[Ste-Em] JULY 29 - "Before Night Falls" - Criminal Queers Backyard Film Series + Perfomances

[ste. emilie skillshare]

♥CRIMINAL QUEERS BACKYARD FILM SERIES + PERFORMANCES*♥
Nope, it didn’t start in Oakland.  A backyard film series honouring our
favorite criminal or criminalized queers.  Films are preceded by some nice
live musical performances (performers are not necessarily criminalized,
they’re just nice people who play music).  Film begin at dark.

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*July 29th, 2010 – 7-11pm (film at dark)
Performers: TBC
Film: Before Night Falls (2000) <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55O18SYG9nQ>
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The film offers an episodic look at the life of
Cuban<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba>poet and novelist,Reinaldo
Arenas<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinaldo_Arenas>(1943-1990), from
his childhood in the province
ofOriente<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriente_Province>to his death
inNew York City<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City>.
As a youth he joins Castro <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro>’s
rebels. By 1963 he is studying in Havana. He meets the wealthy Pepe, an
early lover; their love-hate relationship lasts for years. His writing and
openly gay lifestyle get him into trouble: he spends two years in prison,
writing letters for other inmates and smuggling out a novel. Later he
befriends Lázaro Gómez Carriles, with whom he lives stateless and in poverty
in Manhattan after leaving Cuba <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba> in
theMariel boatlift<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_boatlift>.
When asked why he writes, he replies cheerfully, “Revenge.”

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*August 12th, 2010 – 7-11pm (part of Pervers/cité<http://www.perverscite.org/>
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*Performers: Sarah Bernard <http://sarahbernard.co.nr%20>, + TBC
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*Film: Yapping Out Loud by Mirha -Soleil Ross
(2004)<http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/video/msr/yap_int.html>
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A video documentary based on first-person Toronto performance show (7
monologues) dealing with prostitution and anti-prostitution. A tour de force
by Canada’s most famous transsexual sexworker animal-rights activist
performance artist, Yapping is hilarious and moving –half autobiographical,
half agitprop satire, fully unforgettable.

*Sarah Bernard* is a young girl from Haiti who has momentarily settled in
Montreal. She writes songs and book(s) in English, French, and Creole for
piano, guitar, and voice. (Someday, Spanish and Italian-- someday.) She's a
DJ who lives on and for dance-floors, but when Sarah sings, you can find
soft traces of traditional Haitian folklore, little girl blues, traces of
growing up on a piano and moving across the continent. They haven't invented
a name for her genre yet.

CHECK OUT OUR WHOLE PERVERS/CITE program that also includes a  SELF-DEFENSE
workshop for women/trans/queer people, a QPOC Potluck, and the Queer
Bookfair...
http://steemilieskillshare.com/ste-emilie-is-the-official-flogger-of-perverscite

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