NONBINARY PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL
The world’s first performance festival uplifting, centering, & celebrating nonbinary identity!
November 13–17 in San Francisco & Oakland
2024 FESTIVAL
Thank you for joining us November 13 - 17, 2024 for five distinct events that reflect a range of nonbinary creativity and expression coinciding with Transgender Awareness Week (Nov 13 - 19)!
Curated by and co-produced by festival advisors Aïma the Dreamer, Gothess Jasmine, Rawiyah Tariq, Rishikesh Tirimulai and Diamond Wave Director Vin Seaman, the 2024 THEYFRIEND festival featured the work of 35 local, national and international nonbinary performers!
THEYFRIEND 2024
NONBINARY PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL
EVENT PHOTOS + VIDEOS!
PHULL PHANTASY
A video showcase of Black, Indigenous and People of Color exploring mysticism & fantasy (virtual)
SPOONS & SPICE
A performance centering neurospicy, disabled, and chronically ill performers
YOU ARE NONBINARY!
An immersive experience of gender magic & world building
LIMITLESS EXPRESSION
A daytime event exploring nonbinary liberation & community through music, art, and vendors
GENDER UPHEAVAL PARTY
A gender reveal parody party with drag, music, and comedy!
THEYFRIEND is supported by Borealis Philanthropy, the California Arts Council and the Zellerbach Family Foundation, and is presented in partnership with 510 Firehouse, Amazing Aeffects, Harvey Milk Center for the Arts, the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District, OASIS, Queer LifeSpace, SOMArts Cultural Center and the Transgender District.
Diamond Wave is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts that is supported by the California Arts Council, Grants for the Arts, Horizons Foundation, and the San Francisco Foundation.
About The Festival
THEYFRIEND is the world’s first performance festival uplifting, centering, and celebrating nonbinary identity!
THEYFRIEND began in 2020 as a virtual artist salon featuring five national nonbinary performing artists. In 2021 we established THEYFRIEND as a festival and, since then, have steadily grown to feature a breadth of Bay Area, CA-based, national and international nonbinary performers at dynamic events in partnership with local queer organizations and arts venues. For more information about past festivals, visit our THEYFRIEND archive.
As the festival continues to grow, we are driven by the same goals: to present quality performance showcases featuring disparate nonbinary artists, and to offer a warm space for nonbinary artists of all gender expressions to find belonging and collaboration.
Rather than expecting nonbinary performers to solely explore what it means to live beyond the binary, THEYFRIEND creates a simultaneously gender-free and gender-full container for gender expansive artists to imagine, play, dream and connect.
THEYFRIEND Artists have included:
Billy Dean Thomas
Dorian Wood
KB Boyce
Cassils
Kanyon Sayers-Roods
Edgar Fabián Frías
Stuart Getty
Evan Spigelman / Mz Aza Metric
Kanyon Coyote-Woman Sayers-Roods
Sharmi Basu
LOTUS BOY
Tyler Holmes
Papi Churro
Vin Seaman
Alder Duan Hurley
The Living Altar
Piss E Sissy
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JanpiStar
Sydney Scott
Humble Hart
Riy Mutakabbir
Criibaby
Rawiyah Tariq
Goddexx
Xtra.dae
TAYLOR ALXNDR
Harddeep Singh
DeVery Bess
Krudas Cubensi
mirrored fatality
Castle Laws of Pleeay
Syd Franz
Gothess Jasmine
Mojo Carter
Ling Ling Super Bloom
SNJV
Hennessy Williams
Jota Mercury
Given Q. Davis
Evan Spigelman
THEYFRIEND Archive
THEYFRIEND began in 2020 as a virtual artist salon featuring five national nonbinary performing artists. In 2021 we established THEYFRIEND as a festival and, since then, have steadily grown to feature a breadth of Bay Area, CA-based, national, and international nonbinary performers at dynamic events in partnership with local queer organizations and arts venues. For more information about past festivals, visit our THEYFRIEND archive.
