Learn helpful tools and structures to create compelling grant applications, from start to finish at this engaging in-person workshop led by interdisciplinary artist and Diamond Wave Director Vin Seaman.

Unlock the secrets to funding your creative practice in this engaging in-person workshop led by interdisciplinary artist and Diamond Wave Director Vin Seaman.

Find out more about the 2024 THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Performance Festival and our performer application process. This workshop will walk through the application and offer a space to ask questions about the overall festival and our five distinct showcases.

Join artist and grant specialist Vin Seaman for a hands-on workshop about writing successful grant applications.

Unlock the secrets to funding your creative practice in this engaging in-person workshop led by interdisciplinary artist and Diamond Wave Director Vin Seaman.

Join artist and grant specialist Vin Seaman for an in-person, hands-on workshop to learn how to write successful grants for drag.

Join artist and grant specialist Vin Seaman for an in-person, hands-on workshop to learn how to write successful grants for drag.

Join us at Harvey Milk Center for the Arts for soft defiance, a collaboratively-curated visual arts exhibition exploring the intersection between softness & queer mental health. This Art + Pride exhibition, featuring over 30+ Bay Area visual artists, runs from June 17–July 15, 2023.

Join artist and grant specialist Vin Seaman for a virtual hands-on workshop about writing successful grant applications.

Join artist and grant specialist Vin Seaman for a hands-on workshop about finding grant opportunities and writing successful applications.

Interdisciplinary artist Vin Seaman leads an interactive workshop about cycles and rebirth.

Multidisciplinary artist Edgar Fabián Frías will facilitate attendees' connections between identity, community, art, & euphoric queer visionaries

With Kehinde's guidance, attendees will begin to tap into the power of their divine masculine and divine feminine using the sacred Egyptian deities, Isis and Horus, as a point of reference as well as two archetype examples. Through group discussions and activities, participants will peel back the colonial layer of gender and re-tell our stories through the lens of empowerment and balance.

Join digital content producer & curator Gentry McShane for a virtual workshop centering everyone’s favorite internet content, memes! We’ll discuss how to utilize online platforms to center radical gender identities, practice creating content together, and walk through which free apps make the dankest memes.

Queer fantasy roleplaying event exploring queer identity through Dungeons & Dragons with panel, performances and live game play. Register Now!

Drag artist & activist Landa Lakes explores Chickasaw myths and ideas while cooking and discussing gender identities in the kitchen. Register Now!

Join Jae Swear & Kevin Seaman for a no agenda meetup for masculine-of-center queers to connect and discuss queer masculinities. Register Now!

Join artist Nick Ishimaru in this 90-minute creative workshop exploring Noh, Kabuki and Butoh movement in relation to gender expression. Register Now!

Join artist Edgar-Arturo (IG @edgararturoartist) in this workshop about the importance of storytelling as a way to explore masculinities and to break down gender walls. Register Now!

Join your fav fey thaddies Jae Swear & Kevin Seaman for a virtual night of soft tunes and softer masculinities. We’ll be building a playlist together and talking about how the songs reflect our gender expressions. Register Now!

In the final workshop of the 2021 Spring/Summer MASCellaneous series, dancer and performance artist Javier Stell-Frésquez will lead participants through 90-minutes of discussion and movement-based facilitated sharing. Register Now!

Attendees will explore the ways we can (and sometimes already do) wear masculinity! Take a journey through watching drag performances, sharing your own stories, and diving into nurturing discussions where you'll hear from myself, Jota Mercury, regarding my own connection with masculinity and how the world of drag urged me into self acceptance, love, and so much more.

In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to craft personal narratives that are (yo)uniquely yours. Weaving together pop culture case studies, social marketing fundamentals, and narrative psychology techniques, we’ll explore how storytelling can help you define and/redefine your sense of self, masculinity, and the world.

In this interactive workshop, participants will learn about how to apply makeup and see a live demonstration, focusing on why makeup is applied the way it is and how to assess skin type and problem solving techniques for their features.

Come explore what makes your gender YOUR gender in this hour long interactive workshop. It's 60 minutes of listening, playing, writing, and sharing including an overview of the artist’s book “How to They/Them: A Visual Guide to Nonbinary Pronouns and the World of Gender Fluidity,” a guided identity exploration and visualization exercise, writing time and discussion.

In the play Type/Caste, God (in the form of a Nigerian drag queen) says, "Demons are nothing but characters out of the stories we tell ourselves." In this 90-minute interactive workshop we will explore how to craft theatrical narratives that liberate us from the demons of convention and conformity. Theatre artist Rotimi Agbabiaka will present excerpts from his solo shows Type/Caste and MANIFESTO and share techniques for embodying all the characters that reside within us.