QUEER in KANSAS

http://www.tlvfest.com/en/

National Queer Arts Festival

Joe Goode Gallery

Why, for the love of it all, must we always watch Brakhage? Join local filmmakers and freaks in celebration of experimental film/video being made today. Film, music, performance and a little magic create this live event. Don't hear about it later. This is an experience that can't be recreated.

We queers are honoring the 50-year anniversary of Canyon Cinema's groundbreaking San Francisco screenings and the beginning of the Canyon Cinema Newsletter (later called "The News"). Inspired by the community, rivalry and creativity that sprung from having a space to share work, we created this evening of film and magic! Instead of breaking out the vaults and dusting off the cans, we took a look around to see what queer assortment of experimental pleasures were being made here and now.

$7 admission includes a zine written by the artists! BAM!

http://www.tlvfest.com/en/

Boom Bap!

Indoor Cats: Me-oW

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Exhibit: 5-9pm
After Party: 9-11pm*

Tashiro Kaplan Artist Lofts
115 Prefontaine Pl. S.
Seattle, WA 98104

*Net proceeds from the event will go towards the Conductive Garboil grant fund. http://garboil.org

http://afterdinnerparty.com/

The Garage has hosted over 1,000 performances, suppported over 700 performance groups, and has served well over 50,000 people in the past 5 years at 975 Howard Street. Join us in bidding adieu to this great space and celebrate with us the birth of the new 715 Bryant space in a multi-phase performance event!

Aura Fischbeck, Macklin Kowal, Christine Bonansea, Alyce Finwall, Gray Ish, Dominika Bednarska, Nicole Bridgens, Philip Huang, Liz Tenuto, Michael Michalski, Rassa Simpson (Push Dance Company), The Collage Theatre, Mary Armentrout, David J. Moore, Phoebe Osborne, Jesse Hewit, Laura Arrington, Randy Blaustein, Samantha Giron, Minna Harri, Peter Max Lawrence.

6:00 - 08:00 PM - Celebration (hosted by Kevin Seaman) at 975 Howard
8:00 - 08:30 PM - ART PARADE!
8:30 - 10:00 PM - More Party! (hosted by Joe Landini) at 715 Bryant

http://www.ywca.org

Serendipity
820 N. Kansas Ave.
Topeka, KS 66608

http://www.ywca.org

The Wise Kids
Queer in Kansas

Woodruff Auditorium
1301 Jayhawk Blvd. Lawrence, KS 66045
(Kansas Union, Level 5)
785-864-7469

Whatever They Want ?

Peter Max Lawrence
Liz Tenuto
Daniel Redman
troops
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The Tornado
1903 Golden Gate Ave. @ Baker
San Francisco, CA 94115

http://petermaxlawrence.com/Archive/Art/2012/WTW/WTW_index.html

Luna Negra is an annual MCCLA performance in celebration of Women's History Month. This year 's event Queering the Runway confronts popular expressions of gender using references from popular culture, theology and queerdom. Curated by Kim Silva this one night event features artists Sofía Cordova, Laura Kim, Peter Max Lawrence and Jeffrey Augustine Songco.
Performances include: THE HOST, "Who - Pops - Whew - Whew -", STATIONS OF THE LOSS and ChuCha Santamaría.

Luna Negra 2012: Queering the Runway
Wednesday, March 28, 7:00 pm
MCCLA Theater (2868 Mission St. between 24 and 25)
$5 - $8

Treefort Music Fesitival

March 25, from 1:30-1:50 p.m., don't miss Bronwyn Leslie's interpretive movement and high-fashion piece Evolution of Eyelash, which will be followed by performance art gallery installations from 1:50-4 p.m., featuring McSurdy and Catie Young's Heimlich, Peter Max Lawrence's Stations of the Loss, and work from artists Matt Truslow, Christopher Hunt and John Shinn.

Peter Max Lawrence will reinterpret the Stations Of the Cross as a one person performance in the pseudo drag stage persona known as Klourtney Cove which is an obvious amalgamation of Courtney Love and the late Kurt Cobain. The intent of this work is to thread the overbearing influences of a young repressed homosexual from Kansas in the early 1990's including a rock idol suicide and the theatrical religious overtones handed to a closeted queer by a seemingly confused and mildly oppressive Catholic school theological upbringing.

http://treefortmusicfest.com/

Monica Peck is a 2011 San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant recipient, whose previous chapbooks include Flesh of Fire, Bug, While You Were Watching (DPRESS), and Bower to Bower (neo-baroque). Peck is a member of g.e. collective and Kelsey Street Press, and edits Ragtag Magazine and the blog Queer City. Current projects involve centaurs, glitter (always!), and wearable soft-abject sculpture video performance art addressing gender sites. Peck lives in San Francisco and teaches at San Jose State.

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Closing Reception
At Peace: Panel Discussion
Saturday, February 25, 7–9pm. Free admission.
Panelists include Rebekah Edwards and Monica Jane Peck, authors of essays and criticism on At War, and contributing video artist Daniel Lichtenberg, Tran’s artistic collaborator. The discussion is followed by a Q&A session with curators Peter Max Lawrence and Truong Tran.

http://www.somarts.org/atwar/

Poetry & Dance Performance
At The Front Line: War Words & War Dance
Thursday, February 16, 7–9pm. Suggested donation of $5 in advance, $7 at the door. Advance tickets: http://atwar.eventbrite.com/.
The evening includes poetry and dance by Bay Area artists Rachael Dichter, Rick D’Elia, Jennifer Hasegawa, Carolyn Ho, Philip Huang, Macklin Kowal, Daniel Lichtenberg, Daniel Redman, and Liz Tenuto.

http://www.somarts.org/warwordsdance/

The News is the new place to see fresh, queer performance by Bay Area artists. On the first Tuesday of each month The News will spotlight performance pieces, experiments, and works in progress by pre-selected solo artists, groups, or troupes. An informal session for critical feedback follows the performances.

The first edition of The News on February 7th features Rotimi Agbabiaka, DIAmanda Kallas II Dia Dear, La Chica Boom, Peter Max Lawrence. Marissa Majick, the Brontez Purnell Dance Company, Kolmel WithLove, and Shaunna Vella.

Come As You Are [video documentation]

SOMArts - press release

SF Weekly, Queer the Room: Performance Series Called The News Starts at SOMArts, Heidi De Vries

SF Weekly - review

The annual Art Auction helps sustain the visual arts in Kansas City. The Art Auction is the Kansas City Artists Coalition's largest fund-raising event and allows us to continue producing exhibitions and programs that engage local artists and our art loving community - including the new Kansas City International Artists Residency Program!

RECEPTION
Wednesday, February 15, 7-10pm

AUCTION NIGHT
Saturday, February 18
Doors open at 6:00
Silent Auction 6:00-7:45pm
Live Auction begins promptly at 8:00pm

http://www.kansascityartistscoalition.org/auction/auction.html

Opening Reception & Performance
At War: Peter Max Lawrence & Truong Tran
Friday, February 3, 6–9pm. Free admission.

http://www.somarts.org/atwar/

http://thecitywrites.com/2012/02/10/somarts-exhibit-at-war-part-one/

We are pleased to showcase the work of Peter Max Lawrence as the new banner artist for our site. This is the first time we’ve had sketch art as a banner and frankly, we think it’s pretty good. Peter lives and works in San Francisco and is preparing for a major collaborative exhibition “AT WAR” with Troung Tran at SOMArts February 3rd, 6pm – 9pm.

Werther
written by Gail Scott
directed by Monica Peck

Poets Theater invites participants to test the limits of both poetry and conventional drama, challenging expectations of theater, of plot and character and "proper" dramatic performance. Please join Small Press Traffic for two nights of innovation, featuring new work by eighteen avant-garde writers.

Counterpulse
1310 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 626-2060

Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco CA
January 14th - February 25th, 2012
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 6:30-9:30pm

http://you-are-beautiful.com/MCCLA.html
http://missionculturalcenter.org/

You Are Beautiful is a simple, powerful statement aspiring to create moments of positive self realization. The exhibition is an anonymous collective of community based projects and interventions, using drawings, photographs, found objects, video, and installation to engage this fundamental concept in innovative and diverse ways. Also on view, is the You Are/ I Am Book Series, a global, collaborative project from the 2005 exhibit in Chicago.

After the exhibition, select works will be (re)installed in the streets of San Francisco—a campaign of optimism, seeking to create a new methodology of unified social consciousness.