BEHOLD
A Queer Performance Festival

Experience a panoply of radical spiritual/spirited witnessing through song, dance and performance by fiery gospel slangers, hot homo pagans, and much more!

See below for detailed schedule.

Tickets for all performances are $20 general admission and $15 for members/students/seniors for all events unless otherwise noted.  An all-access pass is available for $75. 

Monday, July 26 @ 7:30 pm
QUEER MONDAYS
Un-Curated by Ian MacKinnon. A non-elitist LGBT experimental performance series on the last Monday of every month. It's an ever-changing grab bag of short pieces and happenings that has something for everyone and you never know what you're gonna get! QM is dedicated to providing a consistent venue for the development of new queer work, and is open to all artistic disciplines.  $5 minimum

Friday, July 30 @ 8:30pm
ALEX DAVIS’ Man of the Year
The son of acclaimed actor Brad Davis, is a transman to be reckoned with.  Directed by theater veteran Michael Kearns, Man of the Year incorporates original music and narrative to tell the story of what happens to a family when they realize that living in hiding is no longer an option, and ambitious transitions are needed to lead a revolution on more than one front. (luckyalex.com)

Featuring opening act ANGELICA ROSS.

Saturday, July 31 @ 8:30pm
CHRIS DOGGETT’s Eartha Madre Rises from the Ashes: A Ceremony / A Performance / A Fire
Eartha Madre, a drag queen shamaness, returns to Highways from Hawaii and Peru to share and lead you into the Mysteries of the Jungles and High Mountains of Peru and the wild lava fields of the Big island of Hawaii.  Come ready to release the junk not serving you and call forth your wildest dreams.

Saturday, July 31 @ 11pm - 11am
Templum Somnium: a sleepover / a dream temple
An experiential journey for healing in the ancient Greek tradition.  Bring your sleeping bags or Gucci comforter to stay the night at Highways and we will tell and create stories and call forth dreams from the Goddesses, the Gods, and our departed Brothers and Sisters for healing, inspiration and transformation.  In the morning we will share our dreams and visions and a scrumptious breakfast!

Hosted and lead by Chris Doggett AKA Eartha Madre, a dreamworker and shaman in the New Mexican, Jungian and Peruvian traditions and Jason Thatcher, an energy/bodyworker and Devi extraordinaire!

Sunday, August 1 @ Noon – 4pm
Two-Spirited Spa Day - A Day of Healing, Play, Insights, Unraveling, and Fullness!

An afternoon of self-care and healing featuring treatments with Two-Spirit/LGBT healers and practitioners in the Arts of:

Reflexology
Clay Facial Masques
Intuitive Guidance
Chakra balancing ~ Crystal Healing
Soul Retrieval
Reconnective Healing
Aura Fluffing!
Soul Card Readings
Laser Coaching
Yogic Balancing
Psychic Readings & Wiccan Counseling
Soul Retrieval
And more!!!

...all targeted at reconnecting you with your own twin spirits, owning and integrating your wholeness.

Since ancient times, traditional societies all over the world highly respected, valued, and nurtured people who were born and lived with integrated masculine and feminine energies. Prior to the construction of modern terms such as “gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender”, these people were called by different names in many tribal languages—the winkte of the Lakota, the nadle of the Dine, and so forth—and held crucial roles in their societies. Endowed with the gifts of seeing into the future and communicating intimately with the forces of nature, these people were revered as healers and spiritual leaders.

Curated by Jason Thatcher and Chris Doggett both gifted healers and embodiments of those such as Bette Davis, Liz Trailer and Hindu Goddesses!

15 minute Sessions/Treatments  $10
or three for $25  

Sunday, August 1 @ 7:30pm
Blessed is the Blood: Queer Communion
Curated by RAQUEL GUTIERREZ.  Song, dance + performance by fiery gospel slangers + hot homo pagans, w/ JASPER JAMES, TRE VASQUEZ, SHAKINA NAYFACK, RAFA ESPARZA, DANIEL EDUJIYES CARRERA, MARCUS KUILAND-NAZARIO, QUEEN HOLLINS + more!

Monday, August 2 @ 7–10pm
TIM MILLER GAY MEN'S PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP
For gay men & queer boys to gather together and create community through performance. $20 Benefits Highways.  Registration required. Email: millerworkshop@highwaysperformance.org

In the gallery:
THE FAIROAKS PROJECT:
Photos by Frank Melleno
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 24 @ 7–8.30pm (featuring a musical performance by The Boyfriend)
An exhibition of Polaroid photographs taken by  Melleno during the spring and summer of 1978 at the Fairoaks Hotel, a San Francisco bathhouse.  Melleno’s snapshot aesthetic allows the viewer to wander the halls of bathhouse over 30 years ago and begin to understand the playful, buoyant mood that was shared by the partygoers.