Friday June 11 & Saturday June 12; 8:30 pm
Exit Theater Café
156 Eddy Street, SF (betw. Mason & Taylor)
Tickets at the door: $10 – 25 (cash only)
Whether it’s learning and claiming the word Lesbian in defining your desires, coming out to accepting, incredulous, or disparaging parents, or the hilarious trials of finding a girlfriend in Beirut, these true stories will have your attention from start to finish.
The lesbian, bisexual, queer, questioning and transgender writers in Bareed Mista3jil (pronounced Mista-a-jil) remain anonymous, and dedicate the book to ‘all of you with stories that are yet to be told.’ This anonymity emphasizes similarity in tone and topic to our stories internationally and audiences may catch a glimpse of themselves in this Beirut landscape.
From reclaiming the word ‘shazz’, which literally means ‘deviant’, to claiming the right to wear a hijab or the right to an atheistic belief, this book, recently published in Lebanon by a collective (www.bareedmista3jil.com.) is daring and bold. The performance of these stories brings that daring and boldness to life. (Artistic director: Happy/L.A. Hyder)
Funds raised will support Meem’s work in Lebanon.
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/QFest10/Bareed.html
http://www.sffringe.org/now.html#anchor5606
Directions
EXIT Theatre is located in downtown San Francisco at 156 Eddy Street (between Mason & Taylor Streets), one and a half blocks west of the cable car turnaround at Powell and Market Street.
By public transportation take BART, the MUNI underground, or any Muni bus on Market Street and exit at Powell and Market Streets. Walk two blocks West on Eddy Street, which begins at the plaza at Powell and Market, to reach all four EXIT stages at Eddy & Taylor Streets.
Parking: Parking is available at the City owned Ellis O’Farrell Garage, located in the heart of the Union Square district three blocks east of the theaters (maximum $10 after 5pm and on Sundays). You can enter the garage from either Ellis or O’Farrell Streets, between Powell and Stockton. There are also private parking lots adjacent to EXIT Theatre at the corner of Eddy and Taylor Streets and on Eddy between Mason & Taylor, usually offering supervised parking for $15 – $20.
Driving from the East Bay just after reaching San Francisco on the Bay Bridge you take the Fifth Street off ramp (on the left hand side), continue West to Sixth Street and turn North. Continuing north on Sixth Street you cross Market Street onto Taylor Street. Two blocks further north you will be at the corner of Eddy and Taylor, adjacent to all the EXIT stages.
Driving from the South Bay you take either the Sixth Street exit from Highway 280 or the Seventh Street exit from Highway 101, continue north on Sixth Street across Market onto Taylor Street. Two blocks further north you will be at the corner of Eddy and Taylor, adjacent to all the EXIT stages.
Driving from the North Bay you cross the Golden Gate Bridge, entering San Francisco you continue east on Lombard Street and then turn South (right) on Van Ness Avenue. About two miles later you turn East (left) onto Eddy Street continuing until you reach Eddy and Taylor Streets, adjacent to all the EXIT Stages.
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