Author: Fara

  • Sistha Sinema: Celebrating Black Lesbian motherhood

    July Sistah SinemaInspired by the lives of Audre Lorde and StaceyAnn Chin, Sistah Sinema compiled this collection of shorts celebrating Black Lesbian motherhood.


    Celebrating Black Lesbian Motherhood

    If She Grows Up Gay: A blue collar African American mother talks about her pregnancy and raising her daughter with her lesbian lover.

    Brooklyn’s Bridge to Jordan by Tina Mabry: After losing her life partner in a car accident, a woman with a buried secret must not only fight to keep the couples’ estranged teenage son from her partner’s intolerant brother, but rebuild her and the son’s troubled relationship.

    Trailer: http://vimeo.com/8351823

    Crossover by Tina Mabry: In a future where schools are segregated by economic status, a struggling mother must decide whether to sell her own organs to give her children a better education.

    Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anTTR4s8Ryg

    *Sistah Sinema was created to showcase the nuances of Queer Women of Color culture. It is hoped that the movies will serve as a vehicle to foster honest dialogue on struggles and opportunities unique to Queer Women of Color. While discussion will focus on Queer Women of Color, all members of the Queer community are invited to attend.

    Sistah Sinema started in Seattle, WA in early 2011 and expanded to Cleveland in 2012, and currently in over 10 cities across the country and Kingston, JA.

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  • Works by Marya Krogstad (opening & screening)

     

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    Marya Krogstad is a San Francisco based multi-media artist working in installation/environments, sculpture, film, video, audio, photography, and performative work. At times, the installations may position the viewer as a participant or subject of the work. Krogstad addresses concepts of transience and the encounter. Situations are proposed in which we may see ourselves and the spaces we occupy in new ways. The in-between spaces, the oneiric, and notions relating to identity, help to inform the work.

    Krogstad received her M.F.A. in 2009 from the San Francisco Art Institute and exhibits nationally and internationally.  She is currently an Artist in Residence at Kala Art Institute and was a recent Affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts.

    For one cannot even really see one’s own exterior and comprehend it as a whole, and no mirrors or photographs can help; our real exterior can be seen and understood only by other people, because they are located outside us in space and because they are others.  In the realm of culture, outsideness is a most powerful factor in understanding…

    M. M. Bakhtin,  Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, p. 7, ©1986 Univ. of Texas Press

    Free (donation accepted)

    7:30 to 8:30 pm Window Opening Reception, 8:30 screening

  • Periwinkle Cinema: Form-Function-Fluffer

    gash_03Dip Me In Honey’s Video Show Show #1 

    The Video Show Show #1 is a multi-media affair highlighting the work of intersectional creators. An homage to 1+1=3.

    Artists turned scientists, biologists turned designers, cultural rabble-rousers, punk scholars, poets, music makers, performers, choreographers, and the queerly engaged. Highlighting the creative ingenuity, critical thinking, love, joy and rage in a medley of disciplines.

    The video program is a mix of presentations, interviews, animations, music video’s and disgustingly creative shorts.

    -Daddie$ Pla$tic

    -Dip Me In Honey

    -Dual Power Productions

    -Jae Rhim Lee

    -Janine Benyus

    -Malic Amalya

    –with tributes to David Wojnarowicz, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Maya Angelou.

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    Video program coupled with Zine table & reading material galore.