The participants of the workshop will participate in a panel sharing their experiences, which will be filmed and available to the public on the SAFEhouse Arts website. James is a performance artist and writer based in Oakland, California whose current interests include overly intimate solo performance, family history archives, and drag.
In this show James portrays a bitchy drag queen version of their grandmother Betsy in a way that contrasts their love of drag and their femme nonbinary identity against their grandmother's anger and bitterness. SevanKelee Lucky 7 Boult is an established Bay Area poet and performance artist. Chile! Hood Stories, is a 60 minute multidisciplinary theatre production exploring safe sex, gender fluidity, sexuality politics, and cannabis.
In this show James portrays a bitchy drag queen version of their grandmother Betsy in a way that contrasts their love of drag and their femme nonbinary identity against their grandmother's anger and bitterness. SevanKelee Lucky 7 Boult is an established Bay Area poet and performance artist. Chile! Hood Stories, is a 60 minute multidisciplinary theatre production exploring safe sex, gender fluidity, sexuality politics, and cannabis.
Services
SAFEhouse is a cooperative, community art space that hosts Residencies, Workshops, and Performances, and also has space available for Rentals. SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts is a 501(c)3 California non-profit and is operated by the resident artists and staff who are supported by the SAFEhouse Board of Directors.
Joe Landini (executive director) received his BA in choreography from UC Irvine and his MA in choreography from the Laban Centre (London). His choreography has been presented at the ODC Theater, Z Space, the Cowell Theater and Dance Mission, as well as Santa Cruz, Marin, Sacramento, Monterey, Laguna Beach, Santa Fe (NM), Mexico City and London.
The RAW program provides rehearsal space, mentorship, marketing, and production support for bay area artists. The goal of RAW is to provide a consistent source of support for emerging and established artists to create and perform new work without the stress of self producing.
AIRspace is a 9-month residency for QTPOC performing artists to connect and share work and resources with each other at SAFEHouse Arts, a traditionally dance-centered performing arts cooperative program based in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco.
AIRspace is a 9-month residency for QTPOC performing artists to connect and share work and resources with each other at SAFEHouse Arts, a traditionally dance-centered performing arts cooperative program based in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco.
In exchange for these services, artists are encouraged to pay a voluntary $25 registration fee AND/OR volunteer at SAFEhouse. The registration fee is not meant to cause any hardship, if you are unable to pay the registration fee, please email joe@safehousearts.org to make other arrangements.
As for volunteering, this is meant to be an opportunity for artists to take ownership of the organization and to learn the production side of a performing arts organization by being responsible for day-to-day operations.The SAFEhouse Artist Cooperative is a group of Bay Area artists that provide a safe place for local artists to make new work that is sustainable and equitable.
As for volunteering, this is meant to be an opportunity for artists to take ownership of the organization and to learn the production side of a performing arts organization by being responsible for day-to-day operations.The SAFEhouse Artist Cooperative is a group of Bay Area artists that provide a safe place for local artists to make new work that is sustainable and equitable.
AIRspace was founded in1987 at the Jon Sims Center for the Arts, which was dedicated to supporting queer and trans artists of color and people living with HIV/AIDS. In 2007, after the close of the Sims Center, the program was transferred to SAFEhouse and operated as a no-frills residency for queer artists.
