opening Reception
Femina Potens Art Gallery, 7-10pm
FREE
Femina Potens proudly hosts the opening
reception of the Identity visual art exhibition.
Featuring the poignant and personal artwork of
Fakir Musafar, Jess Dugan, Julie Sutherland and
Melvyn Herrick. www.feminapotens.org
June 6
bi-licious
LGBT Center – 2nd Floor, 7pm
$12-$20
Bi-licious returns to showcase bisexual artists,
performers and activists through a playful mix
of serious issues and entertainment. Featuring
the bi-licious talents of comedians, dancers,
filmmakers, musicians, writers and activists.
June 6 - July 15
Fresh Meat in the Gallery VI: Defying Gravities
LGBT Center – 2nd & 3rd Floor, 6pm, 6/6 Opening Reception
gallery hours: Mon-Fri Noon-10pm; Sat 9am-10pm; Sun closed
FREE
This annual exhibition features transgender and gender variant artists from around the world. How, in these unstable
times, do you and your communities rise up and thrive?
Trans and queer history are full of acts of defiance: how do
these acts inspire you to defy gravity? Curator: Jillian Soto
June 7
Weaving A Web Of Queerness:
Creation Myths In The Wynbiverse
Mama’s Calizo’s Voice Factory, 2pm
Art Installation June 7 - 30
$12-$20 for all events
Wynbiverse is a journey into the myths of creation. Opening Day
Gala: Feast of Burden 3pm, artist Q & A, tour at 5pm, and Radical
Fairie Cabaret from 6-8pm with performance by the Butt Hole
Puppets, Jupiter and Storm. Video trips by 3. Music by DJ Malaki.
June 7
Krip Salon: Reception for Fabulous/
Activist Bay Area Lesbians with Disabilities Project
GLBT Historical Society, 2-5pm
FREE
Join us for a fabulous afternoon of poetry, music and comedy by
queer disabled performers. A fun-filled event featuring Papa Dino
in a Drag King and Burlesque performance, poetry by Dominika
Bednarska, Patty Overland, Jill Lessing plus music and comedy
surprises. Food from La Mediterranee. Co-sponsored by GLBT Historical
Society and the James C. Hormel Center of the S.F. Public Library
June 7
Threads
Opening Art Reception
SOMArts, 3pm
FREE
Curators: Tirza True Latimer, Rudy Lemcke, Matt McKinley,
Pamela Peniston, Allison Smith, and Tina Takemoto
Exhibition Coordinators: Courtney Dailey & Tamara Loewenstein
Join Qcc and an amazing international group of talented visual/media artists for
the opening of our art exhibition, Threads.
Threads is not just about fabric and costume but also how queerness weaves
the threads of our physical, social and moral existence together into a multidimensional fabric of community and our selves. What are the threads that
bind, mend and sometimes unravel this spectacular fabric? How do we fashion,
perform, subvert or display queerness in our art and lives?
So fashion yourself high or low and don your hottest threads for the opening!
There will be a photo booth and photographers roaming about capturing the
fabulousness of it all with music and performance in the galleries—not to mention,
food and drink. All for free and fun.
June 7
San Francisco is Burning!
Special Benefit for Qcc
SOMArts Theater, 7pm
$20 - $50
$50 Ticket receives special seating and entry to win fantastic prizes!
Qcc enters the world of fabulous fashion with its first ever benefit:
San Francisco is Burning! Join celebrity judges and special guests at
this fierce competition for prizes and bragging rights in this fun evening of
fashion, music and flash.
Fashion Houses have been built from the art venues and producers of
the Festival: The House of Radar, The Garage, the Troupes and House of
Freeplay! Their models will strut their stuff on the runway - and that stuff
will be startling, sexy, simple, smart and seriously over the top. Sometimes
all at once. And you have the final say - the prized audience award!
If you pony up for the top ticket price (it is a benefit after all!), you will be
entered to win the glittering golden Festival Pass and other special prizes.
Come out for big fun and have a ball at San Francisco is Burning!
June 8
Testimonies, Chisme, Spilling the Tea:
An Evening of Poetry
SOMArts, Doors - 7pm/Show - 7:30pm
$12-$20
Join this intergenerational entourage of established & emerging
queer writers as they testify to the pleasures of poetry. Featuring
Dorothy Allison, Ching-In Chen, Elana Dykewomon, Rigoberto
González, Eloise Klein Healy, Cole Krawitz, D.A. Powell, Ely
Shipley & Griselda Suárez. Hosted by Jewelle Gomez. Readings
will be followed by a book signing & reception. Co-sponsored by
the Lambda Literary Foundation, Graywolf Press, Red Hen Press & Qcc.
June 8
Translations
The Garage, 8pm
$12-$20
A decades-long love affair born during student protests in Mexico
City in 1968; A Black Panther on the down low in Oakland;
A tomboy guitarist strumming against Martial Law in the
Philippines: Queer histories communities collide in Translations,
a collaborative theater piece produced by Nico Dacumos.
June 9
RADAR SuperStar
SF Public Library Main Branch, 6pm
FREE
It’s RADAR’s sixth birthday! Come whoop it up with legendary
writer Sarah Schulman; club kid turned literary sensation James
St. James; Raquel Guttierrez, of the performance group
Butchlalis de Panotchitlan and Shawn Stewart Ruff, whose debut
novel Finlater is a must-read. Hosted by Michelle Tea.
June 10
The Garage All Stars, Part II
The Garage, 8pm
$10-$20
In this edition, Sherilyn Connelly performs Intersections and
Interventions, traveling from Tenderloin streets to a sex club
dungeon; Queer Girl Theatre Project stages Remember Me;
Calypso presents i capture dot show slash reality examining
the digital image and our most intimate understandings.
June 10, 17, 24
MythFits
SF Public Library Main Branch, 6pm
FREE
Writers, filmmakers and performance artists queerify classic myths
and seek out the deviant threads in tales of yore. Join us for this
3-part series including Gigi Otalvaro-Hormillosa, Robin Coste
Lewis, Elan, Luna Maia, Sara Seinberg, Brooklyn’s Samuel Topiary
and more! See Qcc website for each night’s line up. Supported by
Radar, Zellerbach Family Foundation & W.A. Gerbode Foundation.
June 11
SF in Exile Presents
REBEL GIRL: a riot grrrl nostalgia show
The Garage, Doors - 7pm/Show - 7:30pm
$10-$20
Riot grrrl was a youth and punk-oriented radical sociopolitical
movement that captivated the hearts, minds, raging hormones
and feminist rage of many queer teen girls in the early and
mid-nineties. Gina de Vries hosts past and present zinestars
and grrrl revolutionaries to tell stories of old and new.
June 11 - 12
Into the Streets!
SOMArts, 7:30pm
FREE
Queer literary provocateurs were dared to raid the
archives at the GLBT Historical Society to re-imagine
or re-visit a moment of queer street protest. With
Eileen Myles, Ali Liebegott, Annie Danger, Justin
Chin, Juba Kalamka, Myriam Gurba, Meliza Bañales,
Keith Hennessy and Michelle Tea! Sponsored by the
GLBT Historical Society and the Creative Work Fund.
June 11 - 12
Queer Relations: New Writing from
Queer and Two-Spirit Native Americans
Femina Potens, Doors - 7:30pm/Show - 8pm
$10-$15 (cash only at the door)
An exploration of endeavors to preserve and reclaim our Native cultures
that have been severed, colonized and ethnically cleansed. Miko Thomas,
Kim Shuck, Qwo-Li Driskill and curator Luna Maia dramatize the intersections of Indigenous Identities and Queer experiences. Supported by the San
Francisco Arts Commission - Native American Arts & Cultural Traditions grant.
June 11 - 13
for now
Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory, 9pm
$12-$20
Monastic, otherworldly, mundane and humane, for now
looks at us: alone and assembled. Having used broken
glass, moss and fruit, Max Be Nimble and her company,
nimble-works, artfully use another surprising material
to create a series of self-contained environments and
intriguing puppets, objects and instruments.
June 12
Quilts, Comforters and Bedsheets: Gay Men Write
About Love, Relationships and Community
LGBT Center – 4th Floor, 7:30pm
$12-$20
Get under the covers with the talented men of GuyWriters!
We’re celebrating our 5th anniversary by spinning yarns about love,
relationships and community. Sex, romance and other fabrications
unravel themselves in this powerful evening of poetry, prose and
plays featuring the GuyWriters crew plus special guests.
June 12 - 14
5th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project
Brava Theater, times & program details at www.QWOCMAP.org
FREE
The 5th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival
showcases feisty and fantastic voyages, from dyke couples
navigating desire and communities crossing barb-wire and
chain-link barriers, to the riveting routes of sex toys, you’ll
be spellbound sauntering through these saucy sojourns.
June 13
Dirt Star
SOMArts, Reception - 7pm/Show - 8pm
$12-$20
Curators: Bill Basquin, m.a. Brooks, Byrd Pappas and Ami Puri
bring Dirt Star, an earnest collaboration of genres and generations
of story-teller homebuilders, film-farm-makers, seedball slingers,
bike-dancers, greywater-installers and chef-musicians creating
visionary queer peeks at possibilities for living with our world.
June 13
Body Ties – Together for Strength
The Garage, 2pm
$5-$7
Men’s Theatre of Praxis, directed by Michael Page, brings
performance featuring the minds and bodies of the brave
men from the Body Ties - Together for Strength workshop
(see May 9-13 event for details). We will reveal ourselves to
you and find a way to bring you in, and engage you in our
creation: sharing insights, breaking down conventions.
June 14 - 15
AIRspace presents One
Bad Year
The Garage, 8pm
$10-$20
In 2008, Meliza Bañales found herself divorced, unemployed
and with her nephew murdered—in the first eight weeks of
the year. One Bad Year is the multi-media story of how
three tragedies turned into a year of meditation, fashion, hulahoops, forgiveness, dance numbers, and really, really good hair.
June 15
What Is Queer Kinship?
A thinkPhilosophy Salon: moderated by D. Rita Alfonso, Ph.D
Femina Potens Art Gallery, 7pm
$5-$25
Where do we find not only queer community but our “queer of
kin?” What kinds of queer kinship bonds are possible within
current queer communities (eg lesbian feminist sisterhoods,
furies and fairies, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence etc.)
and what gives them their stability and strength?
June 16
Mythic Women - Small Presses
LGBT Center – 4th Floor, 7:30pm
$12-$20
Celebrate Maiana Minahal’s Legend Sondayo and Ching-In
Chen’s The Heart’s Traffic and other writers and the presses
publishing work that wouldn’t otherwise find a home in mainstream publishing: Civil Defense Press and Arktoi Books/Red
Hen Press. A showcase of the possibilities of queer women poetics incorporating movement, myth, dance, lineage and history.
June 16 - 17
A Boy Called Noise
Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory, 8pm
$12-$20
Martyr, Coward, Fag, Lover, Son…
Meet a boy called Noise on the day of his funeral - You won’t
soon forget him. Join Julia Steele Allen and Ray Rizzo for this
original one-woman rock opera that charts the distance from
tragedy to redemption, using just a guitar, drums, heart and soul.
June 17
Girl Talk: A Cis & Trans Woman Dialogue
LGBT Center – 4th Floor, 7:30pm
$12-$20
Queer cisgender (eg non-transgender) and transgender women are
allies, friends, support systems, lovers and partners. Julia Serano
& Gina de Vries curate a spoken word show intended to foster
dialogue about these relationships and our many overlapping issues:
feminism, sexuality, love, being differently-bodied, marginalization
and facing exclusion in masculine-centric and dyke-purist spaces.
June 17
Across Queer Time
The Garage, 8pm
$12-$20 sliding scale
Across Queer Time is an exciting evening of
experimental short films, videos and performance
works which explore the ever-evolving queer
body. Come see works which receive their debut
screening rub up against historically important
shorts and performances. Curated by Jason Hanasik
June 18 - June 28
Frameline33
Tickets and full program info available at www.frameline.org.
Frameline33: San Francisco International LGBT Film
Festival showcases the boldest and newest queer films
from around the world and our own backyard!
June 18
Collecting the Spectrum:
Diversity Challenges in Queer Archives
GLBT Historical Society, 6:30-8:30 pm
FREE
Bay Area archivists explore hurdles faced in collecting
materials of queer women, people of color, transpeople and
other marginalized groups, and how to overcome them.
Part of the GLBT Historical Society’s 2009 program series,
TALKING BACK: Queer History Fully Exposed.
June 18 - 19
borderOUT
SOMArts, 7:30pm
$12-$20
borderOUT is a collaborative of Bay Area based queer immigrant artists telling their stories
through spoken word, music, dance and theater. Artists include Cuban hip-hop group
Krudas Cubensi, singer Maria Machetes, dancer/acrobat Gaston Mazo, poet Zuleikha
Mahmood, dance/theater group Colombian Soul, emcee Tru Bloo, singer Rosa Los Santos,
and emcee Anita Visa. June 18
Whore Lover: Sex Workers Queering Love
The Garage, 8pm
$12-$20
Do sex workers fall in love or only fall for cash? Who
would go steady with a whore, and what do they tell their
therapists? Personal partners of sex workers, hos and
hustlers including Kirk Read and Lorelei Lee explore the
warm, sticky bits between romance and the sex industry.
June 18 - 21
Fresh Meat Festival:
Transgender & Queer Performance Festival
Project Artaud Theater, June 18-20 8pm; June 21 - 7pm
$15 Box office: 415-863-9834
The nation’s hottest, boldest transgender and queer artists performing hip hop, taiko, theater, modern dance
and more! D’Lo, the Barbary Coast
Cloggers, Deadlee, Shawna Virago,
Taiko Ren, Sean Dorsey Dance, Storm
Florez, Mind Over Matter and more.
Advance tickets recommended!
www.freshmeatproductions.org
June 19
The 12th Annual Queeriosity - Youth Speaks
LGBT Center – 2nd Floor, 6pm
FREE
In the most “progressive” place in these so-called United
States, in the wake of Proposition 8, caught between a
dominant culture determined to pave the world over and
our own aching hearts, we are. We are queer, questioning, bi, allies, confused, quarreling—anything but quiet.
Queeriosity for the curious and courageous.
June 19
Lineage - Matchmaking in the Archive
GLBT Historical Society, 6pm-9pm
FREE or $4 Suggested Donation
Lineage is the exhibit of a project developed by E.G. Crichton
as first artist-in-residence for the GLBT Historical Society.
Matching living people with the archives of ordinary/
extraordinary individuals who have died, the resulting
creative work in all media will be exhibited in the
GLBTHS gallery. Sponsored by the GLBT Historical Society
June 19
SIZZLE!
Femina Potens Art Gallery,
Open Mic - 7:30/Performances - 8pm
$10-$15 (cash only at the door)
SIZZLE heats up the Castro every month,
merging internationally acclaimed queer and erotic authors with the Bay Area’s top
emerging local writers, artists and performers. We host a Q&A panel with authors and
performers after the readings. Hosted by Madison Young.
June 19 - 20
Black & Tan Fantasy Festival - program 1
Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory, 7pm
$12-$20
Ramona Webb: New Orleans Anonymous is a creative non-fiction
multi-disciplinary play exploring the memories and premonitions
of Katrina refugees: A Cop, A Crook, A Slave and Her Lover.
Blue Buddha: My BFF, My Black Fat Fetish will take you on a
tour of fat love and confused hearts and minds.
Presented by Qcc & Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory
June 19
Black & Tan Fantasy Festival - program 2
Quilting Our Community: Family Movie Night
Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory, Doors: 9pm/Show 9:15pm
$12-$20
Storytelling has long been a tradition in the African American
community. In keeping with tradition, we invite you to join
us as we screen two dynamic films this Juneteenth for Family
Movie Night: Brooklyn’s Bridge To Jordan and Black Aura On
An Angel; also previews of Mississippi Damned and Family.
June 20
Black & Tan Fantasy Festival - program 3
Many Fabrics - One Quilt
Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory, Doors - 9pm/Show - 9:15pm
$12-$20
Curator Jair Trice continues our Juneteenth celebration
with a tapestry of music, performance art, spoken word,
dance and poetry. Our quilt encompasses the many
textiles of diversity reflecting our experiences as same
gender loving African Americans knitting our multiple
identities into our fabric of brotherhood.
June 20
Queer Traditions
Femina Potens, 1pm
FREE
Join Fresh Meat Productions and the Queer Cultural Center for a dynamic panel and
community discussion exploring the relationship of community traditions to LGBT
art and culture. Moderated by Greg Day with panelists including Patrick Makuakāne
(Director, Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu) and Ian Enriquez (Director, Barbary Coast Cloggers).
June 20
Mangos with Chili Presents QPOCalypse Now!
SOMArts, Doors - 7:30/Show - 8pm
$13-$20
The end times. 2012. The revolution.
The apocalypse. Queer and trans people of
color are always living at the end of the world.
In this new Mangos with Chili performance
spectacular, come see breathtaking QTPOC
artists present their visions of the end of the
world and what comes afterwards.
June 20 & 26
Exile: Vision Quest at the Edge of
Identity/Nomenclature, Miigaadiwin
Femina Potens, 8pm
$10-$15
Max Wolf Valerio returned to the Blood Reserve last year after
being away for over 20 years; Exile is a document of his journey
with music by Timothy O’Neill. Using sound collage and text,
he explores what being Blackfoot means to him. Nomenclature,
Miigaadiwin is a 26 poem series by Aja Duncan, created as she
learned Ojibwe. Made possible with a Native American Arts & Cultural
Traditions Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission.
June 21 - 22
Mighty Real. A multimedia evening of dueling solos.
Confessions of a Poser - Lynn Breedlove
Thank you for Being Urgent - Silas Howard
The Garage, 8pm
$12-$20
Ex-Tribe 8 members Silas Howard and Lynnee Breedlove are back
minus chicks and guitars. Silas is poignant and handsome. Lynnee
is funny and ugly. One is on Vitamin T. One is not. Both want to
know what the hell is really real and true.
June 23
Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds
LGBT Center – 2nd Floor, 7:30pm
$12-$20
This new anthology from City Lights showcases writers who
taught youth in the WritersCorps program. Stephen Beachy,
Dani Montgomery, marcos ramírez, Cathy Arellano, Aja
Couchois Duncan, and Elissa Perry read their work and share
insights about teaching youth through community settings.
June 24
5th Annual TransForming Community
LGBT Center – 2nd Floor, 7pm
$12-$20
Conversations between queer and trans communities have
changed dramatically in the last few years and this powerful
evening of performance and discussion captures the innovation
and tension of this evolving conversation. Don’t miss this year’s
installment of cutting-edge critique and calls for self-determination!
Curator: Rocco Kayiatos
June 25
Identity Writers Workshop Presentation
Femina Potens Art Gallery, 7pm
FREE
From 5/27 – 6/25, Femina Potens offers an intensive writers’
workshop for women and queers that culminates in this
reading performance. Writer Beth Mattson will be facilitating a
month-long project with writers addressing the theme of identity.
Tonight, we celebrate and present everyone’s work!
June 25 - 26
Annual PRIDE Concert:
Let’s Get Loud
First Unitarian Universalist Church, 8pm
$15-$35
Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco
The San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band
Gay Men’s Chorus
June 26
6th Annual Trans March
Dolores Park, 3:30pm - performances/
7pm - March and return to Dolores Park
FREE
Over 40 different performance artists onstage in Dolores Park
both before and after the March! Calling all transfolk, friends,
allies and admirers. Dress up, show up, bring signs, speak out
and be what happens! The Trans March is an independent,
volunteer-organized, DIY community event.
June 26
Barely Legal Comedy - Marga & The Boys
LGBT Center – 2nd Floor, 8 pm
$15
The hilarious homo hit returns featuring Marga Gomez
(LOGO, Comedy Central) and the funniest, queerest
boys in town: Marty Grimes AKA The Big Gay of The
South Bay, David Hawkins, a comedian/filmmaker/
exhibitionist and the charming Nate Blanchard, nineteen
years old and hoping to quit Starbucks by July.
June 27
2009 San Francisco Dyke March
Dyke Rights = Human Rights
Dolores Park, Performances - 3pm / March - 7pm
FREE
Join thousands of dykes in celebrating our culture at the Rally and
then marching in all our power to the call: Dyke Rights = Human
Rights. Visit www.thedykemarch.org for our extensive Special
Needs Services, for volunteer opportunities, to make a donation and
fine fun events benefiting the San Francisco Dyke March.
June 27
König [King of Boylesque]
SOMArts, 8pm
$15
Barnaby’s [sfBoylesque] presents a beauty contest like the world
has never seen. It’ll take more than just a fantastic physique, impeccable style and mind-blowing talent to be crowned King. This
spectacular pageant fuses the best in vaudeville, circus and musical
theatre entertainment. All backed by a five-piece Dixieland Band.
June 28 - 29
In Order to Form a More Perfect Union…
San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender
Pride Celebration 2009
Civic Center
For specific times & venues, please visit www.SFPride.org
With over 200 parade contingents, 300 exhibitors, and more than
20 community-run stages and venues, San Francisco LGBT Pride
Celebration & Parade’s 39th anniversary, themed In Order to Form
a More Perfect Union…, is the largest LGBT gathering in the nation.
June 30
Creating Queer Community
Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory, 7pm - FREE
The Queer Cultural Center will provide commissions between $100 - $500 for innovative
projects in any artistic medium. Projects that are multi-ethnic and/or cross-cultural in their
approach or methodology are strongly encouraged. To be eligible to apply, you must attend
this workshop (there are NO exceptions). Evaluation criteria include: artistic integrity and
originality, community impact and the applicants’ capacity to complete the project.
Previous grantees from any cycle may NOT reapply to this entry-level program.
funders & sponsors
co-presenters
Watch Qcc’s website for more events coming
in July and year-round. Here’s a sample:
July 10 -11
Spit!!!!!
Voice Factory, 8pm
$10-15, www.voicefactorysf.org
This Musical Faux-agraphy—part car crash, part audio-visual
combustion—transcends 2 decades in the life of Ginger, a naive island
Tranny-Girl. She comes of age in back alleys and military bases and in
the front seat of a ‘64 Buick Skylark while tricking for Happy Meals
and is killed by a Whopper. Written and Performed by Dwayne Calizo.
934 Brannan Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
www.queerculturalcenter.org