HIGHWAYS’ QUEER EXCHANGE & SAN FRANCISCO LGBTQ ARTISTS

December 1, 2008 – 6pm

Fringes-Margins-Borders

San Diego Premiere

Thursday – Saturday, March 12 – 14 @ 8pm
Admission: Pay-What-You-Can

Performers: DEADLEE, Alison De La Cruz, Ian McKinnon

Using poetry, music, monologue, hip/hop, dance, and storytelling, Fringes-Margins-Borders includes six compelling autobiographical works that examine lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender contemporary life in California. Our state is one of the world’s leading battlegrounds of change and conflict, and these works artfully articulate our evolving cultural paradigm.

DEADLEE has attracted press with his groundbreaking, genre-screwing approach, including cover stories in Gay City News and Choice magazines and the New York Daily News, Rolling Stone, Wired Magazine, The Advocate, L.A. Weekly, and Variety. He has appeared on the Tyra Banks Show and the Howard Stern radio show. He was one of 18 gay hip hop artists featured in the landmark documentary film “Pick up the Mic”. He has written and performed Tres Leches and LA Weekly’s Pick Of the Week – Doomed Angels.

Alison De La Cruz is a multi-disciplinary cultural worker and artist. Her work ranges from solo theatrical pieces to documentary film narration to community based cultural organizing and productions.

Ian McKinnon is a Gay centered performance artist who has been creating/ curating gay men’s shows in LA for six years. He was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award, for his piece SPANKED! which toured to the NYC Fringe Festival and The New Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. He is also the creator and director of the glitter-rock-musical collective The Discount Cruise to Hell.

Queer Exchange is a National Performance Network Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Highways Performance Space in partnership with Sushi Performance & Visual Art, and the National Performance Network. Major contributors of the National Performance Network are Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org.

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Welcome to SUSHI Performance and Visual Art

September 28, 2009 – 11am

Special Price for our Electronic Friends:  Tickets to the March 12th Nepotism and Other Character Flaws screenings are two-for-one, or $7.50/general public and $5.00/members and students.  Email boxoffice@sushiart.org with your reservation, or call 619-235-8466 directly to purchase.

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RENEW NOW, OR BECOME A NEW SUPPORTING MEMBER TODAY!

For 30 years, SUSHI Performance and Visual Art has been San Diego’s premier multi-disciplinary presenting organization cultivating and presenting alternative and diverse voices in the contemporary arts.  Committed to providing artists and audiences with a laboratory where creative exploration, community engagement and new ideas flourish!

As we usher in a new decade, SUSHI and its fans have much to celebrate!  SUSHI encourages you to consider BECOMING A MEMBER, MAKING A TAX-DEDUCTIBLE CONTRIBUTION — OR BOTH!   We are celebrating with an aggressive goal designed to KEEP SUSHI MOVING FORWARD!


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Currently on display in the SUSHI GALLERY

FAMILY MATTERS

March 4 – April 24, 2010 | Hosted Exhibition Reception: March 5, 6-9 PM — Exhibition introduction by curator Brian Goeltzenleuchter at 7 pm


Gallery Hours for FAMILY MATTERS Wednesday – Friday 1 – 6pm

Family Matters introduces Sushi’s audience to a group of artists who reflect on the esoteric legacies of the avant-garde through work that is formally- if paradoxically – influenced by popular entertainment.

A visual art exhibit interspersed with performances, lectures and film.

Featuring San Diego based new media artist Lisa Hutton making dada nonsense poems the subject of her multimedia animations. Andrew Kaufman plays the role of artist-as-amateur-magician in his Kiss series, which pays homage to the lineage of sculptors, from Constantin Brancusi to Felix Gonzalez-Torres, who have made work based on the subject of the kiss. The Hague-based artist Oscar Prinsen takes on the persona of a self-help guru who erects playground sculpture (for adults) that comically institutionalizes many of the themes of early performance art. Iowa based artist, Donna Stack embraces the feminist legacy of using soft, gendered materials in a series of profanity-laden, handstiched welcome mats that would make Martha Stewart blush. The two-piece Canadian band The Cedar Tavern Singers compose pop songs about such avant-trivia as the Futurist Manifesto and Robert Smithson’s iconic earthwork, Spiral Jetty.

This highly anticipated multi-media, multi-genre art exhibit will prove to be a memorable, and NOT-TO-BE-MISSED  month+ long art experience.

Click HERE to read the full FAMILY MATTERS press release.

Family Matters graphic (c) Nick Liefhebber.  Learn more about him here.

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Red Ball Invitation

June 3, 2009 – 3pm

You are invited to the resurrection of SUSHI's fantastical, mystical, playful, musical, and artful Red Ball. Saturday June 13th starting 7pm, enter a world of illusion, acrobatics, art, and steam punk revelry at SUSHI's new home, 390 Eleventh Ave, San Diego in the East Village.

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