Epilogue for Our Future Ends

Epilogue for Our Future Ends is dance party and performance with new and restaged selections from Our Future Ends (a multidisciplinary satire about near extinct lemurs and long lost Lemuria). Epilogue continues the legacy of Lemurians (Brontez Purnell and Heather María Ács), summons a Cosmic DJ (Siobhan Aluvalot) and occult luminary Madame Blavatsky (John Foster Cartwright) and features a live performance by musician Hale May along with Our Future Ends remixes by Ted M. Superstar.Lemurians were queer prehistoric entities, occult imagined divine androgynes that went extinct along with the Atlanteans. The World Wildlife Fund’s latest report noted that the wildlife population has declined by half since 1972, an uncanny time period for the artists, culture and community lost to the AIDS crisis. The latest in a series of losses perpetuated by market forces, San Francisco’s 107 year old gay bar The Gangway closed its doors the same week as the Eastern Cougar was declared extinct. The Stud, also recent prey to San Francisco’s rampant gentrification, is at the heart of the fight for queer cultural preservation with 18 new owners coming to its rescue—becoming the first worker owned cooperative nightclub in the US. By 2020 nearly two-thirds of wildlife may be lost to the planet and queer spaces face a similar fate.Epilogue for Our Future Ends is part of the inaugural CounterPulse Festival. Visit counterpulse.org/cp-fest18 for more information. Produced by Clement Hil GoldbergPresented by Some Serious BusinessCostume Design by Margaret Bolton GraceOriginal Music, Animation Score, and Remixes by Ted M. SuperstarOriginal Music by Hale MaySound Engineering by Sophia PoirierChoreography by Larry ArringtonLighting Design by Jerry Lee
Phot of Brontez Purnell by Robbie Sweeny