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NATIONAL QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL 2008
11th Annual
Director’s Tour of the 11th National Queer Arts Festival
Queer Cultural Center begins the second decade of its National Queer Arts Festival by shaking things up and twisting them around! This year, we open the festival on June 1st with our international art exhibition, Making Room for Wonder. We’re going on hiatus with the QBall this year and having some “Wonder-filled” performances during this visual arts opening at SomArts. Mighty Mistress of Ceremonies, the enchanting Heklina, will steer you toward the next happening.
And we got all of yer LGBT arts right here!
Consider these hot “L’s:” Deep Lez, film & performances at El Rio, The Mani Pedi Cabaret at SomArts, Remembering June Jordan, a tribute from past members of Poetry for the People, and Sara Seinberg’s Show & Tell.
Our “G” rocks with our first ever Men’s Music Festival curated by Qcc’s own Blackberri; a writers’ conference and performance by GuyWriters; Armistead Maupin reads at Radar; Kirk Read unveils his sorta solo show with musician Jeff Mooney, This is the Thing. Kirk & Zak Zymanskyi curate The New Brotherhood, bringing together Gay men and transmen to forge a fresh approach to masculinity.
“B” too! Susannah Layton assembles artists for a truly bi-licious art exhibition & performance on the second floor of The Center on June 7th.
And “T” will blow your mind. Including: 2008 Fresh Meat Festival, TransForming Community with curator Rocco Kayiatos )who, btw, has a new solo-ish show, Home-Made Super Hero). Storm Florez & seeley quest bring Trans as F©ck to the Festival; and Freeplay Dance Crew premieres a new multimedia piece.
This year’s Festival explores how queer artists fight against marginalization to take center stage while retaining an edgy identity. We kick off with LA and SF performers in Fringes, Margins & Borders curated by Leo Garcia of Highways and Michelle Tea. Michelle also explores that topic in her lit series The Outsiders and Mattilda returns with That’s Revolting: Queer Strategies to Resist Assimilation.
Chris Vargas and Eric Stanley release Criminal Queers! A Night of Performance, Protest & Abolition; Trilce Santana rounds up a talented band to present Border OUT, using the arts to explore queerness + immigration, while Insurgency: Mixed Queer Bodies brings powerful performances to the issues of mixed-race queers. Brent Armendinger’s Marginal Bodies: Illness, Disability, & Queer Community and Dwayne Calizo’s The Hazardous Waste Project study the isolating factors of illness/disease upon our community.
As for music; in addition to the Men’s Music Festival, the Spectacular Spectacular, a fashion/rock . . . spectacular; Queer Control Records’ Pass the Torch Tour hits El Rio and ExitSign: A Rock Opera and A Queer Night at the Opera mix up that genre!
Rally the Troupes meets Hogwarts Express for big fun and you can expect serious comedy from Marga Gomez in an all-new Marga and More Boys featuring Ali Mafi, Ronn Vigh and Thai Rivera.
We hope you enjoy this packed festival, our largest ever!
SHOWS
No Sin, My Love
NQAF, NQAF 2008No Sin, My Love: A Panel on The New Inquisition and Queer Arts
Juana Opera Project
June 17 at 2:00pm
LGBT Community Center / Rainbow Room
Tickets: $5 - $10, sliding scale
Gaspar de Alba (l) Carla Lucero (r)
photo by Bill Jennings
Join…
ABOUT NQAF 2008
NQAF, NQAF 2008Director’s Tour of the 11th National Queer Arts Festival
Queer Cultural Center begins the second decade of its National Queer Arts Festival by shaking things up and twisting them around! This year, we open the festival on June 1st with…
Creating Queer Community 2008
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 30, 2008
CREATING QUEER COMMUNITY
Voice Factory
7:00pm
Free
The Queer Cultural Center will provide commissions between $500 - $1500 to 4-6 innovative projects in any artistic medium. Projects that are multi-ethnic and/or cross-cultural…
Pride 2008
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 28 & 29
United by Pride, Bound for Equality
38th Annual San Francisco LBGT Pride Celebration & Parade
Civic Center
Info: www.sfpride.org
This year marks the 38th anniversary of the San Francisco LGBT Pride…
Dyke March 2008
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 28, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO DYKE MARCH
Dolores Park – entertainment 3:00pm
March to the Castro – 7:00pm
Be VISIBLE - We are the oldest! We are the largest! And we are the most outrageous!!! Join thousands of Dykes representing…
Pride Chorus 2008
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 26 & 27, 2008
LESBIAN/GAY CHORUS OF SAN FRANCISO
SAN FRANCISCO GAY MEN'S CHORUS
SAN FRANCISCO LESBIAN/GAY FREEDOM BAND
30th Annual Pride Concert
First Unitarian Universalist Church & Center
1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco
8pm
With…
Queer Latina/o Arts Festival
NQAF, NQAF 2008une 27, 2008
THE QUEER LATINA/O ARTS FESTIVAL-2008
Poetry, Prose Reading and Joteria
An unforgettable night of performance featuring Dino Foxx and other queer Latinoas/os
Galeria de la Raza
7:30pm
Tickets: $8
Dino Foxx
Come and…
Marga and More Boys
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 27, 2008
MARGA & MORE BOYS
Marga Gomez, Ali Mafi, Ronn Vigh and Thai Rivera
LGBT Community Center – 2nd floor
Time: 8:00pm
Tickets: $12-$15 Sliding Scale
(l to r) Ronn Vigh, Marga Gomez, Thai Rivera (not pictured Ali Mafi)
Photo…
The TransMarch 2008
NQAF, NQAF 2008, SF Trans March FSJune 27, 2008
THE TRANS MARCH
Dolores Park, Dolores and 19th Street
3pm -10pm - Speakers and Performers, 7pm - MARCH!
FREE
For more info, contact: info@transmarch. org
We are calling for this march to demonstrate that we are a…
Pride 2008
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 26 & 27, 2008
LESBIAN/GAY CHORUS OF SAN FRANCISO
SAN FRANCISCO GAY MEN'S CHORUS
SAN FRANCISCO LESBIAN/GAY FREEDOM BAND
30th Annual Pride Concert
First Unitarian Universalist Church & Center
1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco
8pm
With…
Twilight Vixen Revue and SF Boylesque
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 26-28, 2008
THE TWILIGHT VIXEN REVUE AND SF BOYLESQUE
The Garage
8:00pm
Tickets: $10 - $15 Sliding Scale Buy Tickets: Brown Paper Tickets
A SAFEhouse AIRspace Program
The Twilight Vixen Revue and SF Boylesque present…
TransForming Community 2008
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 26, 2008
TRANSFORMING COMMUNITY
Curator-Rocco Kayiotos
LGBT Community Center. – 2nd Floor
7:30pm
Tickets: $8-$15 Sliding Scale
Ashley Love
Enrique Urueta. Photo Jori Ketten
Laura Varience. Photo: m8 small
Natalie…
The Tingle Tangel Club
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 25, 2008
THE TINGEL TANGEL CLUB
Earl Dax Presents
The Bubble Lounge
9:00pm
Tickets: $10, includes a free drink.
For more information visit www.tingeltangelclub.com.
After a successful debut in March, Earl Dax returns to San…
Coming Out Again
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 25, 2008
COMING-OUT...AGAIN
Curator-Meliza Bañales
LGBT Community Center – 2nd Floor
7:30pm
Tickets: $8 - $15 sliding scale
Design by Jacob Vaughn Gushue
This event will tell the coming-out stories of folks who, because…
Home-Made Super Hero
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 24, 2008
HOME-MADE SUPER HERO
Rocco Kayiatos aka Katastrophe
SomArts
8:00pm, doors at 7:30pm
Jessica Miller
Home-Made Super Hero is a three-sectioninterdisciplinary hip-hop performance combining music, spoken word, solo performance,…
think Philosophy
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 23, 2008
thinkPhilosophy Salon(TM)
D. Rita Alfonso
Femina Potens
8:00pm - doors at 7:30pm
It’s Pride, So We’ve Got To Ask Ourselves: “What's So Good About Being Queer?” For Queers, this is sometimes a difficult question…
Men’s Music Festival 2008
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 22, 2008
MEN'S MUSIC FESTIVAL
Curator: Blackberri
SomArts
3pm to 7pm
Tickets: $10-$15 Sliding Scale
Blackberri
Qcc presents its first ever Men’s Music Festival: a day of music you'll never forget. Come on by, pick up…
Queer Traditions
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 21, 2008
QUEER TRADITIONS
Kay Turner
1pm
Femina Potens Gallery
Free
Join folklorist/author Kay Turner for a free discussion about the significance of the ongoing Queer community traditions that developed in San Francisco …
All Tricked Out 2008
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 21, 2008
ALL TRICKED OUT
GuyWriters
LGBT Community Center – 4th Floor
8pm
$8-$15 Sliding Scale
For a complete conference schedule, please visit: www.guywritersconference.org
Despite the richness of queer arts in the San…
Sweet Deliverance
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 20 - 22, 2008
SWEET DELIVERANCE
Veronica Combs aka Vixen Noir
The Garage
June 20 – 8:00pm / June 21 – 2:00pm & 8:00pm / June 22 – 7:00pm
Tickets: $10-$15 Sliding Scale Buy Tickets: Brown Paper Tickets
A SAFEhouse AIRspace…
Queer Night at the Opera
NQAF, NQAF 2008
June 20, 2008
A QUEER NIGHT AT THE OPERA
Leslie Hassberg, producer
SomArts
doors at 7:30pm, show at 8pm
Tickets: $15-$20
Back by popular demand, A Queer Night at the Opera aims to satisfy fans and neophytes alike. The show is…
The GuyWriters Conference
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 21, 2008
THE GUYWRITERS CONFERENCE
GuyWriters
LGBT Community Center – Q11
10:00am
Writers Conference
Fee: $15 all day, includes lunch Buy Tickets: Brown Paper Tickets
For a complete conference schedule, please visit: www.guywritersconference.org
Despite…
The Queer Latina/o Arts Festival 2008
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 20, 2008
THE QUEER LATINA/O ARTS FESTIVAL-2008
Poetry, Prose Reading
WHEN THE BODY SPEAKS AND TEACHES ONE TO LIVE
Curated by Maria Carolina Morales
Friday, June 20th, 7:30pm
Galeria de la Raza
2487 -24th Street, San Francisco
$8
Come…
The Last American Icon
NQAF, NQAF 200820 June, 2008
THE LAST AMERICAN ICON: A 21st Century Happening
emael & Diego Pacheco
LGBT Community Center – 4th Floor & Deck
5:00pm
Free
emael and Diego Pacheco
photo by Qing Wu
emael (loveemael.com) and Diego Pacheco…
Frameline 32
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 19-29, 2008
Mark your calendars, sync your iPhones, and make your gay-cation requests for Frameline32: The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival! This year's festival will feature more than 250 feature and short films—from…
Mani-Pedi Cabaret
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 19, 2008
MANI - PEDI CABARET (FEMME SHOW)
Curator: Michelle Tea
SomArts
8:00pm
Tickets $10-$15 Sliding Scale
Annie Oakley
High-femme, low-femme, anti-femme: a nail salon by any other name would still smell as toxic. Join…
A Night With Dynasty Handbag
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 19-22, 2008
A NIGHT WITH DYNASTY HANDBAG & THE BE(A)ST OF TAYLOR MAC
Produced by Earl Dax
CounterPULSE
Two shows in one night
Thurs.-Sun. June 19-22, 8pm & 10pm, $20 ($30 for both shows)
Alien = Taylor Mac
After two…
Fresh Meat Festival 2008
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 19-22, 2008
2008 FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL
The 7th Annual Transgender & Queer Performance Festival
Artistic Director: Sean Dorsey
Project Artaud Theater
Thursday - Saturday: 8pm / Sunday 7pm
Tickets: $15 (advance tickets recommended)
Info:…
Sunny Drake
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 18-19
SUNNY DRAKE
The Garage
8:00pm
Tickets: $10-$15 Sliding Scale Buy Tickets: Brown Paper Tickets
A SAFEhouse AIRspace Program
Sunny Drake Photo by Alia
Have you ever wondered if what you think you want is what you really…
The New Brotherhood
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 18, 2008
THE NEW BROTHERHOOD
Kirk Read/Zak Szymanski
LGBT Community Center – 2nd floor
7:30pm
Tickets: $8-$15 Sliding Scale
Trannymals Go to Court photo by Dylan Vade and Abe Bernard
The New Brotherhood
Curators…
The Deep Lex Potluck
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 18, 2008
THE DEEP LEZ POTLUCK AND PERFORMANCE NIGHT
Curators - joey stevenson and Caitlin Sweet
El Rio - NOTE: No-one under 21 years old will be admitted
7:00pm films; 8:30 performance
divine monster: light 2 photo…
Insurgency
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 18, 2008
INSURGENCY: MIXED QUEER BODIES
Curator-Luna Maia
Voice Factory
7:30pm
Tickets: $15
left to right: Luna Maia, Kirya Traber and Nico Dacumos. Photo by: Su Evers
Through mixing, culture can be a casualty and a product…
Criminal Queers
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 17, 2008
CRIMINAL QUEERS: A NIGHT OF PERFORMANCE, PROTEST AND ABOLITION
Curators-Chris Vargas & Eric Stanley
SomArts
7:30pm
Tickets $5-$15 Sliding Scale, NOTA
Criminal Queers
The Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) holds…
Fugue State
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 15 & 16, 2008
FUGUE STATE
WICKIE STAMPS
The Garage
8:00pm Ticketing
Tickets: $10-$15 Sliding Scale
This is a Qcc/SAFEhouse AIRspace Program
Wickie Stamps
An evening of staged readings from Fugue State, Wickie Stamps’…
Queer Food For Love
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 15, 2008
QUEER FOOD FOR LOVE
Muse Gallery
7:00pm
QUEER FOOD FOR LOVE is a DIY collaboration of queer artists, activists, and cooks who create food on a semi-regular basis for community not profit. Join us as homo cooks and…
MARGINAL BODIES
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 15, 2008
MARGINAL BODIES: ILLNESS, DISABILITY, & THE QUEER COMMUNITY
Curated by Brent Armendinger and Sponsored by Army of Lovers
SomArts
7pm
Drawing by Benjamin Fife
To be queer is to know our culture is haunted by the…
Hazardous Waste Project
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 15, 2008
HAZARDOUS WASTE PROJECT: MAKING LOVE 2008
Directed By: Dwayne Calizo
Voice Factory
4:00pm
Blue Buddha: Photo by Dwayne Calizo
Four Artists: one Trans, one H.I.V. infected, one Queer of Color and one Queer Elder,…
Inside Out
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 13 & 14, 2008
INSIDE OUT: THE STORY OF FREEPLAY DANCE CREW
Freeplay Dance Crew
SomArts - Please note: There is an error in the hard copy catalog - The venue is SomArts
Door at 7:00pm, Show at 7:30pm
Tickets: $8-$12 Sliding Scale
Liz…
Living Through Thus
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 14, 2008
LIVING THROUGH THIS
Sizzle-Femina Potens
Femina Potens Gallery
8:00pm
Daphne Gottlieb
Sizzle, the bay area award-winning literary series and open mic features cutting-edge artists exploring their use of art to survive…
The Toxic Cock-Tale
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 13-14 and 19-20, 2008
THE TOXIC COCK-TALE: HOLD THAT RETRO VIRUS PLEASE!!
Written & Composed by Dwayne P. Calizo
Voice Factory
8:00pm
Dwayne Calizo: Photo by kin priess
Recipe for The Evenings Events:
1-shot of DARK-DANK-DISCOTEQUE
2-spuges…
QWoCFF 2008
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 13-15, 2008
4TH ANNUAL QUEER WOMEN OF COLOR FILM FESTIVAL
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP)
Brava Theater, 2781 24th Street, SF
Film Screenings
FREE
Left to Right: Madeleine Lim, T. Kebo Drew, Liliana Hueso
Photo…
Rally the Troupes 4
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 13 &14, 2008
RALLY THE TROUPES 4: A night of savvy political and sexy queer performance!
Drew Montana & Kentucky Fried Woman
Somarts
9:00pm
Tickets: $10-$15 Sliding Scale
Drew Montana with Kentucky Fried Woman
Photo…
Queeriosity 2008
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 13, 2008
QUEERIOSITY
Youth Speaks
LGBT Community Center – 2nd Floor
6:00pm
Free
Meilani Clay
Now in its 11 year, Youth Speaks is proud to present its annual Queeriosity event. An intergenerational evening of spoken word,…
Queer Open Mic 2008
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 13 & 27, 2008
QUEER OPEN MIC
Cindy Emch & Mollena Williams
Vince & Pete's Three Dollar Bill Cafe
8pm show, 7:30pm sign up
Tickets: $1 - $5 Sliding Scale
Mollena Williams & Cindy Emch: Photo by Marlo Gayle.
6/13
Queer…
Faith and Sexuality
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 12, 2008
FAITH AND SEXUALITY ON FILM AND IN PERSON
JCC East Bay
7:30pm
Film
Tickets: Free for JCC Members; $8.00 for general or $15 for the 3 Film Pass
Info & tickets: www.jcceastbay.org
Still image from Trembling Before…
Border Out 2008
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 12, 2008
BORDER OUT
Curator-Trilce Santana
SomArts
7:30pm
Tickets $8-$15 Sliding Scale
Photo by Leilani Nisperos
BORDER OUT is a collaborative of Bay Area-based LGBT immigrants. Through spoken word, music, theater, and comedy,…
Queer Loving
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 12, 2008
QUEER LOVING: Mixed Race Queers Celebrating Loving vs Virginia
Curators-Luis Gutierrez Mock and Luna Maia
LGBT Ctr – 4th Floor
7:30pm
(l - r) Luna Maia, Solidad de Costa, Stuart Gaffney and Yosenio V. Lewis: Photo…
Dykes on Bikes
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 12, 2008
30 YEARS OF A RIDE - DYKES ON BIKES
Curators: GLBT Historical Society
6:00pm
Exhibition – May 15 – July 11
Free
Photo by Crawford Barton, Courtesy Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society, Crawford…
Remembering June Jordan
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 11, 2008
REMEMBERING JUNE JORDAN
Curator-Maiana Minahal
LGBT Community Center – 4th Floor
7:30pm
Tickets $8 - $15 Sliding Scale
June Jordan: Photo by Gwen Phillips
Queer poets come together for one stellar night of poetry…
This Is The Thing
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 2008
THIS IS THE THING
Kirk Read
The Garage
8:00pm
Tickets: $12-$15 Sliding Scale
Photo by Ed Wolf
Writer/performer Kirk Read and musician Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney create an evening of stories about sex…
Start Here, Go Anywhere
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 7, 2008
START HERE, GO ANYWHERE
The San Francisco LGBT Community Center Presents:
Pride Month 2008 Kick-Off Celebration
12:30 - 4pm
7:00pm Film Screening - Youth Artists Workin' it Out
SF LGBT Community Center
Donations requested…
The Outsiders
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 10, 17, 24, 2008
THE OUTSIDERS
Curator: Michelle Tea
The Main Library
6:00pm
Free
S&M Zorro: Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Liverpool Biennial, 2002. Photo by Manual Vason.
A three-part series that asks contemporary underground…
Children of the Last Days
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 8-9, 2008
CHILDREN OF THE LAST DAYS
Thandiwe Thomas De Shazor
The Garage
8:00pm
Tickets: $10 - $20 sliding scale Buy Tickets: Brown Paper Tickets ; res. 885-4006
This is a Qcc/SAFEhouse AIRspace Program
Thandiwe Thomas De Shazor…
Show and Tell
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 8, 2008
SHOW AND TELL
Curator: Sara Seinberg
Voice Factory
Time: 7:00pm
Tickets: $15
Show and Tell (l - r) Carmen White, Elitrea Frye, Sookie Koban, Sara Seinberg, Shirley Carter
Photo: Ginger Robinson.
Pairing a visual…
SF in EXILE
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 7, 2008
THE BEST OF SAN FRANCISCO IN EXILE: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
SFinX
The Garage
8:00pm
Spoken Word/Lit
Tickets: $10 - $20 Sliding Scale; res. 885-4006
Photo of Horehound Stillpoint
San Francisco in Exile is a rabble-rousing,…
RESTOS DE OBRA
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 7 – July 12, 2008
RESTOS DE OBRA Y SEXO:
REMNANTS OF WORK AND SEX
Jillian Soto
Presented in Conjunction with:
Fresh Meat in the Gallery V: Riots & Revelations
LGBT Community Center – 1st Floor
Opening Reception: 6:00pm
Visual…
FRESH MEAT IN THE GALLERY V
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 7 - July 12, 2008
FRESH MEAT IN THE GALLERY V
RIOTS & REVELATIONS
Presented by Fresh Meat Productions
LGBT Community Center – 3rd Floor
Opening reception: June 7, 6:00pm
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday Noon-10pm, Saturday 9am-10pm,…
bi-licious 2008
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 7, 2008
bi-licious
LGBT Community Center - 2nd Floor
Time: 6:00pm Art Reception/7pm Performance
Tickets: $8-$15 Sliding Scale
bi-licious builds community with bisexuals and the larger queer and queer-friendly community through…
The Love of Brothers
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 7, 2008
THE QUEER LATINA/O ARTS FESTIVAL-2008
The Love of Brothers
A Staged Reading, featuring: Mario Golden and Mauricio Leyton
Galeria de la Raza
7:30pm
Tickets: $8
Mario Golden
THE LOVE OF BROTHERS tells the story of Rogelio…
Trans As F**k
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 7, 2008
TRANS AS F*CK
Curated by Storm Florez. Original concept by Storm Florez and Seeley Quest
SomArts
9:30pm
Tickets: $8-$15 Sliding Scale
Photo by Darling Propaganda
Trans as F*ck: An evening of TranSEXxxhibitionism…
Untold Stories & Fighting Back
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 7, 2008
UNTOLD STORIES & FIGHTING BACK
Femina Potens Gallery
7:00pm-10:00pm
Free
Sculpture by Anne Drew Potter
“me and my sister or identification with the aggressor”
Visual and performative expressions by transwomen…
Exit Sign
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 5, 6, 7, 2008
EXIT SIGN: A ROCK OPERA “get ready to believe in…”
Written & Directed by Carrie Baum with collaboration by the cast
Voice Factory
8:00pm
Photo from left to right:
Carrie Baum, Erik Gross, Steffanos…
QueLaco 2008
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 6, 2008
THE QUEER LATINA/O ARTS FESTIVAL - 2008
VISUAL ART EXHIBIT
Galeria de la Raza
Friday, June 6, - 7:30pm
Suggested Donations: $2
Exhibition One - Maria: Politics. Sex. Death. Men curated by Leonardo Herrera
Partipating…
Wonderboy
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 6 - 8 & 13 -15, 2008
WONDERBOY
Joe Goode Performance Group
Yerba Buena Center
8:00pm/Sundays 7:00pm
Photo by RJ Muna
In this new collaboration with master puppeteer Basil Twist, Goode integrates yet another art form into…
Pass the Torch
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 6, 2008
PASS THE TORCH TOUR
QUEER CONTROL RECORDS
El Rio
9:00pm
Music
Tickets: $8-$15 Sliding Scale
For more info go to: www.queercontrol.com
Tough Tough Skin
Queer Control Records presents the “Pass the Torch” West…
Open Your Eyes Queer Film Festival
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 6, 2008
OPEN YOUR EYES QUEER FILM FESTIVAL
LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX
Tina Butcher
Femina Potens
8:00pm
Photo of Twincest by Jessica Wallen
Screening hot queer films and porn by and for queers followed by a panel on "How To Make…
Hogwarts Express
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 6 & 7, 2008
HOGWARTS EXPRESS: THE MUSICAL!
Co-directed by Indigo Esmonde & Meredith Fenton
SomArts
7:00pm
Tickets: $10-$15 sliding scale
Buy Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/33720
In library its (l to…
EXIT SIGN
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 5, 6, 7, 2008
EXIT SIGN: A ROCK OPERA “get ready to believe in…”
Written & Directed by Carrie Baum with collaboration by the cast
Voice Factory
8:00pm
Tickets: $15 Buy Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/34604
Photo…
That’s Revolting
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 5, 2008
THAT'S REVOLTING!
RADICAL QUEER ACTIVISM - PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
MATTilda
Main Library
6pm
Free
Mattilda: Photo by Jeffrey Walls
Join Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore to celebrate the arrival of the expanded second…
The Grown Woman Show
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 5 & 6, 2008
THE GROWN WOMAN SHOW
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
The Garage
8pm
Tickets: $10-$20
This is a Qcc/SAFEhouse AIRspace Program
Photo credit- self portrait by Leah
The Grown Woman Show is a fearless, sexy…
FRINGES, MARGINS & BORDERS
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 4, 2008
FRINGES, MARGINS & BORDERS
Curators: Leo Garcia (Highways) & Michelle Tea (Radar)
LGBT Community Center - 2nd Floor
7:30pm
Tickets: Tickets: $8-$15 Sliding Scale
Buy Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/34351
A…
Radar Reading Series 2008
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 1, 2008
Michelle Tea's monthly showcase of underground and superstar writers goes totally GAY in June, with an all-star lineup of queer literary mavericks, and extra-special homemade treats served during the dynamic question and answer…
American Idyll
NQAF, NQAF 2008 June 1, 2008
Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA) presents American Idyll (The GAPA Show 2008), a multimedia event featuring visual arts, written word and performance that explores what it means to be gay and American when one is of Asian…
I Touch Myself
NQAF, NQAF 2008June 1, 2008
Closing celebration for "I Touch Myself" visual art works, illustrations, paintings, and photography by women and transgendered artists on the subject of masturbation featuring Ellen Stagg, Twiz Rimer, and, SM Shifflett,…
Making Room for Wonder
NQAF, NQAF 2008 June 1. 2008
Wonder opens horizons of possibility beyond the constraints of “nature” and “law.” It makes room for desire, for doubt, for dreams, for experimentation, for resistance, for things not known and considered unimaginable.…
Making Room For Wonder – 2008
NQAF, NQAF 2008
MAKING ROOM FOR WONDER
Curator: Tirza True Latimer
Assoc. Curator: Robert C. Melton
SomArts
San Francisco
June 1 - 30, 2008
Wonder opens horizons of possibility beyond the constraints of “nature” and “law.” It makes room…
2008 QCC STAFF
Pamela Peniston – Artistic Director
Rudy Lemcke – Online Programs Director
Chris Dunaway – Production Manager
Chris Dunaway – Festival Coordinator
Tirza True Latimer – Curator
Robert C. Melton – Associate Curator
Lisa Geduldig – Publicist
DENDESIGN – Graphic Design
Jeff Jones – Development Director
Sean Dorsey – Development Assistant
Lavette Virden – Business Manager
Ramona Webb – Box Office Manager
Eli Steffen – Receptions & Concessions
Chris Dunaway, National Queer Arts Festival Co-ordinator
BOARD
Trilce Santana, President
Blackberri
Jeff Jones
Lynnly Labovitz
Rudy Lemcke
Pamela Peniston
Juan Alberto Tam
Dr. Marcy Adelman, Advisory Member
QCC CONTACT
Queer Cultural Center
934 Brannan Street
SF, CA 94103
Executive Director, Pamela Peniston
Qcc: The Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender Art & Culture
Founded in 1993, the Queer Cultural Center (Qcc) is a multidisciplinary arts-presenting organization that conducts artistic and interpretive programs exploring queer identity issues. Our programs promote the careers of lesbian gay bi transgender artists, foster the growth of queer arts organizations, and serve queer and non-queer audiences alike. By presenting, exhibiting, and screening queer artists’ work, Qcc contributes a multicultural perspective on the lesbian gay bi transgender experience.
