Rise Up at Liberty Springs

Rise Up at Liberty Springs is a new play about feminist and queer activists set in the Mission District of San Francisco at the turn of the century, circa 1990 - 2010. In this fast-moving piece, an innovative Greek chorus introduces dialogues between friends who meet up at the Liberty Springs -- a bathhouse in the Valencia Corridor. Here, they entrust one another – opening a window for all of us on the art of survival. They share their deepest concerns, develop new art and cosmologies, strike out to create social visibility, and find ways to survive economically in an increasingly unaffordable city. At The Liberty, individuals are fighting to be true to themselves and make a difference for the groups they call urban kin. The play takes on sexual subjectivity in a playful way, and forges dialogue on gender change in the context of community. Whether forging new images on the billboards or the walls, protesting un-permitted at the first SF Dyke March, fighting for housing alongside LGBTQ squatter youth, or targeting the elite men-only Bohemian Cub to demand equal access to reproductive healthcare, the women and trans folk at Liberty Springs are at once restoring themselves and rising up together.

image credit: Denise Kester

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th Street, San Francisco, United States