SCHEDULE
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This is how your weekend will look at the conference….
Take a look at our amazing array of WORKSHOPS and PRESENTERS
FRIDAY EVENING :
6:00 pm Registration opens
We’re expecting folks from all over California and the Southwest, so registration will be open for 4 hours. This is your first must-do to get into all the night’s events, so pre-register & get in the fastline.
Meet & Greet: Art Lounge & Vendor booths open. Hang out & enjoy! Meet the artists, tastings and more! Dozens of artisans, fashion designers, and products on sale for your shopping pleasure!
In the Art Lounge … queer artistic visions from fine artists & photographers who celebrate/question/adore butch, stud, trans & genderqueer.
8:30 pm INVINCIBLE: fashion show and kick-off event! A night of sartorial radicality for daggers, dandies, and dapper dudes. Don’t miss this fabulosity! You’re in for a night of hot fashions and butch surprises!! Get here early – you must register first – to get those good seats ….
11 pm FRIDAY NIGHT Afterparties
THE PALMS Friday Night @ The Palms Bar – historic Lesbian Bar in West Hollywood 8572 Santa Monica, West Hollywood 90069 | 21+
FREE ENTRY for Conference attendees with badge. 310/652-6188
THE PUSH LGBTQ Club – Inside RIO RIO Restaurant & Bar 2675 E. Colorado Blvd (cross street San Gabriel Blvd.) Pasadena, Ca 91107 (located off the 210 fwy)
Two amazing DJ’s. Doors open @ 9pm-3am, Cover $10, 21+, Full Bar. 323/810-1054
SATURDAY :
9:00 - 3:00 Registration re-opens
9:00 - 10:15 Workshop Session 1 (five workshops/panels to choose from)
10:30 – 12:00 Workshop Session 2 (five workshops/panels to choose from)
12:00 - 1:15 LUNCH
Lunch Caucuses (12 noon – 1:15)
• Jewish Butches – Art Lounge Patio. Sponsored by Nehirim: GLBT Jewish Culture and Spirituality
• Butch-on-butch: fag bois, stud to stud — Art Room 2
• Women/People of Color: – Room 4
• BDSM Talk: — Room 3
• Butch Survivors – Art Room 1
1:30 - 2:30 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Judith ‘Jack’ Halberstam -
“Pregnant Men, Heteroflexible Women and The End of Gender As We Knew It”
2:45 - 4:15 Workshop Session 3 (five workshops/panels to choose from)
4:30 - 5:45 Workshop Session 4 (five workshops/panels to choose from)
SATURDAY NIGHT :
6:00 – 7:30 pm Dinner time (plan 15-20 minutes for travel/parking time to Swagger)
8:00 – 10 pm SWAGGER: A Nite of Butch Bravado & Stud Service for Those Who Live It and Those Who Love It. Performance event - World Premiere of these artists - like you’ve never seen them before …
Performance at Fairfax Auditorium, 7850 Melrose Ave, LA 90046
Box office opens at 7pm
11:00 BVLA’s official SATURDAY NIGHT after-party LATE NITE SWAGGER w/ Dj Sol@ The Surly Goat, 7929 Santa Monica, West Hollywood 90069 (Near Fairfax )
Swagger Contest @ Midnight (give-aways to the winner)21+ Large Dance Floor | FREE ENTRY for Conference attendees with badge |
SUNDAY :
10:30 – 4:00 Brunch and Plenary with Keynote Speech by Carmen Vaquez.
Plus Awards Ceremonies & Closing with “Butch Revival”: comedy, music & spoken word!! featuring Sandra Valls, Gina of Team Gina & more. Hosted by Angie Evans & kat laukat.
And what about food…?? There are lots of fab nearby restaurants in WeHo for Saturday lunch and dinner – all price levels.
Plus Food Trucks will be on-site for Saturday lunch!
Sunday light brunch included in your Conference registration. And a free Water Refill Station onsite throughout the conference too (don’t forget to bring your own cup or reusable water bottle)
After Party on Saturday nite by Tomboi Swagg
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
J. ‘Jack’ Halberstam is Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. She works in the areas of popular, visual, and queer culture with an emphasis on subcultures. Her book Female Masculinity (1998) made a groundbreaking argument about non-male masculinity. Her most recent book, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (2005), described and theorized queer reconfigurations of time and space in relation to subcultural scenes and the emergence of transgender visibility. This book devotes several chapters to the visual representation of gender ambiguity. Halberstam was also co-author with Del LaGrace Volcano of a photo/essay book, The Drag King Book (1999). She regularly speaks on visual culture and publishes journalism in venues like BITCH Magazine and The Nation.
“What’s Butch to me? It’s the notion, at age three, that you are captain of the rocket ship
“A top-drawer butch” from New York, via heavy-duty activist years in San Francisco, Carmen Vazquez is currently the Coordinator of the LGBT Health and Human Services Unit with the AIDS Institute of the NYS Department of Health.
She says, “Every generation’s expression of female masculinity changes. But butch remains.” Whether fighting to defend her butch identity through the white-led Women’s Movement or learning how to make love with a top femme, Vázquez has been a warrior for LBGTQ rights and health for many years. She was born in Puerto Rico and grew up as a community organizer in Harlem. She was the Founding Director of the Women’s Building in San Francisco, helped found the Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center in San Francisco, and the LGBT Health & Human Services Network. Her essays have been published in several anthologies and she has made scores of keynote presentations including at ‘Creating Change’ (NGLTF). Carmen has been honored for her activism and community intellectual contributions by the City University of New York School of Law with an Honorary Law degree in 2005 and by the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College in Massachusetts who conducted an oral history of Carmen and where her papers are archived.
