CultureWatch: 'Making Scenes' at the de Young
(Photo by Tom Foremski.)
Friday evening April 27 at the de Young in Golden Gate Park: Note - All public programs are free and do not require a ticket.
2012 Artist Fellow Monique Jenkinson (aka Fauxnique) celebrates Jean Paul Gaultier: From Sidewalk to Catwalk with Making Scenes.
Jenkinson brings the nightclub to the museum, curating a Friday Night at the de Young packed with the creative energy of San Francisco's club scenes.
MUSEUM LOBBY5:45 pm - 6:45 p.m. Kids get to dress drag queens
Some Thing's 'Project Runtover,' and the de Young's diverse Friday night audience, in which child-led teams embellish outfits for Some Thing's drag luminaries, resulting in a wondrous fashion parade!
KORET AUDITORIUM
8:00 - 8:45PM Sharp! Club Cultures History Lecture Series Part 1
Schooling the Children: It Came From Club Häagen-Dazs
Waiyde Palmer, longtime artist, activist, bartender, and self-proclaimed club-crawler will give a talk on the history of queer club cultures in SF and beyond
WILSEY COURT & PERMANENT GALLERIES
7:00 PM Our People
Collaborating with a group of talented performers, most of whom she knows through the queer club scene, Monique Jenkinson (aka Fauxnique) creates a dance/installation inspired by the work of Jean Paul Gaultier - his icons, fetishes, and light-hearted, humanistic irreverence. Our People explores difference, personal expression, personal history, political engagement, and the possibility of truly coming together on a dance floor.
7:30 - 8:00PM Tim Carr
The vivacious and extremely talented Tim Carr sings a live set of seriously danceable electro-pop.8:00 - 8:45 p.m.Stanley FrankDJ Stanley Frank (Viennetta Discotheque, Daytime Realness, Some Thing) spins an irresistible collection of disco, euro-disco and freestyle to finish the party (or get you started for the next one).