The wait is almost over! Get your passes ready and and put the finishing touches on your costumes, 'cause BindleCon begins Thursday, April 12 with our Community Preview! On Friday, we'll have an Opening Night reception immediately following the show. Get your tickets now!

 

The roof is ripped off of the convention center, as interconnected stories emerge from this one day at the geek fest that is BindleCon. From the story of a first-time con-goer, to a showdown of seasoned geek parents, to the exciting life of a convention volunteer, expect for ground of a different kind to be covered, all the while staying true to exploring the life and journey of geeks everywhere.

 

The Geek Show 2:

BindleCon

April 12-28

Thurs - Sat, 8pm

Pay-What-You-Can Community Preview - April 12

Opening Night Reception - Friday, April 13

$15 Student/Senior

$20 General

$25 Support-the-Artists

https://geekshow2.bpt.me

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kularts’ Isugid Pinoy! exhibition (ee-soo-ghid), meaning tell it Pilipino in the Philippine Bisayan language, explores the diverse stories of five anchor organizations of the state and city-wide recognized SOMA Pilipinas – Filipino Cultural Heritage District and reimagines them as graphic storytelling, comic collaborative artworks exhibited at Bindlestiff Studio, 185 6th Street, San Francisco, CA, April 12 – 28, 2018 concurrently during the run of The Geek Show 2: Bindlecon.

 

From the characters traits, costumes, to their heroic storylines, illustrators Don Aguillo and Rafael Salazar’s Isugid is driven by the ideas and narratives of members of the SOMA based businesses and organizations: Arkipelago Books, Bayanihan Community Center, Bindlestiff Studio, South of Market Community Action Network, and West Bay Pilipino Multi-Service Center.

 

On opening night of The Geek Show, Kularts will debut its first Isugid comic book, stories featuring Bindlestiff Studio and Arkipelago Books. Available for purchase at Bindlestiff Studio, April 12, 2018, then while supplies last at Arkipelago Books.

 

 

 

Auditions for Queer as F*ck

April 14-15

 

CALLING ALL ACTORS!
Queer F*ckery returns to Bindlestiff Studio with a brand new collection of short plays featuring Queerdos of all ethnicities and ages. This show will be featured in the upcoming National Queer Arts Festival in June!

 

AUDITIONS will be held Saturday, April 14, 1pm-4pm @ Bindlestiff Studio (185 6th St. SF, CA) and Sunday, April 15, 1pm - 4pm @ Bayanihan Community Center (1010 Mission St., SF, CA).

 

Please prepare at least one 2-minute monologue and be ready to read sides. Can’t make auditions, but wish to get involved? Contact us to set up a web-based audition!

 

Compensation base on ticket sales. We make sure to split all profit equally amongst talent. 

 

Queer F*ckery produces works that highlight the lives of queer folks of color and our allies. Bindlestiff Studio cultivates artists who reflect and celebrate the diverse values, traditions, and histories of Pilipino and Filipino American cultures through bold artistic expression and community engagement. This production is co-presented by Bindlestiff Studio and the Queer Cultural Center.

 

Must email to secure audition slot: queerasfckfest@gmail.com

 

 

API Cultural Center's Annual

United States of Asian America Fest

Takes Over Bindlestiff!

May 4 - June 9

 

 

USAAF returns to Bindlestiff! This year’s theme, Regenerative Community, explores what the API community does in order to care for ourselves, our community, and our culture. The festival highlights our collective regenerative practices - how they have evolved and how they are vital to our sustainability, including historical traumas Asians and Pacific Islanders have faced and how they have shaped our history, our culture, and present. The theme also mines how we as a community address these traumas and work towards a future of healing and restorative justice. Most poignantly, our festival programs investigate how the API community renews and sustains its drive and passion to be artists, organizers, cultural workers, and community leaders in the face of oppression.

 

INCARCERATED 6x9 (May 4-13, Fridays & Saturday, 7:30pm. Sundays, 3:00pm. $20) is the latest work by Alleluia Panis, performed by 10 dancers to music by Rachel Lastimosa and filmmaker Wilfred Galila Fri-Sun May 4-13, 2018 at Bindlestiff Studio in SF's Filipino Cultural District. Exploring the hopes, delusions and the ultimate will to survive in the loneliest, most bitter place on the planet, 6x9 is inspired by the real-life accounts of incarcerated young Pinoy/Asian Americans. The bold, physically and emotionally layed work of fiction located in the year 2048, 150 years after the US pursuit of global power began.

 

 

Model Minorities Don't Cry (May 18-19, Friday & Saturday, 8pm. $12.00) is a stand-up comedy show featuring Bay Area comedians Irene Tu and Andrew Orolfo. In it, Irene and Andrew separately tell jokes about their childhoods and current lives. They explore what it means to grow up Asian in America, living up to expectations of model minorities, and past trauma. By sharing their stories, they hope to start a conversation and dispel the stereotype that Asians and Asian Americans aren't allowed to show or talk about their feelings.

 

 

Bad Trip
A shadow play.

 

Friday May 25, 8pm

Saturday May 26, 4pm & 8pm

Sunday May 27, 4pm

Written by: Rupert Estanislao; Adapted by: TJ Basa; Directed by: Aureen Almario; Illustrated by: England Hidalgo; Music by: Lian Ladia; Produced by: Judith Ferrer

 

Presented by: Brownout Productions, a collective of artists that is rooted in Bindlestiff Studio.

 

 

Memorya (June 9, 5pm & 8pm. $15-25 Sliding Scale) weaves voices of elders and emerging artists into narratives of collective strength and wisdom. Performances explore stories of working class Filipinos balancing tensions between blood and chosen family, displacement and belonging. While queer elders guide younger generations, music is a portal to the spirit world, and dance is a meditation on migration, love and gender identity. As we honor the healing journeys that take place within community, we make space for the present, the future and the past. Kreatibo has used video, movement and multimedia performance to center Queer Filipin@ diaspora since 2003.

 

 

 

AROUND THE BARANGAY

 

April 24  SoMagpahal Youth Photo Mentorship Exhibitions, SOMArts Ramp Gallery

April 27-29  "Baybayin" by Kristian Kabuay @ STARTUP ART FAIR

May 16  "SHE, WHO CAN SEE" AT CAAMFEST 2018