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The Best of AIRspace Series
(SAN FRANCISCO)—This yearıs festival premieres new performance works as part of the Jon Sims Center for the Artsı Best of AIRspace Series: Thursdays-Saturdays, June 7-9, and June 14-16. All shows begin at 8pm at the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, 4235 19th St in San Francisco. Admission for each show is $7-$12. The works in this program are from last yearıs AIRspace (Artist In Residence) program at the Jon Sims Center for the Arts, which sponsors this innovative work-in-progress laboratory for the initial development of new performance works by LGBT performing artists.
Alan Reade in Bear-A-Go-Go! Thursday, June 7; Friday, June 15. This multimedia show takes a very personal look at body image in the gay male world, as seen through the filter of the "bear" subculture. Alan Reade pulls no punches as he looks at how one subculture marginalizes another through the filter of being a chubby among skinnies.
Craig Acosta Rowe in The Day I Kissed Mike Sanchez , Friday, June 8; Saturday, June 16.
This show mixes memory, performance poetry, and traditional theater techniques to navigate the collapsing binaries of queer/straight, Anglo/minority in this meditation on adolescent love, fantasy, and contemporary relationships.
Trauma Flintstone, A Return to Caffe Cino Parts I & II. Part I: Saturday, June 9; Part II: Thursday, June 14. Trauma has resurrected pre-Stonewall plays that still pack a relevant punch for contemporary queers while providing a history lesson about the origins of modern gay theater. Trauma recently starred in a production of William Burroughsı opera Queer. A Return to Caffe Cino Part I features The Madness of Lady Bright by Lanford Wilson and Bittersweet Eros, a one-act travesty based on Terrence McNally's play, Sweet Eros, with Trauma Flintstone and Steven LeMay. Part II presents Georgie Porgie by George Birimisa and What Is Making Gilda So Gray? by Tom Eyen, featuring Trauma Flintstone and David Ortmann.
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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