BYOQ 2013

Saturday, October 12, 2013 Bandshell, Golden Gate Park San Francisco, CA 12-6pm MC: Lil Miss Hot Mess Performances by: Ships in the Night Body Waves Double Duchess Robert Jeffrey / Viennetta M*J*R Bus Station John Adonisaurus PHOTO BOOTHS Photography by: Cabure Bonugli / Shot in the City Uel Renteria as Cray Cray Installations by: Matt Picon Nathan Rapport POP UP ART SHOW by ART UNDERGROUND Curated by Cody Joseph Painter Featured artists: Kelly Porter Danny Beck Matt Hines Danyol Leon Heather Tompkins Diego Gomez Papergirl VENDORS / FASHION / ARTS / CRAFTS COMMUNITY BASED ORGS AND RESOURCE TABLES Featuring Art, Health & Resources More info: http://www.byoq.org Poster graphic design by Querido Galdo ** ARTIST BIOS Lil Miss Hot Mess Lil Miss Hot Mess bedazzles audiences in the Bay Area and beyond with a unique blend of camp, critique, and choreography. Known for throwing elaborate extravaganzas like her “Bat Mitzvah x2” and roller skating parties, she has performed at venues ranging from the legendary clubs Trannyshack and Hard French, to SFMOMA and the streets of OccupySF. She was crowned the inaugural Tiara Sensation pageant winner, and hosts a monthly pre-show for newcomers in conjunction with Some Thing at The Stud, where she hosts a show for newbies. More info: lilmisshotmess.com. Ships in the Night Ships in the Night is a radical queer dance party in the Bay Area, committed to providing a good time, amazing music, and community building through fundraising and spreading awareness of organizations and movements that fight for justice in our communities. ships has raised over $10,000 over the years for different groups and working class movement efforts. dance parties happen every first Saturday of the month in Oakland. Ships in the Night was started by Anita "Durt" O'Shea and Paolo Chico at the historic Gangway in the Tenderloin in San Francisco in 2006. Since then, the party has evolved into a huge scene, with many individuals involved. The party is sustained by its current crew of Durt, Macio, and Maren, but there are many folks in the ships family. Double Duchess With ferocious beats and playful narratives, the high-energy electro-hop duo from San Francisco met in 2009. Krylon Superstar’s years of international performance art and fashion genius brought d.a.v.O.’s years of emceeing, production and musical experiences to the stage once more. Together they’ve been heating up the national queer scene with their debut EP “Hey Girl!” along with their live interactive and theatrical performances. Their fresh, lo-fi, and raw sound of campy electro-hot transcends genres and genders, while the seasoned theatrics of these unforgettable divas will have you wishing you were as queer as they are. Body Waves BODY WAVES is Antoinette Chen See, Ana Maria Aguero Jahannes and India Sky Davis. The babes of BODY WAVES create their work through collective construction utilizing the unique and varied skills and ideas of its members. BODY WAVES is grateful for and inspired by the coven of Beautiful Queer Brown Sisterhood they create within. Classy, Nasty and always Real. India Davis is a Multidisciplinary Artist. She has a background in Theater, Dance, Media Arts and Circus Arts. In addition, India also teaches children and adults in many capacities. She is a graduate of Antioch College and the New England Center for Circus Arts. India has been a creator and collaborator of numerous solo and group productions and is honored to have served as co-producer of Topsy Turvy: A Queer Circus Extravaganza. She is the founder and director of BODY WAVES a dance acrobatics crew based out of Oakland, CA. Robert Jeffrey Robert Jeffrey is a resident of the weekly Viennetta Discotheque at Underground SF, as well as Ms. White on first Sundays at Monarch. He has DJ’d all over SF, as well as NYC and Seattle, at such events as Bearracuda, Daytime Realness, HYSL, Fag Fridays and more. M*J*R M*J*R was raised to love music and dancing by a red headed Irish woman named Juanita. He is eternally grateful that many of his earliest memories include as background music: Art of Noise, Michael Jackson, The Pointer Sisters … He began DJ’ing in Boston in 2002 after co-founding the still extant Redtail Collective and Firefly Arts Collective. After moving to San Francisco 5 years ago, he fell in love with the vibrant underground music and event culture thriving in the city. M*J*R has been a core contributor to Comfort & Joy for many years, has assisted in producing BYOQ, Morning Glory, and Honey Dusted. Most recently, he helped create BAAAHS and bring it to the playa. Bus Station John Perhaps one of the most important DJ’s on the San Francisco gay scene in the past decade, Bus Station John has been the musical conduit for a huge cultural reawakening among younger queers. Called “the godfather of bathhouse disco,” he’s revered throughout the dance music world for his fastidious attention to party detail and his inimitable blend of rare ‘70s and early ’80s soul, boogie, garage, funk, Italo, Hi-NRG, and no-wave. Adonisaurus Since 2008, Adonisaurus has been twiddling knobs and making beats in a struggle of primitivism and futurism, Derek and Danyol, both keyboardists, share a love of well-crafted songs with solid melodies- songs that are accessible and wondrous, w. With each song, Adonisaurus breaks their melody and beats into a million pieces - on top of which are layered lyrics, their collaborative and improvised sound, and the meaning their craft creates. Building atop the structure of basic, infectious drum beats, the duo dresses starkness up in the energy of their lyrics.