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A Festival Pass to "BEHOLD: A Queer Performance Festval" July 19th - August 2nd 2010

at HIGHWAYS Performance Space

1651 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404

Experience a panoply of radical spiritual/spirited witnessing through song, dance and performance by fiery gospel slangers, hot homo pagans, and much more!

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Monday, July 19 @ 7-10pm
Venturing Out Movement Workshop
Facilitated by jhon r. stronks, this movement/ dialogue workshop is designed to facilitate the creation of performance work that considers the whole body as the container for what is experienced. Using sensation based improvisation and authentic movement techniques the workshop participants will be encouraged to physically experiment with stories, songs or sound. These experimental experiences will then be crafted into a performance score, and interested workshop participants will be invited to perform on Thursday evening’s program. There is no experience necessary just an interest and a willingness to engage the physical experience. 
$20 suggested donation / to register email:workshop@highwaysperformance.org

Thursday, July 22 @ 8:30 pm
jhon r. stronks’ Love and incarceration Chapter 11: the bankruptcy of righteousness + wrongdoing
This collaborative work builds on a foundation of improv techniques. bell hooks’ “All about Love” meets Angela Davis’ “Prison Industrial Complex.” Asking the question “So, What do we do?” Choreographer stronks liberates his willful followers of loving action from the temples of their hearts and sends them head first into a world of filled confusion and requests they do nothing less then dance for their lives.

Friday, July 23 @ 8:30 pm
HANK HENDERSON’s Greetings from the Fugue State: Stories of a life survived
Henderson’s work is based on the gay male experience - both personal + that of thosewho have passed through + orbited around his life.

Saturday, July 24 @ 8:30pm
IAN MACKINNON’s Gay Hist-orgy
With the aid of a pair of cyber-sexual time traveling briefs, and his Genie guide, MacKinnon cruises Gay history for the ultimate f*ck in his brand new one-man multi-media show that is educational, dirty, fabulous, and fun. 

Saturday, July 24 @ 10pm
SOUNDS OF ASTEROTH’s Into The Fluorescence: an inter-galactic love story
This rock musical comes complete with original music, saucy dancers, dark humor + a heavy sprinkling of glitter!

Sunday, July 25 @ 3pm
COREY SAUCIER’s Beautiful Abomination: From Scripture to Philosophy to Poetic Prose
A multidisciplinary performance piece of Spoken Word, Dance, Song, and Dramatic Monologue.

Monday, July 26 @ 7:30 pm
QUEER MONDAYS
Un-Curated by Ian MacKinnon. A non-elitist LGBT experimental performance series on the last Monday of every month. It's an ever-changing grab bag of short pieces and happenings that has something for everyone and you never know what you're gonna get! QM is dedicated to providing a consistent venue for the development of new queer work, and is open to all artistic disciplines.  $5 minimum

Friday, July 30 @ 8:30pm
ALEX DAVIS’ Man of the Year
The son of acclaimed actor Brad Davis, is a transman to be reckoned with.  Directed by theater veteran Michael Kearns, Man of the Year incorporates original music and narrative to tell the story of what happens to a family when they realize that living in hiding is no longer an option, and ambitious transitions are needed to lead a revolution on more than one front. 
Featuring opening act ANGELICA ROSS.

Saturday, July 31 @ 8:30pm
CHRIS DOGGETT’s Eartha Madre Rises from the Ashes: A Ceremony / A Performance / A Fire
Eartha Madre, a drag queen shamaness, returns to Highways from Hawaii and Peru to share and lead you into the Mysteries of the Jungles and High Mountains of Peru and the wild lava fields of the Big island of Hawaii.  Come ready to release the junk not serving you and call forth your wildest dreams.

Saturday, July 31 @ 11pm - 11am
Templum Somnium: a sleepover / a dream temple
An experiential journey for healing in the ancient Greek tradition.  Bring your sleeping bags or Gucci comforter to stay the night at Highways and we will tell and create stories and call forth dreams from the Goddesses, the Gods, and our departed Brothers and Sisters for healing, inspiration and transformation.  In the morning will will share our dreams and visions and a scrumptious breakfast!

Sunday, August 1 @ Noon – 4pm
Join us for an afternoon of self-care and healing at our Two-Spirited Spa Day.  Come and enjoy treatments with our gifted healers and practitioners, all targeted at reconnecting you with your twin spirits.  What does it mean to be 'two-spirited'?  Once you understand and honor all of the unique aspects of yourself, you unveil not only your potential, but also your birthright.
Treatments / Sessions $10 or $25 for three.(not included in Festival Pass)

Sunday, August 1 @ 7:30pm
Blessed is the Blood: Queer Communion
Curated by RAQUEL GUTIERREZ.  Song, dance + performance by fiery gospel slangers + hot homo pagans, w/ JASPER JAMES, TRE VASQUEZ, SHAKINA NAYFACK, RAFA ESPARZA, DANIEL EDUJIYES CARRERA, MARCUS KUILAND-NAZARIO, QUEEN HOLLINS + more!

Monday, August 2 @ 7–10pm
TIM MILLER GAY MEN'S PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP
For gay men & queer boys to gather together and create community through performance. $20 Benefits Highways. 

 Registration required. Email:millerworkshop@highwaysperformance.org

In the gallery:
THE FAIROAKS PROJECT:
Photos by Frank Melleno
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 24 @ 7–8.30pm
An exhibition of Polaroid photographs taken by  Melleno during the spring and summer of 1978 at the Fairoaks Hotel, a San Francisco bathhouse.  Melleno’s snapshot aesthetic allows the viewer to wander the halls of bathhouse over 30 years ago and begin to understand the playful, buoyant mood that was shared by the partygoers.