sins invalid show sep 5 & 6

Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility

Friday, September 5th 2007

Saturday, September 6th 2007 (ASL Interpreted)

8 pm; doors open at 7:30 pm

Brava Theater

2789 24th Street (between York and Hampshire St.)

San Francisco CA

Tickets are available at the door and in advance at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/40116

A performance event to reveal poetic bodies and hot activism, Sins Invalid invites a re/view of embodiment, with performers and video artists speaking their minds and stripping taboos off of sexuality and disability.

In our third year, this performance event celebrates the sacred in fierce desire and claims all bodies as beautiful.

We know that the world of embodied and enforced norms oppresses all of us, regardless of where we identify on the spectrum of sexuality, gender or ability. The event is a gift for participants and audience alike, encouraging a healing for all who challenge themselves honestly when unearthing sexual expression.

Wheelchair accessible

For more info please call 510-689.7198

Artists include:

Seeley Quest

Noemi Sohn

Cara Page

Maria Palacios

Leroy Moore

Nomy Lamm

Rodney Bell

Supported by AEPOCH, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice.

APAture: ksw press reading & film and video night

Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007, 7 - 9pm
Bunsen Burnt: KSW Press Reading & Chapbook Release
The Actors Center of San Francisco
180 Capp St. @17th St., 2nd floor
$10-20 sliding scale ($8-$20 for KSW members) Join us for an evening of literary readings and the launch of a new chapbook, Bunsen Burnt, from KSW Press. Featuring readings by Neelanjana Banerjee, Susanna Kwan, Vanessa Huang, Sita K. Bhaumik, and others.

Neelanjana Banerjee
Oscar Bermeo
Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik
Vanessa Huang
Susanna Kwan
Margaret Rhee

View artist bios

Buy Tickets at manja.org

Thursday, September 27, 2007, 8pm
Film and Video Night
Victoria Theatre
2961 16th Street, San Francisco
$10-20 sliding scale ($8-$20 for KSW members)
Featured Film Artist: Emiko Omori

Join us for an evening of film and video screenings by Bay Area API filmmakers, including featured artist Emiko Omori, at the Victoria Theatre.

John Fong, Since You’ve Been Ong
Yasmine Gomez, Consumed
Vanessa Huang, pray ting ai fly
Jeffrey Lei, Dick Ho: Asian Male Porn Star
Minette Mangahas, Kiss My Hyphen
Nooshin Navidi, Young Republic
Danilo Parra, music video for Odessa Chen’s Kill the lights
Melanie Veloria, My Bad by Kapakahi
Wilson Wong, My Dad the Hairstylist

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love & sickness

Love & Sickness
A two-woman work-in-progress
By Vanessa Huang & Melissa Koh

August 11, 2007
7:30 pm Refreshments
8:00 pm Show

Uptown Body & Fender
401 26th St
Between Broadway & Telegraph
Oakland, CA 94612

Vanessa Huang is a queer Chinese-American artist and community organizer born in 1984 in Berkeley to immigrants from Taipei. She grew up in the Bay and has lived in Providence, Rhode Island, and since 2006, Oakland. Her experimental documentary short, pray ting ai fly, recently premiered in the 2007 Queer Women of Color Film Festival.

Melissa S. Koh is a director, writer, and teacher born and raised in the SF Bay. The other theatre works she has written and performed include How to Love an Asian Woman (Providence, RI), and Flight (Seoul, Korea). Lemonade Girls / Love & Sickness is her third full-length production.

salamat

This past week saw a slew of anti-immigrant and pro-military bills passed in the U.S. Senate and Assemby, including the authorization of 700 more miles of border fence and the removal of the writ of habeas corpus for people Bush detains outside of U.S. borders.

Tonight, I checked out Aimee Suzara’s theatre work in progress, Pagbabalik (return): a welcome breather. She and her cast and crew beautifully combine music, theatre, and movement to tell the story of Diwata, a young Fil-Am woman returning to the Phillipines for the first time.

Pagbabalik will continue evolving and growing until early 2007, and they’re fundraising to make that happen. Folks can donate via Aimee’s website or by emailing pagbabalik@aimeesuzara.net.