seasonofmistsandmania asked: What time does the Pomona/Rose Hill Theater show end? Thanks!
Hi! The show will end about 9. There will be a reception that follows the show. Hope to see you there!
Media Contact:
Irina Contreras
619.307.2444
scenesunseenproduction.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Scenes Unseen
photo by eplightphotography.com
Thursday, 20 October 2011 730pm
Doors open 7pm
Free
Rose Hills Theatre at Pomona College
170 E. 6th St.
Claremont, CA.
Friday, 21 October 2011 730pm
5.00-20.00 sliding
Pieter
420 West Avenue 33rd.
Los Angeles, CA.
Irina Contreras and Nico Dacumos present the multigenre production Scenes Unseen featuring performance, drag, dance, visual art, theatre and diasporic alchemy in tighty whiteys.
It is our pleasure to announce that Pomona College’s LGBTQ History Month and Latin@/Chican@ Heritage Month will present Scenes Unseen. Creating Queer Community 2011 grant recipients Contreras and Dacumos conceived Scenes Unseen as a collaboratively-written theater event that aims to break the barriers between audience and performer.
“Nico Dacumos: A fab slap in the face. Take that label whores” - Time Out New York
(Los Angeles, CA.———October 1, 2011) Are you a virtuous woman? Do you intend to live a virtuous life in the United States? Do you know that you are at liberty now to go to the United States, or remain in your own country, and that you cannot be forced to go away from your home? Answer questions correctly and supply proper documentation to enter the spaces of Scenes Unseen…
The producers of Scenes Unseen invite you to experience and consider your own implications within the dramas of race, queerness, and nationality. Featuring performer, alchemist, and writer Byron Jose; co-producers Irina Contreras and Nico Dacumos; burlesque artist and choreographer Ms. Cherry Galette; experimental dance-theatre performer Ri Molnár; cultural re/interpreter and performer Christina Sanchez and hip hop visionary Juba Kalamka, who Oakland Local called a “lyrical misanthrope”.
Byron is a performance artist, alchemist, and writer. As an immigrant in Los Angeles, he engages in various endeavors to deconstruct, divert, and dictate norms, situations, vices, and discourse. Through his work, he presents byproducts struggling to be free. He uses video projections, his body, and ordinary occurrences in order to create pieces that combat monotonous expectations of art, while disregarding processes and form. Byron currently directs and produces Tranza; a performance art show in Los Angeles. He can be found at bars throughout the city, writing narratives and reflections on vapid gay lifestyles and practices as part of a personal collection. He can be contacted at Mactivism.com
Irina Contreras is an interdisciplinary artist, producer and writer. Her individual and collaborative projects change form and medium but ultimately stem from a personal reflection of collective experiences. Her writing will appear in the upcoming anthology Beyond Walls and Cages with past texts in the anthology, Nobody Passes and other publications such as LOUDmouth Magazine. Her curatorial work looks at queer experimental video and has ranged site from Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, FUSION, Feria del Libro to Artists Television Access. She has held residency at PA 61 in Mexico City and Kala in Berkeley. Recent shows include performances at Chicana Feminisms at Cal State Long Beach and make/shift RecLAmation at University of California, Santa Barbara, You Make Me Laugh at SF 1, Actions, Conversation and Intersections, the Audacity of Desperation and Before We Were Named. You can look at her work at machinegunsteady.tumblr.com
Nico Dacumos is a producer, performer, poet, writer, and high school teacher. Child of a Manila-born Navyman and a central California Chicana, Nico grew up in middle class, southern California suburbia, clinging to such influences as Public Enemy, lesbian romance novels, his parent’s adult video collection, and Langston Hughes before surviving a New England women’s college and then emerging in his early 20s as an angry brown transgender man with a message. These days, he tells stories grounded in body, memory, and personal and collective histories. He believes that speaking our truths is a path to our liberation, especially when those truths push the boundaries of comfort and assumptions around art, audience, performance, and identity. Since 2007, he has produced or performed in seven National Queer Arts Festival productions and proudly offers “Scenes Unseen” for 2011. He has performed regularly with the Mangos with Chili performance crew and recently represented for the Men’s Story Project at UC San Francisco. His written work appears in Nobody Passes and Beyond Walls and Cages. Find him on Facebook and Twitter.
Born into a family of migrant music makers, Ms. Cherry Galette is a Chicana and Moroccan interdisciplinary movement artist fusing dance, burlesque, text, theater and more to create post-colonial fairy tales of modern resistance. Drawing on dance technique of the Arabic and Latin diaspora, she has earned recognition for expanding the genre of burlesque to explore narratives of race, power, empire, and queer bodies in diaspora, and for presenting genre pushing work. Cherry has danced and performed with some of the Bay Area’s most noted dancers and dance companies including the award winning Hot Pink Feathers, and the legendary Shabnam. Over the past 5 years, Cherry has produced and curated more than 60 productions for audiences across North America as both solo producer, and as Co-Director of Mangos With Chili, North America’s only traveling QTPOC Cabaret. Recent productions include Before We Were Named, a queer experimental, interdisciplinary performance project based on historic world’s fairs that explores the creation of polarities between the global north and south and Fog City Necropolis, SF’s only interactive haunted house featuring infamous San Francisco characters returned from the dead. To keep up with Ms. Galette, please visit www.mscherrygalette.com for performance dates, workshop opportunities and to learn more.
Juba Kalamka is most recognized for his work as a founding member of “homohop” crew Deep Dickollective (D/DC) and his development of the label Sugartruck Recordings. He served as director of PeaceOUT World HomoHop Festival from 2002-2007, which was featured in the documentary Pick Up the Mic. He received a Creating Change Award from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in 2005. Some of his recent work appears in Working Sex (Seal Press, 2007) Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip Hop (Basic Civitas Books, 2007) The Anthology of Rap (Yale University Press, 2010).
Ri Molnár is said to have danced in the womb, causing their mother to lose sleep flipping cassettes. They began their formal dance training at the Fort Wayne Ballet School. They continued to study with the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati, Ohio, Houston Ballet Academy, Joffrey Ballet School, the Virginia School for the Arts, the Paul Taylor School, Urban Bush Women Institute, and Antioch College. Their movement is most influenced recently by butoh, contact improv and release technique while still finding depth in ballet, capoeira, traditional Hungarian dance and flamenco. Ri has presented at Dance Mission Theatre, Subterranean Arthouse, Studio 210, Mission Cultural Center, The Big Gay Warehouse, Adobe Bookstore, Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory and Station 40. They also co-directed SpitFury: a queer feminist dance theatre troupe based in Flagstaff, AZ and have been commissioned by Antioch College dance department as a resident choreographer. Ri is not just a dancer though…they also love gardening, spinning yarn, practicing self-defense moves, writing grants, making up songs, learning about herbs, and working with youth as a core member of the Bay Area Radical Childcare Collective. Ri thinks they make deeply personal, overtly political experimental dance-theatre with a sense of humor.
Christina Sanchez is a socially and politically engaged artist interested in innovative public practices that address social justice for marginalized communities. Her interest in engaged art practices grew from being raised by working class immigrant parents who coped with low wage employment, few educational opportunities, and anti-immigrant prejudices. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Public Practice at the OTIS School of Art and Design in Los Angeles. In her work she utilizes performance and video to investigate how immigrant communities both retain and reinterpret culture within in the United States. Christina is currently an intern for the upcoming exhibition Doin’ It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building, which is part of The Getty’s Pacific Standard Time Initiative. She is archiving and producing video content about a series of public performances by Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz that took place between 1977 and 1982 in Southern California. Christina also recently returned from Medellin Colombia where she participated in the Encuentro Internacional de Medellín (MDE11) at the Museo de Antioquia. There she worked as an artist collaborator on the exhibition La Piel De La Memoria, producing and installing archival video material, with artists Suzanne Lacy and Pilar Riaño.
Interviews and appearances may be scheduled through the producers:
Nico Dacumos Irina Contreras
nicodacumos@gmail.com colaconcontra@gmail.com
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Sneak peek of Skye Silvano’s solo! Skye is collaborating with Cherry Galette, Ri Molnár, and Zouzou on a dance piece for Scenes Unseen. Amazing!
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