BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:464@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240615T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240615T160000 DTSTAMP:20240604T204454Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/clark-is-burning/ SUMMARY:The Clark is Burning: A Workshop on Queer Performance & the Archive DESCRIPTION:Organized by Erin Severson\, University of California\, Los Ang eles\n\nThe Ballroom scene (at times synonymized with the performance art form of “vogue”) began in the Black and Brown queer club scene of late 1970s New York\, and has since flourished as an increasingly globalized s pace for building personal identity and community. Please join us for this workshop on the vogue dance form\, which we will explore by considering p erformance itself as both a contemporary art form and a historical practic e. Featuring a vogue showcase produced by writer and Ballroom historian Sy dney Baloue and the House of FUBU\, attendees will serve as an audience to a roll call that presents different voguing styles and competitive catego ries commonly walked in balls around the globe\, which will be introduced for the first time into the Clark’s historic drawing room. Through a ser ies of dramatic readings given by graduate students and scholars\, the wor kshop will place the textual performance of identity in dialogue with cont emporary performance art. The title references the seminal 1990 documentar y film Paris is Burning by Jennie Livingston\, which helped make Ballroom culture visible in mainstream culture. Drawing on material from the Clark ’s own institutional archive as well as its core collections ranging fro m seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature and culture to Os car Wilde and his circle\, this event propels us into the future through a thoughtful consideration of the past\, as contemporary identity is negoti ated both individually and collectively\, through bodily contortion and ge sture.\n\nAs a member of the House of Xtravaganza\, a Ballroom academic\, a producer on HBO Max's Legendary\, and a performer himself\, Baloue has b een carving out space for trans masculine representation in the scene for years. He is in the process of writing a history of Ballroom entitled UNDE NIABLE: A History of Voguing\, Ballroom and How It Changed My Life (and th e World)\, under contract with Crown Publishing Group and Sugar23. The LA- based Kiki House of FUBU (their namesake “For Us By Us”) is a chosen f amily of performers\, competitors\, and artists that train for and walk (i .e. “compete in”) pageant-style competitions referred to as “balls ” across the country. It was founded in 2023 by Packrat and Carlos\, two heavy-hitting members of the house Ballroom scene who have dedicated much of their lives to the community and culture.\n\nThe opening performance w ill be followed by a Q&\;A on the history of queer performance and what it means to build community in a space that was started by Black and Lati no LGBTQIA+ individuals who fought to combat the forces of racism\, discri mination\, abandonment\, and other important social and economic issues ac ross history. The latter half of the event will consist of a reception in the style of a "high tea\," which honors another form of LGBTQIA+ communit y practice—connecting to the history of tea dances as safe spaces for th e gay community in the pre-Stonewall era—as a nod to the taste for drama which ties together modern Ballroom culture and Regency-era society. Atte ndees can visit the "literary salon" taking place in the North Book Room\, which will feature a display of rare material from our collections highli ghting gender nonconformity and performance as selections from these piece s are read from the balcony above.\n\nDuring the salon\, there will be fou r dramatic readings from Restoration and eighteenth-century plays that pla yfully challenge the stability of gender expression\, sexuality\, and patr iarchy. Thomas Otway's tragedy\, Venice Preserv'd (1682)\, offers comic re lief\, kinky sexual exploits\, and gender hierarchy subversions in a scene featuring a senator and a sex worker who is secretly aiding a coup d'etat against the ruling class. Aphra Behn's tragicomedy\, The Widow Ranter (16 89)\, embraces one of the most popular tropes of the Restoration stage: wo men cross-dressing. In this scene\, the play's titular character seduces h er male object of desire while disguised as a man. Margaret Cavendish's cl oset drama\, The Convent of Pleasure (1668)\, imagines a refuge for women with no interest in marriage to enjoy all the pleasures that Goddess Natur e offers them—including each other. This series of dramatic readings wil l end with a beginning: David Garrick's prologue to Hannah More's 1777 pla y Percy\, which calls our attention to gender performativity and gender in equality. These scenes were selected by Sabrina Yates (Stanford University )\, whose research focuses on dressing up and disguise in Restoration and eighteenth-century English drama.\n\nPerformers &\; Speakers\nSydney Ba loue\nThe Kiki House of FUBU\n       Packrat FUBU\n       Carl os FUBU\n       Haneef FUBU\n       Fantasy FUBU\nAnadaios Box \, University of California\, Los Angeles\nHelen Deutsch\, University of C alifornia\, Los Angeles\nCailey Hall\, University of California\, Los Ange les\nRebecca Fenning Marschall\, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\nJ ai (James) Ocampo Severson\nErin Severson\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nCass Turner\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nSabrina Ya tes\, Stanford University\n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\nAll times listed in Pac ific Daylight Time\n\n1:00 p.m.\nIntroductory Remarks\nErin Severson\, Uni versity of California\, Los Angeles\, and Sydney Baloue\n\n1:15 p.m.\nVogu e Performance and Panel\nThe Kiki House of FUBU\n\n2:30 p.m.\nRebecca Fenn ing Marschall\, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\n“Rumors of W. A. Clark Jr.”\n\nHelen Deutsch\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n “A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed”\n\nVogue performance by Jai Oca mpo Severson\n\n2:45 p.m.\nBreak\n\n3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.\nLiterary Salon (North Book Room) &\; Reception (Outdoor Reading Room)\n\n3:00 p.m.\nTh omas Otway's Venice Preserv'd (1682)\nAquilina: Sabrina Yates\, Stanford U niversity\nAntonio: Erin Severson\, University of California\, Los Angeles \n\n3:15 p.m.\nAphra Behn's Widow Ranter (1689)\nWidow Ranter: Anadaios Bo x\nChrisante: Sabrina Yates\, Stanford University\nDaring: Erin Severson\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n3:30 p.m.\nMargaret Cavendish 's Convent of Pleasure (1668)\nPrincess: Cass Turner\, University of Calif ornia\, Los Angeles\nLady Happy: Cailey Hall\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\n3:45 p.m.\nDavid Garick’s Prologue to Hannah More’s P ercy (1777)\nSpeaker: Sabrina Yates\, Stanford University\n\n\n\nWorkshop registration has reached capacity. To be added to the wait list please sub mit the form below. If seats become available due to cancellations\, indiv iduals will be contacted in the order received. Seating is limited at the Clark Library\; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.\nLoading …\nPlease note photography and filming will take place as a record of th is program. By attending this event\, you irrevocably consent to and autho rize UCLA and its licensees to photograph you\, make sound and/or video re cordings of you\, and use such recordings in all media now known or later created\, in perpetuity for any purpose whatsoever\, including but not lim ited to\, publicity and promotion of this event and UCLA generally. You re present that you are at least eighteen years old. If you are under the age of eighteen\, you represent that you have obtained your parent’s/guardi an’s consent to attend this event and to be bound by these terms.\n\n\n\ nImage: Clark Library vestibule ceiling mural by Allyn Cox. For more infor mation on the art and architecture of the Clark\, please see here. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05 /Publicity-Image-of-Vestibule_via-Erin-5-16-24.jpg CATEGORIES:Workshop LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street \, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States GEO:34.033012;-118.314487 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=UC LA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library:geo:34.033012,-118.314487 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR