THEYFRIEND: Enby Day!
Saturday, July 13, 2024
3–4:30pm
Koret Auditorium, SF Public Library
100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA
Free! No registration required
Host: Vin Seaman
Featuring: Krudas Cubensi, sound bath by transcriptions01 and GG Torres
Get your photo taken, eat some food, and enjoy a discussion and performances!
About the Event
Celebrate International Nonbinary Day (July 14) with Enby Day!, a one-of-a-kind event dedicated to honoring and uplifting nonbinary (enby/enbie) voices. Join Diamond Wave and the THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Performance Festival to dive deep into the heart of nonbinary experiences with an engaging panel and performances. First we’ll enjoy resting between the waveforms, an electro-acoustic grounding sound bath by transcriptions01 and GG Torres before we shift to discuss nonbinary identity with a panel discussion. Then we’ll end with a special live performance from nonbinary Afro-Latin hip hop duo Krudas Cubensi.
This event will also feature nonbinary portrait sessions with photographer Shannon Faulise and free food provided by the Merchants Exchange Club.
Gain invaluable insights, foster connections, and celebrate the rich diversity within our community. Whether you identify as nonbinary, an ally, or simply someone eager to learn, Enby Day! welcomes you to learn more about the nonbinary experience and to connect with nonbinary community.
Join us for an unforgettable celebration of authenticity, inclusivity, and love. Mark your calendars and be part of this groundbreaking event on International Nonbinary Day!
ACCESSIBILITY: The Main Branch of the San Francisco Public Library and the Koret Auditorium are fully ADA accessible. ASL interpretation, captioning and assisted listening devices are also available. To request accommodations, call (415) 557-4557 or contact accessibility@sfpl.org at least 72 hours in advance to help ensure availability.
COVID-19: Masking STRONGLY encouraged, KN95 masks provided at the door.
About the Artists
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Vin Seaman (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist, drag queen (LOL McFiercen) and the director of Diamond Wave. Drawing inspiration from sketch and stand up comedy, queer nightlife, internet aesthetics and their own nonbinary identity, Seaman’s work blends mediums and forms to create dynamic and interactive performances with the potential to shift minds and change hearts. Their work exploring queer identity and drag culture has been presented at The Stud, Brava, Oasis, El Rio, CounterPulse, the de Young, the Salesforce Tower, Frameline, the Tank NYC, the Austin International Drag Festival, SATELLITE ART SHOW Miami, the National Queer Arts Festival, Stockholm’s Stolt Scenkonst, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Yale School of the Arts.
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Shannon Faulise (they/she) is a Paraguayan-American documentary photographer and reporter. Shannon has had their work published in The Oaklandside, Redwood City Pulse, and on KALX. For the remainder of the year, you can find them interning at KQED on the Arts & Culture desk.
Shannon’s reporting interests include culture and identity, music and sports. They received their master’s degree earlier this spring from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Off the clock, Shannon loves concerts, kpop and fresh tereré.
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transcriptions01 is an experimental cellist, composer, multi-instrumentalist and educator situated on Ramaytush Ohlone land (SF). Their compositions are rooted in honoring the essence and spirit of past, present and future Queer ancestors, prioritizing sonic exploration practices towards the decolonizination of Euro-centric structures embedded in youth and adult music education and performance.
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gg torres is a mexican artist born and based on Ohlone Territory. As a sound and lighting artist, she has worked mainly for movement-based theatre works. GG enjoys every opportunity to explore improvisational scores and seeks to compliment whatever poetic dichotomy that is longing to be found. artistically, she is held by tight-knit ancestral relatives, a subjugated and hungry earth, queers that push back, the special orbs above us, shadows, Aretha Franklin, and the mise-en-scène of every living moment. GG is currently serving as the Producing Technical Director at the San Francisco experimental dance venue CounterPulse (FKA 848 Performance Space) . You can also hear GG’s sound works in collaboration with cellist Peekaboo in the sound bath series Resting Between the Waveforms and Coraiñia, an improvisational concert alongside Stephanie Hewett and Tyler Holmes. And most recently, a sound design in collaboration with gizeh muñiz vengal and Ernesto Peart Falcón is Islas Breves (2022) and Auiga (2024), movement based world premieres.
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Internationally recognized as Krudas Cubensi, Odaymar Cuesta (Oct 10th 1973) and Oli Prendes ( Nov 9th 1971) are cubans, Oakland California residents, Queer Trans Nonbinary Afro Latin Hip-Hop pioneers since 1999, fighting for justice for the affected communities they belong, BIPOC, TLGBI+, immigrants and all intersectional beings. Their art has been legendarily recognized as inspirational by having healing impacts, transforming consciousness, redefining concepts, genres, techniques and styles, uplifting pride, sense of humor, spirituality, joy, well-being and resistance. They twist powerful crispy flow, fierce rebel lyrics and sounds to uplift a message that makes their delivery, irresistible. Until today they have been performing, recording, giving concerts, talks, workshops, educating and touring locally, nationally, globally and virtually all around North, Central and South America and Europe at spaces such as Brava Theatre, SXSW. Music Festival, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts, UC Berkeley (Artistic Residency) UCLA, NYU and many more.
All photos by Shannon Faulise
To Attend
Free!
No tickets or reservations required.
THEYFRIEND
Want more THEYFRIEND? Join us this November 13–17 for our annual Nonbinary Performance Festival presented in partnership with San Francisco presenters, nightlife venues, and community organizations as we uplift, center, and celebrate nonbinary identity!
With THEYFRIEND, we’re creating a space of trust and growth for nonbinary artists to connect and present their work. Applications for performers open through July 17!