SICK

On May 9th, SICK brings together 17 gender variant artists who are chronically ill to showcase their brilliant visual, video and performance art. Join us for this FREE event featuring: Emmet Phipps, Skip Heatwave, Terry Xiao, Dominic Bradley, Erin Upshaw, Heidi Andrea Rhodes, Charlie Laguna, Annie Murphy, Kolmel WithLove, Michael Garfinkel, Sarah Barnard, Creatrix Tiara, Jonah Aline Daniel, Dale Guy Madison, Eva Sweeney, Davend, Rik Haber Where: LGBT Center (1800 Market St San Francisco, CA) When: 6:00pm- Visual Arts Showcase 7:30pm- Videos and Performances Space at this venue is very limited, so please arrive early if you'd like to see the performance! The performance is FREE, but The Center will strictly limit capacity to 200 people, and they hand out numbers based on order of arrival, starting at 6:00pm! Most or all of the numbers will probably be gone by 6:30. So come early, get your number, check out the visual arts showcase, then head to the performance! sickcollective.org Giving a definition to gender variance is tricky. As is defining chronic illness. People tell themselves “I am not sick enough or queer enough or whatever enough” to identify these ways and this hesitance stops us from forming communities and connections. We isolate because our experiences are not talked about or validated and our unique and varied lives don’t lend themselves easily to group formation. Definitions are inherently constraining which is why many gender variant and chronically ill folks resist identity categories that often hew to normative binaries. With this in mind, SICK will bring folks together to make beautiful complicated art about our intersecting experiences as gender variant and sick people. Co-curated by Cheena Marie Lo and Rik Haber <3 IMPORTANT: Please come fragrance-free. Learn more at http://www.brownstargirl.org/1/post/2012/03/fragrance-free-femme-of-colour-realness-draft-15.html. Co-sponsored with support from The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Rainbow Grocery: A worker owned Cooperative, Fabulosa Fest (http://fabulosa.org), The Queer Cultural Center and the Trans Justice Funding Project. Access Notes: SICK will be on the second floor of the SF LGBT Center. There are both elevators and stairs leading to the second floor and into the performance space there is both a ramp and stair access. We will have space reserved for wheelchair seating in the theatre and we would like folks to be scent free in the space. Bathrooms also have accessible stalls and will be made gender neutral for the event. There will not be childcare nor do we have access to language interpretation. Please feel free to email me if there is anyone seeking specific accommodations not mentioned in this post. rik.haber@gmail.com