MCVF goes dark at the end of July.

SF Queer Theatre to Close Its Doors After 30 Years - Searching for New Venue
07 JULY 2010 San Francisco, CA
Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory, San Francisco’s premier location for original queer performance, currently housed at 1519 Mission Street, a building known for 3 decades as a safe space where generations of queer performers presented work [...]

LONG LIVE 1519! – A WAKE, RITUAL, TRIBUTE TO QUEER PERFORMANCE – JULY 31ST

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1519 Mission, a 30 year legacy where many queer performance groups were housed is going dark. Jon Sims gave life to this long lived tradition back in 1978. Originally the home of the first ever Openly Gay Marching Band, an institution that later gave life to many musical groups, one of which is the well known [...]

Free Screening of The Living Theater’s “Paradise Now” July 27th

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An informal screening of a famous and notorious performance by The Living Theater in 1968. This coming Tuesday the 27th of July starting at 7:30pm

When I die I will be dead – Opens July 15

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Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory, in conjunction with Choyoh! Productions, pioneers in live theater and video interaction, are proud to present NY based artist, dancer and choreographer, Alicia Ohs and a world premier of two, new dance theatre works in "when i die i will be dead". Run is set for 8pm, on July 15th-17th and 22nd-24th

BLACKBIRD: Honoring a Century of Pansy Divas – June 24 – July 10

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Blackbird: Honoring a Century of Pansy Divas The SF Bay Guardian calls solo performer Seth Eisen “a sly, vigorous, soulful performer,” and Blackbird, “a completely unexpected journey through some vibrant underground queer history.” Brian Freeman (Pomo Afro Homos) directs this musical evening of mimicry, bigotry, puppetry, and faggotry. The Pansy Craze sensation of the 1930’s swept [...]

(Q)ueer (A)utonomous (Z)one does James Baldwin – Sunday July 11th

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JULY 12, 2010 - 8pm (doors open at 7 - show starts promptly at 8pm.) $10 queer dollars. THIS MONTH'S TEXT: GIOVANNI'S ROOM by JAMES BALDWIN. THIS MONTH'S THEME: Queering Blackness: confronting issues of race and class in "The Community."

Creating Queer Community – Tuesday 29th at 7pm

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Queer Cultural Center to host a informative panel discussion about how to apply to, and be a part of, the 2011 Queer Arts Festival. Doors open at 6:30. Talks begins at 7pm.

Werk, HARD! A Drag Exploration.

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Curated by Vivvian ForeverMore and presented as Part of the San Francisco 2010 Queers Arts Festival

LEAGUE OF BURNT CHILDREN // (Q)ueer (A)utonomous (Z)one

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Queer. Autonomous. Zone. Dance // Theater // Activism Live Music // Spoken Word Installations // Situations Queer experiments in Living. Anything can happen. Doors open at **7 PM** - art and drink specials in the lobby, music and projection in the lounge - followed by THREE ONE-HOUR BLOCKS OF PERFORMANCE beginning at **8 PM** with musical breaks and [...]

THE CONSUMPTION SERIES – FACT/SF WORLD PREMIERE

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MCVF Residency Program and FACT/SF present: The Consumption Series - May 6-8 & 13-15, 2010 - $20 - Thursday thru Saturday @ 8pm

KILLER QUEEN back for one weekend only.

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IN GOOD HANDS, is proud to re-stage, for only one week the return of Peter Grig's Killer Queen. Playing only from Thursday April 25th through Sunday May 1st. All shows are at 8pm. “KILLER QUEEN” Peter Griggs Performs the life of a Gay Boxer with a Freddie Mercury soundtrack - Written by Peter Griggs, Directed by Wolfgang Lancelot Wachalovsky; Choreographed by Robin Kurland-West