Delicious Fresh Meat

Photo: A. Ever Bolden
Left to right (quartet): Nafis, Sean Dorsey, Johnnie Pratt & Shawna Virago

FRESH MEAT 2005 - 4th Annual Transgender & Queer Performance Festival
June 16 to 18 (Thurs June 16 and Fri June 17, 8pm; Sat June 18, 7:30 pm & 9:30pm)


$15 (reservations strongly recommended)
ODC Theater, 3153 17th Street, SF
415-863-9834 or www.odctheater.org
INFO/NIGHTLY LINEUP: www.freshmeatproductions.org

Homo hip hop, gender-defying trapeze, tranny glam rock, queer burlesque, genderqueer modern dance, all-girl breakdance, and the world’s first transgender barbershop quartet… Fresh Meat is Fresh Meat Productions’ annual festival of transgender & queer performance – a sell-out, high energy, deeply moving, outrageously sexy, history-making gathering of exceptionally talented transgender and queer artists from across the nation.

Hear tales about coming out tranny at a Deep South Debutante Ball; experience the infectious harmony of the world’s first transgender barbershop quartet; witness some of the world’s first trans-themed modern dance; pulse with the throbbing beats of tranny glam rock; hear intersex and transsexual perspectives on the body and intimacy; and be exhilarated by gender-bending, gravity-defying trapeze. This show sells out, so get your tickets early!

Fresh Meat 2005 artists include: Jamie Armstrong-Pouncey, Miguel Chernus-Goldstein, Ryka Aoki de la Cruz, Sean Dorsey and Mair Culbreth, Harlem Shake Burlesque, Thea Hillman and Johnnie Pratt, Dr. Jafer, Jaycub Perez and Katastrophe, Lipstick Conspiracy, Turner Schofield, Sile "Luster" Singleton, Sisterz of the Underground, The TransAMS Barbershop Quartet, and The Viragos.
This show sells out, so get your tickets early!

FRESH MEAT DANCES OFF THE STAGE AND ON TO THE WALLS
Fresh Meat in the Gallery – 2nd Annual Transgender Art Exhibition
Fresh Meat Productions

San Francisco, CA (May 23, 2005) – Fresh Meat Productions’ Second Annual Fresh Meat in the Gallery is an historic exhibition of visual art by transgender, intersex and genderqueer artists being presented in June and July in San Francisco. Featuring sculpture, photography, paintings, mixed media and crafts from around the world, this year’s showcase has expanded to two galleries. Artwork will be shown at the SF LGBT Community Center from June 4 – July 31 and at the ODC Theater Gallery, June 12 – June 5.

Fresh Meat in the Gallery creates a visual dialogue about gender, the body and society. It is a conversation with and about subjects often left unseen or undiscussed, both within the queer community and society at large. Featured artist and genderqueer printmaker E. Ramstad says, "This artwork is about me, my community, changing bodies, my body.”

This exhibition accompanies Fresh Meat 2005, the acclaimed annual festival of transgender and queer performance that runs June 16-18 at ODC Theater. A driving force in the growing trans art movement, Fresh Meat has been called “fierce and fine tuned…history in the making” (Bay Area Reporter). Artistic Director and choreographer Sean Dorsey’s “intelligent and evocative work helps build a frame of reference to enable viewers to experience dance outside of gender.” according to Critical Dance.

The mission of Fresh Meat Productions is to build community through the arts by creating, presenting and touring original transgender and queer arts programs. The San Francisco Arts Commission, Horizons Foundation, Boston Foundation, Rainbow Grocery, Queer Cultural Center, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Zellerbach Family Foundation and many generous individual donors provide funding support. For more information, please visit www.freshmeatproductions.org.

Gallery One: LGBT Community Center, Gallery 301 (3rd Floor)
June 04 - July 31, 2005
1800 Market Street (at Octavia), San Francisco
Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 12noon-10pm, Sat 9am-10pm
Opening Reception: June 4, 6pm-10pm (opening reception of the National Queer Arts Festival)

Gallery Two: ODC Theater Gallery
June 12 - July 5, 2005
3153 17th Street (at Shotwell), San Francisco
Gallery hours: Wed-Sat 2pm-5pm
Opening Reception: June 16, post-performance (Fresh Meat 2005)