[ExilesAnnounce] Fri. 8/21 -- August Program: Kinky Open Mic featuring Meliza Bañales and Francesca Ochoa

[Suzanne Corson]

Hello all,

Details about the August program (Kinky Open Mic!) are below. We hope you'll join us and bring your kinky stories to share! And please copy and paste the info below and send it to your friends. Thanks!

BTW, please make sure you renew your Exiles membership in order to get into the program at the member price. For details, please see the August issue of the Fringe. (If you need another copy, let me know, and I'll forward it to you.)

Suzanne
PR/Outreach Officer

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August Exiles Program: 
 
Exiles Kinky Open Mic
Featuring Meliza Bañales
and Francesca Ochoa

Friday, August 21 
Women's Building, 3543 18th St. @ Valencia, San Francisco
Doors and open mic sign-up at 7:30 p.m., program 8-10 p.m.
$4 members, $10 non-members. 

(Members: Have you renewed yet? Be sure to do so in order to get in at the member price!)

All women and those whose gender self-identity is other than
male are welcome. You must be 18 or over to attend.

www.theexiles.org

Art XX Magazine and Daddy Gem present the Exiles Kinky Open
Mic!  Join us for an evening of erotica,
poetry, performance art, comedy, spoken word, and whatever else your perverted
minds can conjure.  Whether you're an
open mic slut, a first time performer, or a voyeur, the Exiles Open Mic wants
you! In order to highlight all the amazing talent in our community, open mic
performers will be limited to one piece under five minutes.  Open mic sign-up will begin at 7:30 p.m.   This
year’s open mic will feature Meliza Bañales and Francesca Ochoa.

Meliza Bañales, aka Missy Fuego,
writes books, sews clothes, and makes movies. She won a 2008-2009 AIRspace Residency
for her one-woman show entitled One Bad
Year, a 2008 Creating Queer Community Grant, a 2006 Frameline Completion
Grant for the film Do the Math with
Mary Guzman, a 2002 People Before Profits Poetry Prize and toured with Sister
Spit in 2007. She recently completed another short film with J Aguilar entitled Getting Off, which appeared in the
Frameline 33 International LGBT Film Festival. She has been accepted into the
RADAR Writer’s Lab to complete her second book of poems, 51 Poems About Nothing At All. Come be her friend at: http://www.myspace.com/melizabanales/missyfuego.

Francesca Ochoa wants to be a cougar when she grows up.
Until then, she is collecting feminist and queer media from love letters,
to pornography to cyber- anarcha-punk and beyond.  She is editor of the
amazing and terrific Art XX, a magazine dedicated to the promotion of women in
the arts.
Staff members of Art XX will be on hand with information
about their new publication.  Daddy Gem
will be on hand with an acrylic handlebar mustache and a gem-studded
outfit.  
 
About Art XX:  
Art XX is an intervention, a fresh reaction to the often
elitist world of art magazines that continue to ignore female, queer, trans,
outsider, and non white artists. Our goal is to improve the visibility of these
folks not only in magazine publications that quite often omit them on account
of more mainstream artists, but to serve as a space of free artistic expression
and a vehicle for social change. In our quest to fill quite a large gap in the
art publication business, we are attempting to create a magazine that will
inform our audience about new and/or revolutionary ideas in art, expose our
readers to a variety of mediums and allow the artists to speak for and about
their work.  
http://www.artxxmagazine.com/
 
About Daddy Gem: 
After lamenting the lack of sequins in the kink community
for over a decade, Daddy Gem emerged from his sparkly cocoon to greet the world
with his unique blend of leather and rhinestones.  Daddy Gem made his first public appearance in
2008 when his Castro neighbors were threatened with an unjust eviction.  His gems have been out for justice ever
since. 
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