National Queer Arts Festival

NQAF Survey 2013

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Zeitgeist

admin — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:39:10 +0000

Come celebrate the spirit of our time with spirits and snacks and a market you won’t believe at the opening of the visual arts exhibit and the festival! In the midst of the opening, Qcc will host a Zeitgeist market with items from some of the visual artists invited to show, and a showcase of some of the many allies ...

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Show Yourself

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:57:58 +0000

With the advent of digital photography, images have become ubiquitous. So how does a photographer distinguish himself? How do you make a portrait sing? And where is the line between photography and art? June 7 Show Yourself Exhibition Opening Blake Tucker Exhibition thru July 20 SF Community Center, 6pm FREE Starting in 2009, I asked ten models to bring ...

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Bitter Queen

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:36:15 +0000

Bitter Queen is a new physical theatre work that walks the borders between contemporary dance, inter-mediated performance and installation. The viewer is immersed into a debauched cocktail party circa 1969 that quickly dissolves into byzantine labyrinth of performance that challenges the relationship between viewer and performer and the line between queer and “What the the hell is going on?” Part ...

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I Am A Man

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:22:28 +0000

Bay Area performance artist, poet, dancer, actor and activist Dazié Rustin Grego returns to the stage to offer audiences I AM A MAN, an exploration of gender expectations and masculinity. This new original work is Grego’s protest response to the recent slaying of Jorge Steven Mercado, a Puerto Rican teenager whose killer solicited him for sex, believing him to be ...

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Dance to the Radio

admin — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:26:13 +0000

A person has to admit they’ve hit bottom when they search for life’s meanings in today’s shitty pop songs. But that’s exactly what we’ve asked ten Queer artists to do! There’s always that one song on the radio that seems to say exactly how we’re feeling, no matter the guilty pleasure that it is. It’s time to come out of ...

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Transparent Trap with Dynasty Handbag

admin — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:55:53 +0000

Dynasty Handbag returns to her old stomping grounds to bring you the San Francisco premier of video work Eternal Quadrangle and new live performance work, including Control Top, a mutilated reworking and vast extended remix of the 80‘s Janet Jackson classic that involves a car accident and a rigorous human piano solo. In Eternal Quadrangle Dynasty Handbag finds herself on ...

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The Fairoaks Project

admin — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 20:30:57 +0000

Frank Melleno’s Polaroid photography captured an extraordinary glimpse into pre-AIDS gay sexual culture. Melleno was part-owner and night manager of The Fairoaks Hotel, a unique San Francisco bathhouse operating from 1977 to 1979. His candid images are remarkable, documenting the social and sexual behavior with celebration and no apology. The Fairoaks was owned and operated by a gay commune, lending ...

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Bollywood Trannies: Queering Desi Cinema

admin — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 20:29:05 +0000

An evening of satire, comedy, dance and drop-down drag Bollywood ‘ishtyle’!! In Kareem Khubchandani’s Lessons In Drag, Professor Lawhore Vagistan, a drag queen attempting to make it on the Bollywood Screen, educates her classroom about the day’s topic – Fillum. By combining ethnographic interviews, queer South Asian fiction, Bollywood-inspired comedic drag sequences, and improvised audience interaction, Kareem stages the many ...

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Still Here

admin — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:33:34 +0000

What does it mean to grow up in San Francisco, to come out, to negotiate home, self, identity, family, loss, and love in a city widely perceived as a gay mecca? Still Here presents new work by artists raised in San Francisco during the 80s and 90s and still living in the Bay Area that delves into these never-explored questions. ...

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