Missing in the Rainbow: Portrayals of People of Color in LGBTQIA media
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Proposal: A workshop and panel discussion about portrayals of LGBTQIA People of Color in film and media at the Echo Park Film Center, Echo Park, CA.
Time frame: Saturday, January 24, 2015, 8:00 pm-10:00 pm Purpose: To engage the local LGBTQIA community and allies in conversation about the positive and negative portrayals of queer people of color in media. We will explore the spectrum of queerness in various groups and address stereotypes, misrepresentation and under representation of the LGBTQIA in media. We aim to engage the audience with film clips and lead a panel discussion with filmmakers, writers, actors and advocates who identify as LGBTQIA. RSVP BY CLICKING THIS LINK |
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Meet Our Panelists:
Jeff Solomon
Lecturer
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
University of Southern California
Jeff Solomon has an MFA from UC-Irvine and a PhD in English and a Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies from USC, where he is now a Lecturer. Before that, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at St. Olaf College and at the University of Puget Sound. His article on Truman Capote won the Andrew J. Kappel Prize, and his short story “Best Friend” was selected as the lead story in Best Gay Stories 2009. His book on Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein is under contract with the University of Minnesota Press.
Lecturer
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
University of Southern California
Jeff Solomon has an MFA from UC-Irvine and a PhD in English and a Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies from USC, where he is now a Lecturer. Before that, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at St. Olaf College and at the University of Puget Sound. His article on Truman Capote won the Andrew J. Kappel Prize, and his short story “Best Friend” was selected as the lead story in Best Gay Stories 2009. His book on Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein is under contract with the University of Minnesota Press.
Contact:
Email: [email protected]
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Ariel Luna Anais:
Multi-disciplinary Artist
University of Southern California
Ariel Luna Anais is a Video Artist, Painter, and Tattoo Artist living and working in Los Angeles, California. Her B.A. in New Media and Painting was received from the University of Southern California in 2014. In 2012, she was nominated for RAW Visual Artist of the Year in her hometown of San Antonio, Texas. She was also a recipient of the Friends of Fine Arts Endowed Scholarship and the Robert and Laura Fainter Memorial Scholarship. Her two dimensional works can be viewed at Heart of Art Gallery in Los Angeles along with her latest publication, “Drag for Ladies”.
Recent screenings of her Video Works include The Gaye Jolly Show: [Uncensored] Premier, Studio Shed, Los Angeles; and Clitney $pears the Shockumentary: Crawl, Beg, Suffer, The Art Frat House, Los Angeles. Those works and others, such as Something Someone, Jr. and Prims Garcia, can be viewed on her YouTube channel.
Multi-disciplinary Artist
University of Southern California
Ariel Luna Anais is a Video Artist, Painter, and Tattoo Artist living and working in Los Angeles, California. Her B.A. in New Media and Painting was received from the University of Southern California in 2014. In 2012, she was nominated for RAW Visual Artist of the Year in her hometown of San Antonio, Texas. She was also a recipient of the Friends of Fine Arts Endowed Scholarship and the Robert and Laura Fainter Memorial Scholarship. Her two dimensional works can be viewed at Heart of Art Gallery in Los Angeles along with her latest publication, “Drag for Ladies”.
Recent screenings of her Video Works include The Gaye Jolly Show: [Uncensored] Premier, Studio Shed, Los Angeles; and Clitney $pears the Shockumentary: Crawl, Beg, Suffer, The Art Frat House, Los Angeles. Those works and others, such as Something Someone, Jr. and Prims Garcia, can be viewed on her YouTube channel.
Cleo Anderson:
Social Activist
Antioch University Los Angeles
Cleo Anderson is a glitter loving pusher of buttons, a queer woman of color, teaching artist, feminist , poet and general rabble-rouser. She got her start in feminism from a book of feminist nursery rhymes when she was 6, and her start in pop culture analysis from 9 years of homeschooling (translation: 9 years of TV and movie watching). A firm believer in queering the collective consciousness, she strives to inspire people to redesign their idea of normal and step out of their comfort zone. She takes inspiration from Gertrude Stein, Buffy, Angela Davis, Faith Lehane, Audre Lorde and bell hooks. Her words to live by are: “Have no filter, give no fucks”. Someone once described her as “The love child of Angela Davis and Ru-Paul.” She thinks that just about sums it up.
Social Activist
Antioch University Los Angeles
Cleo Anderson is a glitter loving pusher of buttons, a queer woman of color, teaching artist, feminist , poet and general rabble-rouser. She got her start in feminism from a book of feminist nursery rhymes when she was 6, and her start in pop culture analysis from 9 years of homeschooling (translation: 9 years of TV and movie watching). A firm believer in queering the collective consciousness, she strives to inspire people to redesign their idea of normal and step out of their comfort zone. She takes inspiration from Gertrude Stein, Buffy, Angela Davis, Faith Lehane, Audre Lorde and bell hooks. Her words to live by are: “Have no filter, give no fucks”. Someone once described her as “The love child of Angela Davis and Ru-Paul.” She thinks that just about sums it up.
Marlene Beltran
Film Actor and Educator
The California Institute of the Arts
Marlene Beltran Cuauhtin is an Actor, Director, Vocalist and Teaching Artist who believes passionately in the power of the Arts as a tool to inspire personal growth and community empowerment. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Acting from The California Institute of the Arts and is also an alumnus of The LACC Theatre Academy where she co-founded The Midnight Theatre Company. As a multidisciplinary artist, Marlene is honored to be a member of the all women literary and musical group, In Lak Ech which fuses poetry and song in English, Spanish, and Nahuatl with the heartbeat of native drums.
She is also a creator / collaborator / conspirer / clown in the Chicana comedy trio, Las Ramonas... as well as a vocalist with world music band, Cuicani. She can be seen playing the role of “Ixchel” upcoming independent queer feature film Bruising For Besos, written, directed, and starring Adelina Anthony.
Film Actor and Educator
The California Institute of the Arts
Marlene Beltran Cuauhtin is an Actor, Director, Vocalist and Teaching Artist who believes passionately in the power of the Arts as a tool to inspire personal growth and community empowerment. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Acting from The California Institute of the Arts and is also an alumnus of The LACC Theatre Academy where she co-founded The Midnight Theatre Company. As a multidisciplinary artist, Marlene is honored to be a member of the all women literary and musical group, In Lak Ech which fuses poetry and song in English, Spanish, and Nahuatl with the heartbeat of native drums.
She is also a creator / collaborator / conspirer / clown in the Chicana comedy trio, Las Ramonas... as well as a vocalist with world music band, Cuicani. She can be seen playing the role of “Ixchel” upcoming independent queer feature film Bruising For Besos, written, directed, and starring Adelina Anthony.
Libra Washington
Discussion Panel Leader
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles native Libra Washington received her undergraduate Communications degree from Loyola Marymount University, with an emphasis in Television Production.
Libra landed her first entertainment industry job as a floater at Warner Bros. Studios, and soaked up all of the behind-the-scenes knowledge it had to offer. She later shifted her media focus to post-production and began work for a small theatrical subtitling company. Her expertise helped grow the company, which went on to merge with SDI Media, the largest subtitling and dubbing conglomerate in existence at the time. Libra eventually attained the position of Director of the International Translations Department during her time at SDI Media USA and helped the company expand its global services.
Disenfranchised with the “Hollywood Scene”, Libra moved to the East Coast in 2002, eventually settling in Brooklyn, NY working as Senior Project Coordinator for a small technology design firm. During her tenure there, Rave Software Solutions merged with Computer Generated Solutions (CGS) and expanded from a small Wall Street IT Solutions Training Facility to an all-encompassing, International Software Solutions, IT Infrastructure, and IT Call Services Center. CGS eventually relocated to the world-renowned World Financial Center; adjacent to what was “Ground Zero” shortly before Libra’s return to Los Angeles in 2008.
Discussion Panel Leader
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles native Libra Washington received her undergraduate Communications degree from Loyola Marymount University, with an emphasis in Television Production.
Libra landed her first entertainment industry job as a floater at Warner Bros. Studios, and soaked up all of the behind-the-scenes knowledge it had to offer. She later shifted her media focus to post-production and began work for a small theatrical subtitling company. Her expertise helped grow the company, which went on to merge with SDI Media, the largest subtitling and dubbing conglomerate in existence at the time. Libra eventually attained the position of Director of the International Translations Department during her time at SDI Media USA and helped the company expand its global services.
Disenfranchised with the “Hollywood Scene”, Libra moved to the East Coast in 2002, eventually settling in Brooklyn, NY working as Senior Project Coordinator for a small technology design firm. During her tenure there, Rave Software Solutions merged with Computer Generated Solutions (CGS) and expanded from a small Wall Street IT Solutions Training Facility to an all-encompassing, International Software Solutions, IT Infrastructure, and IT Call Services Center. CGS eventually relocated to the world-renowned World Financial Center; adjacent to what was “Ground Zero” shortly before Libra’s return to Los Angeles in 2008.
Echo Park Film Center is a non-profit media arts organization committed to providing equal and affordable community access to film/video resources via five channels: a neighborhood microcinema space, free and nominal cost education programs, a comprehensive film equipment and service retail department, a green-energy mobile cinema & film school, and a touring film festival showcasing local established and emerging filmmakers. We feel it is imperative that more members of marginalized and underserved communities become active, empowered participants in the creation and dissemination of experimental, documentary and narrative film in order to truly reflect the many voices and visions that make up the fabric of contemporary American life. With a special focus on “at risk” neighborhood youth, the Echo Park Film Center programs and services are positive catalysts for opportunities and interactions though the medium of film.
Address: 1200 North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026 Phone: (213) 484-8846
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
Address: 1200 North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026 Phone: (213) 484-8846
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/