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Calendar Listings for National Queer Arts Festival 2001 Events
This document is a chronological listing of National Queer Arts Festival 2001 events. Events with multiple performances are described in full on the opening date.
Unless otherwise indicated, the tickets and information line for all festival events is: 415.552.7709. Tickets are also available on our Web site: www.queerculturalcenter.org.
This and other press information is available online at www.queerculturalcenter.org .
The official press contact for the festival is Larsen Associates, 415.957.1205. Please note: certain events associated with the festival have an alternate press contact, indicated in bold in the body of the listing.
Friday, June 1
Opening Night Gala
Alice Walker, Dorothy Allison, Jewelle Gomez
Women's Building 3543 18th St @ Valencia
8:00 pm. $25-$50, sliding scale
The opening night gala event of the National Queer Arts Festival 2001. Alice Walker, Dorothy Allison, and Jewelle Gomez read from published and soon-to-be published work and engage in discussion with each other and the audience. Wine and hors dıoeuvres will be served. This evening is a benefit for the Qcc Lesbian Writerıs Fund.
Saturday, June 2
Plays of Passion/Passion Plays
Film screening and discussion with Barry Purves
Women's Building, 3543 18th St @ Valencia
7:00 pm. $15
Contemporary master of puppet animation Barry Purves will be showing five of his short films: Next, Screen Play, Rigoletto, Achilles, and Gilbert and Sullivan. He will discuss how his identity as a gay man has impacted and informed his work.
Greatest Spits CD Release Party:
Sister Spit: various artists
Women's Building, 3543 18th St @ Valencia
9:30 pm. $7-$10 Sliding Scale
A celebration of the release of Sister Spitıs latest CD, Greatest Spits, (Mr. Lady Records) with spoken word performances by a dozen artists from past Sister Spit tours. Drinks and snacks will be served.
Queer Latino Art Festival: QueLACo Visual Art Exhibition
Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission St @ 24th St Saturday,
June 2-23. Opening night reception, June 2; 7@ 9 pm. $5
Info: 415.648.3702, www.QueLACo.org
Curators Ester Hernandez and Antonio Escalante present a variety of work by emerging and established artists representing 25 years of Latino Visual Art.
Lenore Chinn: Portrait of Bernice Bing
SomArts, 934 Brannan St @ 8th St
Continues through June 10. Free; donations at the door encouraged.
Info: www.apiculturalcenter.org
The exhibitionıs approximately 20 pieces will offer a collective portrait of the queer community as it has developed over the past 30 years. The exhibition will include Chinnıs newest work—a portrait of the late Bernice Bing, who was a noted Bay Area pioneer artist of the Beat era.
Sunday, June 3
The Case of Aileen Wuornos: The Legal, Psychological and Social Consequences of Childhood Abuse (Video screening and discussion)
Women's Building, 3543 18th St @ Valencia
2pm. Free; donations at the door encouraged.
Info/Reservations: Jon Sims Center, 415.554.0402
A screening of Nick Broomfieldıs documentary Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, followed by a panel discussion with artists and activists. Panelists will include Carla Lucero, composer and librettist for the Wuornos Opera; Saun-Toy Trotter and Rhodessa Jones, artists and activists; and Norma Hotaling, Executive Director, SAGE (Standing Against Global Exploitation, www.sageinc.org).
Lesbian ConneXion/s
SomArts, 934 Brannan St @ 8th St
Opening Reception: Sunday, June 3; 4:00-7:00 pm
Exhibition: June 3 - 24
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, Noon – 7:30 pm
Donations at the door encouraged.
Debuting in the United States as part of this yearıs festival, Lesbian ConneXion/s is a traveling photo by a wide range of European lesbian artists.
QccTV: Launch & Reception
SomArts, 934 Brannan St @ 8th St
4:00-7:00 pm. Donations at the door encouraged.
QccTv will present interviews, readings, and live performances on our Web site featuring Bill T. Jones, Meredith Monk, Thom Gunn, Dorothy Allison, and other queer artists who have presented their work in the National Queer Arts Festival.
Intercourse: Trans & Genderqueer Spoken Word
SomArts, 934 Brannan @ 8th St
7:00 pm. $5-50 Sliding Scale; No one turned away for lack of funds
An evening of performance, connection, and celebration featuring readings by Thea Hillman, Kristi Bruce, Kassy Kayiatos, Marcus Rene Van, Max Valerio, and James Green.
Intergeneration Performance Series
SF Public Library, Lower Level, Latino Hispanic Community Room
2:00 pm. Free admission
Info: 415.695.0933, Frank@Pietronigro.com.
This program will offer new works in poetry, performance, and short digital video created by a multi-generational group of artists deconstructing some of the negative impacts ageism has on the quality of queer lives.
Wednesday, June 6
Randall Kenan and R. Zamora Linmark.
Jon Sims Center, 1519 Mission St @ 11th St
8:00 pm. $5-$10 Sliding Scale
Tickets/Reservations: Jon Sims Center, 415.554.0402
An evening of fiction reading and discussion with the authors.
Thursday, June 7
The Best of AIRspace Series: Bear-A-Go-Go
Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, 4235 19th St @ Collingwood
Thursday, June 7 & Friday, June 15
8pm. $7-$12, Sliding Scale
Alan Readeıs Bear-A-Go-Go! is a very personal look at body image in the gay male world, as seen through the filter of the "bear" subculture.
Friday, June 8
Higher Highs, Lower Lows, Marga Gomez
PsychoSemitic, Felice Shays
SomArts, 934 Brannan St @ 8th St
Friday & Saturday, June 8 & 9
8:00 pm. $15 - $20, sliding scale
Renowned lesbian comic writer/ performer Marga Gomez performs her new show, Higher Highs, Lower Lows, the latest mood swinging standup comedy by the delightful Dyke of Darkness, and performance artist Felice Shays showcases PsychoSemitic. This is a double-billed show each evening. Marga Gomezı show is cosponsored with QueLACo and the Queer Latina/o Arts Festival. Felice Shaysı show will also be presented in ASL.
The Best of AIRspace Series: The Day I Kissed Mike Sanchez
Craig Acosta Rowe
Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, 4235 19th St @ Collingwood
Friday, June 8 & Saturday, June 16
8pm. $7-$12, Sliding Scale
A meditation on adolescent love, fantasy, and contemporary relationships: an individual's search for acceptance in-between communities.
Point Blank: Photo Exhibition
Su Evers, Jackie Gratz, Dusty Lombardo, and Rebecca McBride
BUILD, 483 Guerrero @ 17th St
June 8 - June 24
Opening reception June 8, 6-9 pm. Free; donations at the door encouraged.
Formed in June 1998, Point Blank is a group of women photographers who came together to support and teach each other, learn, and bring the photography back to the people and places that inspire them.
Moments in Time From the 20th Century: The Photographs of Virginia Benavidez
Opening Reception
GLBT Historical Society, 973 Market St., Suite 400 (@ 6th St)
6:00-9:00 pm. Free; donations at the door encouraged.
Info: 415.777.5455, www.glbthistory.org
The images in this exhibit include: portraits of friends and people in her life; Native-American Pow Wows; women of color; and images of the Bay Areaıs Latina/o and queer communities.
Saturday, June 9
The Best of AIRspace Series: A Return to Caffe Cino Part I
Trauma Flintstone
Part I: Saturday, June 9
Part II: Thursday, June 14
Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, 4235 19th St @ Collingwood
8 pm. $7-$12, Sliding Scale
A Return To The Caffe Cino, Part I —The Madness of Lady Bright by Lanford Wilson and Bittersweet Eros, a one-act travesty based on Terrence McNally's play, Sweet Eros. Featuring Trauma Flintstone, Steven LeMay.
A Return To The Caffe Cino, Part II—Georgie Porgie by George Birimisa and What Is Making Gilda So Gray? by Tom Eyen. Featuring Trauma Flintstone, David Ortmann.
The Body, the Nude, Gender, and Sex
A slide presentation and discussion with Laurie Toby Edison
SomArts, 934 Brannan St @ 8th St
2 pm. $10-$15, Sliding Scale
A slide presentation and discussion by the artist about her two books: Familiar Men: A Book of Male Nudes and Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes.
Curatorıs Discussion: Lesbian ConneXion/s
SomArts, 934 Brannan St @ 8th St
11 am. $10
The curators of the Lesbian ConneXion/s exhibition discuss the development and support their project has received in its first years in Europe.
Sunday, June 10
Sini Anderson, Eileen Myles, and Kris Kovic
SomArts, 934 Brannan St @ 8th St
8:00 pm. $15 - $20 Sliding Scale
Performance poet Sini Anderson will be premiering six new spoken word pieces in a multimedia collaboration with sound artist Kadet Kuhne and photographer Sara Seinberg; she has also invited two of her biggest inspirations to perform with her: New York poet and novelist Eileen Myles and local hero, novelist, and genius Kris Kovick.
Mixed-Blood: Multiracial Identity in the Queer Community
A roundtable discussion
GLBT Historical Society, 973 Market St., Suite 400 (@ 6th St)
2:00-4:00 pm. Free; donations at the door encouraged.
Info: 415.777.5455, www.glbthistory.org
A roundtable discussion with artists and activists on multiracial identity in the queer community.
Wednesday, June 13
Terrence McNally
New Conservatory Theatre, 25 Van Ness Ave
7:30 pm. Tickets: $30
Tickets/Reservations: 415.861.8972
Join the National Queer Arts Festival and New Conservatory Theatre Center for a conversation with four-time Tony Award Winning Playwright Terrence McNally, moderated by Jonathan Katz. Advance ticket purchase is required and includes a reception.
Forrest Hamer and D.A. Powell
Jon Sims Center, 1519 Mission St @ 11th St
8:00 pm. $5-$10 Sliding Scale
Tickets/Reservations: Jon Sims Center, 415.554.0402
An evening of poetry reading and discussion with the authors.
Friday, June 15
Lesbian Gay Dance Festival: June 15-July 1
Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St @ Mission
Shotwell Studios, Shotwell Studios, 3252 A 19th St @ Shotwell
8 pm. $15 -$17 Sliding Scale
Tickets/Info: 415.273.4633
Press Contact: Brechin Flournoy. 415.648.1177, Sfbutoh@earthlink.net
Work by: Laura Bernasconi, Tara Brandel/MnaRua, Sara Sean Dorsey, Kim Epifano, Michelle Ito, Julie Kane/Mercy Sidbury, Jared Kaplan/Gabriel Todd, KT Nelson/Brian Fisher , Yannis Adoniou/KUNST-STOFF, Jesselito Bie/STEAMROLLER, Remy Charlip, Krissy Keefer/DANCE BRIGADE, Sue Roginsky/Stephanie Schaaf
Stanya Khan & Harriet "Harry" Dodge
Location: SomArts, 934 Brannan St @ 8th St
Friday & Saturday, June 15 & 16
8:00 pm. $15 - $20 Sliding Scale
Stanya will perform excerpts from her recent, acclaimed solo show The Ballad of Crappy and Seapole (According to Shempco). 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). 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.
Emerging Lesbian Visual Artists
Cooper Lee Bombardier, Chloe Sherman, Daphne Scholinski
SomArts, 934 Brannan @ 8th St
Opening Reception: 5-7 pm (Exhibition: June 15-June 30)
Free; donations at the door encouraged.
Haunting, autobiographical paintings of Daphne Scholinski; powerful photos from the roadmap of Chloe Shermanıs life; and larger-than-life paintings of gender-bent renaissance cowboy Cooper Lee Bombardier with an Ambient DJ, beverages & hors dıoeuvres.
Life After Death: Embracing the Queer Widow
SPACE 743, 743 Harrison Street @ 4th St
Opening Reception: 6-9 pm
June 15-July 28; Free
A community-oriented exhibition featuring interdisciplinary works created for, by and about members of the queer community whose partners/lovers have died of AIDS.
Queer Latina/o Arts Festival: An Evening of Poetry
Galeria de la Raza, 2857 24th Street @ Bryant
7-9 pm. Tickets/Info: 415.648.3702, www.QueLACo.org
Come check out some of our mujeres and hombres de la comunidad LGBT Latina/o. Co-sponsored by Ellas en Accion.
Sunday, June 17
Lesbian Gay Dance Fest: Body Image & Dance
Shotwell Studios, 3252 A 19th St @ Shotwell
4pm. Free
Tickets/Info: 415.273.4633
Press Contact: Brechin Flournoy. 415.648.1177, Sfbutoh@earthlink.net
A panel discussion with artists in the queer dance community. Co-sponsored with the Harvey Milk Institute
Daphne Scholinski
Exhibition Discussion & Tour
Sunday, June 17; 7pm
SomArts, 934 Brannan St @ 8th St
$7-$10 Sliding Scale
Daphne Scholinski does a walk-through of the exhibition that will be up at SomArts, as well as a slide show of her other work and a discussion / question and answer session.
Monday, June 18
Mr. and Ms. Gay Safe Latina/o
Brava Theater, 2781 24th St @ York
7-10 pm. Tickets/Info: 415.648.3702, www.QueLACo.org
An exciting evening filled with talent, beauty, and fun. Co-sponsored by Instituto Familiar de la Raza.
Tuesday, June 19
Virgin Art Show
Lexington Club, 19th & Lexington Streets
Visual art opening 5-7 pm, performance 8 pm.
Free event, $5 donation requested
Sini Anderson curates and hosts an evening of entirely new to the scene dyke visual and spoken word artists.
Wednesday, June 20
Herstory of Porn
Annie Sprinkle
Theatre Rhino, 2940 16th & So Van Ness
Wednesday – Thursday, June 20-21; 8pm
Friday, June 22; 7 pm & 9 pm
$25
Theater Rhino and the National Queer Arts Festival present Annie Sprinkle's Herstory of Porn: Reel to Real, a solo performance and film diary that traces the legendary porn-star turned performance artistıs 25-year evolution through the Sexual Revolution.
Studly
Lisi DeHaas
Venue 9, 252 9th St @ Folsom/Howard Sts
Wednesday-Friday June 20-22
Wednesday-Saturday June 27-30
8 pm. $12-$15 Sliding Scale
Wednesdays are Pay-What-You-Can
Info/Reservations: 415.289.2000, www.venue9.com
Press Contact: Jeffrey Hartgraves, 415.626.2169, ftloose@best.com
Footloose in collaboration with The National Queer Arts Festival presents Studly, written and performed by Lisi DeHaas,with live piano arrangements and performance by Jude Navari, this comedy-drama chronicles the coming of age of a young woman who gradually realizes that both she and her father are gay.
Thereıs No Place Like Home: Marking Chicagoıs Boyıs Town
Chris Reed
Wednesday, June 20; 7:30 pm
SomArts, 934 Brannan St @ 8th
$10
Starting with the Boys Town project and the controversy it aroused in Chicago, Chris will explore the implications of conceiving of gay identity as a search for an imagined "home" territory, the paradigm of which (as evidenced in the Chicago project) is Oz.
Thursday, June 21
Liquid Fire: Nasty, Program 1 & 2
SomArts, 934 Brannan St @ 8th
8 pm. $13-$22
Advance Tickets: $17, $13 students, disabled and senior citizens
At the Door $22: $17 students, disabled and senior citizens
Tickets available via: NQAF: 415.552.7709, www.queerculturalcenter.org, NQAF@aol.com
at: A Different Light Bookstore, SF (415) 431-0891
and Mama Bears Bookstore, Oakland (510) 428-9684
New Dates:
Thursday, June 21; 8 pm, Program 1
Friday, June 22; 8 pm, Program 2
Saturday, June 23; 2 pm, Program 1
Thursday, June 28; 8 pm, Program 2
Friday, June 29; 8 pm, Program 1
Saturday, June 30; 2 pm, Program 1
Saturday, June 30; 8 pm, Program 2
Sunday, July 1; 2 pm, Program 2
Liquid Fire 2001: Nasty marks the five-year anniversary of Liquid Fire, the annual multidisciplinary workshop and performance project dedicated to the exploration, reclamation, and celebration of the erotic power of lesbians of color.
Friday, June 22
Wuornos, Opera World Premiere.
Carla Lucero, Composer and Librettist
Friday-Sunday, June 22-24; 8 pm
Open dress Rehearsal on Thursday, June 21
Location: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 700 Howard @ 3rd St
Tickets/Info: $30-$60, www.wuornos.org, YBC: 415.978.2787
Press Contact: Stacy Horn, Betty Sullivan Inc., 415.441.1366
Wuornos is an opera by wunderkind composer and librettist Carla Lucero that recounts the actual life story of Aileen Wuornos, the notorious lesbian serial killer and sex worker who is now on death row for the murder of seven men in Florida.
Performance honoring the late and great Hank Tavera
Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission St @ 24th St
7-10 pm. Tickets/Info415.648.3702, www.QueLACo.org
This show is dedicated to the hard work and commitment to our community by the late Hank Tavera, Featuring many talented Latina/o LGBT performing artists.
Tuesday, June 26
big history
LITTLE ART
Lesbian Life
A lecture and discussion with Kim Anno and E.G. Critchton
Jon Sims Center, 1519 Mission St @ 11th St
8pm. $5-$10 Sliding Scale
Info/Reservations: Jon Sims Center, 415.554.0402
A lecture and discussion about slippery categories with scholars/artists E.G. Crichton and Kim Anno who have created an ongoing community art project called "Lost and Found: A Museum of Lesbian Memory."
Sunday, July 1
Creating Queer Community–We Fund Artists!
Sunday, July 1,
San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin St
1-3 pm, Free
The June 2002 National Queer Arts Festival will explore the nature of racism from a Queer perspective. In keeping with this theme, "Creating Queer Community " will provide grants between $500 and $1500 to four to six inventive culturally-specific or cross-cultural projects in any artistic medium that address the subject of race. To be eligible to apply, you must attend this two-hour workshop. At the workshopıs conclusion, you can submit a brief written statement about your project.
Lesbian Gay Dance Festival: The Politics of Art
Location: Dance Mission Theater, 3316 24th St @ Mission
4 pm. Free
Tickets/Info: 415.273.4633
Press Contact: Brechin Flournoy. 415.648.1177, Sfbutoh@earthlink.net
A panel discussion with artists and activists in the queer dance community. Co-sponsored by the Harvey Milk Institute.
Wednesday, July 4
An Ol' Fashioned 4th of July Alternative Family Picnic
Yerba Buena Center Gardens, 700 Howard @ 3rd St
11:00 am-3:00 pm
Free
Info: Jon Sims Center, 415.554.0402
Bring a picnic and celebrate Independence Day with the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, the Dixieland Dykes +3, Mr. Pat-A-Cake the gay clown, some of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and other Bay Area entertainers.
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