[Ste-Em] July 29 "Before Night Falls" - CRIMINAL QUEERS BACKYARD FILM SERIES + PERFORMANCES* -

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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)
July 29th, 2010 - 8pm (film at dark)
Film: Before Night Falls (2000) <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55O18SYG9nQ>

*Performers: not this time, wah wah...
Film Description:* 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."
As part of Pervers/cité:
August 12th, 2010 – 7-11pm
Performers: Sarah Bernard, + TBC
In Attendance: Mirha-Soleil Ross
Film: Yapping Out Loud by Mirha-Soleil Ross (2004)

*Film Description: *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.
August 26th, 2010 - 7-11pm
Performers: Emay + DJ Meek <http://www.myspace.com/meekmontreal>, + TBC
Film: Madame Sata (2002) <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ5SWF-Ox8A>

*Film Description: *The film is based on the real person João Francisco dos
Santos (1900-1976), better known by name of Madame Satã. He was a 1.78 meter
black man weighing 88 kilos of muscle. In turn a bandit, a transvestite,
street-fighter, cook, hero, convict and father to seven adopted children.
Satã spent most of his years on the hot streets of Lapa, the Montmartre of
the tropics, the bohemian Rio.
Already Happened:

*July 15th, 2010 - doors at 8pm, film is at dark*
Performers: not this time... sorry!
Film: I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsMJlhF-tPs>
A film about shooting Andy Warhol.
*Don't Forget!*
*Open Studios* - still every Saturday from 1-6pm for you to drop in and use
our studios, by donation/PWYC.
*Reading Rainbow Read Aloud Club* - going strong - every Sunday at 3pm -
currently reading zines from our zine distro and "Rethinking Katrina" - the
newest *yet-to-be-published* book by *Butch Lee* (Night Vision) and *J.
Sakai* (Settlers)

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