FILM AND VIDEO

TRANSLATIONS: Seattle's First Transgender Film Festival

Coinciding with this year's conference, Gender Odyssey and Three Dollar Bill Cinema, producer of the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, host TRANSLATIONS, the first annual Seattle Transgender Film Series. TRANSLATIONS is one of only a handful of transgender film series in the country. The call for entries closed in April and we are busy screening films that will be highlighted for the series. We had a tremendous response from filmmakers around the world and we're certain that the film series will be a great addition to your conference experience. Plan on attending and basking in the wild array of films by, for and about your community!

For details visit the TRANSLATIONS home pageÉ

ARTISTS

Please check out and support these guys on August 25, 2006 at V's in St. Paul, Minn. Check their website for details re: this and future gigs:

Running on Empty

Check out the new new official website for this indie punk band which should soon have photos, mp3s and the like. The band consists of 2 very vocal trannyfag boys, and one super sweet and sympathetic non-trans boy. The lead singer and I playing music together a couple months before starting T 3 years ago. We continued singing together the whole time as our voices changed, even when we sounded like crap, and transposed the songs as our ranges got lower and lower. I don't know of any other ftm bands, so I'm excited and proud about our project.

THEATER / Scripts

STAGES

Also, if you know of any other trans performers, send 'em over! We have a preliminary website up: http://www.wowcafe.org/stages or they can email here at stages@wowcafe.org

ART/MAGAZINES

Call For Work: Deviant Bodies 2

New Exhibition Dates

September 15 -- December 17, 2006

Due to the tremendous success of our Summer 2004 exhibition Deviant Bodies (a 7-person exhibit that explored the margins of contemporary gay male culture and received the Best Art Exhibit of the Year Award from ArtVoice) CEPA Gallery is in the process of organizing a companion exhibition that explores the same themes through the multiple lenses of Transgender and GenderQueer perspectives.

Throughout the course of its 30-year history, CEPA Gallery has proudly presented the work of LGBT artists in its large, theme-based exhibitions, but Deviant Bodies was our first exhibit specifically focused on the gay community. In fact, it was the first significant exhibition of queer visual art in Western New York. In this era of the "positive" gay white male assimilating into contemporary mainstream culture, Deviant Bodies presented an alternative image, one that celebrated diversity and individuality and provided a variety of perspectives that are not typically represented in cultural spaces or gay media.

With Deviant Bodies 2 we are interested in reviewing work that, within the Transgendered and GenderQueer perspectives, explores the margins of gender and representation by speaking to issues and from experiences that are rarely represented. We are interested in artists working in photo-related and real-time media based artwork, installation projects that include video, photo and sound, and projects for CEPA's Public Art Window.

If you would like to have your work considered for Deviant

Bodies 2 please contact lawrence@cepagallery.com or call 716-856-2717

Also, if you know of artists that we should be looking at please forward this call to them. You may also send proposals and work samples (slides, CDs, DVDs and video accepted). Please send your materials ASAP:

To review Deviant Bodies (2004) exhibition go to:

http://www.cepagallery.com/cepa/exhibits/exhibits04/deviant/index.html