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<p><font size="4">CRIMINAL QUEERS BACKYARD FILM SERIES + PERFORMANCES*<br></font>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)</p>
<h3>July 29th, 2010 - 8pm (film at dark)<br>Film: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55O18SYG9nQ" target="_blank">Before Night Falls (2000)<img title="More..." src="http://steemilieskillshare.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif"></a></h3>
<p><strong>Performers: not this time, wah wah...<br>Film Description:</strong> The film offers an episodic look at the life of<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba" target="_blank"> Cuban</a> poet and novelist,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinaldo_Arenas" target="_blank"> Reinaldo Arenas</a> (1943-1990), from his childhood in the province of<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriente_Province" target="_blank"> Oriente</a> to his death in<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" target="_blank"> New York City</a>. As a youth he joins<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro" target="_blank"> Castro</a>'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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba" target="_blank"> Cuba</a> in the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_boatlift" target="_blank"> Mariel boatlift</a>. When asked why he writes, he replies cheerfully, "Revenge."</p>
<h3><font size="2"><font size="4">As part of Pervers/cité:<br>August 12th, 2010 – 7-11pm<br>Performers: Sarah Bernard, + TBC<br>In Attendance: Mirha-Soleil Ross<br>Film: Yapping Out Loud by Mirha-Soleil Ross (2004)</font><br>
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<p><b>Film Description: </b>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.<br>
<b>Sarah Bernard</b> 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.</p>
<h3>August 26th, 2010 - 7-11pm<br>Performers: Emay + <a href="http://www.myspace.com/meekmontreal" target="_blank">DJ Meek</a>, + TBC<br>Film: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ5SWF-Ox8A" target="_blank">Madame Sata (2002)</a><br>
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<p><b>Film Description: </b>The film is based on the real person Joăo Francisco dos Santos (1900-1976), better known by name of Madame Sată. 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. Sată spent most of his years on the hot streets of Lapa, the Montmartre of the tropics, the bohemian Rio.</p>
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<p><b>July 15th, 2010 - doors at 8pm, film is at dark</b><br>Performers: not this time... sorry!<br>Film: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsMJlhF-tPs" target="_blank">I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)</a><br>A film about shooting Andy Warhol.</p>
<font size="4"><strong>Don't Forget!</strong></font> <br><strong>Open Studios</strong> - still every Saturday from 1-6pm for you to drop in and use our studios, by donation/PWYC.<br><strong><font color="#990000">Reading</font> <font color="#cc9933">Rainbow</font> <font color="#009900">Read</font> <font color="#000099">Aloud</font> <font color="#663366">Club</font></strong> - going strong - every Sunday at 3pm - currently reading zines from our zine distro and "Rethinking Katrina" - the newest <em>yet-to-be-published</em> book by <strong>Butch Lee</strong> (Night Vision) and <strong>J. Sakai</strong> (Settlers)<br clear="all">
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