QAF Display


Date & Time	National Queer Arts Festival 2005	Location
JUNE		Press Room HERE
June 1 ~ Wednesday
June 1 7:30 pm	Tales of the Night Fairies A Film documenting the struggles and aspirations of thousands of sex workers in India seeking to decriminalize adult sex work and form a union.	ATA
June 1 8 pm	GenderEnders trans/intersex/genderqueer-focused performance	Femina Potens
June 2 ~ Thursday
June 2 7:30 pm	Acting Out: Cahun/Moore Art historian Tirza True Latimer presents a virtual walk through of this groundbreaking exhibition at the Magnes Museum and the screening of a new British film on Cahun & Moore.	LGBT Center Rainbow Room
June 3 ~ Friday
June 3 7:00 p.m.	Coming of Age: GAM in America A multimedia arts exhibition featuring photography, written word and graphic design.	SomArts
June 3 7:30 p.m.	Katie Gilmartin/Emma Ramstad Visual Art exhibition. Opening reception.	Femina Potens
June 3 8 p.m.	The Danger of Bleeding Brown by Enrique Urueta QueLACo presents this staged reading.	LGBT Center Ceremonial Room
June 3 8 p.m.	Bad Dates SFinX : SF in eXile Bad Dates-We've all had them! Five spoken word artists share their Bad Date stories.	Jon Sims Center
June 4 ~ Saturday
June 4 6 p.m. Q-Ball	QBALL - Performances & Art Receptions An evening of all-star performances.	LGBT Center Building Wide
June 4 6 p.m Q-Ball	Many Dykes-Two Photographers Photos by Jane Philomen Cleland and Cathy Cade documenting 10 years of the Dyke March. Opening reception.	LGBT Center 3rd Floor
June 4 6 p.m Q-Ball	War on Labels Artwork by Tina Butcher, Heather Catalinich, and Lauren Anderson. Opening reception.	LGBT Center 2 & 4th Floor
June 4 6 p.m Q-Ball	Fresh Meat in the Gallery - part 2 Visual art by transgender, intersex and genderqueer artists. Opening reception.	LGBT Center Gallery 301
June 4 6 p.m. Q-Ball	Angela Rose Voulgarelis Paintings by Angela Rose Voulgarelis. Opening reception.	Three Dollar Bill
June 5 ~ Sunday
June 5 2:00 p.m.	(Un)Godly Bodies QueLACo/National Queer Latino/a Arts Festival Presenting emerging and established queer Latina/o visual artists	SomArts Bay Gallery
June 5 4:00 p.m.	WAR! - Art Exhibition What things could drive someone to violence, even if that violence is transformative or self-directed. What does it mean to be at WAR?	SomArts Main Gallery
June 5 5:00 p.m.	War! Performances Performances artists response to WAR!	SomArts Gallery & Theater
June 6 ~ Monday
June 6 & 7 7:00 p.m.	1st Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival Latina films are showcased in the first night of this festival.	LGBT Center Rainbow Room
June 7 ~ Tuesday
June 6 & 7 7:00 p.m.	1st Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival A program of short films celebrating the power of art created in our image.	LGBT Center Rainbow Room
June 7 7:30 p.m.	Sodom & Me: Queers & Fundamentalism Featuring wicked damned performers: Patrick Califia, Justin Chin, Jaime Cortez, Juba Kalamka, horehound stillpoint, Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore, zak szymanski, Joel Tan.	LGBT Center Ceremonial Room
June 8 ~ Wednesday
June 8 7:30 p.m.	Aliens: We’ve Come for Your Children & Between Places Aliens is an experimental documentary exploring the lives of immigrant lesbians of color living in Germany. Between Places dramatizes the dilemmas of a newly arrived Cairo native to the pre then post 9/11 US.	Jon Sims Center
June 8, 15 & 22 8 & 9 p.m.	Ecstasy @ The Citadel Join director and choreographer Joe Landini as he examines the human pursuit of ecstasy.	The Citadel
June 9 ~ Thursday
June 9 8 p.m. preview	Legacies Untied: Lust Unleashed liquidFIRE The Bay Area's annual lesbian of color multidisciplinary theatre experience	AAACC
June 9,10,11 & 23 7:30 p.m.	TransForming Community Exploring the friction at the intersection of contemporary trans and queer communities with some of the hottest talents in queer lit and performance.	LGBT Center Rainbow Room
June 10 ~ Friday
June 9,10,11 & 23 7:30 p.m.	TransForming Community Exploring the friction at the intersection of contemporary trans and queer communities with some of the hottest talents in queer lit and performance.	LGBT Center Rainbow Room.
June 10 8 p.m.	A Nation of Want: An Evening with Ricardo Bracho and Cherríe Moraga. A Nation of Want reunites two literary talents who will be reading from their plays, poetry, prose and essays.	LGBT Center Ceremonial Room
June 10 7:30 p.m.	Queer Stuff Showcase 3 incredible hours of live music in Alameda.	Alameda
June 10,12,13 7:30 p.m June 11 7 p.m.	Somewhere in Between Written by Ronny Almog, Israeli Trans playwright, and performed by the original cast.	SomArts Theater
June 10,11,12 June 16,17,18 8 p.m.	Legacies Untied: Lust Unleashed liquidFIRE The Bay Area's annual lesbian of color multidisciplinary theatre experience	AAACC
June 10 & 24 8 p.m.	Queer Open Mic Let your words, rants, passions and raves rock the mic!	Three Dollar Bill
June 10 & 11 June 17 & 18 8 p.m	Prism: Eric Kuper-DandelionDance Dance and multi-media storytelling.	Jon Sims Center
June 10 & 11 8 p.m	And Again We Meet Brittany Brown Ceres & Dance Ceres A memory collection of game-playing and love-making told through the awareness of movement and sound.	Jon Sims Center
June 10,11,12 17, 18,19 8 p.m	Joe Goode Performance Group Hometown (World Premiere) and grace (2004)	Yerba Buena Center
June 10,11, 12 8 p.m	Kate Clinton Talking a Blue Streak	BRAVA
June 11 ~ Saturday
June 10,11, 12 8 p.m	Kate Clinton Talking a Blue Streak	BRAVA
June 10,12,13 7:30 p.m June 11 7 p.m.	Somewhere in Between Written by Ronny Almog, Israeli Trans playwright, and performed by the original cast.	SomArts Theater
June 9, 10,11 & 23 7:30 p.m.	TransForming Community Exploring the friction at the intersection of contemporary trans and queer communities with some of the hottest talents in queer lit and performance.	LGBT Center Rainbow Room
June 11 9 p.m	Boy Bands Against the War present Rally the Troupes An eclectic mix of drag kings, queens, and burlesque artists from the Bay Area and beyond in a savvy political & sexy performance…with pom poms	SomArts Theater
June 10,11,12 June 16,17,18 8 p.m.	Legacies Untied: Lust Unleashed liquidFIRE The Bay Area's annual lesbian of color multidisciplinary theatre experience	AAACC
June 10 & 11 June 17 & 18 8 p.m	Prism: Eric Kuper-DandelionDance Dance and multi-media storytelling.	Jon Sims Center
June 11 2 - 6 p.m	Hijas de Coyolxauhqui (Daughters of Coyolxauhqui) Contemporary art in America by established and emerging Queer Latina artists. Opening reception.	Corazon del Pueblo, Oakland
June 10 & 11 8 p.m	And Again We Meet Brittany Brown Ceres & Dance Ceres A memory collection of game-playing and love-making told through the awareness of movement and sound.	Jon Sims Center
June 10,11,12 17, 18,19 8 p.m	Joe Goode Performance Group Hometown (World Premiere) and grace (2004)	Yerba Buena Center
June 12 ~ Sunday
June 10,12,13 7:30 p.m June 11 7 p.m.	Somewhere in Between Written by Ronny Almog, Israeli Trans playwright, and performed by the original cast.	SomArts Theater
June 10,11,12 June 16,17,18 8 p.m.	Legacies Untied: Lust Unleashed liquidFIRE The Bay Area's annual lesbian of color multidisciplinary theatre experience.	AAACC
June 10,11,12 17, 18,19 7 p.m	Joe Goode Performance Group Hometown (World Premiere) and grace (2004)	Yerba Buena Center
June 12 3 p.m	Kate Clinton Talking a Blue Streak	BRAVA
June 13 ~ Monday
June 10,12,13 7:30 p.m June 11 7 p.m.	Somewhere in Between Written by Ronny Almog, Israeli Trans playwright, and performed by the original cast.	SomArts Theater
June 13 & 20 8 p.m.	QComedy presents: Monday Night Gay Comedy Reception at 7:30 pm, Show at 8:00 pm	LGBT Center Rainbow Room
June 14 ~ Tuesday
June 14 7:30 p.m	Fist. Muscle. Bone. Dirty Ink Writers Collective	LGBT Center Ceremonial Room
June 15 ~ Wednesday
June 15 7:30 p.m	Hot Topic This Queer video shorts program explores gender, transformation and "passing" through a queer lens.	LGBT Center Rainbow Room
June 8, 15 & 22 8 & 9 p.m.	Ecstasy @ The Citadel Join director and choreographer Joe Landini as he examines the human pursuit of ecstasy.	The Citadel
June 16 ~ Thursday
June 10,11,12 June 16,17,18 8 p.m.	Legacies Untied: Lust Unleashed liquidFIRE The Bay Area's annual lesbian of color multidisciplinary theatre experience.	AAACC
June 16,17,18 8 p.m	Fresh Meat 2005 Fresh Meat returns with another gourmet festival of the nation's finest transgender and queer performers. NOTE: There are 2 performances on Saturday the 18th 7:30 & 9. The performances on Thursday the 16th and Friday the 17th are at 8.	ODC
June 16 after the show	Fresh Meat in the Gallery-post performance There will be a reception for the artists after the evening's performance.	ODC
June 17 ~ Friday
June 10,11,12 June 16,17,18 8 p.m.	Legacies Untied: Lust Unleashed liquidFIRE The Bay Area's annual lesbian of color multidisciplinary theatre experience.	AAACC
June 17 10 p.m.	frameline29's Off the Hook An evening of short videos co-presented by frameline29 & Qcc	Roxie
June 16,17,18 8 p.m	Fresh Meat 2005 Fresh Meat returns with another gourmet festival of the nation's finest transgender and queer performers. NOTE: There are 2 performances on Saturday the 18th 7:30 & 9. The performances on Thursday the 16th and Friday the 17th are at 8.	ODC
June 17 8 p.m	Please Don't Stop & Sizzle Sizzle, the erotic monthly salon at Femina Potens, presents Please Don't Stop, a film somewhere between smut and sex-ed!	Femina Potens
June 17 7 p.m	Queeriosity by Youth Speaks Celebrating writing & performance from LGBTQ youth from throughout the Bay Area	LGBT Center Rainbow Room
June 10 & 11 June 17 & 18 8 p.m	Prism: Eric Kuper-DandelionDance Dance and multi-media storytelling.	Jon Sims Center
June 17 & 18 8 p.m	Asian American Dance Performances:Translations Queer and Asian? How does that translate? Five Asian American choreographers answer these questions in dance	SomArts
June 10,11,12 17, 18,19 8 p.m	Joe Goode Performance Group Hometown (World Premiere) and grace (2004)	Yerba Buena Center
June 18 ~ Saturday
June 10,11,12 June 16,17,18 8 p.m.	Legacies Untied: Lust Unleashed liquidFIRE The Bay Area's annual lesbian of color multidisciplinary theatre experience.	AAACC
June 16,17,18 7:30 & 9:30 p.m	Fresh Meat 2005 Fresh Meat returns with another gourmet festival of the nation's finest transgender and queer performers. NOTE: There are 2 performances on Saturday the 18th 7:30 & 9. The performances on Thursday the 16th and Friday the 17th are at 8.	ODC
June 17 & 18 8 p.m	Asian American Dance Performances:Translations Queer and Asian? How does that translate? Five Asian American choreographers answer these questions in dance	Jon Sims Center
June 18 8 p.m	Our Bodies, Our Choice & Sampler Sampler, Femina Potens' monthly film and video series features women and transgendered video artists and filmmakers from around the world	Femina Potens
June 10 & 11 June 17 & 18 8 p.m	Prism: Eric Kuper-DandelionDance Dance and multi-media storytelling.	Jon Sims Center
June 18 7:30 p.m	Kinsey Sicks - I Wanna Be a Republican America's Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet.	Herbst Theater
June 10,11,12 17, 18,19 8 p.m	Joe Goode Performance Group Hometown (World Premiere) and grace (2004)	Yerba Buena Center
June 19 ~ Sunday
June 19,20,21 6 p.m	Italian. Queer. Dangerous. Acclaimed one-man show exploring the life of San Francisco activist Tommi Avicolli Mecca.	SomArts Theater
June 19 2 p.m	Sor Juana - Staged Opera A staged reading of the completed English version of Carla Lucero's opera's libretto on the 17th c. lesbian nun.	SomArts Theater
June 10,11,12 17, 18,19 7 p.m	Joe Goode Performance Group Hometown (World Premiere) and grace (2004)	Yerba Buena Center
June 20 ~ Monday
June 19,20,21 7:30 p.m	Italian. Queer. Dangerous. Acclaimed one-man show exploring the life of San Francisco activist Tommi Avicolli Mecca.	SomArts Theater
June 13 & 20 8 p.m.	QComedy presents: Monday Night Gay Comedy Reception at 7:30 pm, Show at 8:00 pm	LGBT Center Rainbow Room
June 21 ~ Tuesday
June 19,20,21 7:30 p.m	Italian. Queer. Dangerous Acclaimed one-man show exploring the life of San Francisco activist Tommi Avicolli Mecca.	SomArts Theater
June 21 7:30 p.m	Love is a Battlefield Join some of San Francisco's fiercest poets as they shout & serenade you.	LGBT Center Ceremonial Room
June 22 ~ Wednesday
June 22 7 p.m	(Un)Godly (W)rites: A Spoken Word Reading Rowdy local writers from the Bay Area who write with their hearts on their sleeves and adrenaline on their lips	Galeria de la Raza
June 8, 15 & 22 8 & 9 p.m.	Ecstasy @ The Citadel Join director and choreographer Joe Landini as he examines the human pursuit of ecstasy.	The Citadel
June 23 ~ Thursday
June 9 - 11 & 23 7:30 p.m.	TransForming Community Exploring the friction at the intersection of contemporary trans and queer communities with some of the hottest talents in queer lit and performance.	LGBT Center Rainbow Room
June 24 ~ Friday
June 10 & 24 8 p.m.	Queer Open Mic Let your words, rants, passions and raves rock the mic!	Three Dollar Bill
June 24 9 p.m	Rock Out w/o Yr Cock Out Queer and progressive rock and experimental noise event showcasing women and transgender musicians.	Edinburgh Castle
June 24 7:30 p.m.	Gay American Indians 30th Anniversary & 2 Spirit Writers Conference.	LGBT Center Ceremonial Room
June 24 8 p.m.	Gay Men's Chorus: Sing for the Cure note: this concert was incorrectly listed in the NQAF05 catalog as June 27th. The correct date for this event is June 24th at 8 pm.	Grace Cathedral
June 25 ~ Saturday
June 25 3 p.m	Dyke March Performance/Rally Strengthening an international perspective in our community - celebrate our unity!	Dolores Park
June 25 8 & 10 p.m	Stand-Up for Pride: Marilyn Pittman Presents The standup comedy of Marilyn Pittman, Nico Santos, Jen Kober, Nick Leonard and Alana Devich.	LGBT Center Rainbow Room
June 26 ~ Sunday
June 26 7:30 p.m	micro cinema The evening will feature experimental video by local artists and award-winning short films. 7:00pm sign up; 7:30pm show	Three Dollar Bill
June 28 ~ Tuesday
June 28 7:30 p.m	(g)literati Literary event with Mike Albo & Juanita MORE! Curated & Hosted by Mark Menke	LGBT Center Rainbow Room
June 30 ~ Thursday
June 30 6:30 p.m	Creating Queer Community The Queer Cultural Center will provide grants between $500 and &1,500 to 4-6 innovative projects in any artistic medium that will be part of the NQAF in 2006.	LGBT Center Ceremonial Room
Running from April - June
April - June	Acting Out: Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore	Magnes Museum
April - July	The Art of Win Ng: A R etrospective	CHSA
TBA	Electronic Book: Crossroads Original comix presented on-line. Web site launch party.	LGBT Center Computer Center

National Queer Arts Festival 2005

DIRECTOR'S CHAT

Welcome to the 8th Annual National Queer Arts Festival! NQAF events begin June 1st and end on June 30th! The Queer Cultural Center (Qcc) and The San Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center are kicking off the NQAF and celebrating Pride Month on June 4th with the mother of all FREE Performance Parties - The QBall! Starting at 6:00pm, join us for four, count 'em FOUR art openings and twenty bite-size performances. Then kick back the chairs and dance. As always, the beats got treats: free food and drink abound.

We have riveting performances and knockout visual arts exhibitions for the entire festival. Qcc asked visual artists to define and create new work about war. War might be with economic, political, racial, gender-based, environmental or illness. We are sharing this exhibition with visual artists from around the world, and complementing the exhibit is an evening of performance at the opening on June 5th at SomArts.

This year, Qcc is lowering the ticket prices for most of our events, and has increased the number of FREE events. Our event costs have risen 20-40%, but we are lowering admissions to bring these programs to the widest possible audience. Most of our tickets will be a sliding scale of $5 - $15. Eighty to ninety percent of our ticket earnings are given back to the artists as fees. Please consider what you can afford and if you are able, purchase tickets at the higher end of the sliding scale; you are directly supporting your community's artists!

The National Queer Arts Festival 2005 is produced by Qcc in collaboration with numerous Bay Area arts organizations such as SomArts, The LGBT Community Center, Jon Sims Center for the Arts, QueLACo, Asian/Pacific Islander Cultural Center, Native American Cultural Center, the African American Art & Culture Complex, Corazon del Pueblo, The Three Dollar Bill Cafe, Galería de la Raza, and our newest producing partner, the amazing Femina Potens and Elements Hostel/Hotel.

We thank the funders and supporters of NQAF 2005 for helping to make it happen! Also to our new media sponsor the SF Bay Guardian for the ink and support!

Special THANKS go to our individual donors who make an enormous impact on our organizational capacity and our ability to carry out our mission.

NQAF Information

Office Location & Mailing Address
Queer Cultural Center
Qcc
934 Brannon Street
SF, CA 94103

Email:director@queerculturalcenter.org

Festival Staff

Artistic Director: Pamela Peniston
Development Director: Jeff Jones
Online Programs Director: Rudy Lemcke
Publicist-NQAF 05L Julie Feinstein
Production ManagerL Chris Dunaway
Vol. Coordinator / BoxOffice: Chris Dunaway
Technical Director-SomArts: Cecily Chow
Technical Director-Center: Shani Heckman
Gallery Director-War!L Ann Aptaker
Curator-War!: Kim Anno
Curator-War!: Tina Butcher
Curator-War!: Armando Rascon
Curator-War!: Rev. Tim Taylor
Graphic Design: Dendesign
Business Manager: LaVette Virden
Publicity Liason: Shawna Virago
Festival Intern: Shely Arrieta
Festival Intern: John Jackson

Support for the National Queer Arts Festival and Qcc

The National Queer Arts Festival has been financially supported by SomArts, the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Art, the Bayview Opera House, the Cultural Equity Grants program of the San Francisco Arts Commission, Grants for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the Gateways Initiative of the San Francisco Foundation, the Horizons Foundation, the Astraea Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Fund, Hispanics in Philanthropy, New Performance Network , California Poets & Writers, Inc., African American Art and Culture Complex, the Creative Work Fund, the Vanguard Foundation, and the Walter and Elise Haas Foundation.

Thanks to our Individual Funders:
Ilona Weiss, Dr. Marcy Adelman, Ruth Herring, and Lisa Hoffman.

Thanks to our Media Sponsor:

Special Thanks to:

Qcc's Mission
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.

Lucrecia Bermudez
Blackberri
Lenore Chinn
Rudy Lemcke
Debra Walker
Jeff Jones
Pamela Peniston
Juan Alberto Tam
Trilce Santana