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**Weaving Spirits Festival of Two-Spirit Performance : Seeding Native Fires**
Yelamu (San Francisco, CA) - 2024 - Weaving Spirits Festival is co-presenting a Two-Spirit performance festival as a fall flagship program of the Queer Cultural Center’s National Queer Arts Festival. Weaving Spirits is set to captivate audiences with virtual screenings and live performances, celebrating Indigenous creativity and Two-Spirit identity.
Weaving Spirits is a vibrant celebration of Indigenous culture, embracing the rich tapestry of tradition and contemporary expression. Through the lens of Two-Spirit artists, the festival weaves together the ways of the past into the loom of the present, embracing sexuality and creating visibility for all.
Featuring a diverse lineup of local and national Native American artists and transnational Indigenous artists, Weaving Spirits offers a dynamic range of performances, from traditional music to experimental art and drag. The festival, curated by an intergenerational team of Two-Spirit community leaders, honors cultural protocols and pays respect to the Rahmaytush and other Ohlone peoples of the Bay Area.
"Two-Spirit" is a pan-tribal term rooted in Indigenous languages. It represents the complex interplay of feminine and masculine energies within individuals. The burgeoning two-spirit community embodies the spirit of inclusivity and acceptance, welcoming all to celebrate and honor Indigenous cultures.
Festival Title: Seeding Native Fires
Weaving Spirits’s fourth year responds to ecological and societal wildfires. Fire allows us to imagine what needs to be ignited, cleansed and turned into ashes.
We celebrate the many sparks of two-spirit creativity and anti-colonial resistance popping off throughout the Bay. It’s so much more than we could have imagined a decade ago!
The Mission’s iconic Brava theater hosts this year’s festival within SF’s first American Indian Cultural District. California, like so many indigenous lands, needs fire for Natives (human and more-than-human) to thrive. So this year we explore fire as a metaphor for Indigenous struggle from Brazil to Gaza.
We are...
Weaving the ways of the past into the loom of the present...
Embracing sexuality and our full selves in performance…
creating our own visibility!
ALL are welcome.
“All are welcome,” emphasize the festival organizers, echoing the inclusive spirit at the heart of the Weaving Spirits Festival . The festival invites everyone to experience Native American cultures through the eyes of Two-Spirit artists. It takes the name of Weaving Spirits because weaving ties many Indigenous cultures together—arcing through the processes of gathering and weaving to gifting.
The festival is supported by a commission from the Queer Cultural Center, grants from the Ford Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Western Arts Alliance’s Advancing Indigenous Performance Native Launchpad Award; CounterPulse supports the Weaving Spirit Festival as its fiscal sponsor. The festival is building a field of two-spirit performers, fostering understanding, appreciation, and solidarity.
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Join us in celebrating Indigenous creativity and Two-Spirit identity at the Weaving Spirit Festival of Two-Spirit Performance.
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Thank You to these Incredible Co-Sponsors:
The festival is supported by a commission from the Queer Cultural Center, grants from the Ford Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Western Arts Alliance’s Advancing Indigenous Performance Native Launchpad Award; CounterPulse supports the Weaving Spirit Festival as its fiscal sponsor.
**Event Details:**
**Date and Time:**
Friday, Oct 25: family friendly night + ASL interpretation - Show: 7pm
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Preshow (Opening Night only): 6:30pm
Saturday, Oct 26: Spanish interpretation - Show: 7pm
**Location:** Yelamu (San Francisco, CA)
Brava Theater Center
2781 24th St, Yelamu (San Francisco)
**Tickets**
Sliding Scale Online Tickets: $13.25 - $106.25 Buy Tickets
NOTAFLOF at the door
ADA Accesible
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