Intergeneration: Building Queer Community Across the Ages Through Art

Performance Series :

Potlatch: Sharing a Lifetime of Experience, Stories and Treasures
From Our Tribe

Performed at the San Francisco Public Main Library and the San Francisco LGBT Center during the month of June, 2002.

Performers gave gifts to the audience from a treasure chest of “Stories Spirals” told by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Hidden behind the façade and stereotypes of age, this feast of true stories was shared in honor of those in attendance. Through song and dance and storytelling our personal experiences with aging and agism were revealed, as lived within the queer community. Themes of intergeneration mentoring, the passing on of queer culture from one generation to the next, and the challenges that face both young and old alike were woven into a performance that used multimedia and live performances as the basis for the feast.


An Afternoon at the Blue Elephant Café

Performed June 3, 2001 at the San Francisco Public Main Library hosted by the James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center.

Works included the world premiere of James McColley Eilers’ play Turning, a portion of performance artist Armando Erba’s The Only Distance Between Truth and Paranoia Is Evidence, as well as other short dramas and poetry readings.

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