From your 2005-2006 GLIRT Moderator.
Ray Anne Lockard
Head, Frick Fine Arts Library
University Library System
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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Ezra Pound
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Subject: California LGBT Arts Alliance MONTHLY E-NEWSLETTER, Volume 2 No. 6,
June 6, 2005
California LGBT Arts Alliance MONTHLY E-NEWSLETTER
Volume 2 No. 6, June 6, 2005
The mission of The California LGBT Arts Alliance is to promote artistic
and financial partnerships that strengthen and deepen the cooperative
relationship among California's LGBT non-profit arts organizations and
individual artists.
This month the CALGBT Arts Alliance Newsletter is being sent to you
courtesy of The Queer Cultural Center (http://www.queerculturalcenter.org).
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Table of Contents:
News
º National
º NEA news article
º State
º Senate Bill 691 News
º Judy Baca in the news
CALGBTARTSALLIANCE Members' New and Events
(June Calendar Highlights!)
º Queer Cultural Center: National Queer Arts Festival 2005
º Purple Moon
º Centro Cultural de la Raza
º QueLACo
º Frameline
º liquidFire
º Femina Potens
º Fresh Meat
º The Harvey Milk City Hall Memorial
º QWOCMAP
º Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts
Opportunities , Resources, Funding
º Metlife Foundation's Museum Connections Program
º U.S./Japan Creative Artists' Program
º Latino Arts Network and California's LGBT Arts Alliance
Announce: 2nd ANNUAL Grant Writing Seminar
º San Francisco Arts Commission's Special Projects Grants
NEWS
NATIONAL
NEA Budget
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed an amendment to increase
funds for the Arts Endowment by $10 million, raising the proposed
budget from $121,264,000 to $131,264,000 for FY 2006. For more
information, please go to http://www.arts.gov/news/news05/HouseBudget.htm
NEA Reputation Gets Turnaround
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
Ten years ago, the National Endowment for the Arts (search ) was a
political football, with members of Congress lined up on either side,
usually along party lines, to defend it passionately or call ardently
for its demise.
The NEA survived, despite budget cuts and new internal finance controls.
But most observers now agree -- the NEA no longer seems to be a buzzword
for Washington excess or immorality, and no one expects there to be a
fight over its budget on Capitol Hill this year.
"We have huge bipartisan support in the House right now that was not
always there," said Felicia Knight, spokeswoman for the NEA. "There are
always going to be people who are philosophically opposed to supporting
government funding of the arts. Those are the people we are never going
to win over."
Read the full story at: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,158039,00.html
NEWS
STATE
Senate Bill 691 ( Speier-SF/ Peninsula- Dem)
SB 691, the CAC Arts License Plate funding bill passed the Senate
Committee today with 10 aye votes and 1 no vote.
Thanks to all who sent letters of support!
Terrorist Tactics Threaten Lives, First Amendment Freedoms for Artist Judy
Baca and Baldwin Park Residents.
We ask you to support the First Amendment rights of Baldwin Park residents
and artist Judy Baca to preserve the Danzas Indigenas public art
monument against bigoted attacks by the anti-immigrant hate group Save
Our State -- Sink Our State would be more appropriate. The hate group
has charged that the twelve-year old monument to multicultural
understanding is racially charged, seditious and anti-American.
The artist, Ms. Baca, Founder and Artistic Director of SPARC (Social and
Public Art Resource Center), facilitated a community process with
members of the Baldwin Park community that ultimately created the public
art project to reflect the dreams, past, and future of Baldwin Park. The
monument at the Baldwin Park Metrolink commuter train station celebrates
multicultural harmony in five languages with quotes from local residents
including "a kind of community we all dream of white, brown, yellow all
living together," "a small town feeling," "use your brain before you
make up your mind," and "not just adults leading but youth leading too."
The hate group using terrorist tactics threatens to take action if two
statements are not removed before the Fourth of July. The group's
diatribe against one quote reflects its own ignorance: "it was better
before they came." The group berates that statement because it "laments
the presence of whites in America," but in fact the quote is from a
non-Hispanic white resident who was speaking about Mexican immigrants
arriving after World War II, according to Ms. Baca. The ambiguity of the
statement as it appears on the monument is the point: about which "they"
is the anonymous voice speaking?
On the front of the monument representing the past is a quote from the
Chicana author Gloria Andzuldua, "this land was Mexican once, was Indian
always, and is, and will be again." The quote reflects the fact the
monument is one mile from Mission San Gabriel, and descendents of the
native Tongva/Gabrielinos still live in the region, making the quote
particularly relevant to the increasing indigenous population. The
reference is to the land being Native American, and does not advocate a
return to Mexico, contrary to the ignorant ravings of the hate group,
which dismisses the author as a "dead lesbian."
Twelve to twenty outside agitators from the hate group traveled to
Baldwin Park where they encountered over 1,000 supporters of the
monument and of Ms. Baca on May 14, 2005. The small city incurred
$250,000 dollars for police and helicopters to protect peace and justice
from these hate-mongers. Councilman Bill Van Cleave stated that "there
is no race problem in Baldwin Park," but that the Ventura County based
hate group "was bringing one." The group "threatened my life and told me
they were going to bury me in brown soil," according to Councilman Van
Cleave, the only non-Hispanic White on the council. All members of the
council have received death threats. The hate group has vowed to return
for the Fourth of July if their demands are not met. The hate group's
web site is filled with violent images of a man shooting at the viewer,
people used as target practice, and people beaten and bloodied.
Artists, public officials, and community members should not be left to
face death threats and attacks on their well being because of a work of
public art that was created in a public process, and approved by an art
committee in the city and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
CALGBTARTSALLIANCE MEMBERS' NEWS
Queer Cultural Center presents:
The 8th Annual National Queer Arts Festival
For the full calendar of events, dates, times tickets visit:
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org
Upcoming highlights include Trash Talkin' Tuesdays--a literary event
every Tuesday in June; Somewhere in Between, a play from Israel by trans
playwright, Ronny Almog with the original cast (in English!);
TransForming Community, a riveting dialogue explores the friction at the
intersection of contemporary trans and queer communities; and Rally the
Troupes--the Transformers curate a night of savvy political and sexy
performance art...with pom poms!
WAR!
An International Arts Exhibition.
Opened June 5th at SomArts Gallery. Please visit
http://www.queerculturalcenter for more information/
Gallery hours Tuesday -- Saturday, 3pm - 7pm and open before and after
shows at SomArts.
Qcc asked artists to define War - cultural, political, economic, racial,
medical, gender... What issues could move you to violence, even if that
violence is positive and transformative? The results are a riveting
blend of answers in this intense exhibit.
Purple Moon
For a full schedule of Purple Moon Workshops please visit:
http://www.purplemoondance.org
Purple Moon Workshops include:
Joyful Body
Healing Body Movement Workshop
Strong, Fit Flexible Workshop
Centro Cultural de la Raza (Highlights!)
For more information about Centro Cultural de la Raza's events
Go to: http://www.centroraza.com
Exhibit "Su Arte Here"
5 Years of San Francisco's Galeria de la Raza's Digital Murals
Thru July 23rd Tues-Sun 12-4pm
With works of Alma Lopez, Lalo Alcaraz, Armando Rascon, Conchita
Villalba and others
Platica BETWEEN THE DIGITAL DIVIDES
Saturday June 4th at 12pm
With Carolina Ponce de Leon (Galeria de la Raza), Tomas Benitez (Self
Help Graphics) and Maria Acosta (Latino Arts Network).
Play DEATH BY SURVIVAL
June 4 & 5 8pm
$22 General, $17 Students/Seniors, Group Rate Available
Written by Elizabeth Ruiz, Directed by Dori Salois
The poignant play about the Dirty War of Argentina, disappearing
students and a terrifying leap into the future.
Exhibit Furniture Makers of San Diego "The Other Side"
June 8-11th Tues -Sun 12-4pm
With works of Rosario Mercado, Christine Lee, Bob Marsh, Mike Oleson and
Tracy Wilborn
Reception June 9th 5-8:30pm
Centro Stage
Sunday Zapateado Finale
June 12th at 2pm $2
Celebrate the beauty of Mexico through dance as the
Ballet Folklorico en Aztlan presents it's season Finale of a dynamic
array of regions.
C4 Summer Camp
July 18-22
Centro Cultural Connections Camp
9am-4pm
$150 per participant
ages 6-12 years
A multidisciplinary approach to the cultural experience.
Learn to drum, dance, paint a mural, create and have fun!
QueLACo
2005 Queer Latina/o Arts Festival
The Queer Latina/o Arts Festival is co-produced by Queer Cultural Center
(QCC) as part of the National Queer Arts Festival. For more than six
years Queer Latina/o Artists Coalition (QueLACo) has presented art by
and for queer Latina and Latino artists. QueLACo operates under the
fiscal sponsorship of QCC, with funding from Hispanics in Philanthropy,
Horizons Foundation and Grants for the Arts. Visit www.quelaco.org and
www.queerculturalcenter.org for more information.
Festival Highlights
(un)Godly Bodies
The show runs until Friday, June 5, June 24. SomArts
(un)Godly Bodies: Visual Art Show curated by Daniel Arcos, presents more
than twenty artists whose works comment on the religious right's
demonization of queers in the 2004 election.
Friday, June 10, 8-10 p.m., tickets $15, $10-students, seniors, or
disabled. The Center.
A Nation of Want: Readings by Ricardo Bracho and Cherríe Moraga unites
two prolific literary talents, presenting texts from their plays,
poetry, prose and essays in their own voices.
Sunday, June 19, 2 p.m., tickets $10, $5-students, seniors, or disabled.
SomArts.
Juana is an Equity approved workshop production of the recently
completed libretto by Carla Lucero and Alicia Gaspar de Alba. Based on
the life of Mexicoís (in)famous poet, proto-feminist and philosopher,
17th Century lesbian nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz,
Wednesday, June 22, 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Galeria de la Raza.
(un)Godly (w)Rites is a spoken word event programmed by Lito Sandoval as
part of GalerÌa de la Raza's ongoing Lunada poetry series.
Frameline
Frameline29, the 29th annual San Francisco International LGBT Film
Festival--the world's premiere showcase for lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender cinema--returns for another 11 days of the newest and best
in LGBT film. This year's Festival runs June 16-26 at the historic
Castro Theatre, Victoria Theatre and Roxie Cinema in San Francisco, as
well as at Oakland's Parkway Theater.
Tickets go on sale to Frameline members Friday, May 27. General public
ticket sales begin Friday, June 4.
Complete ticket information will be posted at Frameline's website:
www.frameline.org/festival. The official Festival Ticket Outlet counter
will be located inside Super Satellite at 474 Castro Street (between
Market and 18th Street in San Francisco).
For more info please visit: www.frameline.org
LiquidFIRE
liquidFire Productions presents
The liquidFIRE Project's "Legacies Untied Lust Unleashed"
Directed By Veronica C. Combs
Premiering at the SF National Queer Arts Festival June 9 - 18, 2005
True to liquidFIRE form, be prepared for sexy, provocative theatre that
will push at the margins of your comfort zone and quite possibly change
your life!
For more information visit: www.queerculturalcenter.org or
www.liquidfire.org
Femina Potens
465 South Van Ness
San Francisco, CA 94103
Katie Gilmartin and Emma Ramstad
June 3rd - 24th.
Femina Potens, Exhibition Series presents Katie Gilmartin and Emma
Ramstad. Gilmartin devotes her work to the proliferation of art as play;
her work aims to remind us of the redemptive power of pleasure. Exhibit
runs from June 3rd - 24th 2005. www.katiegilmartin.com
War On Labels - curated by Femina Potens
June 4th - August 13th.
The artworks of Tina Butcher, Heather Catalinich and Lauren Anderson
wage War On Labels on the 2nd and 4th floors in which the three artists
examine the societal wars and stigmas attached to sexual orientation,
gender, intimacy, and sex work, using photo, video, and installation.
exhibit up until August 13th.
June 17th Sizzle 8pm $5 $3(for open mic performers)
No one turned away for lack of funds
Open mic erotica, erotic film screenings, burlesque, drag performances,
spoken word and music; June,s installment features spoken word by Cindy
Emch & Jenn Collins and music from Blair Hansen; not to mention all of
the fabulous erotica writers who will be stepping up to the open mic.
June 18th 8pm Sampler $5 no one turned away for lack of funds
Film and video series showing samples from video festivals around the
world which feature women and transgendered video artists and film
makers. This month,s Sampler will be a fundraiser for the PMS Media
Film Tour screening films such feminist declarations of film as Our
Bodies Our Choice and Red Wings.
June 24th 9pm Rock Out w/o yr Cock Out at Edinburgh Castle 950 Geary $5
Queer and progressive rock and experimental noise event showcasing women
and transgender musicians in the Bay Area and beyond the final Friday of
every month. Come support women and transgender musicians, eat some fish
and chips, have a beer, and come see kick ass performances by
Transition, Dyspecific, Band Practice and Chelsea Beauchamp.
June 25-26th SF Pride Art Exhibit Taking Back Space
Femina Potens presents SFPride's first outdoor visual art exhibition,
for two days along the parade route at Fulton and 8th dedicated and
comprised of work from women, queer and transgendered artists.
Please visit the Femina Potens website for a complete list of events and
event details!
www.feminapotens.com
Fresh Meat
Fresh Meat 2005
The 4th Annual Transgender & Queer Performance Festival!
Date & Time: Thurs June 16 & Fri June 17 @ 8:00pm
Saturday June 18 @ 7:30pm and 9:30pm
NOTE: That's 2 shows on Saturday night!!
Gala Opening Night Reception June 16 (post-performance)
'Meat-and-greet' Reception June 18 @ 6:30pm (pre-performance)
Reservations: ODC box office: 415-863-9834 or www.ticketweb.com
Tickets: $15 (reservations recommended)
Location: ODC Theater
3153 17th Street @ Shotwell
San Francisco
Fresh Meat in the Gallery
Transgender Visual Art Exhibition
Gallery One: LGBT Community Center, Gallery 301 (3rd Floor)
June 04 - July 31, 2005
1800 Market Street (at Octavia), San Francisco
Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 12noon-10pm, Sat 9am-10pm
Opening Reception: June 4, 6pm-10pm (at the Q Ball, the opening
reception of the National Queer Arts Festival)
Gallery Two: ODC Theater Gallery
June 12 - July 5, 2005
3153 17th Street (at Shotwell), San Francisco
Gallery hours: Wed-Sat 2pm-5pm
Opening Reception: June 16, post-performance (Fresh Meat 2005)
For more information about Fresh Meat visit:
http://www.freshmeatproductions.org
The Harvey Milk City Hall Memorial
The Harvey Milk City Hall Memorial will participate in The 2005 LGBT
Pride Celebration with an information booth in Civic Center Plaza on
Saturday June 25th from noon to six and Sunday June 26th from noon to
seven. HMCHMC is a 501(c)3 non profit organization which seeks to raise
funds to commission a sculpture of the late Supervisor Harvey Milk for
placement in San Francisco's City Hall.
Come visit our booth in Civic Center plaza and find out more about
Harvey Milk who was one of the first openly gay elected officials in the
nation and who's assassination galvanized the LGBT Civil Rights movement
forever. Flyers, buttons and refrigerator magnets and other super cool
donor incentives will be available.
For more information visit: www.milkmemorial.org
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project
QWOCMAP Artistic Director, Madeleine Lim, honored at KQED LGBT Local
Hero Award Ceremony on June 16, 2005.
KQED is proud to honor four outstanding heroes for Lesbian Gay Bisexual
Transgender Pride Month 2005.
KQED requests the pleasure of your company at a celebration honoring
the local heroes, to be held on Thursday, June 16, 2005 from 6-8pm, at
KQED. Please RSVP by June 14, 2005 to [log in to unmask] or
(415)+553-2382.
For more information, visit:
http://www.kqed.org/topics/history/heritage/lgbt/heroes.jsp
QUEER WOMEN OF COLOR MEDIA ARTS PROJECT (QWOCMAP)
Co-presents at FRAMELINE 29
-2005 SF International LGBT Film Festival
Program: Don't Fence Me In
Sunday June 19 at 5:30 pm
$9, Roxie Cinema, SF
Five powerful films about women of color come from around the world and
cross aesthetic boundaries.
For more information, visit:
http://www.frameline.org/festival/29th/schedule/
Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts
1519 Mission Street
San Francisco
Presents programs for the National Queer Arts Festival this month including:
June 8-7:30pm
Aliens: We've Come for Your Children & Between Places--films discussing
the trials of immigrants in Berlin, Germany and here in the US.
June 10-11, 17-18
Eric Kuper's Dandelion Dance Theater presents Prism with Dandelion
Co-Director Eric Kupers joined by dance artist Nol Simonse, writer
Andrew Ramer and singer/songwriter Lori B. l.
June 10-11
Dance Ceres presents And Again We Meet, memory collection of
game-playing and love-making told through the awareness of movement and
sound.
June 17-18
Asian American Dance Performances present Translations
Queer and Asian? How does that translate?
Performers Jennifer Chien, Sue Li Jue of Facing East Dance & Music,
Dohee Lee, Nitya Venkateswaran, and special East Coast guest company
danahbella DanceWorks explore the intersection of race, sexuality, and
gender.
For times and ticketing information, visit http://www.jonsimsctr.org/
OPPORTUNITIES , RESOURCES, FUNDING
Metlife Foundation's Museum Connections Program - for outreach programs
The Metlife Foundation's Museum Connections Program provides grants to
art museums throughout the U.S. to develop creative approaches to
community outreach. In 2005 art museums in the following states are
eligible to apply: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho,
Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
Grants are provided to support creative and innovative projects that
increase dialogue between museums and the community, expose to a broader
segment of society the rich collections and cultural resources found in
museums, and build new audiences for the arts. The application deadline
is July 29, 2005. For application guidelines and
forms visit the website following website and click on "Museum
Initiatives." --
http://www.metlife.com/Applications/Corporate/WPS/CDA/PageGenerator/0,1674,P29
1,00.html
U.S./Japan Creative Artists' Program - Open Call for Artists
Deadline: June 27, 2005
Any and all professional creative artists are welcome to submit an
application to be part of the U.S./Japan Creative Artists' Program,
including those working as: architects, choreographers, composers,
creative writers, designers, media artists, playwrights, visual artists,
or solo theater artists who work with original material (including
puppeteers, storytellers and performance artists). Multidisciplinary
artists and artistic directors of theater or dance companies are also
eligible.
The Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission works cooperatively with the
National Endowment for the Arts to sponsor The U.S/Japan Creative
Artists' Program. The program supports up to five outstanding
contemporary and traditional artists from the United States to spend a
six-month residency in Japan to pursue creative work. The U.S./Japan
program is extremely competitive; applicants should have regional or
national recognition and anticipate a highly rigorous review of their
work. Artists should have compelling reasons for wanting to work in Japan.
Selected artists will receive:
º A monthly stipend for living expenses and a
housing supplement, as well as an allowance for
professional support services
º Up to $6,000 for round trip transportation for
the artist, domestic partner and/or dependent
children, and a baggage/storage allowance
º A stipend for pre-departure Japanese language
study in the United States
For more detailed information, and to access the guidelines and
application, go to
http://www.jusfc.gov click on "JUSFC Homepage," then click on the link
to "US-Japan Creative Artists Program." From there, click on the
"US/Japan Creative Artists' Program Guidelines and Application" link.
Latino Arts Network and California's LGBT Arts Alliance
Announce: 2nd ANNUAL Grant Writing Seminar
Successful Proposal Writing
An intensive 7 day session
Wednesday, August 17 - Wednesday, August 24, 2004
Akumal, Mexico
An A to Z immersion course in foundation and public funding grant
writing:
º Individualized analysis of your organizations strengths
º Rigorous one - on - one editing to final proposal
º Pragmatic insights on each aspect of the proposal process including:
writing style, budget preparation, word choice and more
Instructor Jeff Jones is the most successful independent arts grant
writer in Northern California. He has written over 3000 successful
grants in the past 20 years for over 200 non-profit arts organizations
and individual artists and taught college-level writing for 13 years.
For more information email [log in to unmask]
San Francisco Arts Commission
http://www.sfartscommission.org
Special Projects Grants
Deadline: Quarterly (September 30, December 31, March 31, June 30)
Cultural Equity Grants offers a limited number of small Special Project
Grants, up to $1,000, for very small, volunteer-based arts groups
throughout San Francisco's neighborhoods in order to stimulate the
production and dissemination of works of art.
Project window:
Within 9 months of application.
http://www.sfartscommission.org
5th Biennial Flintridge Foundation Awards for Visual Artists
Deadline: June 30, 2005
The Flintridge Foundation Awards for Visual Artists supports artists in
California, Oregon and Washington whose work demonstrated high artistic
merit for
20 or more years. Applicants must work in the visual arts disciplines of
fine
arts and crafts and have lived at least nine months per year in the
tri-state
region for the past three years.
The application for the 2005/2006 Awards for Visual Artists is an e-grant
application and is posted on the foundation website.
For more information, visit the foundation website or call (800) 303-2139.
Link:
http://www.flintridgefoundation.org/
Funding Opportunity for American Artists Touring the European Union
US Artists International
Deadlines: June 15, 2005
US Artists International, a new program sponsored by the NEA and
Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, provides support to professional dance and
music ensembles invited to perform at international festivals throughout
the European Union.
Applicants must be 501(c)3s. Deadlines: June 15, 2005 (notification
8/1/05) and January 20, 2006 (notification 3/6/06). Guidelines available
online at www.midatlanticarts.org or by
calling 410.539.6656.
THANK YOU
The CALIFORNIA ARTS COUNCIL
The California LBGT Arts Alliance is funded by the California Arts Council.
For information about CAC visit their website: http://www.cac.ca.gov
Get your personalized ART license plate.
website: http://www.cac.ca.gov/feature/arts_plate.cfm
Proceeds from the plate sales will benefit the California Arts Council
(CAC).
QUEER CULTURAL CENTER
The California LBGT Arts Alliance is hosted by The Queer Cultural Center.
www.queerculturalcenter.org
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