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SUMMARY:The News Features an Evening of Wild Cards Hosted by Brown Meshugana
DESCRIPTION:On the first Tuesday of each month The News\, presented by SOMArts Cultural Center\, features new\, queer work by Bay Area artists. The News is a monthly cabaret evening that spotlights 10-minute or less performance pieces\, experiments\, and works in progress by pre-selected solo artists\, groups\, or troupes. \nOn Tuesday\, May 3\, The News will feature an evening of “wild cards” – performers who we have wanted to share the stage with but haven’t had a chance…until now! In addition to artists selected by a guest curator\, a “wild card” performer appears in each line-up at The News. “Wild cards” are artists who may not have been selected by the guest curators\, but join in the evening to share new work. We’re excited to present an evening composed entirely of “wild card” performers at The News in May! \nAdmission is FREE! SOMArts is offering free admission in hopes that if you can afford to donate\, you will support the artists onstage when the hat passes.  \nThe nature of The News is to give artists access to critical space for risk-taking in performance. Artists interested in performing as a “wild card” at The News in the future can find more information here. \nHost Biography: \nThe alliterative taglines of Brown Meshugana: \nThe Chocolate Chosen One.\nThe Half Black Heeb.\nThe Sapphic Semitic\, Sepia Sista.\nThe Mildly Melanated Misfit Mensch.\nAll attempts to describe a being who uses boisterous bouncing of a bountiful booty as a greeting\, entertainment\, and\, most importantly\, a distraction. \nARTIST BIOGRAPHIES: \nGabriel Christian (t(he)y;(t)him) is an unholy performer\, poet\, and archivist from NYC who currently lives and works in the East Bay. Apart from four regional and Off-Broadway productions\, he has supported and performed in works from WePlayers (2015)\, artist Tamar Ettun’s The Moving Company (2014) and The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards (2013-2014). As of 2015\, they have primarily served as their femme ego-companion Derrierykah Badu (IG: derrierykah.badu) at The Stud and Aunt Charlie’s in San Francisco\, CA\, as well as having exhibited in the collaborative show “Property Laws” at Madame of the Arts in Minneapolis\, MN. Most recently\, they were one of the nine flagship queer performance artists in residence at the Destiny Arts Center. Their upcoming appearances include a staged revisualization of Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red\, Conjuring Roots at Flight Deck on June 30th as part of the National Queer Arts Festival\, and citywide as Eartha Kunt. \nHow Spirit Moves Us presents “Confronting the Ghost of Willie Lynch\,” an interactive performance piece that follows queer black couples through their process of expelling self hate and centuries old anti-black sentiment- facilitated and highly generated from the Willie Lynch speech. “Confronting the Ghost of Willie Lynch” explores the healing power of love and the erotic using theater depiction\, dance\, and spoken word. Their trail will be experienced with the audience using interactive methods of inclusion. \nEshe Shukura is a graduate of Hampshire College\, where they focused in Theater. They co-directed and starred in their original play\, “Fat. Black. & Ugly.” which won the James Baldwin playwright award at the Five College Word Festival in Amherst\, MA. Eshe uses movement and the jazz aesthetic/ fragmented language in their work. New to performance art\, they use their theater background to structure their voice and performance style. \nSPELLLING (Chrystia Cabral) is an artist\, composer\, teacher\, queer who has been residing and creating in the Bay Area for the past 6 years. She works as an educator for Oakland Unified\, teaching music\, technology\, and gardening to K-5th grade youth. She plans to continue her journey as an artist/educator/performer and explore the power of communal performance as a tool for re-education. SPELLLING is a newly birthed entity/identity. SPELLLING is a sonic ritual honoring itself as the object of faith. SPELLLING creates musical loops of synergies within real and imagined space using sound\, repetition\, material and body. \nYula Paluy has lived and worked in the Bay Area as a researcher\, writer\, and performer for the past 15 years. Trained in theater and filmmaking in Israel\, and in Euro-Japanese clowning in San Francisco\, she has performed original material in a style that merges spoken word and embodied performance. In addition to staging her new play\, Nothing is Sacred?\, she is currently translating Kay Ryan’s poetry and writing a nonfiction book on unorthodox communities of healing in the Bay Area. Previously\, Yula researched embodied metaphors and the humanizing effects of humor as a graduate student at Stanford University\, and taught psychology and research methods at Stanford and San Quentin State Prison. \nImage credit: The News: May 2016. Photo by Chani Bockwinkel
URL:https://somarts.org/event/thenewsmay2016/
CATEGORIES:Past Events,Public Program
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SUMMARY:Baruch Porras–Hernandez Hosts The News
DESCRIPTION:On the first Tuesday of each month The News\, presented by SOMArts Cultural Center\, features new\, queer work by Bay Area artists. The News is a monthly cabaret evening that spotlights 10-minute or less performance pieces\, experiments\, and works in progress by pre-selected solo artists\, groups\, or troupes. \nOn Tuesday\, August 2\, The News is guest-hosted by Baruch Porras Hernandez\, and promises a night of queer/punk culture-fucking liberation with sonic beats\, 6 inch heels and colorful explosions! \nDrawing from personal stories and experiences\, the artists writhe all over the map with Bollywood inspired dance\, machismo resistance\, comedic storytelling\, sonic mantras\, femme fierceness\, and kink infused poetry. Don’t miss this night featuring the legendary and the soon to be legendary performers: Fiera!\, Kohinoorgasm\, SNJV\, Porras-Hernandez\, and Wonder Dave. \nAdmission is FREE! SOMArts is offering free admission in hopes that if you can afford to donate\, you will support the artists onstage when the hat passes. RSVP on EventBrite to guarantee a seat. \nThe nature of The News is to give artists access to critical space for risk-taking in performance. Artists interested in performing as a “wild card” at The News in the future can find more information here. \nCURATOR BIOGRAPHY: \nBaruch Porras Hernandez has organized live spoken word and storytelling shows all over San Francisco for the past 7 years. He is a regular KQED Arts host and curator. He’s the Voice of Shipwreck SF Erotic Fan Fiction Competition\, currently the Muni Diaries’ reigning Muni Haiku Champion. In San Francisco he’s won Literary Death Match\, WriteClub SF\, has won the Moth in LA and represented San Francisco in their LA Championship. He’s the founder of ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? which was created in part by the REGEN Artist grant from Galería de la Raza. His solo play currently titled ¡Agárrate! is being developed for production by a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission for Individual Theatre Artists. He was a Lambda Literary Poetry Fellow in 2014\, and will be a Lambda Literary Playwriting Fellow in 2016. His poetry can be found in several anthologies\, he’s featured at Radar Productions\, Writers with Drinks\, LitCrawl\, Queer Rebels Fest\, The International Flor y Canto Literary Festival\, and is the head organizer for The San Francisco Queer Open Mic. Recently he was named a NALAC Latino Leader in the arts and took part in the NALAC leadership Institute. Read his work online at The Tusk\, and with Drunk in a Midnight Choir. For more. \nARTIST BIOGRAPHIES: \nFiera! was born as a form of resistance to deeply rooted and entrenched machismo ideals and highly conservative values. This queer femme latinX artist started performing at the legendary Aunt Charlie’s Lounge about a year and half ago. With little experience in front of an audience\, she became a regular\, putting on a new show every week for almost a year. Fiera’s yearning for queer liberation within her native Mexican culture drove her to put on 6-inch heels\, dresses\, wig\, while painting a fierce face as a protest to her perceived decadent lifestyle. At the same time\, she continues to explore the beautiful art of illusion and drag. In the process of doing so\, she has become very successful in the club scene\, making appearances at such popular night clubs as The Stud\, Oasis\, Moby Dick\, The Lookout\, and other venues. She also enjoys collaborating with much more established drag artists and Djs. Recently\, she has begun to evolve her art towards a new trajectory\, incorporating counter-culture and queer-punk elements or any other abstract elements that she feels help to relay her message. \nAs a mixed race and queer artist\, Kohinoorgasm (one word: ko-hee-noor-gasm) seeks to expand the dialogue around multicultural\, ambiguous identity-based experiences. Her music blends and layers hypnotic beats and sounds\, with vocals in Hindi and English. Her lyrics are often repetitive and pensive\, forging mantras and phrases into a sonic thought-scape and encouraging the listener to reflect on such things as self-love\, resilience\, anxiety\, and agency. She is currently experimenting with the quality of her live performances\, and she hopes to incorporate many styles of movement and expression! \nSNJV creates provocative and attention grabbing stage moments. His performances tell complex stories through dance while providing the audience with a colorful explosion of energetic movement. He is dedicated to intertwining the performance into everyday life with messages of compassion and unconditional love embedded in every move. He is an enigma wrapped in a riddle and so are his performances. \nWonder Dave is a writer and performer from Minneapolis\, MN\, now living in California. He has toured the country performing at poetry venues\, comedy shows\, schools\, cabarets\, science fiction conventions\, burlesque shows\, and bowling alleys. He is the host of Oakland’s Story Showdown and San Francisco’s Literary Pop. He is a fixture at the underground variety show Tourettes Without Regrets. Find him online at WonderDave.org. \nImage credit: Baruch Porras–Hernandez
URL:https://somarts.org/event/thenewsaugust2016/
CATEGORIES:Past Events,Public Program
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