Queer Wellness Symposium
A community event centering queer health & wellness
Saturday, July 15, 2023
12 - 7:30 pm PST
In-Person at Harvey Milk Center for the Arts
50 Scott Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
About the Event
Presented by Diamond Wave, Rosen Creative House, Harvey Milk Center for the Arts and Queer LifeSpace
Join us on Saturday, July 15 for a day centering LGBTQIA2S+ mental health and wellness at the Queer Wellness Symposium! This in-person event will take place at Harvey Milk Center for the Arts at 50 Scott Street (adjacent to Duboce Park) in San Francisco.
Our symposium aims to create a safe and inclusive space for LGBTQIA2S+ communities to explore various aspects of mental health and wellness. Discover new ways to enhance your overall wellness through interactive workshops, informative talks, and community resources.
Featuring:
Harm Reduction workshop with Charles Hawthorne (12 PM)
In the Face of Fear workshop with Rawiyah Tariq (1 PM) Limited space, please RSVP
Queer Affirming Therapy panel with Queer LifeSpace clinicians (4 PM)
Music from DJ Dreams & DJ Rapture
Performances (3:30 PM) by Pisse Sissy, and Vin Seaman + Zackary Forcum
Resource tables from Adaptogens/QUEST, Mukunda Studio, Queer LifeSpace, Diamond Wave & more!
Wellness practitioners
Refreshing mocktails by It’s Simple SF
Food
While you're at the center, be sure to check out the Harvey Milk Photo Center gallery downstairs for the Art + Pride 2023: soft defiance exhibition featuring visual art from 34 artists exploring softness and queer mental health.
Accessibility: Harvey Milk Center for the Arts (HMCA) is ADA compliant with wheelchair accessible, all-gender restrooms and an elevator between the downstairs gallery as well as the upstairs workshop space. Workshops will take place in a well ventilated dance studio with open windows and an air filter. Masks encouraged! Please contact kiana@diamond-wave.org for additional needs or requests.
Design by Effemy Xitllali.
This event is supported by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation and San Francisco Arts Commission.
About the Artist
Vin, a white, nonbinary person, sits in front of a white wall and stares at the camera. They are wearing a shoulder length curly blond wig with a purple bow, drag makeup, and a black and teal harness.
Vin Seaman (they/them) is a San Francisco-based artist whose interdisciplinary practice explores queer identity and drag culture. Their videos exploring queer history, symbolism and intersectionality were presented on SalesForce Tower in June 2021 in collaboration with Jim Campbell’s Studio. Their work has also been presented at The Stud, Brava, CounterPulse, YBCA, Frameline, the Tank NYC, the Austin International Drag Festival, SATTELITE ART SHOW Miami, the National Queer Arts Festival, Stockholm’s Stolt Scenkonst, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Yale School of the Arts. They were an inaugural Association for Performing Arts Professionals Leadership Fellow, and received the 2017 Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader Award and the 2019 Theatre Bay Area Legacy Award. As director for Diamond Wave, they are part of the leadership team of the Artists Adaptability Circles (a new, collaborative seed funding and leadership development program) and lead the THEYFRIEND nonbinary performance festival as well as the soft defiance queer mental health and wellness initiative.
To Participate
This event is free with registration, but tax-deductible donations are gladly accepted!