Join The GLBT Historical Society and Impact Stories as we welcome friends and families to share memories of performers featured in the "Dancers We Lost" exhibit. This will be a casual afternoon of sharing stories and memories of the dancers, and we will be filming the event for future viewing. Cookies and refreshments will be served.
"DANCERS WE LOST" FRIENDS AND FAMILY DAY
Sunday, May 1, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The GLBT History Museum
4127 18th Street San Francisco, CA 94114
$5 suggested donation, ...
Join The GLBT Historical Society and Impact Stories as we welcome friends and families to share memories of performers featured in the "Dancers We Lost" exhibit. This will be a casual afternoon of sharing stories and memories of the dancers, and we will be filming the event for future viewing. Cookies and refreshments will be served.
"DANCERS WE LOST" FRIENDS AND FAMILY DAY
Sunday, May 1, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The GLBT History Museum
4127 18th Street San Francisco, CA 94114
$5 suggested donation, members free.
(There will be a second Family and Friends Day on Sunday, August 7, which is the last day of the exhibit.)
ABOUT "DANCERS WE LOST: HONORING PERFORMERS LOST TO HIV/AIDS"
The GLBT history Museum is proud to present a showing of photographs and archival materials that showcase the many dancers lost to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
The "Dancers We Lost" project includes an arts and public-history exhibition showing the dancers in their prime performing in myriad venues including Broadway and Las Vegas shows, dance concerts, TV variety shows, films, ballet, music videos, and commercials. A searchable database and biography file of each of the dancers also is in the works.
The AIDS pandemic struck the performing arts particularly hard. "Dancers We Lost" is an important step in documenting and bringing to light the lives and contributions of performers, most of whom tragically died young. With an exhibition about their work and a database providing accurate information about their lives and careers, "Dancers We Lost" ensures that these virtuousos will not be forgotten.
The exhibit runs through August 7. For more information, visit the project website: www.dancerswelost.org
ABOUT IMPACT STORIES
"Dancers We Lost" is presented by Impact Stories, an oral history project run by independent researcher and historian Glenne McElhinney. The project is sponsored by the California LGBT Arts Alliance, a 501(c)3 organization that supports the arts in the Golden State. The exhibition premiered in June 2015 at West Hollywood, California, as part of the summer programming around various venues within the city.
All photographs, scrapbooks, personal papers, biography files and other items collected by the project will go to the Museum of Performance + Design in San Francisco, the largest dance and performing-arts archives on the West Coast.