Queer Arts Festival 2001

This series of cultural events, exhibitions, performances, and interpretive programs has been organized by the Queer Cultural Center (Qcc): the Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender Art & Culture, and the Harvey Milk Institute. The Festival is produced in collaboration with numerous Bay Area nonprofit arts organizations, including SomArts, the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Art, the Center for African and African American Art and Culture, the Lesbian/Gay Dance Festival, Brava! for Women in the Arts, and many others.
The National Queer Arts Festival presents our community's diverse artists and arts organizations. Here you'll find visual art, dance, theater, a series of literature and poetry readings, film and video screenings, and a wide array of multidisciplinary programs featuring artists discussing their own works.

Sunday, June 3; 4-7 pm
Donation at the door

launch party QccTV Launch Digital Video QccTv is a new online program being developed for Qcc by Rudy Lemcke. QccTv uses the latest web technologies to stream queer video to home users around the world via the Qcc website

Sunday, June 3; 7 pm
Tickets: $5-50, No one turned away for lack of funds

A Sex and Gender Spoken Word Recipe for Revolution
Intersex, Transgender, Transsexual, and Genderqueer People Speak Their Truths is a dynamic evening of performance, connection, and celebration of the intersexed, trans, and genderqueer communities.

 

Friday & Saturday, June 8 & 9; 8 pm
Tickets: $15 - $20, sliding scale

Marga Gomez Higher Highs, Lower Lows Felice Shays PsychoSemitic

Marga Gomez performs her show, Higher Highs, Lower Lows and Felice Shays showcases PsychoSemitic. This is a double-billed show each evening.

 

Saturday, June 9; 2 pm
Tickets: $10-$15, sliding scale

The Body, the Nude, Gender and Sex : Slide Show & Conversation 
Laurie Toby Edison shows images from Familiar Men: A Book of Male Nudes and Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes. Her groundbreaking work puts everyone in the picture, rejecting the dominant narrow definition of beauty.

 

Sunday, June 10; 8 pm
Tickets: $15 - $20, sliding scale

Sini Anderson, Eileen Myles, and Kris Kovick
Performance poet Sini Anderson will be premiering six new spoken word pieces at this year's festival in collaboration with local sound artist Kadet Kuhne and photographer Sara Seinburg. Traditionally, poetry has been kept within the walls of the page, and spoken word has been kept on the stage. In this performance, the artist will bring the audience closer to her process of creation.

 

Friday & Saturday, June 15 & 16; 8 pm
Tickets: $15 - $20, sliding scale

Stanya Kahn & Harriet Dodge

The performance power couple Stanya Kahn and Harriet Dodge come home to San Francisco with new solo work and also to present their FIRST-TIME theatrical collaboration.

 

Wednesday, June 20; 7:30 pm
Tickets: $10

There's No Place like Home: Marking Chicago's "Boys Town" Chris Reed
The City of Chicago recently erected what could be called street furniture (most strikingly twenty-two, 20-foot, illuminated, rainbow-ringed pylons) for its largest gay neighborhood–Boys Town. The plan to commemorate Chicago's historic gay district, modeled on schemes that mark the city's ethnic neighborhoods, is similar in many respects to what San Francisco is now considering for Harvey Milk Plaza.

June 21–July 1
go to www.queerculturalcenter.org for show dates

Liquid Fire: Nasty
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. This year's production will bring together artists from the last four years as they unleash "burning hot" spoken word, music, and song and dance performances that are sure to make your knees weak, your toes curl, and your mouths water. You do not want to miss these women in two separate orgasmic performance programs featuring "the best of Liquid Fire" and some unforgettable new surprises. Returning once again to drive the burning pulse of the show with their powerful rhythms is the multicultural lesbian percussion group Librations.