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Gender Odyssey 2007 Conference and special events preview |
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| Gender Odyssey 2007 Conference and special events preview | |
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Compiled by Rick McKinnon -
SGN Staff Gender Odyssey is a national conference focusing on the lives of transgender and gender variant people. The conference will be held Friday, Aug. 31- Monday, Sept. 3, 2007 at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center, 800 Convention Pl and Pike St, in downtown Seattle. The conference, now in its 5th year, offers a variety of workshops addressing the logistical and practical aspects of living trans lives. The conference will look at issues surrounding identity and discuss the complex challenges faced by trans people in building and sustaining community. Conference organizers hope that these conversations "will offer opportunities for us to challenge ourselves as we recognize and negotiate the impacts of gender, race, age, class, ability, sexuality, and how these, and other aspects of identity, affect our lives and communities." The conference programming will be focused on the needs and interests of Transmen, Genderqueers, FTMs, and other gender-variant people. Gender Odyssey is the only long-standing national conference with a transmasculine emphasis. Gender Odyssey will include more than 60 workshops, town hall meetings, and caucuses; social events, entertainment, receptions and BBQ, with programming for families, partners, and youth; vender booths; Seattle's second annual Transgender film festival "Translations"; a week-long photography exhibit; and a cabaret show at Broadway Performance Hall. The cost for a 3-day full package is $165-$235 (sliding scale); 1-day pass is $80; 2-day pass is $150. The film festival, the photography exhibit and the cabaret show are open to the general public and conference registration is not necessary to attend. The "Translations" film festival will include film shorts and longer features. The films will be screened on at the Seattle LGBT Community Center, 1115 E Pike St, Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave, and at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center, 800 Convention Pl & Pike St. Films will be shown 8/29, 8/31, 9/1 & 9/2. And three film presentations are FREE. For complete schedule information, go to www.transconference.org or www.genderodyssey.org. The "Transfigurations" photography exhibit will be on display at Kaladi Brothers' Coffee, 511 E Pike St, 8/27-9/3. Jana Marcus' award-winning work is a startling and groundbreaking photographic series on the Transgender community, exploring Transsexuals and their notions of masculinity and femininity as they change gender identities. Discovering that gender is both real and illusory, natural and constructed, Marcus' photographs shed light on the concept of gender transformation. The series also explores the importance of the body to gender identity as well as the effects of transformative practices on the body, creating a reality beyond ordinary experience. An artist's reception will be held at Kaladi Brothers Coffee on 8/30 at 7pm. On Friday, 8/31, Gender Odyssey presents Lynnee Breedlove's "One Freak Show" at the Broadway Performance Hall, Broadway & E Pike St, 9pm - one night only. Part Queer, part homohop, part punkrock standup comedy, Breedlove, founder of the dyke punk rock band Tribe 8, author of the novel and screenplay Godspeed, and oft-featured Sisterspit spoken word performer, will delve into feminism, Trans bodies, family, and "community" with the aid of egg beaters, stuffed animals, knives and a few body parts for good measure. The show will be hosted by Seattle's beloved MC/performer/comic Jennifer Jaspar, reprising her Gender Odyssey '04 role as the illustrious and inebriated Maggie. Opening the evening is the 2007 Miss Exotic World's Best Burlesque Troupe, Seattle's own Von Foxies with Ernie von Schmaltz. Tickets: $20. Advance tickets at www.brownpaper tickets.com. Co-sponsored by the GSBA and Gender Odyssey. For complete information on the conference and these special events, visit www.transconference.org; www.genderodyssey.com. Also, in conjunction with Gender Odyssey, Richard Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, will host an evening of "Trans Verse Rhythm & Rhyme by Seattle's FTM Community," on Friday, 8/31, at 8pm, with poetry readings by Cowboy Cass, Davey Ethan Wilkes, Elaina Ellis, Patch Avery, Tara Hardy, and music by Coyote Grace w/Courney Robbins and Michael Connolly. $5-$10. |
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