I Touch Myself
Visual Arts - Closing Celebration
12pm | June 1
Femina Potens Gallery

Thursday June 5

The Grown Woman Show
Performance
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
8pm | June 5, 6
The Garage

That's Revolting! Radical Queer Activism - Past, Present, and Future
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Panel / Readings
6pm | June 5
SF Public Library - Main

Fringes, Margins, & Borders
Performance
7:30pm | June 4, 5
SF LGBT Community Center - 2nd Floor

Exit Sign: A Rock Opera
Music / Theater
8pm | June 5, 6, 7
Voice Factory

Friday June 6

Hogwarts Express - The Musical!!
Musical comedy
7pm | June 6, 7
SomArts

Open Your Eyes Queer Film Fest - Let's Talk About Sex
Film and Panel
8pm | June 6
Femina Potens Gallery

Pass the Torch Tour - Queer Control Records
Music
9pm | June 6
El Rio

Wonderboy - Joe Goode Performance Group
Dance
8pm / Sunday 7pm | June 6 - 8 & 13 - 15
Yerba Buena Center

QueLaCo Festival - Visual Arts Program
Visual Art
6 to 8:30pm | June 6
Galeria de la Raza

Exit Sign: A Rock Opera
Music / Theater
8pm | June 5, 6, 7
Voice Factory

The Grown Woman Show
Performance
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
8pm | June 5, 6
The Garage

Saturday June 7

Untold Stories & Fighting Back
Visual Art
7 - 10pm | June 7
Femina Potens

Trans as F*ck - late show
Performance/Cabaret
9:30pm | June 7
SomArts Theater

QueLaCo Festival - Joteria and Playreading
The Love of Brothers
Literary and Performing arts
7:30pm | June 7, 27
Galeria de la Raza

bi-licious
Multidiscipline
6pm Art Reception | 7pm Performance | June 7
SF LGBT Community Center - 2nd Floor

Fresh Meat in the Gallery V: Riots & Revelations
Visual Art
6pm art reception | June 7
SF LGBT Community Center - 3rd Floor

Restos de Obra y Sexo - Remnants of Work and Sex
Jillian Soto
In Conjunction with
Fresh Meat in the Gallery V: Riots & Revelations
6pm | June 7
SF LGBT Community Center - 3rd Floor

Best of San Francisco in Exile - Past, Present, Future
Spoken Word / Literature
8pm | June 7
The Garage

Start Here, Go Anywhere
Multidiscipline
12:30 - 4pm | June 7
7:00pm | Film Screening -Youth Artists Workin' it Out
SF LGBT Community Center

Hogwarts Express - The Musical!!
Musical comedy
7pm | June 6, 7
SomArts

Exit Sign: A Rock Opera
Music / Theater
8pm | June 5, 6, 7
Voice Factory

Sunday June 8

Show & Tell
Multidiscipline
7pm | June 8
Voice Factory

Children of the Last Days
Performance / Play reading
8pm | June 8, 9
The Garage

Monday June 9

Children of the Last Days
Performance / Play reading
Time | June 8, 9
The Garage

Tuesday June 10

Get Your Troy on! - Enrique Urueta
Cancelled due to illness
Performance / Staged reading
7:30pm | June 10
Voice Factory

The Outsiders
Literary Reading /Spoken Word
6pm | June 10, 17, 24
San Francisco Public Library - Main

This is the Thing - Kirk Read
Performance
8pm | June 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
The Garage

Wednesday June 11

Remembering June Jordan
Literary / Poetry
7:30pm | June 11
SF LGBT Community Center - 4th Floor

This is the Thing - Kirk Read
Performance
8pm | June 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
The Garage

Thursday June 12

30 Years of a Ride - Dykes on Bikes
Visual Art - Panel Discussion
6pm | June 12
GLBT Historical Society

Queer Loving
Multidiscipline
7:30pm | June 12
SF LGBT Community Center - 4th Floor

Border OUT!
Multidiscipline
7:30pm | June 12
SomArts

Faith & Sexuality on Film & In Person - Trembling Before G-d
Film
7:30pm | June 12
JCC East Bay 1414 Walnut St. in North Berkeley

This is the Thing - Kirk Read
Performance
8pm | June 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
The Garage

Friday June 13

Inside Out: The Story of Freeplay Dance Crew
Dance + Multidiscipline
7pm | June 13, 14
SomArts

Queer Open Mic
Literary / Spoken Word
8pm - Sign up at 7:30 | June 13 & 27
SF LGBT Community Center - Three Dollar Bill Cafe

Queeriosity - Youth Speaks
Literary / Spoken Word / Performance
6pm | June 13
SF LGBT Community Center - 2nd Floor

Rally the Troupes 4: A night of savvy political and sexy queer performance
Performance / Drag / Burlesque
9pm | June 13, 14
SomArts

Queer Women of Color Film Festival
Film / Panel Discussions
Various Times | June 13, 14, 15
Brava Theater

The Toxic Cock-tale: Hold the Retro Virus Please!
Performance / Cabaret
8pm | June 13, 14, 19, 20
Voice Factory

This is the Thing - Kirk Read
Performance
8pm | June 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
The Garage

Saturday June 14

Live Through This - Sizzle!
Literary / Spoken Word
8pm | June 14
Femina Potens Gallery

This is the Thing - Kirk Read
Performance
8pm | June 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
The Garage

Inside Out: The Story of Freeplay Dance Crew
Dance + Multidiscipline
7pm | June 13, 14
SomArts

Rally the Troupes 4: A night of savvy political and sexy queer performance
Performance / Drag / Burlesque
9pm | June 13, 14
SomArts

Queer Women of Color Film Festival
Film / Panel Discussions
Various Times | June 13, 14, 15
Brava Theater

The Toxic Cock-tale: Hold the Retro Virus Please!
Performance / Cabaret
8pm | June 13, 14, 19, 20
Voice Factory

Sunday June 15

Hazardous Waste Project - Making Love 2008
Theater / Performance
4pm | June 15
Voice Factory

Marginal Bodies: Illness, Disability & Queer Community
Performance / Panel
7pm | June 15
SomArts

Queer Food for Love
Performance / Food
7pm | June 15
Muse Gallery

Fugue State - Wickie Stamps
Theater / Performance
8pm | June 15, 16
The Garage

Queer Women of Color Film Festival
Film / Panel Discussions
Various Times | June 13, 14, 15
Brava Theater

Monday June 16

Fugue State - Wickie Stamps
Theater / Performance
8pm | June 15, 16
The Garage

Tuesday June 17

Criminal Queers: A Night of Performance, Protest and Abolition
Performance / Multidiscipline
7:30pm
SomArts

The Outsiders
Literary Reading /Spoken Word
6pm | June 10, 17, 24
San Francisco Public Library - Main

Wednesday June 18

Insurgency - Mixed Queer Bodies
Performance
7:30pm | June 18
Voice Factory

Deep Lez Potluck and Performance Night
7pm films | 8:30pm performances | June 18
El Rio

The New Brotherhood
Performance / Multidiscipline
7:30pm | June 18
SF LGBT Community Center - 2nd Floor

Sunny Drake
Performance
8pm | June 18, 19
The Garage

Thursday June 19

The 2008 Fresh Meat Festival
The 7th Annual Transgender & Queer Performance
Th - Sat - 8pm | Sunday Performance at 7pm | June 19, 20, 21, 22
Theater Artaud

A Night with Dynasty Handbag & The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac
Performance
7 & 10pm | June 19, 20, 21, 22
Counter Pulse

Mani-Pedi Cabaret (femme show)
Performance
8pm | June 19
SomArts

Frameline
Film Festival
Various Times and Venues

The Toxic Cock-tale: Hold the Retro Virus Please!
Performance / Cabaret
8pm | June 13, 14, 19, 20
Voice Factory

Sunny Drake
Performance
8pm | June 18, 19
The Garage

Friday June 20

Last American Icon - A 21st Century Happening
Book release/cocktail party
5pm | June 20
SF LBGT Community Center - 4th Floor

Queer Night at the Opera
Music / Opera / Performance
Doors - 7:30pm | June 20
Somarts

Sweet Deliverance - Veronica Combs aka Vixen Noir
Performance
8pm - June 20 | 2 and 8pm - June 21 | 7pm June 22
The Garage

The Toxic Cock-tale: Hold the Retro Virus Please!
Performance / Cabaret
8pm | June 13, 14, 19, 20
Voice Factory

The 2008 Fresh Meat Festival
The 7th Annual Transgender & Queer Performance
Th - Sat - 8pm | Sunday Performance at 7pm | June 19, 20, 21, 22
Theater Artaud

An Night with Dynasty Handbag & The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac
Performance
7 & 10pm | June 19, 20, 21, 22
Counter Pulse

When The Body Speaks and Teaches One To Live
Poetry, Prose Reading
7:30pm | June 20
Galeria de la Raza

Saturday June 21

GuyWriters Conference
Writers Conference
10am | June 21
SF LGBT Community Center - Rooms Q11

GuyWriters - All Tricked Out
Literary
8pm | June 21
SF LGBT Community Center - 4th Floor

Queer Traditions
Panel / Discussion
1 pm | June 21
Femina Potens

Spectacular Spectacular
Cancelled
8pm | June 21
SomArts

The 2008 Fresh Meat Festival
The 7th Annual Transgender & Queer Performance
Th - Sat - 8pm | Sunday Performance at 7pm | June 19, 20, 21, 22
Theater Artaud

An Night with Dynasty Handbag & The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac
Performance
7 & 10pm | June 19, 20, 21, 22
Counter Pulse

Sweet Deliverance - Veronica Combs aka Vixen Noir
Performance
8pm - June 20 | 2 and 8pm - June 21 | 7pm June 22
The Garage

Sunday June 22

Men's Music Festival
Music
3 to 7pm | June 22
SomArts

The 2008 Fresh Meat Festival
The 7th Annual Transgender & Queer Performance
Th - Sat - 8pm | Sunday Performance at 7pm | June 19, 20, 21, 22
Theater Artaud

Sweet Deliverance - Veronica Combs aka Vixen Noir
Performance
8pm - June 20 | 2 and 8pm - June 21 | 7pm June 22
The Garage

An Night with Dynasty Handbag & The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac
Performance
7 & 10pm | June 19, 20, 21, 22
Counter Pulse

Monday June 23

thinkPhilosophy Salon
Discussion
8pm doors at 7:30pm | June 23
Femina Potens

Tuesday June 24

Home-Made Super Hero
Performance / Multidiscipline
8pm doors at 7:30pm | June 24
SomArts

The Outsiders
Literary Reading /Spoken Word
6pm | June 10, 17, 24
San Francisco Public Library - Main

Wednesday June 25

Coming Out…Again
Performance / Film / Spoken Word
7:30pm | June 25
SF LGBT Community Center - 2nd Floor

Tingel Tangel Club
Earl Dax Presents
9pm | June 25
Bubble Lounge

Thursday June 26

TransForming Community
Performance / Spoken Word
7:30pm | June 26
SF LGBT Community Center - 2nd Floor

Twilight Vixens & Boylesque
Performance / Cabaret
8pm | June 26, 27, 28
The Garage

2008 Pride Concert
Music
8pm | June 26 & 27
First Unitarian Universalist Church & Center

Friday June 27

Trans March Performances
3pm -10pm - Speakers and Performers, 7pm - MARCH! | June 27
Dolores Park

Marga & More Boys
Comedy Performance
8pm | June 27
SF LGBT Community Center - 2nd Floor

QueLaCo Festival - Joteria and Playreading
Poetry, Prose & Joteria
Literary and Performing arts
7:30pm | June 7, 27
Galeria de la Raza

Queer Open Mic
Literary / Spoken Word
8pm - Sign up at 7:30 | June 13 & 27
SF LGBT Community Center - Three Dollar Bill Cafe

Twilight Vixens & Boylesque
Performance / Cabaret
8pm | June 26, 27, 28
The Garage

2008 Pride Concert
Music
8pm | June 26 & 27
First Unitarian Universalist Church & Center

Saturday June 28

Dyke March Performances
3pm Entertainment | 7pm March to the Castro | June 28
Dolores Park

Twilight Vixens & Boylesque
Performance / Cabaret
8pm | June 26, 27, 28
The Garage

Sunday June 29

Pride Exhibit/Performances
Noon | June 29
San Francisco Civic Center

MondayJune 30

Creating Queer Community - Public Meeting
Grants for Artists
7pm | June 30
Voice Factory

Queer Cultural Center begins the second decade of its National Queer Arts Festival by shaking things up and twisting them around!  This year, we open the festival on June 1^st with our international art exhibition, Making Room for Wonder.  We’re going on hiatus with the QBall this year and having some “Wonder-filled” performances during this visual arts opening at SomArts.  Mighty Mistress of Ceremonies, the enchanting Heklina, will steer you toward the next happening. 

And we got all of yer LGBT arts right here!

Consider these hot “L’s:” Deep Lez,  film & performances at El Rio, The Mani Pedi Cabaret at SomArts, Remembering June Jordan, a tribute from past members of Poetry for the People, and Sara Seinberg’s  Show & Tell.  

Our “G” rocks with our first ever Men’s Music Festival curated by Qcc’s own Blackberri; a writers’ conference and performance by GuyWriters; Armistead Maupin reads at Radar; Kirk Read unveils his sorta solo show with musician Jeff Mooney, This is the Thing. Kirk & Zak Zymanskyi curate The New Brotherhood, bringing together Gay men and transmen to forge a fresh approach to masculinity.

“B” too!  Susannah Layton assembles artists for a truly bi-licious art exhibition & performance on the second floor of The Center on June 7^th.

And “T” will blow your mind. Including: 2008 Fresh Meat Festival, TransForming Community with curator Rocco Kayiatos )who, btw, has a new solo-ish show, Home-Made Super Hero).  Storm Florez & seeley quest bring Trans as F©ck to the Festival; and Freeplay Dance Crew premieres a new multimedia piece.

This year’s Festival explores how queer artists fight against marginalization to take center stage while retaining an edgy identity. We kick off with LA and SF performers in Fringes, Margins & Borders curated by Leo Garcia of Highways and Michelle Tea.  Michelle also explores that topic in her lit series The Outsiders and Mattilda returns with That’s Revolting: Queer Strategies to Resist Assimilation.

Chris Vargas and Eric Stanley release Criminal Queers! A Night of Performance, Protest & Abolition; Trilce Santana rounds up a talented band to present Border OUT, using the arts to explore queerness + immigration, while Insurgency: Mixed Queer Bodies brings powerful performances to the issues of mixed-race queers.  Brent Armendinger’s Marginal Bodies: Illness, Disability, & Queer Community and Dwayne Calizo’s The Hazardous Waste Project study the isolating factors of illness/disease upon our community.

As for music; in addition to the Men’s Music Festival, the Spectacular Spectacular, a fashion/rock . . . spectacular; Queer Control Records’ Pass the Torch Tour hits El Rio and ExitSign: A Rock Opera and A Queer Night at the Opera mix up that genre!

Rally the Troupes meets Hogwarts Express for big fun and you can expect serious comedy from Marga Gomez in an all-new Marga and More Boys featuring Ali Mafi, Ronn Vigh and Thai Rivera.

We hope you enjoy this packed festival, our largest ever!

2008 NQAF STAFF

Pamela Peniston - Artistic Director
Rudy Lemcke - Online Programs Director
Chris Dunaway - Production Manager
Chris Dunaway - Festival Coordinator
Tirza True Latimer - Curator
Robert C. Melton - Associate Curator
Lisa Geduldig - Publicist - NQAF 2008
DENDESIGN - Graphic Design
Jeff Jones - Development Director
Sean Dorsey - Development Assistant
Lavette Virden - Business Manager
Ramona Webb - Box Office Manager
Eli Steffen - Receptions & Concessions

Information about the Festival please contact: qccfestival@gmail.com
Chris Dunaway
National Queer Arts Festival Co-ordinator