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 Contemporary Performance and Visual Art

September 28, 2009 – 11am

Next up in the PERFORMANCE SPACE:

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September 2, 3 and 4:

SUSHI Presents:

BLURRED SUMMER DANCE FESTIVAL

In conjunction with

ART FAIR SAN DIEGO

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September 17 – ONE NIGHT ONLY!!

SUSHI Presents:

MATT WELCH

Brought to you by the

FRESH SOUND SERIES

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September 23 – ONE NIGHT ONLY!!

SUSHI Presents:

International stars of all things Fringe -

DIE ROTEN PUNKTE

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Currently in the SUSHI GALLERY

KALEIDOSCOPE

August 27 – September 24

Gallery hours: Wed – Friday 1-6pm and open during every performance.


RECEPTION celebrating the Artist

September 16   6 – 9pm


In his first solo art exhibit, Isaias Crow explores the juxtaposition of street art and abstract expressionism in sculptural paintings that blend graphic design, graffiti art and community activism. Just as a Kaleidoscope uses shifting prisms of light to form fresh images, in Crow’s work geometric shapes collide into loosely figurative forms.

Using wood instead of canvas and spray paint instead of oil, the human form is made abstract and presented through transparent layers of drips and splatters. Crow’s kaleidoscopic eye brings together brightly colored panels with fluid perspectives. Kaleidoscope compels the viewer to look past the explosion of color and behold the humanity within.

A native of El Paso, Texas, who now calls San Diego home, Crow has a background in street art and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Arts and Animation from the Art Institute of San Diego. By working in close collaboration with architects and designers, he specializes in community and public art projects.

Since 2008 Crow has been a member of The Prizm Process, a collaborative that uses art and culture to increase civic engagement in underserved communities. This summer, The Prizm Process has teamed up with The Bookman, a nonprofit literacy organization in “Books, Murals and Miracles”: multidisciplinary art workshops geared toward San Diego’s youth.

This exhibit is being curated by Nuvia Crisol Ruland, who joined Sushi this summer as an intern.  Please visit her site at www.artecrisol.com.

And a HUGE thank you to our season curator, Brian Goeltzenleuchter, who is a currently featured artist in the highly acclaimed Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego’s exhibit, HERE, NOT THERE.

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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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