Corn Fed
A workshop w/ Landa Lakes
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
6–7:30pm PT
Pacific Felt Factory, 2830 20th Street, San Francisco
About the Workshop
If the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, what else does food have the power to change?
Drag artist & activist Landa Lakes will lead a cooking demonstration while exploring Chickasaw myths and ideas as well as masculine and feminine identities in the kitchen. We’ll also take a look at the work Landa is doing with the Weaving Spirits Festival of Two-Spirit Performance. The workshop will include plenty of Q & A and, you guessed it, a meal!
Corn and bean based food will contain animal products, with a vegan option available.
FREE!
This event is for cis and trans men and masculine of center women and non-binary people looking to bro down on queer masculinities, but open to people of all gender identities and expressions.
About the Artist
Photo Credit: José Alberto Guzmán Colón
Image Description: Landa Lakes wears a muted pink lipstick and blue, silver and black eye makeup with long lashes as she stares into the camera. She wears large silver earrings and an extravagant tiara that also covers her forehead. She wears her hair up in a large bun with a grey boatneck tunic dress with gold detail on the shoulders.
Landa Lakes, in 2005, she founded drag performance groups in San Francisco including the Two-Spirit Native American drag troupe, the Brush Arbor Gurlz, and the creative and campy House of Glitter. She is also the Westcoast Mother of the Vogue House of Lauren, International, and is the recipient of the national pageant title Jewel of the Galaxy. Landa uses art to combine contemporary ideas with Native history and traditional stories to convey the shared experiences and understanding of human nature outside the colonial Christian perspective.
Her notable honors include the New York Fresh Fruit Festival Performance Award, KQED LGBT Local Hero Award, and she was publicly elected as Grand Duchess 36 of the Grand Ducal Council of San Francisco, a non-profit organization of which she serves on the Executive Board. Lakes served as Co-Chair to the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAIT-S) and is on the Board of the BAAIT-S Two-Spirit Powwow. Recently, she co-founded the Weaving Spirits Native Art Festival.
To Participate
Attendance is free, but donations are welcome by joining our Patreon page or via our fiscal sponsor Intersection for the Arts: Donate Here
ACCESSIBILITY: Pacific Felt Factory is fully ADA compliant
Contact kevin@diamond-wave.org to request additional accessibility services.
About the Series
MASCellaneous is a creative workshop series exploring queer masculinities. The program seeks to create new queer masculine archetypes, shift existing queer masculine culture, and create affinity amongst cis and trans men and masculine of center women and non-binary people. Learn more →
MASCellaenous is made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities (www.calhum.org), and the Artist Power Convenings program at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.