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Showcasing the best of a decade of unique programming, the 10th annual Druid Underground is a high-powered blast of rebellious cinema hosted by Billy Burgess!

A spectacle unlike any other, Druid Underground champions subversive techniques that advance the language of cinema, challenge pre-conceived notions of underground art and simultaniously blow your mind out of your skull!

JOIN US for a break-kneck barrage of creative cinema both on and off the underground film radar that Flavorpill says doesn’t so much “defy convention as mow it down, douse it in kerosene, and flick a Zippo at it!”

FREE RAFFLE Ticket for first 50 ticket holders

2017 SHORTS PROGRAM

Brent Weinbach “My Buddy Commercial”

Ancient Reality “You Wouldn’t Steal a Meme”

Thanks Computer “Shithead”

Tavet Gillson “Placenta”

Adriel Garcia “Turbo Tom” and “Turbo Tom 2: Electric Boogaloo”

Aimee Goguen “Bug Show”

Anthony Cerniello “Danielle”

Brennan Hill “Hero/Psycho”

Brent Weinbach “Gangster Party Line” 

Cecelia Condit “Possibly in Michigan”

Damon Packard “SKATEBANG”

Danny Plotnick “Skate Witches”

Dave Kidd “Tell-a-Vision”

Garret Davis and Kirsten Lepore “Story From North America” 

Dylan Hausthor “You Don’t Go Fucking Killing People”

Ignacio Genzon “Handy Man”

Jason Eisener “Treevenge” 

John Geary “Devil’s Arrest”

Kid Mankowitz “TV Sabotage”

Kids & Explosions “Swear Words” 

Matthew Silver “Heartpocalypse” 

Max Winston “I Live in the Woods”

Ancient Reality “Major League Can Can”

Richard Roth “Stump: A Yahi Story”

Rodney Ascher “Visions of Terror”

Teemong “Psychle” 

Winona Regan “Haunted Heart”

Vitamin Wig C “Tear Light”

It almost November and that means its time for Periwinkle Cinema’ s annual all Trans, Non Binary, Gender Queer, Gender Non Conforming screening. This month we will showcase works from artists from the who do not identify as CIS gendered. Anyone who is under the Trans umbrella we screening your work. Allies are always welcome, we will have free popcorn and fun door prizes. Come help us remember our history and fight for our future.

A reading & performance with the four recent ELEVATE residents: Steve Orth, MK Chavez, Suzanne Stein and Julian Francis Park.

JULIAN FRANCIS PARK has poems in Blind Field (forthcoming), Entropy, HOLD (forthcoming), Horny Poetry Review (forthcoming), and Writing w/o Walls, narrative excerpted in Queen Mob’s Tea House, reviews in Jacket2 and Tripwire, and a chapter, “On the Historical Conditions of Accumulation,” in Rosa Luxemburg: A Permanent Challenge for Political Economy. Julian does intake for Causa Justa/Just Cause’s Tenants’ Rights Clinic, and facilitates a free, weekly writing workshop with the Bay Area Public School at the Omni Commons. Julian also works on Omni’s newsletter, The Commoner. Tweets @jfpark3

SUZANNE STEIN’s publications include The Kim Game, TOUT VA BIEN, and Hole in Space. With Steve Benson, she is the author of Do Your Own Damn Laundry, which documents the 36 improvisational dialogues they performed together between 2011-2012. She is the founding editor of SFMOMA’s Open Space.

Oakland-based writer, MK CHAVEZ is the author of several chapbooks including Mothermorphosis (2016, Nomadic Press) a full-collection of her work, Dear Animal, was released in October 2016 by Nomadic Press. Chavez is co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges, curator of Uptown Friday Readings in Oakland, and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. Chavez’s work has been published widely in print and online. Her poem The New Whitehouse, Finding Myself In The Ruins, was selected by Eileen Myles for the 2017 Cosmonauts Avenue Poetry Award.

STEVE ORTH is from Kansas City, MO and has lived in the Bay Area since 2000. With Lindsey Boldt, he began publishing small books, under the moniker Summer BF Press, which published many classics such as Typing Wild Speech by Dana Ward, The Truth About Ted by Bruce Boone, and many others. Steve also edited Where Eagles Dare Magazine and curated Hybrid Moments Reading Series. He was a founding member of the short lived, but memorable, La Commune Books & Café, a collectively owned bookstore in Oakland, CA. Steve is also a writer, and his latest, Cyborg Legs (OMG! Press, 2015) is a fable involving grocery stores.