Reminder: Buffet Flats -Queering Slow Food Series- at Million Fishe... @ Sat Apr 28 6:30pm - 10pm (Queer Things)

more details » Buffet Flats -Queering Slow Food Series- at Million Fishes Arts Collective Eye Zen Art and the Queer Cultural Center's Healthy Communities Program present Buffet Flats -Queering Slow Food Series- FEAST OF THE PINK MOON Saturday, April 28th, 2012 6:30pm-10pm (Dinner @ 6:30, Show at 8pm) QUEER PERFORMANCE/DINNER-SALON- ONE NIGHT ONLY At Million Fishes Arts Collective 2501 Bryant Street @ 23rd, San Francisco. Admission: sliding scale $10-$35, no one turned away for lack of funds. Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/232919 More info: http://www.buffetflats.org Featuring hosts: Seth Eisen as Jean Malin- Grandfather of the 1920s Pansy Craze and Juba Kalamka as Mr. Georg(e) Stanford Brown- Pullman Porter of the Harlem Renaissance. Also featuring: Annie Danger- Performer and Curious Gray Area Dave End- Acoustic D.I.Y. Troubadour with Queer Cupcake Loving Honesty Pop marilyn mcneal- Buffet Flats home host and hand-made multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Todd and special surprise guest- Songs and Ritual Booty Shakin' Markos Major- Queer Urban Farmer Price Sheppy- Dark Ranger- interpreting the wonders of the night sky Jayson "Frisk" Jaynes and guest chefs serving up delicious mini-meals from sustainable ingredients. Buffet Flats' FEAST OF THE PINK MOON is named after April's full moon, when fish swim upstream to spawn and flowers paint the ground pink with Spring's luxurious carpet. Join us on April 28th as multi-instrumentalist and blues pianist marilyn mcneal hosts us at the homey Million Fishes Arts Collective. FEAST OF THE PINK MOON celebrates the start of spring, serving up a crazy-delicious meal with food harvested from local farms and prepared by chef Jayson "Frisk" Jaynes. FEAST OF THE PINK MOON is hosted by historical queer personas, Seth Eisen as Jean Malin, grande-dame of the Pansy Craze and Juba Kalamka as Mr. Georg(e) Stanford Brown, Pullman Porter of the Harlem Renaissance with a fierce line-up of Bay Area talent, food and queer wisdom. Featuring performances by Annie Danger, Dave End, Gabriel Todd and Special surprise guests. Dark Ranger, Price Sheppy interprets the wonders of the night sky while Queer Urban Farmer, Markos Major opens this scintillating evening reflecting on the rite of spring while feeding and inspiring a new, queer generation. The contemporary Buffet Flats is a dinner-salon, that's part queer cabaret and part live cooking show. We are a traveling speakeasy, held at homes and gardens around the Bay Area and paying homage to two underground queer gathering traditions that originated in New York in the early 20th century—Buffet Flats in Harlem, and The Pansy Craze on the lower east side, both which spread across the country. We bring you an evening that bridges these traditions and opens a dialogue on the legacy of a history that has kept the queer community divided by race, gender, and class. The events are accessible to a wide range of queer and non-queer folk serving up and exuberant mix of artistic risk and sensual pleasures. We are cooking what we grow, sewing what is torn and reaping what we know, to come home. Please join us. This event is made possible with generous support from The Queer Cultural Center, The Zellerbach Family Foundation, CounterPULSE, San Francisco Arts Commission, California Arts Council and THEOFFCENTER. Bios: Seth Eisen -Producer and Host, performs as Jean Malin, grandfather of the 1920's Pansy Craze. In 1994 Seth developed the company Eye Zen Art as an umbrella for curating exhibits, producing performance, visual art projects and installations. His work has been featured at The Oakland Museum of California, Theater Artaud, Zeum, Yerba Buena Center, SOMARTS, Theater of Yugen, and CounterPULSE. Seth performed with Butoh companies Harupin–Ha and Ink Boat from 1994-1999 and from 2000-2010 with Keith Hennessy and Circo Zero touring in the US and Europe. Seth's critically acclaimed solo show, Blackbird: Honoring a Century of Pansy Divas, sold out two San Francisco runs. Seth is an Artist-in-Residence at CounterPULSE creating a new show about the life of queer renegade Samuel Steward. Homo File will premiere in September 2012. Juba Kalamka is an African American bisexual artist and activist recognized for his work and founding member of homohop group Deep Dickollective (D/DC) and his development of the micro-label Sugartruck Recordings. Kalamka has coordinated the release and promotion of five critically successful D/DC albums, the Outmusic Award winning solo debut of former Sister Spit member Rocco "Katastrophe" Kayiatos, and the distribution of the work of numerous other artists in the homohop community. Kalamka's personal work centers on dialogues on the convergences and conflicts of race, identity, gender, sexuality and class in pop culture. He has written and illustrated several articles for pop culture magazines and journals, Kitchen Sink, ColorLines, and the now-defunct bisexual issues magazine Anything That Moves. Kalamka appears extensively in Alex Hinton's 2005 documentary Pick Up the Mic, an active survey of the scene through documentation of homohop artists on tour and in performance at the various PeaceOUT festivals. Deep Dickollective's fifth and final disc,On Some Other was released on Sugartruck in June, 2007. An essay/interview with Kalamka and former bandmate Tim'm West appears in hip hop writer Jeff Chang's collection Total Chaos: the Art and Aesthetics of Hip Hop (Basic Civitas Books). marilyn mcneal is our venue host and blues pianist/performer, a San Francisco-based musician and composer who writes, records and performs original music and songs from the American old time music canon. Her compositional approach varies from simple chanting and body rhythm to working with live looping and pre-recorded audio (historic speeches, field recordings, ambient sound). She is particularly inspired by rural black folk music, which includes laments, ballads, work songs and spirituals. She plays piano, ukulele, wooden flute and spoons and makes her own folk instruments out of cardboard boxes, coffee cans, cookie tins, plastic water bottles, sticks, wire and string. The instruments are influenced by early American roots music, she says "allows me to get lost in the sound, rhythm, energy, chaos, guts and magic of American folk music." Annie Danger: Performer and Curious Gray Area is a multidisciplinary performing artist on the hunt for the perfect hybrid. She is a trans woman born and raised in Albuquerque, NM and rooted in the SF Bay Area twelve years strong. Deeply interested in art that pulls its own weight, Danger concocts an uncanny blend of art and activism. She tinkers with hearts and minds, using her razor wit to alter cultural archetypes and sidle profundity right up next to you before you ever see it coming. Her work is cunning in its use of humor and sweetness to put the 'active' back into 'interactive art'. Danger has performed nationally and internationally in theaters, colleges, bars, galleries, and the streets. Look for Annie in The Fully Functional Cabaret this July and in Trojan X , a collaboration with Keith Hennessy this fall. Find out more at dangertattoos.com <http://dangertattoos.com/> or look for Annie Danger on Facebook. Dave End: the acoustic D.I.Y. troubadour who writes queer cupcake loving honesty pop and focuses on the details that rhyme. In the past 2 years, Dave End has released 2 albums (How to Hold Your Own Hand, Fruits Commonly Mistaken For Vegetables), toured 4,500 miles in a veggie diesel car, made a lot of stuffed animals, and written a 100 page thesis about supermarkets. Listening to Dave End's music is like giving your younger self a hug. It makes you feel like you're okay, not despite your struggles but because of them. His songs are musically charming and give words to thoughts and feelings you didn't know you had! Tackling subject matters like bullying, homophobia, body image and heartbreak, Dave End could easily fall into the slippery traps of self-pity and earnestness, but he manages to keep his songs aloft with humor, bounce, and jamboree-style glee. Gabriel Todd is a music and dance based performing artist and educator living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He creates solo and ensemble work When Sat Apr 28 6:30pm – 10pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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