September 11th 2011 6-10 pm
Eye Zen Art and THEOFFCENTER present
Buffet Flats, Queering Slow Food Series- Harvest Moon--SHINE ON! The Tenderloin National Forest and The Luggage Store Annex ART OPENING:
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, 5-8 PM (Runs Sept. 8th -11th)
DINNER PERFORMANCE SALON- ONE NIGHT ONLY: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11TH, 6-10 PM http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/195839 September™s full moon is known as the Harvest Moon, which occurs closest to the Autumn Equinox. At the peak of harvest, farmers can work late into the night by the light of the Harvest Moon.
Join us under a moonlit garden on Sunday, September 11th, 2011 at
The Tenderloin National Forest and The Luggage Store Gallery Annex, an oasis of unprecedented urban beauty in the Tenderloin, San Francisco. We are cooking what we grow, sewing what is torn, reaping what we know and harvesting that knowledge with a celebratory dinner-salon of fresh food and wisdom from our local farms and gardens, featuring a stellar line up of artists and performers. Our food concept this time is to feast on the family recipes of our community with crock-pots of fabulicious meals with food harvested locally. The HARVEST MOON Features: Your Hosts- Seth Eisen is Jean Malin-The Holy Ghost of the 1920s Pansy Craze and m.a. brooks is Jean LaRue, 1940s famed female impersonator from Oakland ALSO FEATURING: Juba Kalamka (Performance) K.M. Soehnlein (Spoken word/storytelling) Jaime Cortez - (Spoken word/storytelling) Screamy-Marilyn Mc Neal and Carmen White “Live music with homemade Instruments. Emily Butterfly “ (Performance with puppetry and music) Margit Galanter & Niki Ford “(Interdisciplinary/interactive installation) THEOFFCENTER | Tel. 415.504.2432 | Email: info@theoffcenter.org And a few surprise guests¦. ECO EXPERTS Markos Major (Queer Urban Farmer) Joe Cannon (Ecologist) Price Sheppy (Astronomer, Astrologist, Faerie Ritualist) FOODIES Lisaruth Elliott/ Lovin™ from the Oven will be baking and demonstrating a œno knead fresh, home-baked, seed-studded, walnut bread available to take home. Exotic mini-meals and secret recipes by crock-pot queers! Fresh, piping-hot bread baked in the hood! VISUAL ARTISTS David Gremard Romero Honey McMoney Megan Wilson Eliza Barrios SEE: http://adddance.tumblr.com