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Emergency Townhall Meeting! STOP LAPD’s 30-Day Car Impounds NOW!

Posted in Demonstrations with tags , , , , , , on February 8, 2012 by Mommy Fiercest

EMERGENCY TOWNHALL MEETING in South LA!!
STOP THE 30-DAY CAR IMPOUNDS NOW!!

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012
6:00PM – 8:00PM

SANTEE EDUCATION COMPLEX AUDITORIUM
1921 SOUTH MAPLE AVENUE
LOS ANGELES, CA 90011

Refreshments will be provided.

Do you agree with the recent announcement by LAPD Chief Beck that
vehicles from undocumented (im)migrants will be impounded?
Councilman Mitch Englander, the Los Angeles Police Protective
League, the Official Police Garage Association, along with KFI’s John
and Ken mobilized the anti-immigrant community in the Valley and
succeeded in pressuring Chief Beck to change his recommendation
once again, ensuring that the Official Police Garages continue to make
millions of dollars at the expense of working class (im)migrants who
are not permitted to obtain a driver’s license.

¡ENOUGH is ENOUGH!

The Southern California Immigration Coalition, the National Lawyer’s
Guild and the South Central Neighborhood Council will hold our own
townhall meeting so that our community can have a chance to make
their voices heard. If the Chief of Police, the LA Police Commission,
and members of the Los Angeles City Council can stand there and
listen to members of Englander’s community spew anti-immigrant
remarks, now they will have to make the time to come and listen to the
countless stories of people impacted by decisions without any
consideration to the hundreds of thousands of undocumented
immigrants living in Los Angeles County who each day work hard to
provide for their families.

ALL are invited to attend and make your voices heard!

For more information call:
(323) 400-5676 or (213) 712-0370

www.immigrationcoalition.org
 www.facebook.com/scic.info

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Mazer Archives Lesbian Short Film Screening

Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 26, 2012 by Mommy Fiercest

Sunday, February 12, 2012
 
3:00pm until 6:00pm


Mazer Lesbian Archives Film Screening

Mazer Lesbian Archives Film Screening

These films take us on a journey of love and its many forms: a celebration of a 40-year relationship, the awakening of new passion, the rejuvenation of a troubled marriage, the awkward pratfalls of falling in love, the bond between a mother and son, and a love letter to a remarkable Los Angeles neighborhood.

Tiny and Ruby: Hell Divin’ Women
An intimate and humorous portrait of legendary jazz trumpeter Tiny Davis and her partner of over 40 years, drummer-pianist Ruby Lucas with rare jazz recordings, live performances, vintage photographs, and narrative poetry by Cheryl Clarke.
Directed by Greta Schiller, Andrea Weiss – USA, 1989, 30 min

Fresh Air Therapy

In this offbeat comedy from Germany, a lesbian couple discovers that counseling isn’t the only way to work out their differences.
Directed by Christoph Scheermann– Germany, 2009, 6 min
Audience Award Melbourne Queer Film Fest Australia 2010

Lust Life
Caught between what was and what could be, a woman who has lost her lust for life in the world’s most passionate city takes a chance.
Directed by Lynda Tarryk – USA, 2011, 9 min

Falling for Caroline
This feel-good romantic comedy tells the tale of Darcy, who becomes uncontrollably accident-prone whenever she’s around the girl of her dreams.
Directed by Christine Chew – Canada, 2010, 20 min
Audience Award for Best Short, ImageOut, 2009 (Rochester, NY);
Best Short Film, Queersicht Festival, Bern, Switzerland, 2009

and i am me
An honest and touching portrayal of the relationship between a lesbian mother and her adopted, Ethiopian son.
Directed by Alison Segar – USA, 2010, 16 min

East L.A. Interchange
This trailer for a work-in-progress documentary shows how excavating Boyle Heights’ unique multicultural past serves as a field guide for understanding how to encourage and support diversity, active citizenship, and a respect for differences.
Directed by Betsy Kalin – USA, 2012, 12 min

Filmmaker Q & A to follow.

The Mazer Archives, 626 North Robertson Bl. Los Angeles, Ca

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Queer Mondays Un-Curated By Ian MacKinnon

Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 24, 2012 by Mommy Fiercest

Queer Mondays Un-Curated By Ian MacKinnon

Monday, January 30th, 7:30p-9p 

Queer Mondays is a non-elitist LGBT experimental performance series on the last Monday of every month. It’s an ever-changing grab bag of short pieces and happenings that has something for everyone and you never know what you’re gonna get! QM is dedicated to providing a consistent venue for the development of new queer work, and is open to all artistic disciplines.

This month performances by: Scott Backman Dan Wentzel Martin Wiech Justin Jorgensen Dino Dinco Gregory Barnett hosted by: Ian MacKinnon

$5 www.highwaysperformance.org Highways Performance Space

1651 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404

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Femme Day of Action Los Angeles Edition

Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 21, 2012 by Mommy Fiercest
Los Angeles Femme Day Of Action

Los Angeles Femme Day Of Action

Saturday February 21, at 3:00pm until Sunday at 1:00am

Instigating and Imagining Femme(inine) Community in LA

Calling all self-defined queer folks on femme/inine spectrums to come together for a day of conversation, creativity, and community-building. And a party afterward.

Whether you feel uneasy with the word “femme” but still wonder if it could apply to you, or whether you came out of the womb an 8th level card-carrying high femme, we welcome the wide scope of identities and experiences to contribute to building a smarty-pants good time. We will interrogate and celebrate the definitions, embodiments, and spirits of femme-ness. In this city of such rich diversity and sprawl, let’s intentionally reach across our divisions to imagine and instigate an inclusive, powerful femme community.

And did we mention there’s a dance party?

Saturday Jan 21
Starting at 3 p.m. sharp

Human Resources Gallery
410 Cottage Home Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
(3 blocks from Chinatown stop on the Metro Gold line)

Schedule for the day:

3-4 pm: Meet & Greet
4-6 pm: Facilitated group discussion/workshop time *
6-7 pm: Dinner break (bring something or run out for something)
7-9 pm: Collaborative crafting/party decorating
9 pm on: Dance party**

4-6 pm Group Discussion / Panel:
FACES OF FEMME … Instigating & Imagining Femme(inine) Community in LA

*GROUP DISCUSSION: It’s All About You! Let’s talk about how You identify as femme, tell us when/how you ‘came out’ as femme, and if you could imagine femme community in LA what would it look like?

*PANEL: an amazing group of LA femmes bring perspectives & raise questions about everything including Femme Failure, Trans-femme, Black Femme Identity, Xicana femmes, Body autonomy, and Femme Naked?

-Prof Laura Harris (Pitzer College) co-editor of ‘Femme: lesbians, feminists & bad girls’
-Prof Talia Bettcher (Cal State LA) – co-editor ‘Transgender Studies and Feminism’/Hypatia
-Prof Mignon Moore (UCLA) – Author of ‘Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships and Motherhood Among Black Women’
-Laura Luna Placencia – Queer Fat Femme community activist & ‘Creative Xicana’ blogger
-Lynn Harris Ballen – queer femme(inist), co-founder LEX, host ‘Feminist Magazine’ radio/KPFK

** Dance party is open to everyone. We respectfully request that events from 3 – 9 p.m. are attended only by self-identified femmes (of all genders) and folks exploring their femme/ininity.

This event is FREE. We will provide light snacks and adult beverages by donation

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Space/Adversity/Motion @ den contemporary art

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 19, 2012 by Mommy Fiercest

Space/Adversity/Motion @ den contemporary art

den contemporary is pleased to present space/adversity/motion, featuring painterly works by nine artists from the Los Angeles region. The common groundwork for the paintings and sculptures in the exhibition is the diverse approach to abstraction in their practice. space/adversity/motion refers to aspects of the personal journey and universal existence, as well as elements in the art making process. The artists examine subjects such as loss, hope and redemption, taking inspiration from childhood memories, found objects, imaginary landscapes, ethnic motifs, musical influences and the effects from natural as well as manmade disasters. Through stylistic shifts, attentiveness of composition, and by pushing the depth of the two-dimensional toward collage and sculptural forms, the artists activate a spatial dialogue with the imagery. Analogous to the individual quest through the vulnerabilities and trials of life, the artists traverse the terrain of the canvas or structure, navigating through with a quality of both personal vision and collaboration with the materials, instigating tension through juxtaposition of contrasting compositions,line work and texture. The artists engage in the production process through the motion of creating forms by hand and making marks with paint or tools. Their expression is further emphasized by a variety of bold swirls, swaths of pigment, minuscule flecks,and rhythmic lines within a sometimes dense and other times minimal atmosphere. The resolved energy in the works results in a kaleidoscope of evocative palette, anamorphic form, palpable physicality, and force of cadence.

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LA Queer Posada

Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 20, 2011 by Mommy Fiercest
LA QUEER POSADA

LA QUEER POSADA

Performance Event Collective Mama Pancha’s Queer Life Rituals presents the Third Annual LA Queer Posada, featuring Payasos L.A. and the Los Angeles chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. A new take on the Mexican Posada celebration, LA Queer Posada will include performances in theatre, poetry, dance and music with intercultural queer artists.

The procession will take place on Friday, December 23, 2011 and will commence promptly at 7:59 pm at The Eagle in Silver Lake (4219 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, 90029). The procession will head north on Santa Monica Blvd, then east on Sunset Blvd, and end at Los Globos Nightclub (3040 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, 90026). Guests are encouraged to bring instruments to join the Posada Band in playing some Christmas tunes as we strut down Sunset Blvd!

This year LA Queer Posada will end its mile-long procession at Los Globos (3040 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, 90026) where performances symbolizing the gift of the Magi will take place. The gift of the Magi will feature performances by Selah Gospel Choir, Burlesque sensation La Cholita, and more to be announced. The dance party is scheduled to follow the performances. Please note that Los Globos is 21 and over. There is no admission fee however donations will be collected to benefit the Transgender Youth Clinic of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Mama Pancha’s Queer Life Rituals is a performance, party, right-of-passage collective that serves the LGBT community through the creation of accessible, inclusive, and intercultural participatory spiritual happenings. The Posada is traditionally a community performance that reenacts the pilgrimage taken by Mary and Joseph as they searched for shelter leading to the birth of Christ.

LA Queer Posada is celebrated in Silver Lake to commemorate the area as a historically gay and Latino neighborhood, at a time when many markers of that history are vanishing. “This year in particular we call attention to the closing of Le Barcito, formerly The Black Cat, a landmark gay bar that launched The Advocate out of pre-Stonewall protests against LAPD raids,” says Mama Pancha. “Not only had Le Barcito become a sort of sanctuary for the gay Latino community, but they also hosted the previous two Queer Posadas and tons of other queer life rituals.”

Questions? Contact Miguel Barragan at LAQueerPosada2011@gmail.com.
For the latest La Queer Posada updates, follow us on Twitter: @LAQueerPosada.

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homo-centric: donning our gay apparel

Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 14, 2011 by Mommy Fiercest
Ofelia Del Corazon Reading At Homo-Centric

Ofelia Del Corazon Reading At Homo-Centric

I’ll be reading at homo-centric this Thursday. Internet stalking is for lazy people! Come on out and show me you’re really committed to your unhealthy obsession!

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Rally And March To Demand An End To SCOM/Poli-Migra

Posted in Demonstrations with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 8, 2011 by Mommy Fiercest
Human Rights are (Im)Migrants Rights December 10 NO SCOMM In Los Angeles

Human Rights are (Im)Migrants Rights December 10 NO SCOMM In Los Angeles

March and rally to demand an end to SCOM/Poli-Migra, by LA Sheriffs Baca. This ICE attack detains and deports thousands of working class Mexican and Central American migrants! The march begins at La Placita, we will march to The LA Federal Detention Center to protest Obama’s deportations, then march on the Sheriffs Central Jail to demand a stop to deportations as well as SCOM.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stop La Baca! Sheriff Baca stop abusing our people!

 

This is co-organized and endorsed by Hermandad MEXICANA, NDLON, SCIC, IDEPSCA, CSO, UdB, SGV Dream Network, CHIRLA, Carwasheros Campaign, IAC, MAPA, Partido Nacional la Raza Unida and CLAS.

La Plazita Olvera, Los Angeles, CA
Cesar Chavez & Alameda, Los Angeles, CA 31028

Saturday, December 10th 2011 10:00am until 12:30pm

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Men and Feminism Panel Discussion

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 29, 2011 by Mommy Fiercest
December 1, 2011 6:30pm until 8:30pm

The Santa Monica College Feminist Majority Feminist Leadership Alliance invites you to join the Men and Feminism panel discussion in Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) 263 as we help promote and facilitate a robust and productive dialogue on men as feminist activists and allies.

The panel will be moderated by Melanie Klein, SMC Associate Faculty and SMC FMLA adviser, and Mary Grace Baldo, SMC student and SMC FMLA member.

Featured panelists, in alphabetical order:

Yashar Ali is a Los Angeles-based blogger, commentator, and political veteran whose writing is showcased on The Current Conscience. http://thecurrentconscience.com/blog/

Kalil Cohen, M.Ed. is a nationally touring educator, performer, speaker, and filmmaker whose work centers on gender with a strong emphasis race and class. His short films have screened in college classes, at academic conferences, and at over 50 LGBT film festivals worldwide. He is the founding director of The Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival. www.kalilcohen.com

Pia Guerrero, Founder + Co-Editor of adiosbarbie.com
Pia is a media literacy expert with a focus on body image, race, privilege, and representation. For over a decade, she has designed and delivered educational workshops across the country to hundreds of teachers, youth workers, and young people. Pia has also worked extensively with boys and young men         around equity, gender bias and dating violence.

hugo schwyzer

hugo schwyzer

Hugo Schwyzer is a professor of gender studies and history at
Pasadena City College, and a nationally recognized speaker and writer
on issues of masculinity, self-image, eating disorders, the beauty
industry, feminism and sexuality. http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/

Jacqueline Sun is a National Campus Organizer with the Feminist Majority Foundation. She specializes in reproductive rights and access, and encouraging youth civic engagement. She is also a Program Manager for imMEDIAte Justice, a reproductive justice film mentorship program that teaches media literacy to young women of color in Los Angeles and empowers them to make their own films about sexuality and sexual health. www.Feministcampus.org

Shira Tarrant, PhD is the author of Men and Feminism (Seal Press) and appears in The Bro Code, a new documentary about sexism and masculinity. She is associate professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at California State University, Long Beach. Read more at http://ShiraTarrant.com/

This event is *free* and open to the public. Again, it begins at 6:30 sharp in HSS263.

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Michael’s Kearns “TORCH” In Los Angeles

Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 26, 2011 by Mommy Fiercest
Michael Kearns TORCH World AIDS Day

Michael Kearns TORCH World AIDS Day

World AIDS Day

TORCH

written & performed by: Michael Kearns

directed by: Tony Abatemarco

original music by: Will Munroe

MICHAEL KEARNS IGNITES A TORCH
NEW SOLO PIECE
Produced by Katselas Theatre Company’s INKubator with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Torch will play one-night only—November 30 at 8:00 PM—in anticipation of World AIDS Day (the following day on December 1).

In his ninth solo show, the artist-activist explores the inevitabilities of aging on sexuality and sensuality, the body and the brain, the past and the future, the sacred and the profane.

Kearns has consistently written about AIDS for the past three decades, amassing a virtual library of material—from solo shows to theatre books. His solo performance work has been compared to the paintings of George Grosz, the writings of John Osborne, and the performing skills of Lily Tomlin.

Tony Abatemarco directs. He is an award-winning director of theatre who has worked on Broadway, TV, and internationally. As well as directing, he is an accomplished actor, writer, and producer who also teaches privately for Katselas Theatre Company, at The School of Theatre at USC, and is an Endowed Chair at Emeritus College.

A musical landscape for Torch will be created by Will Munroe, an up and coming composer/performer. An avid experimenter, his collaboration with Kearns and Abatemarco will introduce new sound.

Venue: SKYLIGHT THEATRE / SKYLAB: 1816 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles 90027

Ticket price is $15 and reservations may be made by calling 702 582 8587 or ordering online at ktctickets.com.

The Skylight Theatre Lab is an intimate black box theatre 

located in Los Feliz Village on Vermont Ave just south of Franklin Ave

Theatre entrance is next to Skylight Books

Limited seating 

Parking: Street parking & pay lots (city & private)
- City lot directly behind the theatre.
- Private lots – the closest are:
$5 lot is on sidestreet just South of the theatre on Melbourne Ave
$3.50 lot behind the 7 Eleven corner of Vermont/Franklin
$2.00 lot at the Post Office on Vermont (avail in the evenings)

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