Welcome to Weaving Spirits Festival of Two-Spirit Performance : Seeding Native Fires
Co-presented with Queer Cultural Center’s National Queer Arts Festival
in Yelamu (AKA San Francisco) the forever-lands of the Ramaytush Ohlone
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Weaving Spirits’s fourth year responds to ecological and societal wildfires with Drag, Film, Performance Art, Comedy, and Music. Come witness at the Mission’s iconic Brava theater within SF’s first American Indian Cultural District.
Fire allows us to imagine what needs to be ignited, cleansed and turned into ashes.
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.
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Landa Lakes feat. BAGz
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J Miko Thomas, Weaving Spirit’s co-curator, is a Chickasaw writer, musician, and artivist. As drag persona Landa Lakes, she founded two houses, BAGz in 2004, and the House of Glitter in 2005, and is the West Coast Mother of the Vogue House of Lauren, International. Honors include a KQED LGBT Local Hero Award, and the national pageant title of Jewel of the Galaxy. She was publicly elected as the 36th Grand Duchess of San Francisco. Landa serves on BAAIT-S’s Board and co-founded the first and largest Two-Spirit Powwow and is the President of the Grand Ducal Council of San Francisco. The BAGz can be found performing around the US and Canada, often introducing audiences to Native politics for the first time.
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Lexi Adsit
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Lexi Adsit (she/her) is a fierce, fat, and femme multi-hyphenate writer, organizer, producer, and comedian. Trained in Peacock Rebellion’s stand-up comedy and storytelling program, she utilizes her comedy for good by punching up at systems of oppression. She’s currently serving as Executive Director at Peacock Rebellion, where one of her biggest projects is bringing to life the forthcoming anthology Paradise on the Margins: Transgender Women of Color Worldmaking along with co-editors Raquel Willis, Emmy-nominated Actress Nava Mau, and Drs. LaVelle Ridley and Erique Zhang. She exists as a translatina and transracial adoptee, having been raised in an Italian Catholic family and community. Her biological family hails from the foothills of Leon, Guanajuato. While her adopted family migrated from Algeria via Canada to complete a perfect storm that led to her adoption.
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United Against Colonization many eyes one heart
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United Against Colonization: many eyes, one heart is an audiovisual and performance springboard for the fuller self-representation of native and LGBTQ/two-spirited peoples who pass through Abya Yala (land in bloom), as the Kuna people call this continent known as America. Learning with our human and more-than-human relatives, we listen to forest secrets, and collectively conjure magical actions for liberation of land and beings.
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Chuquimamani Condori
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Chuquimamani-Condori makes music by combining the traditional drum and ceremonial music from their Pakajaqueño family, with caporales, kullawada, and huayño. They describe their music as "the sound of our water ceremonies…40 bands playing their melodies at once to recreate the cacophony of the first aurora and the call of the morning star Venus”.
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COMING UP:
Feb 1 BAAITS 2S Powwow at Fort Mason Center (more info)
Feb 6 Weaving Spirits co-presentation performance w/ Kadist and Counterpulse at 80 Turk St. SF (more info)