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    • This Bridge Called My Ass | Miguel Gutierrez
    • This Concerns All of Us | Miguel Gutierrez
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    • GOOD DAY GOD DAMN | Exhibition
    • Palm
    • Aquí y Allá
    • Unintended Structures
  • Performance + Live Art
    • GOOD DAY GOD DAMN | Performance
    • No One Likes An Ugly Revolutionary | Mette Looulou von Kohl
    • This Bridge Called My Ass | Miguel Gutierrez
    • This Concerns All of Us | Miguel Gutierrez
    • Palm_performance
    • collagecollide
    • Process Progress
    • Falling Things
    • Ashleigh
    • A line connecting, a line dividing, a line defining
    • Every Horizon Looks Like Cuba To Me
    • Waterline
  • Moving Image
    • You Need Me
    • GOOD DAY GOD DAMN | Video
    • Ladies Almanack
    • Antonym
    • Deep Descent
    • Aquí y Allá_video
    • Palm_video
    • Fleeting Components
    • collagecollide_video
    • BABY! LOVE YOUR BODY! - Ep. 1
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Original Collage by Sarah Patten 

Original Collage by Sarah Patten 

The Ladies Almanack - OUTFEST World Premiere (LA)

June 28, 2017

We are beyond ourselves with excitement to announce The Ladies Almanack WORLD PREMIERE is an official selcection for Outfest LA as part of the Platinum section!!! 

More festivals to come but for now mark your calendars for Wednesday July 12th @ 9:45pm at the Directors Guild of America!  We'll be at Outfest all week so come say hello and see more of what this iconic festival has to offer. 

Online tickets on sale NOW! (PRESALE is SOLD OUT but there will be STAND BY!) 

It has been a long and complex road to create this feature film from scratch.  It is only through the support of our community and our commitment to this team and story that any of this is possible and we are so excited to be starting the road to you the audience.  

THANK YOU to all of the artists, makers, friends, family, lesbians, queers, poets, lovers, who helped us create this world.  We are forever in your debt! 

Forever your proud producer, 

Stephanie


The Ladies Almanack - Platinum - DGA 2
(USA, 2017, 87 min) - World Premiere
Directed By: Daniel Shy
Cast: Hélène Cixous, Guinevere Turner and Eileen Myles


Learn the secrets of 1928’s Parisian lesbian literary circle. Based on Djuna Barnes’s book following lesbian Casanova Natalie Barney, this Super 8 film explores the rich queer femme social scene of jazz-age Paris. Spanning time, the large cast, including Hélène Cixous, Eileen Myles, and Guinevere Turner, portrays the lives of artists and luminaries (Gertrude Stein, Collete, Dolly Wilde), exposing the lush lesbian landscape that gave rise to some of literature’s most treasured writing. World Premiere.

Preceded By: Overload/Babel
Dir: Linzi Juliano/Kayla Tange, 2 min.

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I Am A Potted Palm - Premiere Performance (Chicago)

February 2, 2016

I Am A Potted Palm will manifest in TWO events as part of IN>TIME16 , A Winter Long Performance Festival for Chicago.


SAT - Feb 6th @ 3-6p | LA LIMPIEZA - | Regards  2216 West Chicago Ave
A durational meditation on the limpieza espiritual, or spiritual cleansing, engaging elements of the hybrid spiritual practices and creating a microclimate amidst Slant, a sound installation by Ethan Rose at Regards. [fb event HERE]


This durational action will continue with the artist delivering each palm in a trek to Defibrillator gallery.  Join us for the evening length eruption!


MON - Feb 8th @7p | I AM A POTTED PALM | Dfbrl8r 1463 W Chicago Ave
An evening length performance amongst the palms, including cinematic bursts, objects, actions, light oceans, and fuchsia skies. In a rare chance to see Acosta perform solo, let's get clean, lets be salt, let's make oceans together. Epilogue with guest artist Joshua Kent! [fb event HERE]


[ Following the performance at Dfbrl8r we will migrate across the street to Beauty Bar at 8:30 for a special IN>TIME16 edition of SALONATHON! ]

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