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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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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o.o.t.s

May 5, 2009 – 12pm

A Visual Art Exhibition consisting of young artists from Vienna, Vancouver, and Los Angeles

May 9, 2009 – June 9, 2009

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 9, 2009
7pm – 10pm

Participating Artists:

Will Benedict, Robert Billings, Demons, Rachel Detroit, Marlene Haring, Erick Pereira, Nicholas Pittman, Rita Rubas, Lucie Stahl, Pascal Theriault, Alan Zinn, Vickie Zinn

o.o.t.s is part two of a show that first took place in a snow shelter in a backyard in Chicago. This installment features a sculpture, paintings, collage, and sound art pieces, many employing found objects and imagery. The show includes a mid career retrospective by Rachel Pasadena (formerly Rachel Detroit), and new works from master painter Alan Zinn everything from a to z.

o.o.t.s. stands for orphans of the storm, a bunch of friends sharing similar interests in street style visuals. All artists are operating independent from the gallery system, and have always tried to exchange their works for goods, and experiment with new systems of barter. They’re a new pack of artists, kind of like a new litter of kittens, that were raised by witches, ready to put you in a trance with their sight and sound powers.

So come to SUSHI May 9th and please bring a toss away blanket, one plant clipping, one candle, and foreign currency.

You can be late but don’t miss this one!

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