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May 2012
Spring Cleaning? Donate your unwanted clothes, furniture and working household supplies to Community Thrift in the Mission. Specify Magnet as a beneficiary when you drop off your goods and we receive a portion of each sale. It's an easy way to give to Magnet!
This month we feature new works by local artist Matthew Hines. His consistent use of collage from discarded items found on the streets of San Francisco serves as both a love letter to the magic of the City, and a cautionary tale of its shortcomings. The reception is this Friday May 4th from 8:00 - 10:00pm.
A new event we're hosting this month is "Emerging from Anger: A community discussion" with Nick Venegoni, MA. In this interactive group, participants will learn how to harness the power and wisdom of anger, ways the queer community experiences anger, and how to control these powerful emotions in a less harmful way. RSVP to this free event here!
Our monthly dance party will not occur this month but will be back in June so don't fret. Our regular open mic is still on, though.
Finally, we end the month with a special San Francisco book launch event featuring Jeffrey Sharlach's debut novel, "Running in Bed". The official launch on May 22 will be a talk, discussion and reception featuring the author. The follow week, the Magnet Book Club will host an informal discussion among its members. Two literary events not to be missed.
| May 4, 2012 |
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 Montly Art Opening feat. Matthew Hines
8:00 - 10:00pm
Join us for our monthly art opening featuring Matthew Hines' newest body of work, Strange Fruit. Reception begins at 8pm and the show runs through May.
Artist Statement
In Strange Fruit, Matt Hines' work uses deconstructed modern mythologies to convey the wonder and horror of life in the twenty first century. Culling imagery from fairy tales, comic books, the fashion industry, and the cult of celebrity, he creates new narratives in works using "low brow" techniques cultivated from a childhood spent in the Rust Belt (markers, colored pencil, stickers) and "fine art techniques learned in art school (painting, intaglio, gilding). The consistent use of collage from discarded items found on the streets of San Francisco serves as both a love letter to the magic of the City, and a cautionary tale of its shortcomings.
About the artist
Matthew Hines originally hails from Akron, Ohio. He received his BFA in painting from CCAD IN 1996. He designed the Castro Street Fair posters in 1998 & 2008. His work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and JUXTAPOZ magazine. He has served several stints as a volunteer TA at Creativity Explored since 2008. He has been featured in group exhibits at the Akron Art Museum, Art for AIDS, and 111 Minna Street Gallery. Past solo exhibits include My Trick Pony and Blackbird. He lives, works, and loves in San Francisco.
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| May 8, 2012 |
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 Emerging from Anger: A community discussion
7:00 - 9:00pm
Gather together in a group with other queer men who also wrestle with anger and learn to slow it down, to explore what feelings lay underneath it. The fires of anger can be harmful and destructive to our relationships. This fire can also be transformative, bringing clarity to our experiences and forging a new path to our truth.
Participants will learn how to harness the power and wisdom of anger, ways the queer community experiences anger, and how to control these powerful emotions in a less harmful way.
Facilitated by Nick Venegoni, MA
Psychotherapist & Certified Hypnotherapist
Nick Venegoni is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and Certified Hypnotherapist, offering holistic counseling in the San Francisco Bay Area. His work focuses on using mindfulness with clients struggling with anxiety and anger; specializing in working with men as well as people from the LGBT and queer communities. Find more information about Nick at http://www.holistictherapysf.com/
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| May 16, 2012 |
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 Smack Dab Open Mic feat. Jai Arun Ravine
8:00 - 9:30pm
Our monthly open mic night, Smack Dab, is all ages, all genders, all the time. Hosted by Larry-Bob Roberts and Kirk Read. This month featuring Jai Arun Ravine.
Ravine is a text-based artist working in film/video, movement and performance. Most recently they are the author of a book of experimental poetics, แล้ว AND THEN ENTWINE (Tinfish Press, 2011), the creator of a film project on Thai and Thai American trans-masculinities, TOM/TRANS/THAI (2011), and the creator of a multi-media performance on identity tourism, THE PACKAGE TOUR (2011), which was staged at Subterranean Arthouse (Berkeley) and the African American Art & Culture Complex (San Francisco). A recipient of fellowships from ComPeung, Djerassi and Kundiman, Jai is also a staff writer for Lantern Review. For more information on projects, events and publications, please visit jaiarunravine.wordpress.com.
If you'd like to perform at the open mic, please come beginning at 7:30pm and bring five minutes of whatever you want to share. Musicians: one song. Prose writers: that's about two and a half double spaced pages of prose. We’re the friendliest open mic you’ll find but we pay attention to time so that nobody accumulates further open mic-related PTSD.
Presented by Army of Lovers, a project of the Queer Cultural Center with support from the San Francisco Arts Commission, Zellerbach Family Foundation, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Horizons Foundation, TheatreBayArea and the California Arts Council
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| May 22, 2012 |
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 "Running in Bed" San Francisco book launch
7:00 - 9:00pm
Join Magnet and author Jeffrey Sharlach for his San Francisco book launch. We will host a reception including a talk by the author about his debut novel.
In what Kirkus calls a “vibrant, accomplished debut,” author Jeffrey Sharlach tells a very personal tale of life and love for a gay man in New York City, coming out in Greenwich Village during the post-Stonewall years and then confronting the early terrifying days of the AIDS crisis.
Order your copy of Running In Bed and help to support Magnet and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Go to the Running in Bed website (www.runninginbed.com), click ORDER DIRECT, and use Promo Code SFAF for a 30% discount off the $14.95 price plus SFAF receives a $5.00 donation for each book purchased.
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| May 29, 2012 |
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Magnet Book Club feat. "Running in Bed"
7:30 - 9:00pm
The week following Sharlach's personal appearance, the monthly Magnet Book Club meets to discuss the novel. Copies can directly ordered online at www.runninginbed.com using the Promo Code "SFAF" for 30% off the $14.95 price. Magnet also receives a $5 donation for each copy purchased.
"Running in Bed" is "the poignant story of finding one's self and finding love at a unique time in history. The tale begins in the late '70's, as a generation experiences the exhilaration of growing personal and sexual freedoms and then weaves through a decade of unimaginable challenges"
The book is also available locally at Books, Inc. on Market St. at a 15% discount.
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