Archive for May 4th, 2009

Slideluck Potshow This Friday

Creative submissions have been extended until midnight tonight for Friday’s Slideluck Potshow, a collaborative artistic slideshow presentation and chance for food, drink and conversation sharing at the SOMA photography center LeftSpace. Area and international creators alike present thought-provoking creative work around a theme. As this month’s theme is “nourishment,” participants are encouraged to bring a dish to pass (suggestions include seven-layer dip, lobster ravioli, barbecue tofu, or Meyer lemon bars—it’s a foodie group, after all). Photographer Michael Jang will serve as the guest curator for the event, which is a collaboration with the community and food movement organization Eat-Ins.

New York transplant Miki Johnson had been looking for a vibrant arts and photography community when she moved to San Francisco last year. She started working with Slideluck Potshow founder Casey Kelbaugh on putting together local events. “They were always so much fun — interesting people, good food, great art — so when he mentioned doing a slideshow in San Francisco, I was eager to help,” she said. “It’s been a great way for me to connect with art communities in the Bay Area and, I hope, will help them to connect with each other.”

City of Borders at SF International Film Festival

After screening at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year, the documentary film “City of Borders” about the patrons of Jerusalem’s lone gay bar has made its way to the festival currently running in the City by the Bay. Director Yun Suh tells the story of Sa’ar, the city’s first openly gay public official and owner of Shushan, the dynamic underground sanctuary where Palestinians and Israelis gather for entertainment and community.

Simone Nelson, the film’s co-producer and the president of Bay Area Women in Film in Television, explains, “We in the Bay Area (and the U.S.) sometimes live in a bubble and cannot imagine that there’s a place where there is only one location for gay people to meet openly. The participants in the film shared their stories at their own personal risk to help remind us that tolerance, peaceful existence and acceptance in our homes and cities should be basic human rights for all of us.”

[Reposted from JoshSpear.]