INSTALL: WeHo is soliciting submissions for its second annual art installation on June 2. The event, which showcases the area’s best LGBT artists, is part of the City of West Hollywood’s annual One City One Pride arts festival.
It features installations in shipping pods and U-Hauls that appear overnight, forming a one-day pop-up queer arts village in the El Tovar parking lot near the West Hollywood Library and performances on a flatbed truck curated by Apt 3F.
Sponsors of INSTALL: WeHo include the City of West Hollywood, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Pasadena Arts Council, the California LGBT Arts Alliance and Frontiers, the Southern California gay magazine.
The theme of this year’s installation is “Good Queer” — what does it mean to be a good queer? Does it mean challenging traditional definitions of homosexuality and heterosexuality? How does it affect our private and public lives and perceptions? How do the actions of performance and object-making intersect with the actions of challenging and embracing within this queer discourse?
Exhibitors will be selected by a jury that includes INSTALL: WeHo founders Mark Cramer and Laura Watts; David Frantz, curator of ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives; Rebecca Ansert, founder and principal of Green Public Art Consultancy, and Carol Stakenas, executive director of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.
The criteria for selection and deadlines for the process are available online at installweho.com and at facebook.com/installweho
A tentative schedule of other events during One City One Pride includes the following:
April through June – Living in Limbo, Lesbian Families in the Deep South, a photo exhibit first exhibited at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, will be on display at the West Hollywood Library. A reception, artist talks and tours are planned during the course of the festival. www.livinginlimbo.org
May 18 – Stolen and Forbidden literary reading. Pre-festival preview event. Before the internet, pilferage was common for young gay men looking for answers. Held at the West Hollywood Library, six gay men talk about and read text that was forbidden and/or stolen in their youth.
May 31 – A staged reading of Dustin Lance Black’s ‘8’ and community talk back session, this performance will be especially poignant as it comes on the precipice of a Supreme Court decision on the case the play is based on. Click here http://www.8theplay.com/readings/west-hollywood-library/ for more info on ‘8’.
June 1 – World Premiere of ‘Transvisible: Bamby’s Story’ about Transgender/HIV activist Bamby Salcedo’s life by documentary filmmaker Dante Alencastre.
June 2 – June 4 – LA Opera – Britten: Sacred and Profane. As part of Britten100/LA, a celebration of the music and life of gay composer Benjamin Britten, join Dr. Mitchell Morris and LA Opera’s Domingo-Thornton Young Artists in a special evening exploring the sacred and profane in Benjamin Britten’s music and biography, during this the centenary of his birth. www.laopera.com/community/Britten100LA
June 5 – My Life in Three Easy Payments. Inspired by Sunset Boulevard, Valley of the Dolls, Dreamgirls, drag queens, Diana Ross, African storytelling and his own unique experience of selling products on live television, Dale Guy Madison tells a humorous interactive story through spoken word, songs, stories and video footage of his life. http://calgbtartsalliance.com
June 7-14 – Out There. Los Angeles Art Association’s annual all-media gallery show at Gallery 825. A reception will be held on June 7, and a call for artists will be issued in April. www.laaa.org
June 7 – CSW Purple Party and Dyke March. An entire evening celebrating female pride and entertainment in and around West Hollywood Park. www.lapride.org
June 8-9 – CSW Pride Festival. Two days of performers, dancing, and more in and around West Hollywood Park. www.lapride.org
June 9 – Frontrunners Pride Run and CSW Pride Parade. Organized by Christopher Street West, the first ‘street-closing’ pride parade in the world kicks off from Crescent Heights and runs down Santa Monica Blvd to West Hollywood Park, now in its 43rd year. www.lapride.org
June 12 – CA LGBT Alliance presents Queer Asian Americans in the Arts, an evening of performances and presentations by Queer API artists exploring art practice as activism, identity formation and creating community, followed by an artist/audience interaction moderated by Alice Y. Hom, the Director of the Queer Justice Fund at Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy. http://calgbtartsalliance.com
June 14 – Outlaugh Queer Comedy Festival – The City of West Hollywood is happy to host America’s first and continuing queer comedy festival. Now in it’s sixth year, the festival has been held in West Hollywood for the past three consecutive years. Proceeds from this special evening will go to support The Lavender Effect, an effort to create an LGBT Cultural Museum in the LA / West Hollywood area. www.outlaughfestival.com
June 15 – Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival presents “PRIDE” featuring performances by past Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival artists that speak to the the LGBT community and performances that speak to human, civil and voting rights. Performance in King’s Road Park, 1pm. www.lawtf.com
June 15-16 – CMG Short Film Festival presents short films made by both men and women in their 2nd annual festival. www.thecmg.org/film. Proceeds will benefit AIDSWalk Los Angeles. Entries are being accepted through March 31.
June 16 – Father’s Day Brunch and Concert. As a kickoff to the Summer Sounds series, this special Father’s Day Concert will take place in West Hollywood Park, and be part of the ‘World’s Largest Gay Fathers’ Day Celebration’ co-sponsored by the Pop-Luck Club, RaiseAChild.US, and the Abbey, amongst others. Click here for more info on Summer Sounds.
Programs, dates and times are subject to change and new events will be added as June nears.
