About NQAF 2010

Director’s Statement

Welcome to the 13th National Queer Arts Festival

I heard Alice Walker quote her father, saying, “If we do not write our history, they will say it never happened.” The Queer Cultural Center preserves our art and culture. If you examine the 13,000 pages of our website you will see that it documents every artistic discipline as well as emerging and established artists.

We want to share our history by showcasing real and re-imagined chronologies: Making History. And we do it in typical queer style: Queer Rebels of the Harlem Renaissance brings us a hybrid of performance and 20’s rent party; the history of SF Burlesque is told via the fire tassels of Satan’s Angel; and there are Rebel Grrrls, early bi activists and lesbians responding to the early days of the AIDS crisis. Radar writers go Old School while Guywriters look back at their hometowns. Our visual arts show, Chronotopia, asks artists to re/interpret the Past, Present and Future of Queer Histories.

Making History is what queer artists are doing every day. It is also what we and other queer organizations do and what you as audiences support: the presentation of queer art as authentically drawn from our many and varied queer perspectives. It is vital to share this art with people who are isolated from community or who can not come out because of life-threatening circumstances.

Come make history with us at the National Queer Arts Festival.

– Pamela S. Peniston, Artistic Director

2010 NQAF STAFF Pamela Peniston – Artistic Director Jeff Jones – Development Director Rudy Lemcke – Website Director/Curator Elizabeth Pickens – Program Director Dylan McMillan & Calvin Michael West – Production Managers Lavette Virden – Business Manager Cheryl Dunye – Curator, Chronotopia Tirza True Latimer – Curator, Chronotopia Rudy Lemcke – Curator, Chronotopia Matt McKinley – Curator, Chronotopia Pamela Peniston – Curator, Chronotopia Tina Takemoto – Curator, Chronotopia Adrienne Sky Roberts – Exhibition coordinator, Chronotopia DENDESIGN – Graphic Design PS Print – Festival Printing Taryn Hunter – Box Office Manager Nicki Green – Box Office Co-Manager Information about the Festival please contact: [email protected] Elizabeth Pickens National Queer Arts Festival Co-coordinator	QUEER CULTURAL CENTER BOARD Trilce Santana Bertha Amador Blackberri Jeff Jones Alicia Kester (President) 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
African American Art & Culture Complex (AAACC)	762 Fulton Street @ Webster Street
Artists Television Access (ATA)	992 Valencia Street @ 21st Street
Boxcar Theater	505 Natoma Street @ 6th Street
BRAVA Theater Center	2789 24th Street @ York Street
Café du Nord	2174 Market Street @ Sanchez Street
Castro Theater	429 Castro Street @ Market Street
Center for Sex and Culture	1519 Mission Street @ 11th Street
CounterPulse	1310 Mission Street @ 9th Street
Dolores Park	Dolores @ 18th Street
El Rio	3158 Mission Street @ Cesar Chavez
Eros	2051 Market Street @ 14th Street
Exit Café	156 Eddy Street @ Taylor Street
Femina Potens	2199 Market Street @ Sanchez Street
The Garage	975 Howard Street @ 6th Street
GLBT Historical Society	657 Mission Street #300 @ New Montgomery
Kunst-Stoff Arts	929 Market Street, (5th floor) at 5th Street
The Lab	2948 16th Street @ Capp Street
Luggage Store Gallery	1007 Market Street @ 6th Street
Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory (mcvf)	1519 Mission Street @ 11th Street
Modern Times Bookstore	888 Valencia Street @ 20th Street
North Berkeley Senior Center	1901 Hearst Avenue, Berkeley
SF LGBT Community Center	1800 Market Street @ Octavia
SF Public Library	100 Larkin Street @ Grove Street
Roxie Theater	3117 16th Street @ Valencia
SOMArts	934 Brannan Street @ 8th Street
Supperclub	657 Harrison Street @ 3rd Street
Theater Artaud	450 Florida Street @ 17th Street
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts	701 Mission Street @ 3rd Street