LGBTQ Office of Culture & Community
LGBTQ Office of Culture & Community
LGBTQ Office of Culture & Community at Columbia College Chicago presents:
Gender Fusions 4: Busting Up the Binaries!
An annual queer spectacle in 3 acts
Co-sponsored by: Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, Office of Multicultural Affairs, English Department, Common Ground & Amigas Latinas
Join us for the new & improved, extended remix of the 4th annual Gender Fusions—where the heat & steam, the pressure & resistance of forging gender/queer community combusts into new geographies and constellations. We invite you to reflect & revel in the uproar of busting up the binaries of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation.
Friday, April 25
6:00 pm Light Reception
6:30 - 8:30 pm Screening
Columbia’s Film Row Cinema
1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor
gaylesbiantransfagdykequeer: naming desire and identity in media
Film Screening and Dialogue with Filmmakers Sam Feder & Jules Rosskam
Film Clips include: Boy I Am, F.Scott Fitzgerald Slept Here, & Transparent
FREE event.
Saturday, April 26
3:30 - 5:30 pm
Film Row Cinema
1104 S. Wabash, 8th Floor
Forging New Queer Geographies: Busting Up the Binaries!
Speakers and Community Dialogue, including Marga Gomez, Matthew Hollis & Ryka Aoki de La Cruz, moderated by Sam Park
7:30 pm -Doors open
8 pm - Showtime!
Conaway Center
1104 S. Wabash, 1st Floor
$5 for students & senior citizens
$10 general admission
Gender Fusions 4 Performance Spectacle:
Busting Up the Binaries!
* Drag * Burlesque * Poetry * Song* Dance * Theater * Gay snax * After-party *
Featuring sassy & outragious headliners Marga Gomez, Matthew Hollis, Ryka Aoki de La Cruz plus stellar Chicagoland performers Teatro Luna, Jyl Fehrenkamp, Avery R. Young, Nikki Patin, Nicole Garneau, Misty DeBerry, Johnny T., Sharon St. James, topped off with a bevy of queerlicious Columbia College students
To reserve & purchase tickets, call the Columbia Box Office at: 312-344-6126
Tickets available at the door. Cash only. Bring your student & senior citizen IDs for discount.
Comp tickets are available for Columbia College students. First come first serve. Call LGBTQ Office (312.344.8594) to reserve comp tickets.
Proceeds benefit post-production of the film "still black: a portrait of
black transmen," directed by kortney ryan ziegler and produced by awilda
rodriguez lora. for more information about the film please visit
http://stillblackfilm.org/.
For more info on Gender Fusions 4, go to www.colum.edu/lgbtq or contact the LGBTQ Office of Culture & Community at 312-344-8594 or lgbtqoffice@gmail.com
For the spectacle, we invite you to pull out your wig, your super-queer-hero cape, your leather chaps, your grandfather's bowtie, your sister's prom dress or anything fabulous to add your spin to the mix. Bust up your own binary! Who knows, you might just win a prize...
Get infused!
Common Ground Meetings
Every Monday
1 pm
Underground Cafe
600 South Michigan Avenue
and
Every Friday
2 pm
Underground Cafe
600 South Michigan Avenue
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