In honor of Pride Month, join us in celebrating LGBTQ+ heritage and culture. Tonight, we come together to share unheard stories, past and present--stories of LGBTQ+ identities, histories, resilience, and achievements.
Seeds and Sequins
With Snowflake Calvert and Europa Grace
7:30 p.m.
Osher Gallery 1, Kanbar Forum
For Two-Spirit artist and community organizer Snowflake Calvert, growing up on occupied Turtle Island as an Indigenous first-generation American created complex struggles. Experience a screening of her deeply personal performance Seeds and Sequins, in which she combines contemporary and traditional dance, performance art, and drag to share aspects of her life and heritage. The piece is a collaboration with artist Europa Grace, who infuses their perspectives and challenges as a nonbinary, queer, Black Trinidadian American. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the artists.
Snowflake Calvert (she/her) is a Two-Spirit artist of Yaqui, Raramuri, and Tzotzil Mayan heritage. A professional dancer, drag performer/event host, and entrepreneur, she produces LGBTQ+ events as platforms for political, social, and cultural activism.
Europa Grace (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Oakland (Huichin, Chochenyo Ohlone land). Their performance work has been featured at BAMPFA, Joe Goode Annex, African American Art and Culture Complex, and EastSide Arts Alliance.
Queer from Here and the Lexington Club Archival Project
With Lauren Tabak
6:30-9:30 p.m.
Bechtel Gallery 3, Wattis Studio
Dive into two documentary projects from Lauren Tabak that chronicle LGBTQ+ lives and experiences. Immerse yourself in Queer from Here, a photo series examining themes of modern identity, sexuality, gender, visibility, and community. And discover the Lexington Club Archival Project, founded by Tabak and collaborator Susie Smith, which captures stories, sounds, and images of San Francisco's last lesbian bar, closed in 2015.
Featured from the Archival Project tonight, enjoy screenings of the short documentary film Never a Cover at 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. Then explore photography from the exhibition 19th and Lexington: Images from San Francisco's Last Lesbian Bar 1997-2015.
Lauren Tabak is an award-winning creative polymath with 15-plus collective years in the music industry. Her work has appeared in a number of film festivals, and in places like Pitchfork, NPR, and Slate. In 2016 she received an NLGJA Award for Excellence in Online Journalism.
Never a Cover
With Lauren Tabak
7:00 and 9:00 p.m.
Bechtel Gallery 3, Wattis Studio
Enjoy a short documentary film by Lauren Tabak and Susie Smith that chronicles San Francisco's last lesbian bar, the Lexington Club. Tabak will provide an introduction and tell you more about Never a Cover (2015, 10 min.), which is part of the Lexington Club Archival Project.
Stories from the LGBTQ+ Spectrum
With H.P. Mendoza, Thomas Rocker Paul Jr., and Jade Theriault
9:00 p.m.
Osher Gallery 1, Kanbar Forum
Hear from three LGBTQ+ performers whose experiences are often overlooked in mainstream conversations about Pride. Each will share how their gender and sexual identities defy conventional expectations, imparting their stories with humor, pathos, and affirmations of their proud place in LGBTQ+ culture.
Custom Pronoun Button Making
With the Visitor Experience Facilitators
6:30-9:00 p.m.
Crossroads
Create your own button showcasing your amazing pronouns! Use a template or blank slate to design, color, and embellish a free button. Then wear it proudly to let everyone know about you and to help normalize introducing your full self to everyone you meet. Our fabulous Visitor Experience Facilitator team will be there to help you get your beautiful buttons made.
The Visitor Experience Facilitators are a cohort of informal educators who help guests understand, question, and experience the museum on a deeper level.
Unsent Letters
With the Visitor Experience Facilitators
6:30-9:00 p.m.
Osher Gallery 1
Everyone has a story to tell, and we want you to share yours. Write a letter expressing your thoughts, insights, questions, concerns, and emotions about a subject or experience that means something to you. You can allow a stranger to read it, lock it away for no one to see, or take it home and give it to someone specific. Share your unheard story in whatever way you find best.
The Visitor Experience Facilitators are a cohort of informal educators who help guests understand, question, and experience the museum on a deeper level.
DJmaDRE
From Hip Hop for Change
6:30-7:45 and 8:15-9:30 p.m.
Bechtel Gallery 3
Get ready to dance your way through the night! DJmaDRE brings people together by spinning the best of hip-hop, Bay Area rap, soul, funk, electronic, future bass, and international sounds. She's now a resident DJ at Emporium San Francisco and Emporium Oakland, frequently spins at Monarch and 1015 Folsom, and has performed at countless other venues across the Bay.
Hip Hop for Change is an Oakland-based nonprofit that uses grassroots activism to educate people about socioeconomic injustices and advocate solutions through hip-hop culture.
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Seeds and Sequins
With Snowflake Calvert and Europa Grace
7:30 p.m.
Osher Gallery 1, Kanbar Forum
For Two-Spirit artist and community organizer Snowflake Calvert, growing up on occupied Turtle Island as an Indigenous first-generation American created complex struggles. Experience a screening of her deeply personal performance Seeds and Sequins, in which she combines contemporary and traditional dance, performance art, and drag to share aspects of her life and heritage. The piece is a collaboration with artist Europa Grace, who infuses their perspectives and challenges as a nonbinary, queer, Black Trinidadian American. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the artists.
Snowflake Calvert (she/her) is a Two-Spirit artist of Yaqui, Raramuri, and Tzotzil Mayan heritage. A professional dancer, drag performer/event host, and entrepreneur, she produces LGBTQ+ events as platforms for political, social, and cultural activism.
Europa Grace (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Oakland (Huichin, Chochenyo Ohlone land). Their performance work has been featured at BAMPFA, Joe Goode Annex, African American Art and Culture Complex, and EastSide Arts Alliance.
Queer from Here and the Lexington Club Archival Project
With Lauren Tabak
6:30-9:30 p.m.
Bechtel Gallery 3, Wattis Studio
Dive into two documentary projects from Lauren Tabak that chronicle LGBTQ+ lives and experiences. Immerse yourself in Queer from Here, a photo series examining themes of modern identity, sexuality, gender, visibility, and community. And discover the Lexington Club Archival Project, founded by Tabak and collaborator Susie Smith, which captures stories, sounds, and images of San Francisco's last lesbian bar, closed in 2015.
Featured from the Archival Project tonight, enjoy screenings of the short documentary film Never a Cover at 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. Then explore photography from the exhibition 19th and Lexington: Images from San Francisco's Last Lesbian Bar 1997-2015.
Lauren Tabak is an award-winning creative polymath with 15-plus collective years in the music industry. Her work has appeared in a number of film festivals, and in places like Pitchfork, NPR, and Slate. In 2016 she received an NLGJA Award for Excellence in Online Journalism.
Never a Cover
With Lauren Tabak
7:00 and 9:00 p.m.
Bechtel Gallery 3, Wattis Studio
Enjoy a short documentary film by Lauren Tabak and Susie Smith that chronicles San Francisco's last lesbian bar, the Lexington Club. Tabak will provide an introduction and tell you more about Never a Cover (2015, 10 min.), which is part of the Lexington Club Archival Project.
Stories from the LGBTQ+ Spectrum
With H.P. Mendoza, Thomas Rocker Paul Jr., and Jade Theriault
9:00 p.m.
Osher Gallery 1, Kanbar Forum
Hear from three LGBTQ+ performers whose experiences are often overlooked in mainstream conversations about Pride. Each will share how their gender and sexual identities defy conventional expectations, imparting their stories with humor, pathos, and affirmations of their proud place in LGBTQ+ culture.
Custom Pronoun Button Making
With the Visitor Experience Facilitators
6:30-9:00 p.m.
Crossroads
Create your own button showcasing your amazing pronouns! Use a template or blank slate to design, color, and embellish a free button. Then wear it proudly to let everyone know about you and to help normalize introducing your full self to everyone you meet. Our fabulous Visitor Experience Facilitator team will be there to help you get your beautiful buttons made.
The Visitor Experience Facilitators are a cohort of informal educators who help guests understand, question, and experience the museum on a deeper level.
Unsent Letters
With the Visitor Experience Facilitators
6:30-9:00 p.m.
Osher Gallery 1
Everyone has a story to tell, and we want you to share yours. Write a letter expressing your thoughts, insights, questions, concerns, and emotions about a subject or experience that means something to you. You can allow a stranger to read it, lock it away for no one to see, or take it home and give it to someone specific. Share your unheard story in whatever way you find best.
The Visitor Experience Facilitators are a cohort of informal educators who help guests understand, question, and experience the museum on a deeper level.
DJmaDRE
From Hip Hop for Change
6:30-7:45 and 8:15-9:30 p.m.
Bechtel Gallery 3
Get ready to dance your way through the night! DJmaDRE brings people together by spinning the best of hip-hop, Bay Area rap, soul, funk, electronic, future bass, and international sounds. She's now a resident DJ at Emporium San Francisco and Emporium Oakland, frequently spins at Monarch and 1015 Folsom, and has performed at countless other venues across the Bay.
Hip Hop for Change is an Oakland-based nonprofit that uses grassroots activism to educate people about socioeconomic injustices and advocate solutions through hip-hop culture.
In honor of Pride Month, join us in celebrating LGBTQ+ heritage and culture. Tonight, we come together to share unheard stories, past and present--stories of LGBTQ+ identities, histories, resilience, and achievements.
Seeds and Sequins
With Snowflake Calvert and Europa Grace
7:30 p.m.
Osher Gallery 1, Kanbar Forum
For Two-Spirit artist and community organizer Snowflake Calvert, growing up on occupied Turtle Island as an Indigenous first-generation American created complex struggles. Experience a screening of her deeply personal performance Seeds and Sequins, in which she combines contemporary and traditional dance, performance art, and drag to share aspects of her life and heritage. The piece is a collaboration with artist Europa Grace, who infuses their perspectives and challenges as a nonbinary, queer, Black Trinidadian American. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the artists.
Snowflake Calvert (she/her) is a Two-Spirit artist of Yaqui, Raramuri, and Tzotzil Mayan heritage. A professional dancer, drag performer/event host, and entrepreneur, she produces LGBTQ+ events as platforms for political, social, and cultural activism.
Europa Grace (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Oakland (Huichin, Chochenyo Ohlone land). Their performance work has been featured at BAMPFA, Joe Goode Annex, African American Art and Culture Complex, and EastSide Arts Alliance.
Queer from Here and the Lexington Club Archival Project
With Lauren Tabak
6:30-9:30 p.m.
Bechtel Gallery 3, Wattis Studio
Dive into two documentary projects from Lauren Tabak that chronicle LGBTQ+ lives and experiences. Immerse yourself in Queer from Here, a photo series examining themes of modern identity, sexuality, gender, visibility, and community. And discover the Lexington Club Archival Project, founded by Tabak and collaborator Susie Smith, which captures stories, sounds, and images of San Francisco's last lesbian bar, closed in 2015.
Featured from the Archival Project tonight, enjoy screenings of the short documentary film Never a Cover at 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. Then explore photography from the exhibition 19th and Lexington: Images from San Francisco's Last Lesbian Bar 1997-2015.
Lauren Tabak is an award-winning creative polymath with 15-plus collective years in the music industry. Her work has appeared in a number of film festivals, and in places like Pitchfork, NPR, and Slate. In 2016 she received an NLGJA Award for Excellence in Online Journalism.
Never a Cover
With Lauren Tabak
7:00 and 9:00 p.m.
Bechtel Gallery 3, Wattis Studio
Enjoy a short documentary film by Lauren Tabak and Susie Smith that chronicles San Francisco's last lesbian bar, the Lexington Club. Tabak will provide an introduction and tell you more about Never a Cover (2015, 10 min.), which is part of the Lexington Club Archival Project.
Stories from the LGBTQ+ Spectrum
With H.P. Mendoza, Thomas Rocker Paul Jr., and Jade Theriault
9:00 p.m.
Osher Gallery 1, Kanbar Forum
Hear from three LGBTQ+ performers whose experiences are often overlooked in mainstream conversations about Pride. Each will share how their gender and sexual identities defy conventional expectations, imparting their stories with humor, pathos, and affirmations of their proud place in LGBTQ+ culture.
Custom Pronoun Button Making
With the Visitor Experience Facilitators
6:30-9:00 p.m.
Crossroads
Create your own button showcasing your amazing pronouns! Use a template or blank slate to design, color, and embellish a free button. Then wear it proudly to let everyone know about you and to help normalize introducing your full self to everyone you meet. Our fabulous Visitor Experience Facilitator team will be there to help you get your beautiful buttons made.
The Visitor Experience Facilitators are a cohort of informal educators who help guests understand, question, and experience the museum on a deeper level.
Unsent Letters
With the Visitor Experience Facilitators
6:30-9:00 p.m.
Osher Gallery 1
Everyone has a story to tell, and we want you to share yours. Write a letter expressing your thoughts, insights, questions, concerns, and emotions about a subject or experience that means something to you. You can allow a stranger to read it, lock it away for no one to see, or take it home and give it to someone specific. Share your unheard story in whatever way you find best.
The Visitor Experience Facilitators are a cohort of informal educators who help guests understand, question, and experience the museum on a deeper level.
DJmaDRE
From Hip Hop for Change
6:30-7:45 and 8:15-9:30 p.m.
Bechtel Gallery 3
Get ready to dance your way through the night! DJmaDRE brings people together by spinning the best of hip-hop, Bay Area rap, soul, funk, electronic, future bass, and international sounds. She's now a resident DJ at Emporium San Francisco and Emporium Oakland, frequently spins at Monarch and 1015 Folsom, and has performed at countless other venues across the Bay.
Hip Hop for Change is an Oakland-based nonprofit that uses grassroots activism to educate people about socioeconomic injustices and advocate solutions through hip-hop culture.
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Seeds and Sequins
With Snowflake Calvert and Europa Grace
7:30 p.m.
Osher Gallery 1, Kanbar Forum
For Two-Spirit artist and community organizer Snowflake Calvert, growing up on occupied Turtle Island as an Indigenous first-generation American created complex struggles. Experience a screening of her deeply personal performance Seeds and Sequins, in which she combines contemporary and traditional dance, performance art, and drag to share aspects of her life and heritage. The piece is a collaboration with artist Europa Grace, who infuses their perspectives and challenges as a nonbinary, queer, Black Trinidadian American. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the artists.
Snowflake Calvert (she/her) is a Two-Spirit artist of Yaqui, Raramuri, and Tzotzil Mayan heritage. A professional dancer, drag performer/event host, and entrepreneur, she produces LGBTQ+ events as platforms for political, social, and cultural activism.
Europa Grace (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Oakland (Huichin, Chochenyo Ohlone land). Their performance work has been featured at BAMPFA, Joe Goode Annex, African American Art and Culture Complex, and EastSide Arts Alliance.
Queer from Here and the Lexington Club Archival Project
With Lauren Tabak
6:30-9:30 p.m.
Bechtel Gallery 3, Wattis Studio
Dive into two documentary projects from Lauren Tabak that chronicle LGBTQ+ lives and experiences. Immerse yourself in Queer from Here, a photo series examining themes of modern identity, sexuality, gender, visibility, and community. And discover the Lexington Club Archival Project, founded by Tabak and collaborator Susie Smith, which captures stories, sounds, and images of San Francisco's last lesbian bar, closed in 2015.
Featured from the Archival Project tonight, enjoy screenings of the short documentary film Never a Cover at 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. Then explore photography from the exhibition 19th and Lexington: Images from San Francisco's Last Lesbian Bar 1997-2015.
Lauren Tabak is an award-winning creative polymath with 15-plus collective years in the music industry. Her work has appeared in a number of film festivals, and in places like Pitchfork, NPR, and Slate. In 2016 she received an NLGJA Award for Excellence in Online Journalism.
Never a Cover
With Lauren Tabak
7:00 and 9:00 p.m.
Bechtel Gallery 3, Wattis Studio
Enjoy a short documentary film by Lauren Tabak and Susie Smith that chronicles San Francisco's last lesbian bar, the Lexington Club. Tabak will provide an introduction and tell you more about Never a Cover (2015, 10 min.), which is part of the Lexington Club Archival Project.
Stories from the LGBTQ+ Spectrum
With H.P. Mendoza, Thomas Rocker Paul Jr., and Jade Theriault
9:00 p.m.
Osher Gallery 1, Kanbar Forum
Hear from three LGBTQ+ performers whose experiences are often overlooked in mainstream conversations about Pride. Each will share how their gender and sexual identities defy conventional expectations, imparting their stories with humor, pathos, and affirmations of their proud place in LGBTQ+ culture.
Custom Pronoun Button Making
With the Visitor Experience Facilitators
6:30-9:00 p.m.
Crossroads
Create your own button showcasing your amazing pronouns! Use a template or blank slate to design, color, and embellish a free button. Then wear it proudly to let everyone know about you and to help normalize introducing your full self to everyone you meet. Our fabulous Visitor Experience Facilitator team will be there to help you get your beautiful buttons made.
The Visitor Experience Facilitators are a cohort of informal educators who help guests understand, question, and experience the museum on a deeper level.
Unsent Letters
With the Visitor Experience Facilitators
6:30-9:00 p.m.
Osher Gallery 1
Everyone has a story to tell, and we want you to share yours. Write a letter expressing your thoughts, insights, questions, concerns, and emotions about a subject or experience that means something to you. You can allow a stranger to read it, lock it away for no one to see, or take it home and give it to someone specific. Share your unheard story in whatever way you find best.
The Visitor Experience Facilitators are a cohort of informal educators who help guests understand, question, and experience the museum on a deeper level.
DJmaDRE
From Hip Hop for Change
6:30-7:45 and 8:15-9:30 p.m.
Bechtel Gallery 3
Get ready to dance your way through the night! DJmaDRE brings people together by spinning the best of hip-hop, Bay Area rap, soul, funk, electronic, future bass, and international sounds. She's now a resident DJ at Emporium San Francisco and Emporium Oakland, frequently spins at Monarch and 1015 Folsom, and has performed at countless other venues across the Bay.
Hip Hop for Change is an Oakland-based nonprofit that uses grassroots activism to educate people about socioeconomic injustices and advocate solutions through hip-hop culture.
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