Exiles Kinky Open Mic

Featuring Meliza Bañales and Francesca Ochoa Friday, August 21 Women's Building, 3543 18th St. @ Valencia, San Francisco Doors and open mic sign-up at 7:30 p.m., program 8-10 p.m. $4 members, $10 non-members. (Members: Have you renewed yet? Be sure to do so in order to get in at the member price!) All women and those whose gender self-identity is other than male are welcome. You must be 18 or over to attend. www.theexiles.org Art XX Magazine and Daddy Gem present the Exiles Kinky Open Mic! Join us for an evening of erotica, poetry, performance art, comedy, spoken word, and whatever else your perverted minds can conjure. Whether you're an open mic slut, a first time performer, or a voyeur, the Exiles Open Mic wants you! In order to highlight all the amazing talent in our community, open mic performers will be limited to one piece under five minutes. Open mic sign-up will begin at 7:30 p.m. This year’s open mic will feature Meliza Bañales and Francesca Ochoa. Meliza Bañales, aka Missy Fuego, writes books, sews clothes, and makes movies. She won a 2008-2009 AIRspace Residency for her one-woman show entitled One Bad Year, a 2008 Creating Queer Community Grant, a 2006 Frameline Completion Grant for the film Do the Math with Mary Guzman, a 2002 People Before Profits Poetry Prize and toured with Sister Spit in 2007. She recently completed another short film with J Aguilar entitled Getting Off, which appeared in the Frameline 33 International LGBT Film Festival. She has been accepted into the RADAR Writer’s Lab to complete her second book of poems, 51 Poems About Nothing At All. Come be her friend at: http://www.myspace.com/melizabanales/missyfuego. Francesca Ochoa wants to be a cougar when she grows up. Until then, she is collecting feminist and queer media from love letters, to pornography to cyber- anarcha-punk and beyond. She is editor of the amazing and terrific Art XX, a magazine dedicated to the promotion of women in the arts. Staff members of Art XX will be on hand with information about their new publication. Daddy Gem will be on hand with an acrylic handlebar mustache and a gem-studded outfit. About Art XX: Art XX is an intervention, a fresh reaction to the often elitist world of art magazines that continue to ignore female, queer, trans, outsider, and non white artists. Our goal is to improve the visibility of these folks not only in magazine publications that quite often omit them on account of more mainstream artists, but to serve as a space of free artistic expression and a vehicle for social change. In our quest to fill quite a large gap in the art publication business, we are attempting to create a magazine that will inform our audience about new and/or revolutionary ideas in art, expose our readers to a variety of mediums and allow the artists to speak for and about their work. http://www.artxxmagazine.com/ About Daddy Gem: After lamenting the lack of sequins in the kink community for over a decade, Daddy Gem emerged from his sparkly cocoon to greet the world with his unique blend of leather and rhinestones. Daddy Gem made his first public appearance in 2008 when his Castro neighbors were threatened with an unjust eviction. His gems have been out for justice ever since.