ABOUT NQAF 2009 – Queer Cultural Center

Welcome to the 12th National Queer Arts Festival
70 exhibitions and performances from May 31 to July 11
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

2009 NQAF STAFF Pamela Peniston – Artistic Director Jeff Jones – Development Director Rudy Lemcke – Online Programs Director Elizabeth Pickens – Program Director Cris 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 DENDESIGN – Graphic Design Tavi Clark – Box Office Manager PSPrint – Catalog printer Juan Ordeñez- Catalog distributor Information about the Festival please contact: [email protected] Elizabeth Pickens National Queer Arts Festival Co-coordinator	QUEER CULTURAL CENTER 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 QCC MAILING ADDRESS Queer Cultural Center Qcc 934 Brannan Street SF, CA 94103 Executive Director Pamela Peniston Email: [email protected]
FESTIVAL VENUES
SF LGBT Community Center	1800 Market Street @ Octavia
SOMArts	934 Brannan Street @ 8^th Street
Artists Television Access (ATA)	992 Valencia Street @ 21st Street
BRAVA Theater Center	2789 24^th Street @ York Street
Center for Sex and Culture	1519 Mission Street @ 11^th Street
CounterPulse	1310 Mission Street @ 9^th Street
Dolores Park	Dolores @ 18^thStreet
El Rio	3158 Mission Street @ Cesar Chavez
Femina Potens	2199 Market Street @ Sanchez Street
First Unitarian Universalist Church	1187 Franklin Street @ Geary
The Garage	975 Howard Street @ 6th Street
GLBT Historical Society	657 Mission Street #300 @ New Montgomery
a.Muse Art Gallery & Meeting Place	614 Alabama Street @ 18th Street
Roxie Theater	3117 16^th Street @ Valencia
SF Public Library	100 Larkin Street @ Grove
Theater Artaud	450 Florida Street @ 17^th Street
Voice Factory	1519 Mission Street @ 11^th Street
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts	701 Mission Street @ 3^rd Street
VOLUNTEER
Are you interested in volunteering for The 2009 National Queer Arts Festival? Please contact: Beth Pickens (National Queer Arts Festival Co-co

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