Street Joy

Parade • Performance • Protest • Party

Wed June 28th :: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Yelamu :: FREE! :: GAYAF!!

A poetic disruption, a queer joy eruption, dancing to fresh DJ mixes, activated along the route by live performance. Come dance, come watch, come parade through SF. We’ll end with outdoor dance party moment at the playground.

DJ Mixes By KKINGBOO & Madre Guía
Performances by Blaq Hammer x MONSTERA & Clarissa Rivera Dyas & KRIMM
Protest Artwork by Monica Canilao
Produced by Circo Zero

Begins: Soma West Skatepark (1712 Duboce Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103)
Ends: Mission Playground (36 Cunningham Pl, San Francisco, CA)

ACCESS NOTES

In total, we will be walking/marching less than a mile with one stop half way through the route. We will be parading in the street down Valencia and we will have a safety/traffic person helping hold the container. The route is on relatively flat ground without incline and generally smooth pavement. If you want to sit at any of the stops, please bring your own folding/portable chair, we do not have capacity to carry chairs for everyone who may need one. Questions? Email us at info@circozero.org

BIOS

Blaq Hammer is an experimental electronic sound and video project formed in 2020 by American artist Seth Sutton. “I grew up in the suburbs of Memphis. There is a lot of blood in the soil, and somber entities that hang above you. This is the essence of the blues and I have never been able to shake those. I’ve lived in Berlin for some time and have been able to gather more pieces to the puzzle that some folks call oppression. This project is simply a reactionary attack on the colonial minded police state, wherever it may exist on this planet.” Drawing from punk, techno, rap, and industrial styles, Blaq Hammer aims to create momentum in order to break up the algorithmic feedback loops and break down the false narratives that work in favor of the destruction of the so called “lower classes” and “marginalized people”.

Clarissa Rivera Dyas is a movement artist with roots in the Bay Area, Ohlone Land. She centers her artistic practice through the truthfulness of improvisation and the belief that movement is a spiritual practice as a conduit of change. Clarissa’s recent collaborations include Flyaway Productions, Sara Shelton Mann, Jess Curtis/Gravity, and she is a collective member in the BlaQ(ueer) project RUPTURE. She has performed throughout the US in New York, Jacob’s Pillow, Seattle, and internationally in Berlin. Since 2019, she has received residencies and presented work at CounterPulse, The Black Chroeographer’s Festival, The Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency, and Zaccho’s Black Futures Residency.

Kim Ip/KRIMM makes highly physical dances influenced by release floorwork, hip hop, and femme icons of pop culture. Her mission is to create dance performances that model alternative experiences for Asian Queer Femmes and open the possibilities of what Asian-ness looks like in America.

KKINGBOO is an imaginative sound curator and community builder who brings joy through niche experiences and event production. Xhe is an animated DJ with a playful approach, feral perspective, and  creatively aligned to abolitionists. With a clear purpose, KKINGBOO is deeply invested in creative consulting and actively seeks to collaborate with independent thinkers and progressive leaders in various realms of creativity, entertainment, and liberation.

Madre Guía is the DJ moniker of Stephanie Hewett, an interdisciplinary artist from Lenape land/The Bronx, New York currently based in Huichin-Ohlone land/Oakland, CA. She works with movement and dance music production to create rhythms rooted in the Afro-Caribbean diasporic experience that offer a somatic roadmap towards healing. Her work celebrates and uplifts Black Queer innovation in dance music while also challenging the oppressive systems that are inherently antithetical to Black liberation. She is a member of the BlaQ(ueer) collective RUPTURE, has toured and performed nationally and internationally as both a dancer and DJ, and most recently premiered (E)cho (Q)ueue at The Lab in San Francisco, a new multimedia work that reinforces techno music as an inherently Black American invention.

Monica Canilao is a Bay Area native with a deep investment in home, community, and the passage of time. These recurring themes are interwoven into her daily life and throughout her art practice. Fascinated with the imprint people leave behind, she utilizes recycled materials in both her art practice and personal life generating a personal and living history. This visual record from salvaged objects and weathered images results in work spanning from massive paper and fabric structures, site-specific installations, murals, meticulous paintings, mixed media works, jewelry constructions, sculptures, costuming and performance art. Her practice and collaborations create a visual vernacular that resonates beyond verbal and individual differences and weaves her experiences with physical remnants of past lives. www.monicacanilao.com

Monstera https://www.instagram.com/styles__alexander

FUNDING

Street Joy is supported by funding from Grants for the Arts, The California Arts Council, and The Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation.