June 9
Breaking Code: The Intersections of Queerness and Madness
Exhibit Reception: 6pm-7pm
Performance: 7pm
San Francisco LGBT Center, $12 - $20, No One Turned Away
The visual arts exhibit will be up from June 2nd - July 18th.
Many of our communities have not yet embraced candid conversation about mental health. On June 9th, 2014 seventeen Queer and Trans artists based in Ohio, North Carolina, Massachusetts, New York and the San Francisco Bay Area will come together to claim the ways madness ...
June 9
Breaking Code: The Intersections of Queerness and Madness
Exhibit Reception: 6pm-7pm
Performance: 7pm
San Francisco LGBT Center, $12 - $20, No One Turned Away
The visual arts exhibit will be up from June 2nd - July 18th.
Many of our communities have not yet embraced candid conversation about mental health. On June 9th, 2014 seventeen Queer and Trans artists based in Ohio, North Carolina, Massachusetts, New York and the San Francisco Bay Area will come together to claim the ways madness informs, complicates, and sweetens our lives.
For many, speaking about mental health is yet another coming out process. Breaking Code showcases visual and performing artists exploring the ways ‘Queer’ and ‘Crazy’ have been forced together and forced apart. Together we use the tools of reclamation and subversion, that many of us develop as we come to a queer identity, to rethink our relationship to mental health.
In this space of intersection we’ll explore the differences in how we are assigned and how we experience madness and queerness. With power and vulnerability, we continue the legacy of resisting shame by claiming our wholeness.
*PERFORMING ARTISTS*
The Lady Ms. Vagina Jenkins
Meliza Bañales
Dirty D
Kentucky Fried Woman
Renee Garcia
Nicole Goodwin
Manish V.
A Thimble of Light
Mister Ri Molnar
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
*VISUAL ARTISTS*
LOSTBOY
Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes
Micah Bazant
Catherine Edgerton
Jos Truitt
Becka Shertzer
*CURATORS*
Blyth Barnow
E. Oscar Maynard
Join us!
You can purchase tickets here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/670103*
*Accessibility*
Wheelchair Accessible.
ASL Interpretation Confirmed. ASL RSVP required by June 2nd: breakingcode2014@gmail.com
In order to make the space accessible for community members with chemical injury, please refrain from using fragranced products (here are some tips on being fragrance free! http://eastbaymeditation.org/accessibility/PDF/How-to-Be-Fragrance-Free-.pdf). Fragrance free seating available.
