THEYFRIEND 2024: You Are Nonbinary!
Friday, November 15, 2024
Harvey Milk Center for the Arts
50 Scott St, San Francisco, CA 94103
$20 early bird | $25 general admission
Limited Pay What You Can tickets
Featuring Giorgia Sage, Rishikesh Tirumalai, The Indigo Menace & Xtra.dae
About the Event
The 2024 THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Performance Festival continues with our first foray into immersive theater!
It’s time for 🎭 You Are Nonbinary! 🎭 an immersive theatrical performance reimagining our experience of gender!
Join us for a participatory performance centering imagination, expression, and radical acceptance!
You Are Nonbinary! envisions a universe where nonbinary gender is our shared norm — where everybody belongs exactly as they are! Together, we will create an interactive space for audience and performers to inhabit, play, and dream.
Featuring the talents of:
✨ Giorgia Sage
✨ Rishikesh Tirumalai (2024 THEYFRIEND Advisor)
✨ The Indigo Menace
✨ Xtra.dae
It doesn’t matter whether you’re starting your gender journey or feel you have arrived at your final gender destination, You Are Nonbinary! is an invitation to step into an ever-expanding world.
Audience participation encouraged! 👾 Whether you step into a special role or are simply witness to the unfolding magic, glimpse with us a more inclusive, liberated future.
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Harvey Milk Center for the Arts (HMCA) is ADA compliant with wheelchair accessible, all-gender restrooms and an elevator. All videos will have open captions. If you need ASL interpretation or ADA accessible seating for this show, please indicate so during the ticketing process no later than November 9th.
To access a map of existing blue accessible parking zones in San Francisco, please visit: https://www.sfmta.com/maps/existing-blue-accessible-parking-zones.
If you have questions or would like to contact someone to ensure we can meet your accessibility needs, please email sarah@diamond-wave.org.
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Masking STRONGLY encouraged! Participating artists and staff are COVID tested before the event. KN95 masks provided at the door.
About the Artists
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giorgia sage is a love poet, designer, and community weaver born and raised in the 94110 zip code of San Francisco (Yelamu), and are now based between the bay and the mojave high desert (Mar’rah). giorgia was part of Emergence’s 2024 Seeds of Radical Renewal cohort, and a Lambda Literary resident at Sundress Academy for the Arts in early 2020. They’re on a break from publishing, but have recently performed poems at The Golden Sardine, Beast Crawl, and Mission Arts & Performance Project (which they also organize for). Their work explores scales of intimacy, queer utopian longing, and ecologies of care.
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Hi, I'm Rishi! Performance artist, community organizer, leadership coach. Most of the time, I think of myself as a gardener, after Masanobu Fukuoka. Spreading seeds, noticing what grows, cultivating patience in myself. This is most fun when collaborating and creating with others. I enjoy weaving spaces and designing containers that inspire creativity in everyday contexts. I enjoy enlisting participants to become performers and facilitators. This helps me relax into being one with the many. My favorite space to organize is called Stone Soup. It's a flexible hierarchy container where everyone is the owner. Stone Soup is an experiment in syndicated anarchism, a space for each of us to explore organization from the heart and carry the load together. These days, I'm particularly motivated to explore disobedience. Disobeying gender / sexuality mores, imperialist impositions, even simple social patterns. I consider myself a channel for trickster / fugitive energy. Let's dance in that together!
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The Indigo Menace is an alt-pop, genderfluid drag artist who is best known for their tiny mustache, tiny jockstraps, and ginormous, graphic makeup looks. They started practicing drag in December 2022 with the Stanford Drag Troupe, a student-run queer artist collective at Stanford University, and have since produced, directed, and hosted many of the Troupe’s shows. In the past year, they’ve made a sizable splash in the Bay Area’s queer bar scene, wiggling between San Jose, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco. Aside from drag, they are very passionate about music, theater, design, and queer/trans studies.
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Xtra.dae is an experimental performance artist residing in Ohlone land in Oakland, California, originally from South Korea. Through audio-visual performance, Xtra.dae summons beings of other alternate universes where colonization never took place and culture is preserved and hyper-evolved. Xtra.dae uses performance to transport and commune with these universes and bring forth stories as modern folktales to guide our lives today. Using documentation from their life, Xtra.dae uses the life of Daeun Hwang to push reflection and exploration of the nonbinary in gender, queerness, and Asianness.
To Attend
$20 early bird | $25 general admission
Limited Pay What You Can tickets
About the Festival
Now in its fourth year, THEYFRIEND is the world’s first performance festival uplifting, centering, and celebrating nonbinary identity!
This event is supported by the Borealis Philanthropy, the California Arts Council, and the Zellerbach Family Foundation, and is presented in partnership with Harvey Milk Center for the Arts. Diamond Wave is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts that is supported by Grants for the Arts, the Horizons Foundation, and the San Francisco Foundation.