Tucson’s International LGBT Film Festival, January 24 to 27, 2013 at Fluxx Studio & Gallery, 414 E. 9th Street (just east of 4th Avenue).

For complete film schedule, click here, www.outinthedesertff.org. I posted about the initial launch party for this film festival (click here), which was well attended. Also, check out the opening night party on January 23.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013
• 7 pm – 10 pm – Opening Night and Party – Divine Decadence
(Coffee & Pie, Slant, Shabbat Dinner, The Gay Who Wasn’t Gay Enough, Rites of Passage, Harvey & Peter, Neighbors, Grill Check, Flamingo Pride, TSUYAKO, My Night with Andrew Cunanan, James, Cherry Waves, This Shining Night, The Divine Decadence of Cheesecake)

Sister Spit: GLBT Author Tour

Pima County Public Library – in conjunction with RADAR Productions, a San Francisco-based queer literary arts nonprofit organization – proudly presents the Sister Spit annual North American tour in two multimedia author readings and performances on Saturday, April 7.

The renowned and raucous performance gang, Sister Spit, will perform at 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. at Fluxx Gallery and Studio, 414 E. Ninth St. The performances are free and open to the public. Doors open at 3 and 8 p.m. Seating is limited so arrive early.

Sister Spit teams up established and award-winning writers:
Host Michelle Tea (The Chelsea Whistle, Valencia, and Rent Girl) and legendary author Dorothy Allison (Bastard Out of Carolina, Two or Three Things I know for Sure, and Cavedweller) with up-and-coming GLBTQ authors and performers:

•Brontez Purnell, writer and creator of Fag School fanzine and musician (Younger Lovers, Gravy Train!!!)
•Performer and playwright Erin Markey (Green Eyes, Puppy Love: A Stripper’s Tail)
•Comic artist and writer Cassie J Sneider (Fine Fine Music)
•Nationally ranked slam poet and Mr. Transman 2010 Kit Yan.
•Local authors Sam Ace and Amrit Donaldson (Walking the Plank)

This event is made possible through generous funding from the Friends of Pima County Public Library. For more information about Sister Spit or about Pima County Public Library, including branch locations, schedules, news and events, please visit www.library.pima.gov or call 520-791-4010.

Fluxx Studio & Gallery is at 414 E. 9th St., just east of 4th Avenue & that underpass to downtown.

More info on Sister Spit from Pima County News (click here).

I attended the first year anniversary celebration of Fluxx Studio & Gallery last night, at 414 E. 9th St. (just east of 4th Avenue), and was entertained by lively & talented performances by Boys R Us and Salsa Saucedo. Fluxx advertises themselves as Tucson’s “first and only queer art space.”

Fluxx Studio & Gallery is a non-profit community art space working to provide thoughtful, engaging and socially uplifting events. Fluxx is a multi-function space designed to host exhibitions, performance art, movie screenings, workshops and special events.

It is important to encourage open dialogue and communication about queer culture in order to bridge gaps of understanding, acceptance and change.

Heralding themselves as a “gender performance troupe” Boys R Us is a sparklingly unique gem of Tucson arts and culture. Not only do they blur the lines between traditionally accepted gender roles, but also they whimsically blend genres and media to produce a show that literally explodes off the stage with originality and edgy social consciousness.

Fluxx also offers rental space for classes in yoga, salsa dancing, hip hop dancing, and hosts LGBT films, and Odyssey Storytelling, produced by fellow blogger Penelope Starr “Telling Stories”, who was present at last evening’s anniversary celebration.

Website: www.fluxxproductions.com, email fluxxgallery [at] yahoo.com
fluxxproductions [at] yahoo.com, tucsondragkings [at] yahoo.com, phone 520.882.0242.

Their talented, hardworking staff of volunteers:
Executive Director – Dante Celeiro
Media Director – Rachel Castillo
Administrative Assistant – Matthew Shreve
Gallery Curator – Kianna Davis
PR Consultant – Darrell Wilmore
Development Director – Natalie Rose Apar

Congratulations Fluxx on your one year anniversary, and hopefully many more.