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: qccfestival@gmail.com
Elizabeth Pickens
National Queer Arts Festival Co-coordinator
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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: director@queerculturalcenter.org
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FESTIVAL VENUES |
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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
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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
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1310 Mission Street @ 9th Street |
Dolores Park
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Dolores @ 18th Street |
El Rio
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3158 Mission Street @ Cesar Chavez |
Eros |
2051 Market Street @ 14th Street |
Exit Café |
156 Eddy Street @ Taylor Street |
Femina Potens
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2199 Market Street @ Sanchez Street |
The Garage
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975 Howard Street @ 6th Street |
GLBT Historical Society
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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
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3117 16th Street @ Valencia |
SOMArts |
934 Brannan Street @ 8th Street |
Supperclub |
657 Harrison Street @ 3rd Street |
Theater Artaud
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450 Florida Street @ 17th Street |
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
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701 Mission Street @ 3rd Street |
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