Filmmaker and Guest Curator, Tajianna Okechukwu, presents a series of queer short films from radical Queer Black Bay Area filmmakers that you don’t want to miss. Join us for an evening of innovative short films followed by a post screening talk with the filmmakers.

Featuring filmmakers

• Jay Gash

• KeAndre Murray

• Alba Roland Mejia 

Tickets available now HERE

Calling all baby gays! If you were born after 1995 and have never seen this film you're in for a special sapphic treat. The film is also perfect for anyone who has a soft spot for clingy circus performers or for anyone who ever had a crush on a repressed catholic school teacher. There will be a group discussion afterwards and some fun raffle prizes for passionate audience members. Free Admission - Register Online Here

Join producer/director, YASMIN MAWAZ-KHAN, as we celebrate the latest progress on the film. Ace in the Hole explores how a quirky junkyard owner’s life transforms as he helps San Francisco artists and makers achieve their dreams.

Check out some sneak peek scenes from the film, followed by a brief Q&A with the director, and a chance to meet some of the artists that frequented Ace Junkyard!

• Rebecca Anders sharing models and images of her mythical monster sculptures

• Karen Cusolito sharing images of her larger than life figurative sculptures

• Liam McNamara sharing Kristie's Flyer, a steampunk vehicle 

• Kal Spelletich sharing his laser beats Machine that YOU can operate

• And a few surprise guests…!

Tickets Available HERE

Find out more about the film at : https://www.aceintheholefilm.com/

YASMIN MAWAZ-KHAN

A producer of national and industrial commercials, short documentaries, experimental films, music and promotional videos. She has shot and edited special news packages for the Bay Area News Group, Link TV and Pacific News Service. Her clients include Apple Computers, Hewlett-Packard, Genentech, Ford, Levi's and Gap. She has also created and installed interactive video art and sculptures in galleries and festivals across the world, whether solo or in collaboration with the Flaming Lotus Girls. She is inspired by the process of creation, collaborating with people and seeing a project from concept to completion. Her influences include her diverse background, the community she lives in and her passion for exploring new concepts and methods of representation and interactivity.

On this Winter Evening, we lean into the themes of release and surrender while making room for what sustains and nourishes us.

In an awe inspiring interweaving of Hatha Yoga, live music, chanting, breath work and meditation lead by Wataya Roberson and Phoenix Song - we will open our hearts and allow our spirits to soar as the nights grow longer and darker and we make our journey inward.

Join together in safe space. Rooted in community healing, loving support and connection.

This workshop is for those of any experience level.

Wear comfortable clothes. Please bring a blanket (or warm clothes) and a yoga mat.

Following this glorious sound and movement experience we invite you to connect with community over snacks and refreshments.

Tickets available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/winter-yoga-sound-healing-tickets-770600646277?aff=oddtdtcreator

The Ancient Myths... Books of scripture... Oral traditions... Superhero origin stories... Family history... Genetic ancestry tests... These are all attempts to answer the fundamentally human questions "Where did I come from?" and "Where do I fit in the grand scheme of things?"

Creation myths reveal what we understand about the world around us and our place within it. As queers, so many of our creation myths are tied to traditions that have purposefully erased us from our origins. This leaves many queers longing to find their place in The Cosmos... Unswallow the Tongue is an opportunity to fix this, both for yourself and for others in our community.

Here's the gist: Jason Wyman and Scott Sessions, awesome queer artists and activists, are facilitating a 3-hour workshop on Nov. 18th to help LGBTQ+ adults and comrades to queer an origin story or creation myth which is meaningful to the writer. Two weeks later, on Nov. 30th, we'll hold a community event where each writer is invited to read their piece aloud to an audience of loved ones and comrades.

We need spaces where we can dig into the myths, sacred texts, and origin stories that create(d) who we are and remake them in our image. Then, we need ways for us to pass on, transmit, and transmute our queered creation myths to our kin near and far, now and into the future. This is how we ensure our existence.

Tickets available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unswallow-the-tongue-a-workshop-to-queer-creation-myths-tickets-734223471167

Join us every Friday for Golden Hour: A queer filmmaker mixer and social at Alchemy Film Foundation.

We will be holding these end of week gatherings every Friday from 5-8pm as a way to celebrate queer voices in cinema and build community with in indie filmmaking in the Bay Area.

Folks in all areas of film are invited including allies, directors, screenwriters, crew, actors, musicians, artists, activists, producers, investors, editors and animators. Whethere you have been in the filmmaking community for decades or are new the medium, all are welcome.

Alchemy Film Foundation is located at 465 S. Van Ness Ave SF, CA. We look forward to seeing you there. Register for this free weekly event HERE

Looking to add a bit of discipline to your writing schedule? Then join us for an hour of dedicated writing every Friday at 10:00 am at Alchemy Film Foundation. Connect with other screen writers and find community to support you as you dive deeper into your screenplay. Every week we will have a writing prompt to spark your imagination and after an hour of writing we will discuss our work, our process and our challenges as we imagine new queer narratives into being. Registration for this free screenwriting lab HERE

Tis the season to be merry and gay! Come on over to Alchemy Film Foundation for our Queer Holiday Artist Market. Join us for music, performances, cookie baking contest, tarot readings, queer art, magazines, books and so much more.

Looking for a hub of creative energy to work on your next novel, memoir, or screenplay? Need big open walls to card your next film production or open space to rehearse a new theater piece, performance or dance piece? We invite you to come experiment and play on Thursdays 11pm - 2pm and Fridays 12 - 8pm.

As the days grow darker, our thoughts turn to the big questions: Where did we come from? Where do we fit within the cosmos? Where do we want to go?

Creation myths reveal what we understand about the world around us and our place within it. As queers, so many of our creation myths are tied to traditions that have purposefully erased us from our origins. This leaves many longing to find their place in The Cosmos... Unswallow the Tongue provides an opportunity to find yourself amidst a queer creation.

Here's the gist: Jason Wyman and Scott Sessions, awesome queer artists and activists, are hosting a reading of creation myths! Don your coziest top, grab a warm cup of brew, and pull up next to the proverbial fire to witness the unveiling of several creation stories read aloud.

Anyone may bring a reading to share! All types of origin stories/creation myths are welcome to be shared, whether original or not. All genres welcome (poetry, prose, historical, etc). We ask that readings last 1-8 minutes so there's time for everyone to share.

(If you're interested in creating and sharing your own written piece, you're invited to the related workshop coming this January! Details and registration are forthcoming here: Unswallow the Tongue workshop)

What you can expect at the reading:

• Several creation stories read aloud by sweet souls!

• Comfy snacks and drinks!

• A room full of queers and queer-loving friends!

• An opportunity to ponder and discuss big questions with others who care as deeply as you do <3

We all need spaces where we can dig into the myths, sacred texts, and origin stories that create(d) who we are and remake them in our image. Then, we need ways for us to pass on, transmit, and transmute our queered creation myths to our kin near and far, now and into the future. This is how we ensure our existence.

Tickets Available at :https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unswallow-the-tongue-a-reading-of-queer-creation-myths-tickets-741704647567

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Queerly Complex’s Jason Wyman and Queer Bedtime Stories’ Scott Sessions know how to hold intimate and tender spaces for queers and comrades to gather, talk story, and create. Both have curated literary series for queer, non-binary, and trans kin and comrades in-person and online with an eye towards inviting anyone who is called to share and contribute. And both deeply explore queer histories, the Cosmic Mysteries, and the myths and stories that form our existence.

In a first time collaboration, Jason and Scott are joining forces to produce and host a two-part event series that bring together our intersecting communities to co-create and share queered creation myths.

Won't you join us?

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The Arbor is an event and co-working space for the queer artist and filmmaking community. This Mission-based art space was home to the iconic queer feminist organization - Femina Potens - from 2002 - 2007 - hosting nearly 200 visual and performance art events during that time. The Arbor is now the home to the queer multi-media film focused non-profit organization, Alchemy Film Foundation

Alchemy Film Foundation is a nonprofit organization and multi-media art space dedicated to the advancement, education and representation of queer arts with an emphasis on film, video art and immersive cinematic experiences.

We regularly explore the intersections between photography, performance art, and experimental video works and how non-traditional visual storytelling can create a social, emotional and global impact and transformation.

We support the creation of fiction and non-fiction queer and transgender narratives in film and media arts through queer cinema salons, panels, workshops, community building, and financially supporting the creation of queer screenwriting and filmmaking.

Along with the building of community and supporting the work of queer cinema and media arts, Alchemy Film Foundation hosts monthly programming at our screening room, gallery, and performance space located in San Francisco's Mission District at 465 S. Van Ness Ave. San Francisco CA. www.AlchemyFilmFoundation.org