VIDEOS

A selection of videos from past workshops, National Queer Arts Festival Excerpts, Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts, and more.

Jewelle Gomez introduces Bead by Bead

June 10, 2014 Bead by Bead: Contemporary Native Writing Curated by: Indira Allegra/Jewelle Gomez/Kim Shuck African American Art and Culture Complex National Queer Arts Festival 2014 Bead by Bead: Contemporary Native Writing, is a literary…

Bead by Bead: Contemporary Native Writing – Introduction and Prayer

Bead by Bead: Contemporary Native Writing | Introduction and Prayer 2014 June 10, 2014 Bead by Bead: Contemporary Native Writing Indira Allegra/Jewelle Gomez/Kim Shuck African American Art and Culture Complex 7:30pm Part of the National…

Jewelle Gomez @ Bead by Bead: Native Writing

Jewelle Gomez (Cape Verdean/Ioway/Wampanoag) is the author of seven books including the double Lambda Literary Award-winning Black, Lesbian vampire novel, The Gilda Stories. Her adaptation of the novel was commissioned and performed by the Urban…

Kim Shuck @ Bead by Bead: Native Writers

Kim Shuck is a poet, weaver, educator and was born in her mother’s hometown of San Francisco. Her ancestors were and are Tsalagi, Sauk and Fox and Polish, for the most part. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in weaving in 1998 from San…

Nazbah Tom @ Bead by Bead: Native Writers

Nazbah Tom is Dine, born and raised on her ancestral homelands in Northeastern Arizona. She is published in Turtle Island to Abya Yala: A Love Anthology of Art and Poetry by Native American and Latina Women and in an online journal archive curated…

Indira Allegra at Bead by Bead: Native Writers

Indira Allegra is a poet and artist exploring intimacy, intertextuality, affect and endurance through performance, video works and handwoven textiles. Indira has contributed works to 25 for 25: An Anthology of Works by 25 Outstanding Contemporary…

Jasmine Le Blanc @ Brouhaha

Jasmine Le Blanc is a proud transplant from Inglewood California. She is a student studying Community Mental Health. Besides working in community, she is a hype woman, drag performer, and dancer. She is loud and silly and loves making others…

Cassandra Falby @ Brouhaha

Cassandra Falby is a West Indian American genderqueer femme who is happy to call the Bay Area home. He has done many types of performance and is now trying his hand at comedy. Thoughtful street art, musicals, and fantastic costuming are some…

Sis. Nau~T @ Brouhaha

Homegrown Cali native Sis. Nau~T is a lover of life and cultivator of peace and harmony. Inclined to spend time with cool folks doing cool things including but not limited to watching martial arts movies, listening to music, paradigm shifting,…

Welcome to Brouhaha

June 5, 2014 Brouhaha:QTPOC Activist-Comics Rise Up African American Art and Culture Complex, SF Jezebel Delilah X and Manish Vaidya National Queer Arts Festival 2014 This spring, activist comedy legend Micia Mosely trained a crew of…

Julie Weitz

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Julie Weitz   Yr Body Is My Geometry from Julie Weitz on Vimeo. Yr Body is My Geometry Single Channel HD Video, 5:15m, 2012 Music by Scott Moore Artist Statement A dichotomous relationship is set up between two figures,…

Rami George

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Rami George   Untitled (two men, last scene) from Rami George on Vimeo. Artist Statement When spoken aloud “two men, last scene” can also become “two men, last seen.” This simple phrase acts as inspiration for this…