Artists

29 Oct, 2024

DE ALMA

2024-10-29T17:53:07-07:00By |

Ātl Verde: "Ātl," the Nahuatl word for water, symbolizing the river flowing through my evolution—connecting past, present, and future. This piece reflects my journey as a migrant trans mujer, immersing the audience in a lush, sonic, and visual landscape, like a spiritual rain that nurtures growth. Bio:   A celebrated trans pioneer in the Bay Area, DE ALMA  is a trailblazer of advocacy activism and excellence, leaving endless inspiration and an incredible mark on worlds filled with courage, resilience and

15 Oct, 2024

TurkxTaylor Initiative

2024-10-15T10:35:39-07:00By |

The TurkxTaylor Initiative (TxT) is an open assemblage formed by autonomous individuals without traditional leadership. Our mission is to liberate the landmark building at 101-121 Taylor Street in the Tenderloin, the historic site of the Compton’s Cafeteria riot of 1966, currently owned and operated as a halfway house by the private prison company GEO Group. We are interested in physically and symbolically re-envisioning the legendary queer and trans site and ultimately creating a just future for the historic structure. We use a

15 Oct, 2024

Mattie Loyce

2024-10-15T10:27:10-07:00By |

Mattie Loyce is an interdisciplinary artist/curator and community advocate originally from and currently based in San Francisco, CA. Critically engaging socio-political content, and encouraging empowerment through holistic relationship building are key to her community work and socially engaged artist practice. Throughout her career she has made a commitment to amplifying the voices and supporting the lives of people with marginalized identities, specifically people and artists of the African Diaspora, Queer people and People of Color.    Mattie is currently the

17 Sep, 2024

Juliet Paramor

2024-09-17T10:17:12-07:00By |

Juliet (jules) Paramor (b. 1994) is a dance + performance artist and teacher living in Boston, MA (Massachusett + Pawtucket land). She has deep roots in the Bay Area, CA (Ohlone land) and Pacific Northwest (Coast Salish land). Juliet has been a teaching artist since 2022 as well as facilitates class and contact improvisation jams. She has been performing as a freelance artist since 2015. Her movement practice is rooted in improvisation, somatic principles, release technique, club dancing, pleasure and

17 Sep, 2024

ainsley elizabeth tharp

2024-09-17T10:15:49-07:00By |

ainsley elizabeth tharp  is a Bay Area(Ohlone land) based alchemist+artist+activist. she grew up in a small Texas town called Victoria(Karankawas land), she carries with her influence from catholic school, celtic folklore, mexican/tijuana culture, and white southern trailer trash. She’s a multimedia witch working to build new systems and queer futures as an artist and collaborator. She creates visual alchemy as performance using various modes and media, such as movement, magic, ritual, video, projection, lighting, and the sculpting of readymade objects.

27 Aug, 2024

Kim Requesto

2024-08-29T12:19:03-07:00By |

  Kim Requesto(she/they) is a Philippine born, Mission District raised Cultural Worker and Interdisciplinary Artist based in Unceded Ramaytush Ohlone Territory also recognized as San Francisco, California. She specializes in 35mm photography, filmmaking, and dance. At the heart of Kim Requesto’s diasporic work is the mantra, “Advocacy through art.” With an artistic foundation in Philippine folk dance, Requesto has dedicated herself to cultural expression and advocacy through movement, photography, and community outreach.  She navigates her artistic work with the goal

27 Aug, 2024

Jess Semaan and Halim Madi

2024-08-29T12:19:08-07:00By |

  Halim Madi(he/they) grew up in Lebanon, moved to France and Toronto for his studies and to London and Sao Paulo for work. Madi has lived in San Francisco for the last 8 years. In the last decade, Madi has published 4 books of poetry and deepened their exploration of the intersection of poetry and technology. During the pandemic, he found solace in responding to scam texts with poetry. The project turned into a published book which he used to

20 Aug, 2024

Wojciech Grudziński

2024-08-22T13:20:19-07:00By |

Wojciech Grudziński is a Polish artist, choreographer and dancer based in Amsterdam. What he explores in his work are the in-between and interdisciplinary spaces, queerness, and embracing diversity. His practice is based on performative freedom and investigating implicit or explicit power dynamics in theater and choreography. He graduated from the Warsaw State Ballet School and the faculty of contemporary dance at the CODARTS in Rotterdam. Throughout his Master Studies at DAS Theatre (2021-2023), Grudziński explored the bowing gesture and its

8 Feb, 2024

gizeh muñiz vengel

2024-08-29T12:19:14-07:00By |

gizeh muñiz vengel Movement, Teaching and Performing artist. Mexicana, currently co-existing in Ohlone territory. They are dedicated to the study of being a body, through movement and stillness. Her choreographic work responds to processes of grief and joy, with an arduous commitment to transformation and presence They recreate body stories through touch, relationship and movement that refine our attention and listening toward mastery of the art of being fully present in proximity and relationship with others.  Through her work,

8 Feb, 2024

Diana Lara

2024-08-29T12:19:18-07:00By |

Diana Lara (she/her) is a choreographer, performer, and somatic movement educator born and raised in Honduras. Her choreographic work is influenced by contemporary dance, contact improvisation, Body-Mind Centering training, and Latinx culture. She creates choreographies that explore the effects of coloniality, religion, and gender on the body, and that generate rituals to peel layers of oppression. She is nurtured and committed to create work in collaboration with artists from different disciplines, and to generate containers that allow us to

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