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National Queer Arts Festival Press Releases
Overview of National Queer Arts Festival 2003
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POETRY, LITERATURE, READINGS, TALKS
When: Wednesday, May 28th 6:00pm Reading
What: R. Zamora Linmark & Lisa Asagi
Selected Readings from E.S.L., Leche, and Other Works
Where: SomArts, 934 Brannan Street @ 8th Street
Tickets Free
More Info: APICC (415) 864-4126 or info@apiculturalcenter.org www.galeriadelaraza.org
EVENT DETAILS
R. Zamora Linmark will be reading from his poetry collection, E. S. L., and from his forthcoming novel, LECHE. He will be joined by Lisa Asagi, who will read from recent works and her work-in-progress. Co-produced APICC and Qcc.
When: Tuesday, June 3rd 6:00pm Reception; 7:00pm Reading
What: "Querido"
Staged Reading of Ricardo BrachoŐs New Play
Where: The SF LGBT Community Center/Rainbow Room, 1800 Market @Octavia Street
Tickets: $7-12 sliding scale
More Info: Qcc Info & Box (415) 3340-Qcc
EVENT DETAILS
Reception and staged reading of a new play by Ricardo Bracho, an adaptation of Jean GenetŐs novel and Rainer Werner FassbinderŐs film, Querelle. Bracho is the recipient of a George Houston Bass Award, a PanelistŐs Choice Award from the Edward Albee Theatre Festival in Valdez, Alaska, and a Dean Goodman Choice Award for Outstanding Playwriting. Querido was commissioned by The Latino Theatre Initiative of the Mark Taper Forum, and is co-produced by QueLACo (Queer Latino/ Artists Coalition), Qcc and The Center.
Artist Biography
Ricardo A. Bracho is a writer who was born in Mexico City, raised in Los Angeles, spent over a decade in the Bay Area and now resides in New York. As a playwright he has been produced in both San Francisco, at Brava Theater Center and Theatre Rhinoceros, and in New York at INTAR Hispanic American Arts Center. His plays have been staged read at SFŐs Intersection for the Arts, LAŐs Plaza de la Raza and at Brown UniversityŐs Rites & Reasons Theater. He was a participant in the NEA/TCG Residency Program for Playwrights and a recipient of an Artists-in-Communities Grant from the Creative Work Fund of the Walter & Elise Haas Fund. He has taught theatre and creative writing with the community-based programs the DramaDIVAS and Proyecto ContraSIDA Por Vida and in Chicano Studies, African American Studies and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and in the Spanish & Portuguese Department at Stanford University. He has co-produced and written short videos and worked as an art director on independent films that have shown internationally and was the recipient of a George Houston Bass Award, a PanelistŐs Choice Award from the Edward Albee Theatre Festival in Valdez, Alaska, and a Dean Goodman Choice Award for Outstanding Playwriting.
When: Tuesday, June 3rd 8:00pm
What: Brazen Femmes: Queering Femininity
Lucky 3 on the Mic: Anna Camilleri, Chloë Brushwood Rose and Michelle Tea
Where: The SF LGBT Community Center/Ceremonial Room, 1800 Market @ Octavia Street
Tickets: $10-$20 sliding scale
More Info: Qcc Info & Box (415) 3340-Qcc
EVENT DETAILS
From Canada! Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity is a manifesto for the unrepentant bitch, straddling the furious and fantastic. Undeniably celebratory and deeply troubling, this sharp-edged collection of fiction, prose poetry, personal essay, photographs, and illustration reveals the un-hyphenated femme experience emerging in performance, betrayal, violence, humor, and survival. Brazen Femme recognizes femme as an identity in flux and in motion, as constantly being reinvented. The collection includes the entertaining and challenging work of writers and artists whose stories are missing from existing explorations of femme that exclude experiences of men, transsexual women, and sex workers. Whether by choice or necessity, these frenzied femmes explore their desires to make (and remake) femininity fit their own queer frames. Darlings, drag queens, whores, and action heroesÉa femme by any other name is spectacular. Brazen Femme has been nominated for a Lambda Award.
Chloë Brushwood Rose is a photographer, writer, and academic whose work has appeared in several publications, including the Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies and Gender and Education. Chloë is a co-editor of the Lambda nominated collection Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity and has a series of fifteen photographs published in the award-winning Boys Like Her: Transfictions. She is a member of the Stern Writing Mistresses and the Public Access art collective and editorial board. Chloë is currently completing her doctorate in Language, Culture, and Teaching at York University in Toronto.
Anna Camilleri is a writer, performance poet, curator, and producer living in Toronto. Camilleri is a co-editor of the Lambda nominated Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity and was the co-founder and co-director of Taste This, which toured extensively with three full-length performance works and collaborated to publish Boys Like Her: Transfictions to critical and popular acclaim. Camilleri has performed nationally and internationally for nearly a decade, is a visiting columnist with Xtra!, and is a member of SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada). Currently, Anna is writing a novel and a play.
Michelle Tea is the author of three wicked femmy books----The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, Valencia, and The Chelsea Whistle. She got a Lambda and a SF Bay Goldie award for Valencia and is presently nominated for a Lambda for The Chelsea Whistle. In 1994 she co-founded the weekly all-girl open mic Sister Spit, which later morphed into the infamous national tour. She continues to both curate events around town and drag performers around the country, and this year she was honored to be included on the first ever Sex Workers Art Show Tour.
When Thursday, June 12th 8:00pm
What: LIT @ JSC
Reading and Discussion with Uchechi Kalu and MR Daniel
Where: Jon Sims Center for the Arts, 1519 Mission Street @ 11th Street
Tickets: $7-$12 sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds
More Info: JSC Info & Box (415) 554-0402
EVENT DETAILS
LIT @ JSC is pleased to host the visionary work of two deeply engaging, and very different, writers and performers of the African Diaspora - Uchechi Kalu and MR Daniel. The reading will be followed by a discussion and a reception.
Artist Biographies
Uchechi Kalu is a Nigerian-born poet, performer, activist, teacher and survivor of life who grew up in Missouri, Texas and Massachusetts. She has performed at many venues and events throughout the Bay Area and the West Coast, including the Afro Solo Festival, the Radical Performance Fest, In the Street Theatre Festival, Intersection for the Arts, with Rhodessa Jones' Medea Project and KPFA Radio. Her poems have appeared in several literary journals and anthologies and on National Public Radio, and most recently in Revolutionary Voices. She is currently writing a novel about the life and death of her younger brother.
MR Daniel is a writer, independent film and video curator and emerging sound
artist. She holds a doctorate from the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz and has lectured on film and the politics of exhibition at UC Santa Barbara and Stanford University, and been a creative advisor on various queer documentaries. She has also performed written work in various places medium and small around the Bay Area, including the late lamented Coco Club. Her previous writing has appeared or is forthcoming in 580 Split, Lip Service, Hot and Bothered 2, Best Black Women's Erotica, Best of the Best Lesbian Erotica and the East Bay Express. She is currently working on various fiction projects and saving money for audio software.
When: Friday, June 27th 6:00pm Reception; 7:00pm Reading
What: QueLACoŐs Poetry Event
Latino Community Poetry Readings
Where:La Galeria De La Raza, 2857 24th Street @ Bryant
Tickets: $5
More Info: La Galeria de la Raza Info & Box (415) 826-8009 or www.galeriadelaraza.org
EVENT DETAILS
Latino/a poetry readings from the community. Co-produced by QueLACo (Queer Latino/a Artists Coalition) and Qcc.
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