CINEMAROSA & THE QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART
Present a day of LGBT Pride Celebration
2 :00 - 3:00 PM
Traingle Gallery
Join us for an eclectic selection of live performances including: Spoken word artists Robert Orti, Hip Hop & Soul artist Shanté Paradigm (half of the duo BQE), fierce Queer Sri Lankan Tamil American, Marian Yalini Thambynayagam --- accompanied by the carnal sounds of Varuni Tiruchelvam who conjures spirit through her unique blend of poetry, song, and dance, and Rhythm Locura, (pictured) New York's premier LGBT Latin dance group
SCREENING:
3:00 - 5:00 PM
Big Theater, 2nd Floor
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
Dirs. Lisa Ades & Lesli Klainberg
(USA,
2006, 82 min)
The superstars of gay and lesbian cinema shine in this amazing overview of LGBT film history. It's packed with smart interviews and a tremendous array of film clips from the greatest movies of the genre celebrating more than half a century of queer independent filmmaking from Kenneth Anger's pioneering Fireworks (1947) to the smash hit blockbuster Brokeback Mountain. Also starring John Waters, Wilson Cruz, Guinevere Turner, Peter Paige, B. Ruby Rich, Gus Van Sant, and Alan Cumming.
Filmmaker Leslie Klainberg will be in attendance for a panel discussion and a Q&A session with the audience. After the presentations, join us for a cocktail reception and celebration at the museum’s Unisphere Gallery. Everyone is invited.
PARTY CELEBRATION :
5:00 - 6:30 PM
Unisphere Gallery
Join us to Celebrate Pride Month at the Queens Museum of Art with light refreshments, finger food, and the spinning MUSIC FLAVA's from around the world.
BYOM (Bring your own tunes to be played from your ipod or compilation CD). Wear a FABUBOUS outfit ! and you will qualify to win a surprise gift from CINEMAROSA.
CINEMAROSA IS SUPPORTED, IN PART, BY PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, from INDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, and is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the
New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Queens Council on the Arts.