Don’t miss our Creating Queer Communities 1 Showcase!
Witness a showcase that’s sure to light you up! We have a luminous group of LGBTQIA+ artists ready to share their brilliance with you through music, comedy, dance, storytelling, spoken word, and visual installations. This showcase is a unique opportunity to experience the deep diversity present in the Bay Area’s LGBTQIA+ arts community and get to know the emerging artists you’ll want to follow for years to come.
Our Creating Queer Communities artists training program culminates each cycle in participants presenting newly created artistic work as part of the National Queer Arts Festival. This season’s artists will be presenting work in alignment with the festival’s theme, Incandescent Illuminations. Expect to be lifted towards the light with a diverse range of performances and installations representing the multitudes of LGBTQIA+ experience and community in the SF Bay Area.
Artists who will be shining their light as part of this showcase include: Angela Zamora, Ann Chen, Demi Alex Ayuna, Deon Brown, Esperanza Cabrales, Lisbeth Solis Rico, Satchi, and Cristina Medrano.
The Showcase will be taking place November 9th and 10th from 5 – 9 PM at Monument in SF.
Artist Bios repeated for accessibility:
Angela Zamora (she/they)
Visual Arts
Angela Zamora is a multimedia animator and sculptor born in San Diego, California. Her artwork is influenced by her Mexican heritage and place of origin, focusing on themes of self-healing, childhood nostalgia, and religious influence. As a Mexican-American artist, Angela draws inspiration from her ancestry to create a sense of community in her work.
https://angelazamora.myportfolio.com/work
IG: @mex4art
Satchi (they/them)
Music
Satchi (they/them) is a gender-bending self-identified “silly guy” who enjoys playing with fluidity — of gender, age, & Time — poured into the container of capitalism and climate crisis. In a life shaped by climate anxiety and capitalism’s crushing coercion to homogenize, Satchi moves us through grief and into self-discovery through music.
Satchi on Spotify
IG@satchithockchom
Volcanera
Cristina Medrano (they/she)
Music, Visual Arts
Cristina is a queer multimedia artist, burgeoning musician, and diasporic tropical flower. As Volcanera, she channels her ancestral understandings of death and transformation into an offering of music that they hope will make you dance with your friends and put down whatever burden is too much for you to carry alone.
IG: @volcaneramusic
Volcanera’s collaborating artists:
Julien Stainback (@demse.0): Julien centers duality in his art and music. Dark reflections of the present are alchemized into visions of a brilliant future, animated by searing guitar and soaring yet haunted melodies.
Dominic Rubio (@vibekingdom): Dominic approaches music with curiosity, playfulness and soul, a sonic wanderer of terrestrial and oceanic planes.
Riley Magpoc (@toedust): Riley is a vibe, a songwriter, and a multi instrumentalist who has been performing in the Bay for 7 years. He hopes his music will make you fall in love.
Sebastián Medrano (@sabooo_n): peace and love
Demi Alex Ayuna (he/they)
Interdisciplinary
Film & Video, Performance
Demi Alex Ayuna (he/they) is an agender, trans, disabled, 2nd generation Taiwanese dancer based in unceded Ohlone Land (so called Oakland, California). Their work meanders through grief, spirituality in nature, transness, and disability. They are currently working on pieces that integrate covid grief and rage while building collective survival.
IG: @dkay.dac
Deon Brown (they/them)
Music and Composition
Los Angeles-born Deon Brown is a transcendent R&B/Hip Hop artist, renowned for his magnetic presence and multi-dimensional storytelling. With comparisons to Kanye West and Frank Ocean, his debut album “HOME” captivated audiences, blending spiritual depth with audacious creativity. Brown’s music and visuals redefine boundaries, offering profound narratives on black identity and culture.
Esperanza Cabrales (she/they)
Spoken Word and Print
Esperanza Cabrales (she/they) is a queer Xicana slam poet, teaching artist, and workshop facilitator proud to represent the 209. She can be found trying to create constellations out of cereal pieces and losing their mind over lightbulbs that must be metaphors.
Lis Solis (they/them)
Installation Artist
Born and raised in the Inland Empire, Lisbeth Solis Rico is a self taught artist that creates art about their family experiences, love, loss, and religion. They are currently working on an event/live performance that showcases their loss, through the lense of catholicism and what they have gained through community.
Ann Chen (any pronouns)
Comedy
Ann is an SF based queer taiwanese-american occasional comedian and artist who draws silly comics about life that explore themes of existentialism, identity, and everyday observation from a more lighthearted lens. Their work has been exhibited at SF Zine Fest, Pride in Panels, Silver Sprocket, and more.