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CALL FOR ARTISTS MAKING ROOM FOR WONDER Deadline: April 15th, 2008. The National Queer Arts Festival is now accepting artists’ submissions for its 11th annual Visual Art Exhibition at SomArts Gallery in San Francisco. The exhibition title is "Making Room for Wonder," and will be curated by Tirza True Latimer and coordinated by Robert Melton (associate curator). “Wonder” functions as a verb without object: to think or speculate curiously; to desire to know something to be filled with admiration, amazement, or awe to doubt; to place in doubt Or as a verb with object: to speculate about Or as a noun: something strange, unexpected or extraordinary; a cause of surprise, astonishment, or admiration the emotion excited by what is strange and surprising; a feeling of surprised or puzzled interest, sometimes tinged with admiration miraculous deed or event; remarkable phenomenon; something inexplicable by the laws of nature “Wonder,” then, 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. Under the current totalitarian political regime, where options appear to close at every turn, wonder may still free the spirit and the mind to imagine and enact alternatives. This exhibition explores the territories that “wonder” (as a both a mode and a model of thinking, being, feeling, doing, otherwise) may share with “queer.” Download guidelines for the Wonder Show here. TransForming Community 2 explores the friction at the intersection of contemporary trans and queer communities. With a burgeoning transsexual community growing in tandem with a genderqueer movement, what are the issues that arise when non-trans queers share cultural space with transpeople and genderqueers? With distinctly different needs and identities, what needs to be worked out between the transsexual and genderqueer communities? Artists featured in TransForming Community 1 include: Zak Szymanski, Ryka Aoki de la Cruz, Tre Vasquez, Keith Hennessy, Juba Kalamka, Sherilyn Connelly, Joan Jett Black, and Simone de la Ghetto TransForming Community 1 Artists featured in TranForming Community include: Julia Serano, Lynn Breedlove, Michelle Tea, Katastrophe, Shawna Virago, Thea Hillman, Marcus Rene Van, and Max Valerio.	Qcc: The Center for LGBT Art and Culture Founded in 1993, Qcc is a multiracial community-building organization that fosters the artistic, economic and cultural development of San Francisco's LGBT community. We implement our mission by operating programs that commission and present Queer artists, that promote the development of culturally diverse Queer arts organizations and that document significant Queer arts events taking place in San Francisco. By presenting, exhibiting, screening and documenting queer artists' work, Qcc contributes to the development of a multicultural perspective on the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender experience. Qcc's website was launched in 1998 to expand our audience world-wide and to promote the work of significant LGBT artists. Qcc Announces Public Meetings Qcc hosts regular Public Meetings to gather input from the community. Our next Public Meeting will be held in March. Time and Place TBA. Join the California LGBT Arts Alliance Qcc is the fiscal sponsor and project co-ordinator for the California LGBT Arts Alliance. The Alliance is a network of artists who live in California. Check out the website. We are a non-profit, artist run organization and need your help. Please make a donation today.