| SoHo to SoMa: Marga Gomez
SoHo to SoMa:
NYC Talent Gomez, Kahn, and Dodge Return Home to SF
(SAN FRANCISCO)—The NQAF brings expatriate performers Marga Gomez, Stanya Kahn, and Harriet Dodge back from NYC to The City by the Bay.
On Friday and Saturday, June 8 and 9, 8 pm at SomArts, 934 Brannan St in San Francisco, Marga Gomez performs her new show, Higher Highs, Lower Lows. Admission is $15-$20 sliding scale. Marga is recognized as a national lesbian treasure for her fifteen years as an openly gay, fierce, funny, and foxy comedian. She has been featured on HBO¹s Comic Relief and The New York Times hailed her as "incendiary as a Molotov cocktail." With devastating one-liners, fabulous characterizations, political satire, and a pinch of smut, Marga aims her comedy at everyone, regardless of ethnicity, sexual orientation, or hairstyle.
Opening for Marga is Brooklyn-based performance artist and ASL interpreter Felice Shays, in her disturbing, comedic display of physical and emotional endurance, PsychoSemitic, in which she proves that one should never mess with a Jewish dyke and her blowtorch! This is a double-billed show each evening. Marga¹s show is cosponsored with the 11th Annual Queer Latina/o Arts Festival. Felice Shays¹ show will also be presented in ASL.
On Friday and Saturday, June 15 and 16, 8 pm at SomArts, the "performance power couple" Stanya Kahn and Harriet Dodge come home to San Francisco with new solo work and to present their first ever theatrical collaboration. Admission is $15-$20 sliding scale.
Stanya, a writer and dancer who has been making performance since 1987, will present excerpts from her recent acclaimed solo show The Ballad of Crappy and Seapole (According to
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Harriet "Harry" Dodge will perform excerpts from her wildly successful but rarely seen solo performance From Where I'm Sitting (I can only reach your ass) in which monologues by multiple characters cast stark images—a sailor, a boxer, a guy in a dog suit—facing the near-psychosis of the gender dysphoric he/she. She appears in numerous independent film and video projects, including John Waters¹ most recent feature, Cecil B. Demented.
Together, Kahn and Dodge will perform excerpts of a new work in progress, a two-person performance piece they are co-creating, tentatively titled: Naked On the Path.
The National Queer Arts Festival is a series of cultural events, exhibitions, performances and interpretive programs organized by The Queer Cultural Center and Harvey Milk Institute. For further information on any Festival event, please contact the National Queer Arts Festival at 415.552.7709 or visit the Web site at www.queerculturalcenter.org.
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