What We Leave Behind: a living scrapbook celebrating queer art, life, and joy
Fri Oct 4, 2024 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
4120 Martin Luther King Jr Way Oakland, CA, 94609
Description
Join us in a celebration of queer art, life, and joy!
In collaboration with VoxBody Studio, Grey presents What We Leave Behind: a living scrapbook to hold visions and missives of queers thriving.
There's a lot of mainstream representation of queer art and life that either arrives posthumously, or reflects on all of the death and violence that our community endures. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could celebrate and witness an installation about Us while we are alive to see it?
Imagine stepping into a night watching home movies of your chosen family WITH that chosen family, and flipping through photo albums and journals full of euphoric memories. This evening will showcase photos and videos of queer people flourishing, plus queer/kinky ambient acts, and an opportunity to add your own story, message, and memories to the live installation.
Doors open from 7-9pm. Come and go as you please; no entry after 9pm.
Ambiant acts by @liefboundropes, @hedonistqueer, @tangledupingrey and more tba!
Tickets available at three price tiers. Please pay what you can! If finances are a barrier to attending, we have limited scholarship spots available. Email us at voxbody@gmail.com for availability. QTBIPOC to the front!
Call for submissions:
We want anything that celebrates your queer existence: videos, photos, poetry, spoken word recordings, love letters, regular letters. Think of it like home movies or a scrapbook that you would enjoy with your family, except this is your chosen family so you can send us anything, including kinky and other risqué content. Whether it’s a euphoric self-portrait, a letter to your younger self, or a video of your favorite blood play scene, we want it!
We are accepting submissions now through September 9. Please send them to tangledupingray@gmail.com. You don’t have to be able to attend the actual event to submit content to it.
Submissions to What We Leave Behind will be featured in the video montage and the on-site installation
Content warning: What We Leave Behind is a kink and sex-positive installation, the content of some of the written material, images, and videos may include but are not limited to: discussions of mental health, mental illness, suicide + ideation, blood play, sharps, sex, impact, and other forms of edge play.
Location
4120 Martin Luther King Jr Way Oakland, CA, 94609