From your 2005-2006 GLIRT Moderator. Ray Anne Lockard Head, Frick Fine Arts Library University Library System University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Voice: 412-648-2410 Fax: 412-648-7568 E-mail: [log in to unmask] A book should be a ball of light in one's hands. Ezra Pound ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 16:07:58 -0700 From: Lenore Chinn <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] 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). If you would like to receive future CALGBTARTSALLIANCE newsletters please sign up as a member on our website: http://www.calgbtartsalliance.com For general questions and information contact: [log in to unmask] 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 __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]