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Join for a very special Black Love!Since April is National Poetry Month, this months Black Love event will be a Poetry workshop lead by writer Tanea Lunsford Lynx! titled "Black Love, Black Muses"
Black Love: Black Muses is a generative creative writing workshop and open mic. This event is a 1 hour writing workshop followed by an open mic. The workshop content is geared toward centering queer Black ancestor artists by creating in their lineage(s). There will be food and wine provided and an open mic portion after the generative writing portion of the event. Free and open to adults.
About the Facilitator:
tanea lunsford lynx (pronouns flexible) is a writer, abolitionist, and fourth generation Black San Franciscan on both sides. tanea is a proud alum of Voices of Our Nation (VONA) and the Lambda Literary Retreat. In 2023 tanea grew her showings of multidisciplinary work to include her first solo exhibition (we were here) at the San Francisco Main Library and an interactive exhibit (I Used to Live Here) as a part of MUNI RAISED ME at SOMArts. in They’ve been a featured artist in the National Queer Arts Festival twice: in 2023 they curated and hosted “Remembering Club Q” and in 2018 they co-curated 'Still Here VI: Existence as Resistance', a performance featuring queer Black San Franciscans. tanea has been awarded individual artist grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission as well as residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts, The San Francisco Public Library (in collaboration with the SF Arts Commission), Mesa Refuge, the Vermont Studio Center, and others. Her work has been published in Foglifter, the Lambda Literary Anthology, Mala Forever, and in "Nothing to Lose But Our Chains: Black Voices on Activism, Resistance, and Love". tanea earned a BA from Columbia University and an MA from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). tanea served as Chair of the Spoken Arts Department a Ruth Asawa School of the Arts from 2021-2023 and currently teaches Social justice and Ethnic Studies classes at City College of San Francisco. tanea is currently at work on her first novel.
Black Love was created in 2016 by Beatrice L. Thomas and Na'amen Gobert Tillhun and has been showcasing the work of Black and Queer performers ever since. Black Love Poetry workshop focuses on Black Queer voices.
Accessibility: There are no stairs to enter the lobby level at Strut from the street level. The building has three floors, and there is a stairwell with handrails and a wheelchair-accessible elevator. There are 26 steps from the lobby to the 2nd floor and 48 steps from the lobby to the 3rd floor. All our bathrooms are gender neutral and we have restrooms that are accessible to people who use wheelchairs
Questions about Strut or San Francisco AIDS Foundation events please contact the community event manager Baruch Porras Hernandez at [email protected]
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
470 Castro St, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94114
