Queer Farmer Film Project on Queericulum Panel 3/13 in San Francisco

If you are in the SF Bay Area and you want to get your faggotry on next weekend, please come check out Queericulum an event at Mama Calizo's Voice Factory, whose organizers are slating it as "The school of a gay man’s dreams: a day full of homo-focused work/playshops with an evening dinner theatre cabaret finishing with a nighttime dance party."

The Queer Farmer Film Project will be participating on a panel in a workshop called Fagriculture. Here is the write up for the workshop: Fagriculture will focus on how the Queer community is responding to the need for more farms, farmers, urban “fagriculture”, local and healthy food, and how we can play direct and indirect role in making that happen. We all eat and we are all concerned about the cost to our health and health of the planet to the effects of industrial farms and food. We are responding by reclaiming our role in growing more of our own food, preparing and sharing with with the community. The workshop will feature several panelists sharing their own stories of how they became food and farming activists. Panelists are rural farmers, city farmers, filmmakers, urban food advocates, gardeners, ecological designers.

Saturday, March 13th

Mama Calizo's Voice Factory
1519 Mission at 11th

Fagriculture panel 10:30AM-12

3 Upcoming Benefit Events: Portland and Seattle!

1. Friday, February 12th

People's Co-op

3029 SE 21st Ave

                                 Portland, OR 

7:30 potluck and music

bring something to share

8:30 10-minute film short screening

followed by q&a with director Jonah Mossberg

                                  2. Saturday, February 13th 

                                       In Other Words Bookstore

                                  8 NE Killingsworth St. 

                               Portland, OR

                                        7-9PM

                           10-minute film screening

         followed by q&a with a panel of Portland area queer farmers

     

                Monday, February 15th 

       ENVY The Plant Store

           1546 15th Ave 

     Seattle, WA 

6-9 PM 

          Food and Drinks 

Music by Neil Young's Necklace

          7:30 10 Minute Film Screening

                         this event is in partnership with Out For Sustainability

and Alley Cat Acres 

**P L U S**

AFTERPARTY

@RPlace

9-12

BYO ipod if you have one 

for a DIY DJ frenzy

21+

NYC Benefit Events a Success!

Many thanks to all who came out for the Queer Farmer Film Project benefit events in NYC. We packed the house at Bluestockings and threw a really great party in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. We raised a lot of money, thank you to all who donated and helped us move closer to our production goals! Here are some photos from the queer farmer panel/discussion at Bluestockings:

From left-right Karen Washington, Bilen Berhanu, Owen Taylor, Dana Gentile, Jonah Mossberg.
The discussion was a really interesting forum for talking about queerness and farming. Some of the questions I asked the panelists were, "What is the relationship between queerness and agriculture, if any?" "Is agriculture a safe place for queer folks? And if not, what needs to change?" 

Slow Food did a blog post about the event, which you can read here: Farming?! That's So QUEER!

Out-FM, WBAI 99.5FM's queer radio show covered the panel and put together this piece about Karen Washington which you can find here: Black Queer Farmer Karen Washington. You can also listen to an interview I did with Out-FM here. 

We estimate that about 200 people came to the party on January 9th. Here are some photos from the fun:

                                Sikelianos and Sikelianos sing it.
                                        thank you Bell's Roar
                                   My Gay Banjo twing twanging

                            everybody loves gay farmers

NYC BENEFIT EVENTS

Please join us in NYC for our upcoming benefit events! 

1:

Queer Farmer Film Project screening and queer farmer panel/q&a/discussion

Wednesday, January 6th 7PM

Bluestockings Bookstore (for more info: http://bluestockings.com/)

172 Allen Street (between Stanton and Rivington) 

Join director/producer Jonah Mossberg at Bluestockings Bookstore for a screening of a 10-minute short version of the film and post-discussion about it’s and subject matter (gender, sexuality, queerness and agriculture) with a panel of a few of New York City’s own queer farmers including Owen Taylor from Just Food, Bilen Berhanu of Greenthumb, and more. 

2: 

NYC Benefit Party for the Queer Farmer Film Project

Saturday, January 9th 7PM 

1399 Pacific Street, Brooklyn (Take the A, 3, or LIRR to Nostrand Ave)

T W O * F L O O R S 

Food! Gay farmers! Cocktails! Gay Bands! Dancing! 

T H E * L I N E U P
7pm 
Cocktail and Hors D'oevres hour
Appetizers provide by local chef Ash Fulk of Top Chef

8pm
Movie showing:
Queer Farmer Film Project (10 minute teaser)

8:30pm 
Queer bands:
My Gay Banjo 
Sikelianos and Sikelianos
Bell's Roar

10pm
DJs and dancing until 2am

Band Websites:
My Gay Banjo
http://www.myspace.com/mygaybanjo
http://www.facebook.com/MyGayBanjo

dancealisadance (of Sikelianos and Sikelianos)
http://www.myspace.com/dancealisadance

Bell's Roar
http://www.myspace.com/bellsroar

A Brunch Benefit for the Queer Farmer Film Project!

Save the date..
Sunday December 20th 

Fancy House, Philadelphia, PA (e-mail queerfamerfilmproject@gmail.com for address)

2-6pm

Big gay acoustic lineup including:
Gender Mountain (Dave End's new drag cover band)
My Gay Banjo
dancealisadance
Fancy House queer farmer one-person band on harmonica/banjo

also likely to perform: Laura Rabbit and Bell's Roar

We will watch a 10 minute version of the film, including two Philadelphia queer farmers!

Food! Gay farmers! Friends! Gay Bands!

Brunch will be light and warm: soups and hot beverages!

Looking for benefit collaborators in NYC and Philly

The Queer Farmer Film Project will be passing through the Northeast mid-December to early January and we are looking for folks who want to collaborate on benefit events in New York City and Philadelphia. We are hoping to hold screenings of "Out Here:A Queer Farmer Film Project," and have other queer filmmakers/artists/musicians show their work or play some music to raise some funds for the QFFP and ideally, a local organization or cause as well. We are open to the possibilities and are trying to nail down the dates soon, so if you have any suggestions or contacts in these areas, please get in touch. 

Queer Farmer Film Project short in SF Trans Film Festival

Thanks to the editing support of Zibby Jahns and MEV Luna, I recently completed a short film called, "Out Here: A Queer Farmer Film Project," which will make it's debut in Fresh Meat's San Francisco Transgender Film Festival on November 6th. This is very exciting news- if you are in the Bay Area, please come see it if you can. The film is a taste of what the larger project hopes to evoke; the relationships that queer people have to agriculture as told through their stories. 

Here are the details: 

Friday, November 6th 

Mama Calizo's Voice Factory 

1519 Mission Street at 11th 

San Francisco 

Tickets $12 at the door only