$10*// 21+ // Wheelchair Accessible

Featuring: Jezebel Delilah X, nomy lamm, StormMiguel Florez, Eli Conley, The Hot Totties, Starr 69, Kentucky Fried Woman + special guests CHUBB, Creatrix Tiara, Charleston Chu, Lance Armstar & Drew Montana!

White Lies is a new production to debut at the 2013 National Queer Arts Festival on June 23rd. A multiracial cast of queer musicians, filmmakers, poets, writers, and actors will explore whiteness to dismantle racism in our queer communities. Our production aims to bring humor and hope to conversations about race and racism by blending together many mediums in a night of performance and conversation. Our cast is composed of many movers and shakers in the San Francisco Bay Area LGBTQ arts scene including nomy lamm, StormMiguel Florez, Jezebel Delilah X, Eli Conley, Susie Smith, Jolie Harris, Mel Chen, Meredith Fenton, Kentucky Fried Woman and Open Mike.

This benefit cabaret is to help us fund our world premiere performance and cover the costs of ASL interpretation, venue rentals, and paying our cast and crew.

Connect with White Lies! www.facebook.com/WhiteLiestheShow
Donate to our Fundraising Campaign! http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/white-lies--2

In order to create a space where folks with multiple chemical sensitivities can participate, please refrain from wearing perfumes, colognes or other scented products (including essential oils) and smoke far away from the entrance to the space. For info on how to support folks with multiple chemical sensitivities, visit: http://www.peggymunson.com/mcs/fragrancefree.html, http://www.brownstargirl.org/1/post/2012/03/fragrance-free-femme-of-colour-realness-draft-15.html

*no one turned away for lack of funds

Led by Erin Daly and Nomy Lamm
April 25-28, Kamilche, WA (about 20 min outside Olympia)
$300-600 sliding scale, $100 deposit upon registration
register by april 1 by emailing: songwritingcircle@rocketmail.com

This will be the first in a series of songwriting retreats to be held at a secluded cabin in the woods outside Olympia, WA. We will gather with both fledgling and experienced songwriters to form a container for creative energy, and to practice adding to and drawing from that energy. We recognize creativity as an essential force that flows through all people, and offer this as safe space in which you are invited to stretch your self, to try new things, to connect and collaborate and respond, and to nurture a dynamic balance between independence and interdependence in the birthing of our most fantastic creative selves. We will work to remove creative blockages and build skills to listen to the creative forces in us and around us. We will do this with the help of guided skill building activities as well as providing individual time to work with prompts, use personal methods, and connect with nature as a source, container and collaborator in creativity.

Who is this for?
-open to all levels, styles, abilities
-queer safe space
-gender inclusive
-we will do our best to accommodate chemical sensitivities and food allergies
-unfortunately the cabin is not wheelchair accessible. There are about 15 steps.

Logistics:
The retreat begins Thursday evening and ends Sunday evening. We will all be staying at the cabin together so you will need to bring your own bedding, whatever you need to be comfortable either on a hardwood floor or camping outdoors. Food is provided.

Cost:
$300-600 sliding scale, includes three full days and nights and all meals.
we require a $100 non-refundable deposit to save your spot
there are limited work trade/scholarships available, ask us if you're interested

deadline for registration: April 1

email us to register:
songwritingcircle@rocketmail.com

if you have questions or need flexibility please don’t hesitate to contact us

Nomy Lamm and Erin Daly have been collaborating on music and dreams for nearly a decade. They've toured the country together several times, spreading their vision around the US in the three-piece hybrid-genre band Tricrotic, and on the New Road Home tour with DavEnd. They've played at festivals including Homo-a-go-go, Ladyfest, Idapalooza, Camp Trans and Outfest. When not immersed in a ((double hug)), Erin roams the wilds of Washington making medicine with the plants she encounters, and Nomy lives in San Francisco writing stories and teaching people to access their voices.

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Queer Indie Folk, Pop & Loop-tasticness

Come help Eli kickoff his trip to Seattle to record his first full-length album at Empty Sea Studios!

Doors 8 pm, Show 9 pm - 12 am
$8 - $12 Sliding Scale
Wheelchair Accessible, 21+
Kitchen open till 10 pm -- come for dinner and a show!

Eli Conley
www.eliconley.com
http://www.indiegogo.com/eliconleystudioalbum/x/709842
11 pm

Eli Conley has a voice that shifts deftly from country choirboy to soulful croon at the turn of a phrase. Steeped in Americana music and the singer-songwriter tradition, he crafts modern day folk songs for misfits from the raw material of his life as a queer transgender man with Virginia roots.

"Oh what gorgeous, soulful music! It knocked me off my easy chair. Eli Conley has a beautiful way of expressing himself. His writing and singing are exquisite."
Laura Love, singer-songwriter

Nomy Lamm & THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD featuring Thunder Thighs
http://www.nomylamm.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thunderthighs666
10 pm

Nomy Lamm is a San Francisco-based writer, musician and performer. She performs with Sins Invalid, a project that produces work on themes of disability, sexuality, and social justice, and writes an advice column for make/shift, a feminist magazine that centralizes queer, anti-racist and international perspectives. Her band, nomy lamm & THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD, is a flexible platform for collaborations with musicians, poets, visual artists and filmmakers.

Annah Anti-Palindrome
http://annahantipalindrome.com/
9 pm

Annah Anti-Palindrome is a bay area based Optical Sound-Smith, writer, and Queer/Femme antagonist who hails from the working-class craters at the base of the Sierra Foothills. She has toured with her work throughout the U.S. & Canada, and has recorded three full-length albums of independent music. Annah performs using a variety of different mediums including a Line 6 (DL4) looping system, kitchen utensils, gas-masks, raw eggs, blood pressure cuffs, found objects, her body (mostly her throat), and more!

Heels on Wheels Glitter Roadshow is a queer performance art cabaret of radical extravagance and thought-provoking glamour. Our fearless performers rampage across the femme-inine spectrum serving up poetic theatre, hilarious performance art, and rocknroll you can sink your heels into! This is their fourth annual tour! Find out more at: www.heelsonwheelsroadshow.com or www.facebook.com/heelsonwheelsroadshow

FEATURING: Shomi Noise [NYC], The Lady Ms. Vagina Jenkins [SF], Heather Acs [NYC], Adelaide Windsome [Philly/LA], and Damien Luxe [NYC] + Celeste Chan + Nomy Lamm + MORE TBA!!

Doors: 9:00pm
Show: 9:30pm -11pm
Cost: $5~$15

My Gay Banjo is coming back to San Francisco! And we are joined by the amazing and talented Nomy Lamm! Come bring your big ol hearts and have a gay ol time with us.

My Gay Banjo is Owen Taylor and Julia Steele Allen on guitar, banjo, uke and vocals. Singing homespun gay-themed duets and occasional queered-up mash-ups, My Gay Banjo plays songs for you and your kind. Based in NYC and Philly.
www.mygaybanjo.com
https://www.facebook.com/MyGayBanjo

nomy lamm & THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD is a flexible platform for collaboration with other artists.
http://www.nomylamm.com/about/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/nomy-lamm-and-THE-WHOLE-WIDE-WORLD/351194138407

WE'RE PLAYING IN THE FRONT ROOM! We'll be done by 11pm so please come early! XOXOXO

donations encouraged!