The Outsiders

Description

The Outsiders - The three part series features writers and artists who have experience living and creating on the margins of our culture, dealing with issues of race, sexuality, gender, class, ethnicity, and calling into question notions of what it means to be in or outside of the culture which you address.

Performers will explore the idea of being both insider and outsider, how a person's placement to the dominant culture can change over time, how one can become an insider of outsider culture. Participation in multiple cultures, the joys and struggles which come with being members of fringe cultures, and many other perspectives will be explored.

Event One:
This is the first of three Queer Arts Festival events at San Francisco Public Library. Tonight will feature trans performance artist Ben McCoy (Are You There God? It's me....Ben McCoy); poet Justin Chin (Gutted; Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms); Kim Addonizio (My Dreams Out on the Street); and one more special guest.

Sponsored by the Queer Arts Festival and the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center.
Tuesday, June 10, 6pm - 7:30pm
Main Library, Lower Level, Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)

Event Two:
This is the second of three Queer Arts Festival events. Come see three African-American artists: Kirya Traber - spoken word artist, activist and author of Tiny Little Maps to Each Other; Tim'm West, author of Red Dirt Dreams; and Rhodessa Jones, Director of San Francisco Performance Company Cultural Odyssey and founder and director of The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women. Joining them is white trans environmental illustrator, tattoo artist, and author of Go Fuck Yourself: a Mini-Zine devoted to DIY Sex Toys and Gender Bending Devices.

Cosponsored by the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center.
Tuesday, June 17, 6pm - 7:30pm
Main Library, Lower Level, Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)

Event Three:
This is the third in the 3-part Queer Arts Festival: The Outsiders series. Tonights artists include writer Noel Alumit (Stonewall Award winning novel Letters to Montgomery Clift); zinestor and illustrator Nicole J. Georges (Invincible Summer); performance artist and Sister Spit member Sara Seinberg; and writer, activist, performer and educator Guillermo Gomez-Pena (author of American Book Award winning New World Border).

Cosponsored by the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center.
Tuesday, June 24, 6pm - 7:30 pm
Main Library, Lower Level, Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin Street (at Grove)

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http://www.sfpl.org/