The Queer Girl Performance Series in collaboration with SPF4 presented 4 weeks of queer music, dance, theatre and film at The Garage in San Francisco in the Summer of 2009.
Queer Girl Theatre Project has a FULL line-up of performances to warm your heart and satisfy your cravings for QUEER ART!
Secret Agents! Gynecologists with Ponytails! Alien Pussies! Bodacious Femmes!
We are kicking off the Queer Girl Performance Series with two evenings of QUEER Film! You don't want to miss it!
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Photo from Johanna Buchignani's A Complicated Queerness: Living Femme in a Dyke Community
| | Sherilyn Connelly will host the Queer Girl performance Series evening of Queer Film at the Garage! Enjoy 4 sexy, thought-provoking, hilarious and artsy films and speak with the filmmakers!
Queer Film and Discussion with filmmakers Melanie Salazar Case, Nanci Gaglio, Jennifer Jigour and Johanna Buchignani Thursday, July 23 at 8pm $10
About Sherilyn Connelly  Sherilyn Connelly is a San Francisco-based writer. She's featured at shows throughout California such as K'vetch, The Unhappy Hour, Writers With Drinks, Poetry Mission, Siren, Ladyfest Bay Area, the TGSF Cotillion, and The Vagina Monologues. Her writing can be found on paper in It's So You: 35 Women Write About Personal Expression Through Fashion and Style by Seal Press, I Do / I Don't: Queers on Marriage by Suspect Thoughts, Good Advice for Young Trendy People of All Ages by Manic D Press, More Five Minute Erotica by Running Press, Visible: A Femmethology, Volume Two by Homofactus Press, publications such as Girlfriends, Instant City, Holy Titclamps, and Morbid Curiosity. She curates Bad Movie Night at The Dark Room.
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Photo from Melanie Salazar Case's Orifice Visit Melanie Salazar Case -- Orifice Visit Orifice Visit is about a modest young woman's drive to beget a family. Melanie Salazar Case (a.k.a. Melanie Case) is a Colombian-American actor, comedian, writer, theater director, filmmaker, producer, and teacher. A longtime company member of Killing My Lobster, Melanie originated the role of Pam in the award-winning world premiere production of the play Hunter Gatherers, by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb. Melanie plays Natalie in the indie feature film The Snake, featuring Margaret Cho. The Snake premiered at SXSW on March 13, 2009.
Jennifer Jigour -- Secret Agent Moscow: The Dream Aside from over a decade of devotion to film, art, and theatre, Jennifer also has a profound interest in queer activism and history. "Secret Agent Moscow : the Dream" is a small appetizer to her graphic novel, a tribute to all issues in life she holds dear. Moscow , U.S.S.R., 1949. Natasha is in a deep sleep. Conflicted with her own lesbianism and loyalty to a country that sees her as "disposable," she sees something that brings her to a new and radical awakening. "Here is an untold story, through a dream, a vision through time." http://www.jenniferjigour.com.
Nanci Gaglio -- Pussies From Outta Space Nanci Gaglio's short film Pussies From Outta Space is a cartoonish silent comedy cum b-horror that blends multiple film genre to create an usually delightful audience response. Ms. Gaglio has won numerous awards for her short films and written projects. She is an actress, director, producer, and former screenwriting instructor at UC Berkeley Extension. Ms. Gaglio now writes and develops for TV and film. She looks forward with great enthusiasm to producing her first short film with QGTP entitled "Fredericka".
Johanna Buchignani -- A Complicated Queerness: Living Femme in a Dyke Community Johanna Buchignani, who holds her Masters Degree in Human Sexuality Studies from San Francisco State University, co-directed, produced, and edited this documentary for her Masters Thesis. Screened at LGBT film festivals around the world, "A Complicated Queerness" investigates how femme identity is lived within the San Francisco dyke community. Exploring invisibility, prejudice, and authenticity, the film creates a space for dialogue: one which fosters respect for queer femme identity and therefore healthier queer communities.
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Lindsay Shapiro performs new works "Untitled" and "Untitled Too" which explore gender identity and simple intimacies in the Queer Girl Performance Series on July 29 & 30th at The Garage.
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Wednesday & Thursday July 29 & 30 @ 8pm
Two Evenings of Dance with Heidi Landgraf DanceAct, Lindsay Shapiro and Liz Boubion
The Garage, 975 Howard, San Francisco
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Mary Roach performs at the Garage with Camp Out and Jackie Buerger. Check out her music on MySpace Click HERE
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TONIGHT!  TONIGHT! TONIGHT! Friday, July 31, 2009 at 8pm An Evening of Acoustic Queer Music with Camp Out, Jackie Buerger and Mary Roach The Garage, 975 Howard, San Francisco
Photo: Camp Out
Saturday, August 1, 2009 at 8pm Sage's My Mothers Hand and Other Things that Burn with Music by AJ Shanti
The Garage, 975 Howard, San Francisco
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Friday, August 7 & Saturday August 8, 2009 at 8pm
Brave, new theatre with solo artists: Calypso, Aries Hines and Cynthia Brinkman

Cynthia Brinkman
The Evolution of a Kiss
Cynthia has been acting in the Bay Area for over four years now. She has performed with improv as well as several local theatre and film productions. She is a proud core member of Queer Girl Theatre Project and dedicated to its mission. In "The Evolution of a Kiss", Cynthia explores female empowerment and sexual expression as seen across three generations and two countries (Mexico and the United States). This piece is a collection of stories of first kisses from her grandmother (scripted from an oral recording of her grandmother), her mother (scripted from her mother's teenaged journal), and her own meandering hormone driven teen-ached journal.
Aries Hines
A Place in the Moon A Place in the Moon is a love story where the ancestors, moon, and stars all have a divine impact on how we love, who we love, and how it ends and begins again. Breaking up/making up, tears, and polyamory, sit at the crest of a femme finding love in strangest times. Aries Hines has been writing her entire life, all 26 years of it. She is a poet, sometimes filmmaker, writer, and entirely an artist. She believes in good hugs, all nite laughter sessions, and using our voices to free ourselves. She has been published in various literary journals, holds an MFA from Mills College, performed in experimental theatre, and completed June Jordan's Poetry for the People. "Its good to be afraid to take the leap, fall a little, color outside the lines; things turn out so much prettier that way."

Calypso -- Message in a BottleExperience the world through Calypso's eyes in this journey of birth and coming of age. From stardust in the cosmos, to a child of the digital age, Calypso discovers her identity in the reflection of the projected screen as she searches for meaning in a culture of imagined separation. Finding ourselves in the dawn of the information age, this show calls attention to our culture's stories of time and identity, and how the proliferation of digital technology is transforming our most intimate understanding of who we are. Calypso is an entertainer and multimedia artist from San Francisco, CA, here to inspire raw wild expression and connection. Calypso first began performing fire dancing ten years ago on the streets of Berkeley, and since then has performed nationally, touring with circuses and variety shows by biodiesel bus, bicycle, foot and car. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Art Practice and the Clown Conservatory at the San Francisco Circus Center.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 8pm
Meliza Bañales - One Bad Year

Thursday, August 13, 2009 at 8pm
One Woman Show: Sherilyn Connelly
The Last Dog and Pony Show and Queer Reading Salon
Please come out and support your local queer artists and performers! Be a part of Queer Girl Theatre Project.