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Archive for queer
Tickets On Sale For Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival “Best of Fest” Screening
Posted in Uncategorized with tags cinema, Getting Off, independent film, indie film, j aguilar, jeff roy, los angeles transgender film festival, meliza banales, pussy boy, queer, rights of passage, transexual dominatrix, transgender on February 24, 2012 by Mommy Fiercest
PRIDE TORONTO 2012 ACCEPTING ARTIST AND PERFORMER APPLICATIONS
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 2012, calls for submissions, gay, glbt, LGBT, performance art, performing arts, pride, queer, toronto on February 7, 2012 by Mommy FiercestPRIDE TORONTO 2012 ACCEPTING ARTIST AND PERFORMER APPLICATIONS
Pride week 2012: Friday June 22nd to Sunday July 1st
Deadline for applications: 24 February 2012
Pride Toronto, returning for its 32nd fabulous year, is seeking submissions from artists of all disciplines to perform at its 2012 festival happening Friday June 22nd to Sunday July 1st. Whether you’re a DJ, band, drag queen/king, dancer, comedian, community group or theatrical troupe, we want to hear from you!
Pride Week in Toronto is the third largest Pride celebration in the world and the largest festival in Canada.It takes place over 22 city blocks on 7 stages with hundreds of artists, 3 parades and hundreds of events at venues throughout downtown Toronto. The 2011 festival saw approximately a million people celebrating and supporting the lives and stories of Toronto’s queer communities.
Pride Week is produced by Pride Toronto, a not-for-profit, community organization. It’s a FREE event supported and made possible by a large base of volunteers, corporate sponsorship, public grants and Pride Toronto’s fundraising initiatives. The festival features 10 days of arts and cultural programming, community activities, one of the world’s largest street festivals, the Pride Parade, Dyke March, Trans Pride March, Family programming and much more. Past performers include Cyndi Lauper, Kelly Rowland, Deborah Cox, Mel C, Esthero, Islands, Lesbians on Ecstasy, RuPaul, Divine Brown, Jully Black, Thelma Houston, Indigo Girls, Uh Huh Her, Dragonette, The Cliks, Kinnie Star, Carole Pope, Sandra Bernhard, Bitch, Crystal Waters, MEN, Suzanne Palmer, Martha Wash, Ultra Nate, ABC, Wang Chung, Cutting Crew, Missing Persons, Saidah Baba Talibah, Jonathan Peters, Lady Miss Kier, David Morales and Josie Cotton among hundreds of others!
Performers participating in the Pride Toronto festival have the opportunity to be included in the Official Pride Guide, the Pride Toronto website (which averages 23.8 million hits in the four weeks leading up to the festival), coverage through our print, radio and TV partners and targeted marketing by our publicity professionals. If you would like to be part of the BEST free event in Toronto go to: www.pridetoronto.com/applications/ to fill in an online application form!
The deadline for submissions is February 24, 2012, so don’t wait!
ONLINE APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING LINKS:
DJ: http://www.pridetoronto.com/applications/2012-performersdjsapp.html
Live Music: http://www.pridetoronto.com/applications/2012-performersliveapp.html
Performing Arts: http://www.pridetoronto.com/applications/2012-performing-arts-application.html
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
TK
Arts & Culture Manager
E-mail: tk@pridetoronto.com
Mazer Archives Lesbian Short Film Screening
Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags alison segar, and I am me, Andrea Weiss, art, betsy Kalin, bisexual, bisexuality, Boyle Heights, christine Chew, Christoph Scheermann, Cisgender, East L.A. Interchange, falling for caroline, feminism, feminist, Fresh Air Therapy, gay, Gay Valentines Day, genderqueer, glbt, Greta Schiller, highfemme, independent film, indie film, LA, lesbian, lesbian history, lesbian love, LGBT, Los Angeles, Lust life, lynda tarryk, Mazer Archves, pansexual, queer, sex workers film festival, Stuff to do in LA, things to do in LA, Things To Do In LA Valentines Day, Tiny and Ruby: Hell Divin' Women, Valentines day, valentines Day LA on January 26, 2012 by Mommy FiercestSunday, February 12, 2012 3:00pm until 6:00pm
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
Queer Mondays Un-Curated By Ian MacKinnon
Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags art, bisexual, bisexuality, Cisgender, Dan Wentzel Martin Wiech, Dino Dinco, feminism, feminist, femme, gay, genderqueer, glbt, Gregory Barnett, highfemme, highways performance space, ian mackinnon, Justin Jorgensen, LA, LGBT, Los Angeles, performance art, queer, queer mondays, Scott Backman on January 24, 2012 by Mommy Fiercest
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
Femme Day of Action Los Angeles Edition
Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags queer, dyke, femme, feminism, feminist, LA, Los Angeles, transgender, art, gay, genderqueer, trans, highfemme, pansexual, bisexual, bisexuality, lesbian, transexual, LGBT, glbt, Femme Day of Action, homo on January 21, 2012 by Mommy Fiercest
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
LA Queer Posada
Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags art, bisexual, bisexuality, chicano, Cisgender, dyke, femme, gay, genderqueer, glbt, highfemme, LA, la cholita, LAPD, latina, latino, le barcito, lesbian, LGBT, los globos, mama pancha, mama pancha's queer life rituals, pansexual, performance art, queer, selah gospel choir, the black cat, trans, trans youth, transexual, TransgeChildren’s Hospital Los Angeles., transgender, transgender youth, Transgender Youth Clinic of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles., TS, xicana, xicano on December 20, 2011 by Mommy Fiercest
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.
TRANScending Exclusion: A Teach-In on Trans Inclusion & Solidarity in Women’s & LGBQ Spaces in Communities of Color
Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights, Projects with tags bisexuality, Cisgender, dyke, feminism, feminist, femme, gay, Lucia Leandro Gimeno, Naomi Clark, queer, Social Work student & Trans Organizer in NYC, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, trans, transexual, transgender on November 30, 2011 by Mommy Fiercest
Rivers Response
Please join Rivers Response organizers & allied community activists from SRLP and the Kitchen Table Giving Circle for a community discussion on Trans inclusion and solidarity in women and LGBQ communities of color spaces. Through knowledge sharing, participants are invited from all perspectives to join us in a discussion about expanding inclusivity in community spaces.
With a positive spirit, the organizers hope to generate awareness and spur broad dialogue about gender and sexuality issues faced in the POC LGBTQ NYC arts community and in many other parallel community spaces. Join us in shared conversation and learning!
For background please visit: http://riversofhoneycommunity.com/
| TRANScending Exclusion: A Teach-In on Trans Inclusion & Solidarity in Women’s & LGBQ Spaces in Communities of ColorWHEN: November 30th 2011 7:00pmWHERE: 147 W.24th Street 4th Floor New York, NYCOST: FREESpeakers will include: Naomi Clark, Sylvia Rivera Law Project Lucia Leandro Gimeno, Social Work student & Trans Organizer in NYC Members from Kitchen Table Giving Circle |
Michael’s Kearns “TORCH” In Los Angeles
Posted in Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights with tags art, gay, glbt, LA, LGBT, Los Angeles, los feliz, Michael Kearns, performance art, queer, SKYLAB, skylight books, SKYLIGHT THEATRE, TORCH, World AIDS Day on November 26, 2011 by Mommy Fiercest
Michael Kearns TORCH World AIDS Day
World AIDS Day
TORCH
written & performed by: Michael Kearns
directed by: Tony Abatemarco
original music by: Will Munroe
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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)
fauxlographic by Elle Mehrmand, Opening Reception and Performance Monday, November 21st at 7:00pm
Posted in Artist Profiles, Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights, Projects with tags art, elle mehrmand, erotic art, fauxlographic, feminism, feminist, femme, gay, highfemme, LGBT, performance art, queer on November 19, 2011 by Mommy Fiercest
fauxlographic elle mehrmand
Monday, November 21st at 7:00pm
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fauxlographic
//elle mehrmand november [21-23] 2011 opening reception monday 11-21-11 @ 6pm university of california san diego fauxlographic is a performative installation that takes place within an ethno-dysphoric cloning lab, where one can clone themselves in order to analyze their diasporic anxiety. The fauxlographic clones enact sonic rituals in Farsi, English and Perz-ish, based on multiple sources of information including embodied memories, wikileaks cables, and textual references concerning Iran and Persia. The ethno-dysphoric scientist performs a daily computing ritual wearing a neuro-headset, (pars)ing the (fars)e of the clones’ information. When high levels of CO2 are detected by the lab’s sensors, the pixellated flesh of the clones degrade and multiply, reciprocating the affective presence of other bodies. The use of organic sensors transforms the lab into a spatial interface, confusing the somatic architecture of the performance. gallery hours: tues-wed 12-6 ellemehrmand at gmail dot com |
Workshop on Wearable Electronics – Performing The Body, Sound and Erotics with Micha Cardenas and Elle Mehrmand,
Posted in Artist Profiles, Cultural Events, Parties and Club Nights, Projects with tags art, Filmmakers, filmmaking, highfemme, indie film, La Pocha Nostra, lesbian, overcoming shame, performance art, queer, sex workers, sex workers film festival, Theater of the Oppressed, trans, transexual, transgender, TS on September 25, 2011 by Mommy FiercestMy beautiful and brilliant friends Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cardenas are in Toronto facialliatating an amazing workshop at The Liason of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT). Workshop attendees will have the option of working with the artists to develop performances pieces of their own. I’ve admired Elle and Micha’s performance art for a long time and this workshop is sure to be amazing. Please don’t miss them while they are in Toronto!
September 26th-28th
6pm – 10 pm, Monday to Wednesday.
Participants will create wearable electronics using the lilypad arduino, sensors, and sound. The workshop will consist of three days including performance, Puredata (Pd-extended) and open source electronics. Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cárdenas will share their experiences developing perfor…mance art using these tools. Participants will work towards developing a performance piece of their own/collaboration, and will have an opportunity for performing at the end of the workshop, if they choose to do so. To develop the performances the workshop will entail performance exercises inspired by Theater of the Oppressed, La Pocha Nostra and physical improvisation.
Registration: In person at LIFT,
Liason Of Independent Filmmakers Of Toronto,
1137 Dupont Street, M6H 2A3
by telephone with a credit card: 416 – 588 – 6444
Cost: 225 for members, 195 for non-members
and sliding scale also considered.
The price of the workshop includes a kit of a 90 dollar value.
LIFT is wheelchair accessible.
