bi-licious performance + panel
Saturday, June 7, 2008: 7PM | The LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco
Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/34241
Featuring
(in alphabetical order)
Mary Bradford is a psychologist in private practice in Berkeley. She is on the faculty of The Women's Therapy Center in El Cerrito and The Pacific Center in Berkeley. She has conducted research and published articles on bisexual identity and has spoken on sexual and gender identity at national professional conferences, public schools, graduate clinical psychology programs, PFLAG meetings, and various public and private organizations. Her interest in bisexuality stems from her own experience developing her identity as a bisexual woman, her commitment to issues of social justice, and her work with clients who struggle with sexism, racism, and homophobia. Contact Mary at mbradfordx@aol.com.
Liz Green is an award-winning playwright and her work was produced at the San Francisco Fringe Festival in 2003. She has been writing and performing for slam since 2002. In 2004 she became the San Francisco Co-Grand Slam Champion. She was on Team Berkeley 2005, ranked 7th in the nation. She has been featured consistently across the Bay Area in slams and open mics and performed at three theater festivals with the ensemble theater project Identified Queer Objects as a writer/performer. She is a graduate of Mills College’s MFA program in Creative Writing and currently teaches English at Diablo Valley College. Contact Liz at elgreen79@yahoo.com.
Nicki Koethner is a multi-media artist, using visual arts, clay, mask-making, storytelling and movement, photography, film and poetry. Nicki loves to create community through art. She was born and raised in Germany, lived in New York for 9 years and now lives in Berkeley. Nicki has been practicing Authentic Movement and Bodytales for the last 2 years. She is in Private Practice as an Expressive Arts Therapist and faciliates expressive arts workshops for the California Correctional System and for a Recovery Program. Contact Nicki at achnedieda@yahoo.com.
Nicole Kristal graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Oregon where she first learned that organizing bisexuals was similar to herding cats. Since then she has written for Newsweek, Premiere magazine, The Hollywood Reporter and Back Stage West newspaper. In 2003, she decided to pursue her career as a singer-songwriter full-time performing her tunes at clubs across Los Angeles and at the North American Bisexual conference in 2004. She is currently writing for a weekly newspaper in Los Angeles and is in the process of recording her next album. Contact Nicole at nicole_kristal@yahoo.com.
Nick Leonard has performed his standup comedy around the US and the UK and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. He's performed excerpts from his solo show "I'm From Queens" at the Off Market Solo Festival and the Marsh Theatre. He performs in several sketch and improv comedy groups in SF. His cartoons can be seen in the anthologies "Best Of Boy Trouble" volumes 1 and 2 He currently produces Qcomedy Showcase, SF's long running queer and queer friendly comedy show. Please stalk him at: www.nickleonard.net or www.qcomedy.com.
Scott Moresi is a bisexual activist, therapist and researcher who lives in Oakland. In August 2005, Scott was featured on CBS “Live at 5” with Hank Plante to address a controversial New York Times article on bisexuality. Scott has also addressed the subject of bisexuality with dating site Match.com. His pamphlet “On Identifying Bisexually” has been published for use in college counseling centers across the USA. He is also the founder of “Zero Target”, one of the East Bay’s first ever LGBT Martial Arts seminar series. Contact Scott at smoresi1220@yahoo.com.
Khalil Sullivan was born in Maryland but after a 4-year detour at Princeton University and a 2-year apprenticeship on the tough streets of New York, now calls Berkeley, CA his home. He spends his time juggling between creative endeavors and UC Berkeley's doctoral program in English literature. Having written a short operetta and composed original music for countless drama productions, he now records concept albums and the occassional song for weddings. To find out more about Khalil visit www.khalilsullivan.com, www.myspace.com/khalilsullivan, www.youtube.com/khalilsullivan, or email khalil.sulivan@gmail.com.
Mike Szymanski has been a bi activist since the early 1980s when he was a gay writer who came out as bi in a cover story and then went on the Donahue Show to talk about it. He has written for E! Online, Knight-Ridder Tribune, Atlanta Constitution, Entertainment Weekly, US, and many national magazines and now writes for the Los Angeles Times, Science Fiction Weekly, WordMag, and Hollywood.com. Mike has also written popular columns on PlanetOut.com, BiFocus.com, BiCafe.com, and Cybersocket. com. He was previously media coordinator for BiNet USA, and now teaches journalism at UCLA. Contact Mike at MikeSzy@aol.com.