NATIONAL QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL 2013
16th Annual
Director’s Welcome
Welcome to the 2013 National Queer Arts Festival
Zeitgeist
Zeitgeist is a marvelous German word that means the Spirit of the Time. In our case, we asked visual and performing artists to either imagine what people looking back at Queer Date 2013 would feel were the unique spirits of this time; or to look back in history and choose queer movements/spirits from those epochs and re-define them.
Everything from the perception of body & gender in performance & circus and styles of burlesque to examining privilege, immigration, post-traumatic stress, ageism, sexism, ecology, and racism are gracing our stages and gallery walls and, as usual, in new and queer ways. You’ll laugh and gasp and get all hot & bothered where you least expect to!
We celebrate who we are and who we want to become—and as always, we start the conversation with the arts.
Please join us and support our artists and queer artists everywhere!
Pamela Peniston, Artistic Director
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SHOWS
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ABOUT NQAF 2013
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Queer Rebels 2013
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PRIDE 2013
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Dyke March 2013
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Trans March 2013
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Girl Talk 2013
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Hick
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Discendants
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COWBOYS & ANGELS
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Queering Mythologies
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Unfiltered Voice: A Generation of Visibility
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Creating Queer Community 2013
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White Lies
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Snapshot Poetics Now
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Love, Humiliation & Karaoke
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Queerlesque
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Frameline 37
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RadarSuperstar 2013
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Sugar in Our Blood
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La Rosa Mixtape
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Fresh Meat Festival
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Strange Bedfellows
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GUAVA
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Stranger Lover Dreamer
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Zeitgeist – Curator’s Walkthrough
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Bitter Queen
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QWoCFF
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Queeriosity
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Sugar
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Earthy
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Still Here
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FREE
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Stories of Queer Diaspora
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Bollywood Divas
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Shafted: The Blaqxploitation Project
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Dance to the Radio
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Show Yourself
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The Fairoaks Project
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Dear Mammaries
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Remembering Tede Mathews
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I AM A MAN
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Radar SuperStar
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The Camouflage Closet
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Transparent Trap with Dynasty Handbag
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Zeitgeist Exhibition
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Zeitgeist Exhibition – 2013
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The News, 2013
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Topsy-Turvy 2013
NQAF, NQAF 2013, Topsy Turvy FS2013 QCC STAFF
Pamela Peniston, Artistic Director
Kevin Seaman, General Manager
Rudy Lemcke, Communications Director
Jeff Jones, Financial Director
Sarah Guerra, Production Manager
LaVette Virden, Finance Manager
DENDESIGN, Graphic Design
PS Print, Festival Printing
ZEITGEIST CURATORS
Josh Faught
Jacqueline Francis
Jordy Jones
Rudy Lemcke
Matt McKinley, Exhibit Designer
Pamela Peniston
Tina Takemoto
Amanda N. Simons, Exhibit Coordinator
Carter Steinmann, Zeitgeist & Festival Intern
BOARD
Tina Takemoto, President
Blackberri
Cheryl Dunye
Jacqueline Francis
Jeff Jones
Jordy Jones
Juba Kalamka
Rudy Lemcke
Mia Nakano
Pamela Peniston
Advisory Member
Dr. Marcy Adelman
QCC CONTACT
Queer Cultural Center
934 Brannan Street
SF, CA 94103
Executive Director, Pamela Peniston