Enby Day
A THEY soiree w/ enby hosts Persia, Jae Swear & Kevin Seaman at your friendly queer THEYborhood bar, El Rio!
Thursday, July 14, 2022
6–7:30pm PT
El Rio, 3158 Mission Street, San Francisco
About the Event
🖤💜 It’s a THEY soiree! 🤍💛
July 14 marks International Nonbinary People’s Day and we’re celebrating with a social hour at your friendly queer THEYborhood bar, El Rio!
This no agenda meetup is all about creating connection amongst nonbinary people, nonbinary-adjacent folx and our allies! Enby hosts Jae Swear & Kevin Seaman will be holding down the patio for folks to share their gender journeys, to swap tips on dispelling imposter syndrome, and to create a warm space for all forms of nonbinary gender expression.
If you’re planning on applying to the THEYFRIEND nonbinary performance festival this is also a great time to answer those last minute questions before the application is due at 11:59 pm on Friday, July 15.
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 genders!
21+ with ID
FREE! 💸 Tax-deductible donations welcome!
💰💸💰 bit.ly/givetodiamondwave 💰💸💰
About the Artists
Persia (they/she) With a pedigree from weekly performances at the late, iconic Esta Noche, her trajectory has gone on to include art curation, stand-up, television, and maybe a quinceañera or two, in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and México. Currently she is a regular performer in the nationally acclaimed "Drag Queen Story Hour" as well as an educator in residence at the Children's After School Arts (CASA) program in the San Francisco Unified School District profiled on KQED Arts and National Public Radio.
Kevin Seaman (they/them) is is an interdisciplinary artist and the Artistic & Executive Director of Diamond Wave. Their videos exploring queer history, symbolism and intersectionality were presented on SalesForce Tower in June 2021 in collaboration with Jim Campbell’s Studio. Their work exploring queer identity and drag culture has also been presented at The Stud, Brava, CounterPulse, YBCA, Frameline, the Tank NYC, the Austin International Drag Festival, SATTELITE ART SHOW Miami, the National Queer Arts Festival, Stockholm’s Stolt Scenkonst, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Yale School of the Arts.
Jae Rouse-Iñiguez (they/them) is a healthcare leader working in higher education with a focus on community-engagement, operations and systems change. They are also a multidisciplinary artist whose mediums include music, writing, storytelling, spoken word and drag. They have performed regularly on the West Coast since 1998, most recently with the latiné punk trio Muñecas.
About the Venue
El Rio began her life in 1978 as a Leather Brazilian Gay Bar! Our Papas Malcolm and Robert ran things until their retirement when the helm passed to The Posse.
We are a LGBTQ+ space who is welcoming to all good people.
We actively invest in communities to promote social change.
We actively invest in our local arts and music scene to give space for artists.
We actively pursue underserved communities in the use of our space.
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
El Rio is 21+ for all events. Please bring a valid ID.
ACCESSIBILITY
El Rio’s front entrance and most of the club are wheelchair accessible including the back deck but not the yard (which has a patio elevated by three steps). There are also high lips on the doorways out to the patio.
The venue has 3 gender neutral single stall bathrooms, and one bathroom with two urinals. The bathrooms are not wheelchair accessible without assistance (please see exact measurements at https://www.elriosf.com/about), but three of them are equipped with grab bars.
👋 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 →
This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities (www.calhum.org), the Artist Power Convenings program at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and was commissioned by Queer Cultural Center for the National Queer Arts Festival.
Support the Event
Tax-deductible donations are welcome by joining our Patreon page or via our fiscal sponsor Intersection for the Arts: Donate Here