Events
REVOLVE Art and Film Festival Kicks Off August 24th
The 3rd Annual Spectrum Queer Media “REVOLVE, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) and allies, Pride creative Arts and Film Festival” will be held in Oakland from Aug. 24th to Aug. 30th.
REVOLVE 2014 is a week of cinematic and artistic celebration of LGBTQ artists as a precursor to Oakland’s Pride celebration.
Spectrum Queer Media will be presenting award winning LGBTQIA movies each night. The festival takes place in the arts community of downtown Oakland and encompasses exhibition, gallery and theatre venues throughout the city, including Oakland City Hall and ends with the R/EVOLVE Bay Cruise.
“I am An Artivist: Social Activism through Art” is this year’s theme. The festival kicks off with a gala at “Oakland Venue at 420 14th St.
The opening will be hosted by gay funnyman, Grammy nominee Sampson McCormick, and Melanie DeMore a vocal activist. Both have documentaries that will be shown.
Monica Anderson, also known as Kin Folkz, founded Spectrum Queer Media in 2009 to honor and highlight LGBTQ media representations that promote authentic visions, voices and viewpoints.
Each night will bring something new starting on the first night with “Visionaries Won,” a digital exhibit highlighting LGBTQIA artists who are redefining the meaning of self with sound and sight as their conduit.
There will be artwork on display, with several exhibiting artists in attendance to curate their pieces and share their thoughts.
Day 2 will be at Imagine Affairs Art lounge at 408 14th St. with performance and films. Performances will include singer/songwriter, Gina Breedlove dubbed as “the vocal priestess” and local celebrity musician, “Black Berri,” whose music recordings were placed in The Smithsonian Library of music 10 years ago.
Black Berri will be honored along with director/writer/actor Maurice Jamal for activism through film. Jamal’s film credits include, “Dirty laundry,” a 2006 film that he wrote, directed and starred
in alongside actresses Loretta Divine and Jennifer Lewis.
The movie about a gay Black man who comes out to his family and meets a son he might have fathered years prior.
Day 3 will move to Joyce Gordon Gallery, which will feature such artists as “The Literary Masturbator,” a local gay poet and artist Kermit Amenophis.
The Oakland Eastbay Gay men’s chorus will also perform at Joyce Gordon’s Gallery.
For the complete schedule go to www.SpectrumQueerMedia.com
Activism
Oakland Post: Week of July 24 – 30, 2024
The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post: Week of July 24 – 30, 2024
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Activism
Oakland Post: Week of July 17 -23, 2024
The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post: Week of July 17 -23, 2024
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Bay Area
Sunday Afternoon at the Marin County Fair
The theme of the Marin County Fair 2024, which ran from July 3-7, was ‘Make a Splash!’ celebrating one of our most precious natural resources — water — and all things water-related, according to the Marin County news release. “Water is especially relevant and important in Marin County” says the website, “whether we use the water for recreation, conserve it during drought times, have concerns about sea level rise, or to care for the local marine life.”
![A view across the lake to the Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium, the giant ferris wheel, and the global marketplace tents; the ball exhibit and paintings, the Star Wars exhibit, the Drum Heads, Chinese Lion Dancers, and Clave MC. Photo by Godfrey Lee.](https://www.postnewsgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/marin-county-fair-featured-web.jpg)
By Godfrey Lee
The theme of the Marin County Fair 2024, which ran from July 3-7, was ‘Make a Splash!’ celebrating one of our most precious natural resources — water — and all things water-related, according to the Marin County news release.
“Water is especially relevant and important in Marin County” says the website, “whether we use the water for recreation, conserve it during drought times, have concerns about sea level rise, or to care for the local marine life.”
The fair educates and entertains the fair-goers with water-related exhibits and competitive exhibits categories. One exhibit displayed the many personal essays that people wrote and contributed on what water meant to them.
Water was also the dominant theme of much of the fine art, and the categories included “watercolors, sea, surf and sand, water birds, drip paintings, and marine mammals, just to name a few.”
According to the news release, community partners told of “the important role water plays in our local environment, from the source of our precious drinking water on Mount Tamalpais and the Novato Creek Watershed to the rising sea along our coast.”
Water-related activities at the fair taught people about watersheds, water conservation, and more.
Much of the fair was the same as years past with headline concerts and side performances, carnival rides and fireworks every night.
The community food booths were closed, which meant that food and drinks could only be brought from the specialty food vendors scattered around the fairgrounds. For dinner, this writer bought a huge barbeque, foot-long, turkey leg, complete with fries and coleslaw, that I could not completely finish eating.
The farm exhibits also seemed empty and a bit smaller without the chickens, due to the concern about Avian Influenza, which can also infect humans.
On Sunday, July 7, as part of Latin Heritage Day, the Community Stage featured local Latin talent from around the Bay including Raya Nova, Area Agresiva, Zazil Haa, Ballet Folklorico Netzahualcoyotl, and Clave MC.
I watched the last main concert, featuring Los Lonely Boys, and left the fair after the fireworks. I enjoyed the fair and will hope to visit again next year, even if I know it will still be more or less the same as before.
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