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2008
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August
2008 |
HIGHLANDER CENTER - FUNDRAISING PARTY
FRIDAY, AUGUST 22
6 - 8:30 PM
You are invited you to a fundraising house party in celebration of the 75th Anniversary
of a place where history is made.
Friday, August 22, 2008
6:00 to 8:30 pm
Million Fishes Gallery
2501 Bryant Street @ 23rd Street
About The Highlander Center
Highlander is a popular education workshop center in east Tennessee that started in 1932 and today still brings together grassroots organizers, artists, educators, and workers to address the most pressing issues facing the people of the South.
Rosa Parks came to Highlander just 4 months before refusing to give up her seat on the bus, and the civil rights anthem We Shall Overcome was developed and spread by Highlander and friends.
Today, Highlander stands as a world renowned beacon for progressive, cutting edge organizing and is a leading resource for people working together across race, culture, and generations.
FEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS
Francis Wong, The Rockin' Solidarity Labor Chorus & Vukani Mawethu Choir
Meet Highlander Director Pam McMichael and staff Monica Hernandez and Anasa Troutman
Hors d'oeuvres will be served
R.S.V.P.
Please R.S.V.P. by email to newman@highlandercenter.org or by phone 865-933-3443 ext 234
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Please contact Kip Williams 865-766-7502 or kipgwilliams@gmail.com or
Tami Newman (865) 933-3443 X 234 or newman@highlandercenter.org
DONATE
You can donate
online at www.highlandercenter.org
Saturday, August 2
Between
Curated by Amie Leeking
Machine, Maya Hayuk, Ealish Wilson, Caitlin Sweet, Charlene Tan
Jimmy Robson, Jonathan Casella, Peter Max Lawrence
Opening
7:00 - 11:00 p.m.
Viewing Hours for the month of August
Saturdays 12 noon - 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, August 9
Anapphylactic!
Curated by Marcella Gries
Bands
Death Sentence: Panda!, Casy and Brian, High Castle, 60 Watt Kid
Show starts
8:00 p.m.
All ages
Enter on 2823 23rd Street (@ Bryant)
$5
Sunday, July 27
Erase Errata
$10
5:00 p.m.
Saturday, July 26
Resonance: A night of electronic music played through a canopy of 100 gourds.
Music by miba (Kristin Miltner and Mark Bartshcer), Elise Baldwin, Xopher Davidson and Cliff Caruthers.
8:00 p.m.
2501 Bryant Street @ 23rd
$5
GALLERY HOURS
Saturday 1 - 4 pm
Sunday 1 - 4 pm or by appointment
Contact (415) 459-5728 for an appointment
SHOW DATES
July 12th - 28th, 2008
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Friday, July 18
8:00 p.m.
Mission Creek Music Festival presents
Mochipet, Yoko Solo, Patrice Scanlon, Bloody Snowman, Blankethead.
Curated by Joel St. Julien
Cost : $7 |
Saturday, July 19
8:00 p.m.
Mission Creek Music Festival presents
Anaphylactic: Little Teeth, The Fucking Ocean, Nat Baldwin, Extra Life, Goo:
DJ sets by Steve Summers
This show is all ages.
Cost : $5 |
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Sunday, July 20
3:00 p.m.
Mission Creek Music Festival presents
What Cheer? Brigade, Tiger Honeypot, MGM Grand
Suggested Donation $5 - $15 |
Saturday, July 12
Resonance A Sound Installation by Alex Potts
Curated by Carlos Marulanda with Performances by Participating Artists
Opening: Saturday July 12, 2008
7:00-11:30 p.m.
Installed: July 12-July 30, 2008
2501 Bryant Street @ 23rd
FREE
Through a canopy of 100 gourd speakers, form and vibration combine to create a unique sensory experience of enveloping sound and otherworldly song. Entwining the natural resonance of gourds with multi-channel electro-ambient music, this sound sculpture fuses organic vessels and technology in an extraordinary way.
A dynamically changing sound score has been created from the acoustic samples of the gourds as well as electronic music that utilizes their reverberant characteristics. Additionally, live input is collected from gallery visitors and embedded in the sound score. The installation is intended to travel from gallery to gallery, collect sounds from different environments and accumulate a collective memory of sound.
Alex Potts is a composer, installation artist and filmmaker. His work includes large-scale interactive sound and video installations, film and dance scores, and narrative and experimental films. His work has been shown throughout the U.S., in the UK, Italy, and the Netherlands. Participating artists will be performing their music through the installation as well.
Sunday, July 13
Stellar The First Annual San Francisco Fashion Awards
Runway Showcase
Featuring: Kittenhawk
3:00 p.m.
Bambuddha Lounge | Hotel Phoneix
601 Eddy Street @ Larkin
www.sanfranciscofashionawards.com
Tickets $10 advance, $15 door
Sponsored by : Citizen:Citizen & City Model Management
In Support by : AMMO Films, Mere Fashion, Poser and Fashion Replant Magazine |
June
2008 |
Saturday, June 20
A benefit with performances by Mary Ann Brooks, Fauxnique,
Juanita MORE! Jupiter, Suppositori Spelling & The Lady Meat
and . . .
Music by D.J. Texx and Stanley (chilidog)
9:00 p.m.
$5
Million Fishes Gallery presents Queerity
Curated by Zee Boudreaux and Tamara Loewenstein
Opening:
Saturday June 7, 2008 /
7:00-11:30 p.m.
Show Open:
June 7-June 28, 2008
Million Fishes Gallery 2501 Bryant Street San Francisco, CA 94110
How does one decipher a queer body? Today, there exist more options than ever to express oneself through the canvas of the body. People identifying as queer have not always been in a position to publicize their queerness, but as the demarcations of gender and sexuality continue to shift and melt away, the freedom and opportunity for expression are increasing. This exhibition demonstrates the ways queerness expresses itself through the body in a multitude of ways; at times it is invisible to the eye, at other times it is more subtle or completely transparent, but always transgressive and provocative.
Queerity, a group exhibition of queer identified artists, reflects on matters pertinent to a queer body and the ways it is perceived, acknowledged or misunderstood. The artists in Queerity make visible an internal experience through an array of external mediums from photography to sculpture. Their work, like their bodies, act subversively against gender norms still in place throughout much of the world and offer up diverse perspectives about queerness and what it means to identify as such.
Featuring works by: Jai Carrillo, Miles Conrad, Torreya Cummings, eddie gesso, Patrick Hillman, Gregory Kaplowitz, Ace Lehner, Jason Fritz Michael, Matt Momchilov, Job Piston, Emmett Ramstad, Jennifer Rarick, Hilary Schwartz, Maxx Sizeler and Taylor Ward. Million Fishes Arts Collective is a Mission District-based live/work arts collective comprised of a diverse group of artists dedicated to working collaboratively.
Million Fishes creates an environment for artists to develop critical skills to engage in the processes involved in producing art and sharing it. The collective is a resource to the diverse community of the Mission District, as well as the communities of our resident artists. Programs include innovative exhibitions of work by members and non-members, an artist-in-residence program for sixteen artists from international backgrounds, and calendar and workshops open to the public.
For more information and images please contact Tamara Loewenstein or Zee Boudreaux at queerbodies@gmail.com |
May
2008 |
Friday, May 16
Turning Heads Benefit
Turning Heads is a San Francisco based non profit that focuses on "Changing the Economic Outlook of Young People Through Vocational Arts, Business Education and Micro-Enterprise."
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Sunday, May 18
11 - 3 p.m.
Access Cafe - an all volunteer nomadic restaurant event
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Wednesday, May 21
7 - 9:30 p.m.
Champagnge & other movie drinks - featuring readings by;
*mimi lok
*suzanne kleid
*amira pierce
*richard loranger
come say bon bon voyage to champagne and other movie drinks! we're taking the summer off but will be back with an already-amazing lineup in september. also come and confess your lifelong crush on ms. amira pierce, whom is leaving us to teach skydiving in virginia come july. don't forget to deliver enormous hugs to miss mimi lok whom is off to hong kong for god knows how long, where she will be starring in the forthcoming feature film "mimi lok, we love you!" wish suzanne kleid a belated happy birthday and tell her all about YOUR experiences with "saturn returns."
don't forget richard loranger, he likes attention too! but we're getting ahead of ourselves. these are 4 of our favorite, fiercely talented writers and readers. come hear them so you can say you were there. don't blow it! see your there! wet bar and popcorn for sale! Xoxoxoxo, the other movie drinks
mimi lok is a writer and educator whose work has appeared in McSweeney's, nimble, Hyphen, Washington Post and elsewhere. A lecturer in Creative Writing at San Francisco City College, she is currently shortlisted for the 2008 Arts & Letters/Susan Atefat Prize for Nonfiction. Learn more about this person at mimilok.com.
Suzanne Kleid's fiction and critical writings have appeared in Pindeldayboz, Watchword, the Believer, and other places. She is the book reviewer for the KQED.org arts and culture blog.
Amira Pierce is moments away from receiving her M.A. in creative writing from SFSU, has barely been published, and is about to move to the other coast of this great land known as the united states.
Richard Loranger is a writer, performer, and visual artist who wandered back to San Francisco, the love of his bodily life, last fall, after fifteen years in less savory climes. He is the author of Poems for Teeth (We Press, 2005), as well as The Orange Book and eight chapbooks, including Hello Poems and The Day Was Warm and Blue. He enjoys smelling flowers, composing names for demons and saints, and singing with many hairy men
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Thursday, May 22
7 - 10 pm
Re/Search Press "Counter Cultural Hour"
 On May 22nd, Million Fishes will begin a new screening series with Re/Search Publications. "The Counter Cultural Hour" is a monthly series of screenings where Re/Search founder V. Vale interviews creative movers-and-shakers who have not yet given up on changing the world. These screenings are produced in collaboration with filmmaker Marian Wallace.
May features a video interview with Lyle Tuttle, the first world-famous tattoo artist of the 1960s. There will then be a live interview with Tanja Nixx, tattoo artist and owner of Lyle Tuttle Tattoo.
Re/Search books will be available for purchase and local body jewelry artists from Little Seven will be on hand to showcase their wares.
Some history about Re/Search: In San Francisco, Spring 1977, V. Vale, a worker at City Lights Bookstore, began documenting the rise of the early Punk Rock Cultural Revolution as an amateur anthropologist and historian, heavily influenced by Andy Warhol, the Dadaists, Surrealists and the Situationists. His magazine, SEARCH & DESTROY, was made possible when Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti each gave him $100 to start publishing.
In 1980, SEARCH & DESTROY morphed into book publishing with RE/ SEARCH, a pun on Search & Destroy. The goal is to produce primary source, undiluted, uncensored, ideas, conversations, and just plain inspiration to Do-It-Yourself Artist/Scientists who value independence, anti-authoritarianism, and Black Humor above all else. Vale's best-seller of all time was MODERN PRIMITIVES, which in 1989 sparked the global tattoo-and-body-piercing art-practice.
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BAY AREA NATIONAL DANCE WEEK
@ MILLION FISHES
Sunday, May 4
Improvisational Lab & Jam
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Sunset Yoga Class
6:00 - 7:00 pm
LOCATION
Million Fishes Dance Studio
2829 23rd Street @ Bryant
San Francisco, CA
CONTACT
maryann@millionfishes.com
415-515-3632
See Bay Area National Dance week website for more info
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April
2008 |
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BEATBEAT WHISPER
LOVE MENU
YES PLEASE
Friday, April 18
7:30 - 12:00 a.m.
Beatbeat Whisper CD release party with Love Menu (PDX) and Yes, Please (OAK)
This is an all ages show that will end early, so come early!
Million Fishes Gallery
2501 Bryant Street @ 23rd
San Francisco, CA
MILLION FISHES GROUP SHOW
Opening Reception
Saturday, April 5
Million Fishes Gallery
2501 Bryant Street,
San Francisco, CA
Doors Open
7:00 - 11:00 p.m.
| Million Fishes is a Mission District-based live/work collective & gallery composed of a diverse group of artists dedicated to collaborative, creative exploration. For the bi-annual group show the 14 resident artists create a space in which to present recent work; viewing this show is akin to studio-hopping each of the artists' workspaces. Transcending categorization, Medicine runs the gamut of work from video installation to dance, from puppetry and sound performance to textile arts. The mediums presented vary as much as the themes of the work. Congealing around the concept of Medicine is a sense of renewal, protection and transformation; on a personal level for the resident artists, and in light of the recent reworking of the gallery space. |
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March
2008 |
A Benefit For:
CARLITOS AND THE MAGIC GARDEN
An ArtsChange’s Traveling Theatre Benefit
Please join us on International Women’s Day to support art,
good food and theater for East Bay Youth.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Million Fishes Gallery
2501 Bryant Street,
San Francisco, CA
Cost : $45 - $100
Carlitos and the Magic Garden: an ArtsChange’s Traveling Theatre Benefit:
Please join us on International Women’s Day to support art, good food and theater for East Bay Youth.
• Wine and Cal-Mex Supper from asparagus to tamalitos with fresh, organic and local ingredients by Chef Tere Robles.
• Sneak Preview of Carlitos and the Magic Garden Puppet Show by Tania Padilla.
• Jugglers! Accordionists! Abuelas! Stilt Walkers! Clowns!
• Funny Puppet Jokes By René Yañez!
Hosted By ArtsChange, David Donner, Julie Friedman, Fred Jackson, Maria Padilla,
Stan Padilla, Alice Prussin, Laura Brainin Rodriguez, Ann Schnake, Alan Siegel, Rosa Valdez, and Kip Williams.
Phone 510-231-1348 for more information. |
February
2008 |
SOFT MONKEY PUZZLES
Freeform
crochet, soft sculpture, pen / ink drawings
from Eden Veaudry
February 2, 2008
8 pm
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Eden
Veaudry is a Victoria-based visual artist who works in
a wide range of media including drawing, soft sculpture,
embroidery, painting, crochet, and film. She is primarily
interested in expressing everyday sensations by manipulating
her immediate impressions of the forms she finds around
her.
Her work is driven by a need to re-imagine the many ways
in which the natural world and one's own body may be combined
to form a new, emotional entity. She believes in the concept
of the remix, and frequently re-works a single idea in
a variety of media.
Often a drawing will evolve into a mask, or a crocheted
garment will reappear in a watercolour painting inspired
by an embroidery. Her work has been shown in solo and
group exhibitions in several cities across Canada and
the U.S.
www.eveaudry.com
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Wine Cellar Dances
A Benefit for Million Fishes Dance Studio
Sunday, January 27, 2008
7 - 9 pm
Help us fund the renovation our Dance Studio!
This event will feature Dance Film and Performances, Acrobalancing, Live Music, Wine and Raffle Prizes.
Our studio was formally a turn of the century wine cellar.
Join us in a celebration of it’s history and future!
Donations can also be sent to:
Million Fishes Dance Benefit, 2509 Bryant Street, SF CA 94110
and checks made payable to Lindsay King
Thank You!
Wine Cellar Dances
A Benefit for Million Fishes Dance Studio
Sunday, January 27th
7:00-9:00pm
$10-100 Donation
2829 23rd St. @ Bryant, San Francisco
ticket info: maryann@millionfishes.com
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December
2007 |
The
Centennial Celebration of the Elationists
(1907 - 1915)
A
Retrospective of San Francisco's Lost Movement
December 7, 8
December 13, 14, 15
8 pm
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The
Centennial Celebration of the Elationists
is a Retrospective of a group of incredible
artists and musicians that rose from the
ashes of the 1906 Great Earthquake and Fire
to bring joy back to their city.
The
event will feature the Elationists' rediscovered
artwork, music, archival film, and musical
instruments--built from the shattered remnants
of Victorian homes. It will also include
a re-creation concert of their fantastic
"Buzz" music.
And!
The exhibition will also feature generous
helpings of the Elationists' signature chocolate
elixir.
DATES
& TICKET INFO:
December 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 8pm
$15-35 sliding scale
adv tickets and info: elationists.org
Each
night of the Celebration is expected to
sell-out, so please get your tickets ahead
of time.
Advanced tickets can be purchased through
our website: elationists.org
LOCATION:
Foundation for the Preservation of Fantastic
Possibilities:
444 Clementina Street, San Francisco CA
94103
Parking lots nearby, MUNI and BART accessible
elationists.org |
In
Search of Good Food
Saturday, December 15
7 pm - 11 pm
A 5 course organic dinner prepared by LEIF
Live entertainment by Divas de los Meurtos &
Hannah the Raven
$40
- $100
MENU
saltbush-young golden beet-blossom bluff fuyu-pomegranate-cave
aged marisa-filbert-pedro ximenez
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soup of dirty girl cannelini shelling beans, carola
potato, golden turnip, celeriac, and baby mustard
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tahini/porcini cauliflower-rapini and rainbow
chard with chanterelles and wild rice-brussel
sprouts with knoll horseradish
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roasted delicata-shallot/apple/yam puree-chestnut-seed
brittle
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maple/buckwheat gingerbread-spiced quince-quince/bourbon
redux-cranberry creme fraiche-candied pecans
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mignardise
RSVP
Only
45 spaces available
RSVP: insearchofgoodfood@gmail.com
SATURDAY,
DECEMBER 1
Even
More Bazaar Holiday Show
Saturday, December 1
2 pm - 11 pm
Sunday,
December 2
12 pm - 5 pm
The
Even More Bazaar Holiday Sale at Million Fishes is coming up
again!
It will
be held on Saturday & Sunday, Dec 1 & 2.
The
Saturday hours are 2 pm - 11 pm, with DJs and an art opening
for PJ
Reptilehouse in the evening.
Sunday the hours are from 12 pm - 5 pm.
Both days will feature a bar & refreshments.
The
event will be held in the Million Fishes gallery, at 2501 Bryant
(@ 23rd.)
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August
2007 |
SATURDAY, AUGUST 4
Lost
in a Fog
the artwork of
Campbell Whyte and Elizabeth Marruffo
Saturday, August 4
7:00 p.m.
The Gallery at Million Fishes
2501 Bryant Street @ 23rd
After
recently arriving here from Australia, Campbell
Whyte and Elizabeth Marruffo will be holding a
collaborative painting exhibition at Million Fishes
Art Gallery. The exhibition titled 'Lost in a
Fog' will be running from August 4th-18th 2007,
opening on Saturday August 4th at 7pm until 11pm
The
works are based on personal observations while
ravelling through Japan and Europe and also their
recent experiences here in the Mission District.
Their
work can be described as urban art with a magic
realist edge. These figurative paintings feature
a mix of delicate, sensitively rendered details
along with intriguing and thoughtful imagery that
engages the viewer on many levels.
Their
self-portraits and other imagery can evoke ideas
of contrasting individual and collective energies
that exist and that can become more apparent as
a traveller. Our increasingly important connection
to the weather and its patterns is also strongly
referred to.
After
their stay in San Francisco, Campbell and Elizabeth
will be travelling to Mexico to further develop
their ideas and artistic practice.
MEDIA
RELEASE: Please click here
WEBSITE: qualityevent.blogspot.com
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July
2007 |
SATURDAY,
JULY 28
TANGO
LA MELODIA
will be performing at the
Stevenson Street Soiree
Saturday, July 28
8:00 p.m.
$15 includes two drinks
Red
Ink Studios
1035
Market Street @ 7th
www.redinkstudios.com
Featuring!
Tango
La Melodia
Locura
Hot
Pink Feathers
Spaceheater |
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TANGO
LA MELODIA comes to Red Ink Studios for
the Stevenson Street Soiree
--an intoxicating evening of Music, Art,
and Dance!
We will be joined by the beautiful, heart-thumping
LoCura!, the delectable Samba-Burlesque
of Hot Pink Feathers Dance Troupe, the
funky jazz of Spaceheater, and a few fantastic
surprises we're keeping under our hat.
This
will be our last San Francisco show before
we hit the road, bringing the multimedia
theatre show to the Bus
Barn Theater, Los Altos (near Stanford). |
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June
2007 |
FRIDAY,
JUNE 22
Frameline
31
San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
Loving
Transgressions - Queer Women of Color
Screening of Erzulie's
Tears by Mary Anne Brooks
Roxie Film Center
8:15
pm
Curated
by Madeleine Lim, these works were created
through Queer Women of Color Media Arts
Project, which promotes the visibility of
queer women of color through the creation,
exhibition and distribution of films that
reflect our life stories.
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60
Years of the Same
USA , 2007 , 11 min.
Director: Jolie Harris
Erzulie's
Tears
USA , 2007 , 9 min.
Director: Mary Ann Brooks
Fashion
Resistance to Militarism
USA , 2006 , 10 min.
Director: Kimberly Alvarenga
Flower
Fokes
USA , 2007 , 11 min.
Director: Belinda "Beli"
Sullivan
Infinite
Breath
USA , 2006 , 8 min.
Director: Christine Liang
Las
Ma-anitas
USA , 2007 , 9 min.
Director: Celestina Pearl
Pagsalig/Faith
USA , 2006 , 9 min.
Director: Maianam Minahal
The
Saint
USA , 2007 , 6 min.
Director: Erin Wood
Slang
It Like You Own It
USA , 2007 , 7 min.
Director: Tesa Bruce
That's
Why I Hate Females
USA , 2007 , 10 min.
Director: Vassilisa Johri
to
transgress: a meditation
USA , 2006 , 7 min.
Director: Maya Santos
Search Films |
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Total
Running Time: 97 min
Co-presented
by
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project |
About
Frameline:
Founded
in 1977, Frameline's mission is to strengthen
the diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
community and further its visibility by supporting
and promoting a broad array of cultural representations
and artistic expression in film, video and
other media arts.
Frameline
is the nation's only nonprofit organization
solely dedicated to thefunding, exhibition,
distribution and promotion of lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender media arts. |
THURSAY,
JUNE 14
Kevin Hailey @ Minnie Wilde
Gallery Opening
7 - 9 pm
SATURDAY,
JUNE 9
3rd
Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival
San
Francisco Premiere Screening of Erzulie's
Tears by
Mary Ann Brooks
BRAVA
Theater
2781 24th Street
San Francisco, CA
7
P.M. FREE
FESTIVAL FOCUS:
"Reels
of Resistance" - Queer Black Women's Films
& Filmmakers
Sometimes
humorous and tender, always courageous,
these evocative films paint the vibrant
and kaleidoscopic experiences of queer Black
women and infuse our lives with a spectrum
of hilarity, hope and meaning.
Followed by Q&A Panel with Filmmakers.
All
works created through Queer
Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP),
which promotes the visibility of queer women
of color through the creation, exhibition
and distribution of films that reflect our
life stories.
Founded by Executive Director & award-winning
filmmaker
Madeleine
Lim.
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ERZULIE'S
TEARS (Mary Ann Brooks, 2007)
CHILD OF GOD (Kisha Montgomery, 2006)
NEED TO TALK (Jackie Loville, 2006)
ACTS OF LOVE (Crystal John, 2007)
60 YEARS OF THE SAME (Jolie Harris, 2007)
PRACTICE MAKES... (Brenda
Williams, 2006) WALLOW (Sarah Beth Harris,
2006) THE SAINT (Erin Wood, 2007)
FLOWER FOKES (Belinda Sullivan, 2007) SLANG
IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT (Letesa Bruce, 2007)
Program: 80 minutes |
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April
2007 |
APRIL 27
No
Fat Haitians: Images from Haiti's Central Plateau
A Photo Show / Fundraiser for Haiti
Photos
by Garrett MacLean
Opening
Reception
April 27, 7 - 10 PM
bluespace gallery
593 Guerrero Street
415-431-BLUE
www.sfbluespace.com
APRIL
22
National
Dance Week - Contact Improv Jam
Intro to Contact
1:00 - 2:00
Open
Jam
2:00 - 5:00
Free
of charge
National
Dance Week website
Dancers:
Mary Ann & Ali Woolwich / photo credit: Lacey
Johnson
APRIL
21
Living
Pulse Project Fundraiser * Red Party
Cost : $7-$20 donation / no one turned away for
lack of funds
Live
music! Dancing! Silent auction! screen printing!
Luscious heart themed cocktails!
The
Living Pulse Project is a dynamic participatory
sound sculpture that consists of a circle
of musical trees that you can climb in and
play, with a larger listening tree in the
center that has a glowing pulsing red heart
inside.
Also
we are inviting 6 Bay Area community groups
to participate with us by painting banners
that will stretch between the trees. We
are creating a playa wide game to interact
with the installation and the other art
works and camps on the playa.
This
project will be experienced in the Bay Area,
at Burning Man, and beyond. |
Live
music! Dancing! Silent auction! screen printing!
Luscious heart themed cocktails! |
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LoCura
will play 9:45-11
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Tango
La Melodia will play! |
APRIL
7
Be
Honest . . .
Visual, Sound, & Performance Works
from the members of Million Fishes and other Mission
District artists.
Saturday,
April 7
7:00
p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
2501
Bryant Street, Mission District, San Francisco
Admission is free, sliding scale donations of
$5-15 accepted
BE
HONEST engages with the essential quagmires
of attempting to creatively re-interpret
and re-present non-fiction narratives. Artists
investigate the tools, license, and responsibilities
inherent in the endeavor to artfully document
and re-tell a 'real' story. Other artists
explore the sphere of false or fabricated
narratives and the complicated choice to
present these stories as if they were 'true'.
The show will feature work from photographers,
painters, mixed-media artists, film, video
and sound artists, and performers.
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March
2007 |
MARCH
23
VidyA
with special guest poet ALYSSA NICKELL
$10
donation. Doors open at 7:30 pm. Show at 8 pm.
WHERE: Million Fishes Artist Collective, 2501
Bryant St. @ 23rd
(Enter through 23rd Steet gate.)
For more info, call: 415-826-2402
 Vidya
is an adventurous new group that merges the virtuosity
of jazz with the melodic and rhythmic nuance of
South Indian classical (Carnatic) music. Led by
critically-acclaimed saxophonist, Prasant Radhakrishnan,
vidyA has emerged with a soulful, penetrating
sound that pushes the labels of "fusion"
or "world music."
The drums and bass lock into one another, driving
the music forward like a jazz rhythm section,
while the tenor saxophone and violin elaborate
and improvise on Carnatic ragas. The group weaves
in and out of the two genres while all the time
merging them into one. vidyA translates the language
of Carnatic music into the idiom of Jazz.
This night's collaborative performance includes
poet Alyssa Nickell. Nickell has been actively
engaged in creative writing since she was 14,
inspired by Mrs. Bouma's grey-and-white houndstooth
suits, Jenny's pink-pink sweats, and the threat
of getting stuck in Home Economics learning how
to sew buttons and boil eggs. In the late eighties,
she discovered spoken word at Chicago's Green
Mill, one of Al Capone's roaring-20's speakeasies,
and has been playing and procrastinating with
rhyme and rhythm ever since.
This evening is part of a series of performances
for vidyA as Red
Poppy Artist-in-Residence. The group will
be featured in a special
performance series with events happening twice
per month through May. Future shows will include
a variety of interdisciplinary
collaborations, including work with painters,
dancers, poets and filmmakers. Keep your eye on
the schedule for more!
VidyA's website is http://vidyamusic.com/
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February
2007 |
FEBRUARY 27
|
Jeff
Jarvis
Blogger, BuzzMachine.com |
News
War: What's Happening to the News
A PBS Frontline documentary
Tuesday, February 27
9 pm
check local listings
Million
Fishes resident artist Aaron Selverton is the
associate producer for this program which is part
of the award-winning investigative documentary
series, "Frontline," on PBS. See the
preview on PBS's website.
FEBRUARY
15
Tango La Melodia Live in Concert 
Thursday, February 15
10 pm
MAKEOUT
ROOM
3225 22nd Street/Valencia, SF 94110
415 647 2888
www.makeoutroom.com
FOR
MORE INFO VISIT: brentbishop.com
TANGO
LA MELODIA will be playing live in concert next
Thursday, February 15 at the Makeout Room at 10pm!
We will be playing the music from the multimedia
media performance, and then some!
It is the night after Valentine's Day, and we
will delight the lovers, the broken-hearted, and
the unaffected with the sounds of Tango, Gypsy
Jazz, Blues, and the madness of the moon.
We will be joined by two outstanding bands, Sweet
Crude Bill & the Lighthouse Nautical Society
(11pm) and Valerie Orth (9pm).
It's going to be a party, so put on your dapperest
clothes, and gets those dancing feet ready! The
evening
starts and 9pm, and the cover is $7. Just follow
the sounds of the accordion, and we will see you
at the show!
Cordially,
Brent, Paige, Carly, and all of TANGO LA MELODIA
FEBRUARY 13 & 16 
Breath, Death and Prayer
"Breathing Chamber"
Screens @ SF IndieFest
Location:
Roxie Cinema
ROXIE
Cinema is located in the heart of San Francisco's
Mission District at 3117 16th Street between Valencia
and Guerrero streets.
Tuesday
Feb 13 @ 9:30
Friday Feb 16 @ 2:15
Please join Million Fishes resident artist Carlos
Marulanda for the screening of his short film
“Breathing Chamber”. It will be playing
at the San Francisco Independent Film
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