We are in full effect with the food parties and gatherings that will lead up to the remount of Our Daily Bread at CounterPULSE coming up this November 15-18. Though I love the performance work, I have to say these parties are what really FEED me! (yes, pun fully INTENDED!) Coming together with folks in public as well as private spaces to share food, stories and get to know folks in deeper ways is really what it is all about.
By Edward Guthmann -Freelance writer and former SF Chronicle film critic Thanks for your wonderful "Homo File." It's very inventive and smart, and I felt it captured a lot about Sam very accurately. Also liked the casting of your lead actor as Sam. Would love to see how it develops. I knew Sam for a few years, probably starting in '78. I was in my twenties, writing for a local gay rag, the Sentinel, and also occasionally for the Advocate.
Well the run has been amazing thus far with sell out houses and very enthusiastic audiences for both Homo File and FML. We got wonderful press coverage and appeared in several blogs. Here are a few. A fabulous article by Kimberly Chun in the SF Chronicle 96 hours Really interesting article by Richard Dodds in the Bay Area Reporter Stance on Dance is a really interesting interview blog by Dancer/Writer Emmaly Wiederholt A lovely review by Rob Avila about Homo
We are in the final stages in the Homo File production and very excited by our progress this week. Working with many types of media is very exciting especially where it is related to how Sam Steward documented and articulated his desire in a social arena that would have preferred to render him invisible. Ned Brauer as Sam StewardPhoto: Gary Ivanek One of Steward's documenting practices of queer sexuality in the 50s was with his Polaroid camera. The
Los espíritus melancólicos reposan al reunirse con otros espíritus afines. Se unen afectuosamente, como un extranjero al ver a un compatriota suyo en tierras lejanas. ~Khalil Gibran Lupe Velez/La Chica Boom photography on right by Hanna Quevedo
Hey want to see some great video of what we are working on and get some fabulous booty while you are at it? We have just launched our Kickstarter campaign and we need your support to get Homo File off the ground. In only 1 week we have 25 backers and are $3713 away from our $5000 goal. If you can help us support his amazing project in this first stage you will also be helping to make it possible
Nada me han enseñado los años, siempre caigo en los mismos errores otra vez a brindar con extraños y a llorar por los mismos dolores. -Jose Alfredo Jimenez Ten years in burlesque has provided me with an intimate knowledge of the political and emotional consequences of performing with/against the fictions structuring Mexican/Chicana female subjectivity. Burlesque is touted as a primarily carnal art form associated with pleasure, sexual liberation and erotic agency. However I have found that the same representational power that prompts
Exodus. Last chapter, last verse of Porn a la Mexicana In the end there was La Cucaracha and she was pronounced dead: dead and alive--alive and dead with a bud light. (response to Guillermo Nericcio Garcia's birth of a Latina Bombshell) Everyone has dealt with at least one in their space and some of us have had to deal with being called a roach, a cucaracha, vermin. Rumors of Mexicans and other unwanted pests, infesting and infecting, scurry across the
Phils Tattoo Joynt Okay. Since my first post it has become obvious that I need to make a list of all of the links and connections with Sam Steward that are on the web. The first is this amazing blog that was created by a writer who blogs about Steward's life and his own interests and connections to Steward's life. It is a really interesting project. He says about it... TRIBUTE TO SAM BLOG Tributetosam.com is a beyond-the-grave
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Seith Eisen in Residence at CounterPULSE Homo File Drawing and tattoo by Samuel Steward Over the past year I’ve been in the research phase for my next queer history performance project titled Homo File, chronicling the life of Sam Steward, (1907-1994). I am thrilled to tell you that I received a four month residency at CounterPULSE to develop the project. I will be creating, writing and directing a new ensemble performance piece with the help of CounterPULSE's Artist Residency
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