May 21, 2008
Hey Homos! Please take a couple of minutes to complete our audience, friends and supporters survey. The information you provide is important to helping us grow. Thanks!
April 23, 2008
We have launched our T-shirt of the month club! Each month we feature the work of one of our favorite artists printed on an American Apparel t-shirt. Visit our "Merch" page for more info and to place your order today. Hurry, these are limited edition, dare we say collector's items? We are only printing 35 shirts per month.
March 11, 2008
This Friday in San Francisco!
January 10, 2008
T-shirt of the month club: Call for visual art submissions
*please repost or email to your friends* thanks!
we're nothing without you. we say this because it's true and because we want to showcase your amazing talents in our brand new, spine tingling, death-defying, tightrope cutting edge fashion/artscapade: THE HOMO A GO GO T-SHIRT OF THE MONTH CLUB.
Each month our festival wants to send out a newly minted t-shirt design to our t-shirt of the month club members. and because we want artists to have freedom to be all that they already are, we want you to design anything free reign, baby. go nutty. get madcap about it. make us a proposal design. or send this call to your pal who can make us one. we will pick 12 artists for our collection and we can't wait to find out who they are.
details for proposals:
1. email submissions to ed@homoagogo.com
2. please include an artist bio and statement as a MS Word attachment or in the text of your email.
3. please include a link to your myspace page and/or website
4. artwork should be actual size to be printed on a t-shirt and in jpeg file format at 300 dpi or greater
5. artwork must be one color and will most likely be printed on a black, navy blue, brown or cranberry colored shirt, other colors may be considered at the request of the artist and at the discretion of Homo A Go Go.
6. compensation for design: if we choose your design you will receive artist promotional opportunities, as our "featured artist of the month," on the HAGG website and myspace page. You will also receive 2 t-shirts with your design the month they are printed.
7. deadline for submissions is 10pm on January 31, 2008
December 4, 2007
Homos!
Let’s talk about what’s going on with our fair festival, in a, “State of the HAGG address,” sort of way. You are probably wondering when and where the next festival will be so you can start to plan your gaycation. We are working on some great big gay changes and want to keep you all updated.
We have reassessed the plan to do a 2008 festival and realize that we are not ready. Queer Arts in Action, the “parent” organization of Homo A Go Go, doesn’t have the financial resources to make Homo A Go Go 2008 a reality.
We need your help to keep Homo A Go Go go-going. We are putting our fundraising and non-profit organizational plans in motion during this next year. These include membership programs (programs that people donate to the non-profit organization on a monthly or yearly basis), fundraising parties in several cities, HAGG merchandise and online programming. This leaves us with the necessary conclusion to wait to launch the next festival on July 29-August 2, 2009. We feel this was a difficult but necessary move to make.
I’d also like to officially announce that HAGG is moving out of Olympia. This was another difficult decision to make because there are many reasons why we love to be in our home town. There are some issues that have made Olympia challenging: lack of appropriate and affordable venues and inaccessibility to attendees travelling to the festival. Another reasons is that, I as the executive director, don’t live in Olympia anymore (I live in Los Angeles), and trying to keep the festival in Olympia is difficult on the organization and on me personally. There are currently two proposals on the table for the 2009 location: Los Angeles and San Francisco. We are currently looking at production budgets and feasibility for each city. We are doing an online survey so we can get an idea of where YOU would like to be in 2009. Follow the link to vote for LA or SF!
The staff also recognizes that it is necessary to adapt the festival programming to acknowledge that HAGG has become a sort of, “family reunion,” for many people. We want to keep offering amazing music, film, art, spoken word and workshops, but we also want to make sure we build in more time for connecting. The result is that instead of simply offering more music, film, art, performance and workshops, we want to change our programming to adapt to a very specific audience and to offer some more interactive programming.
Lastly, we’d like to clear up some confusion that seemed to come with the announcement that we would do HAGG in Los Angeles in 2007. We have no intention of having HAGG in multiple cities or in franchising HAGG. HAGG will continue to be a single festival produced by the non-profit organization, Queer Arts in Action (QAA). QAA will be the only producer of the HAGG festival.
Love,
Ed Varga
QAA/HAGG Executive Director
aka head homo
March 8, 2007
Homos!
Thank you a hundred fold for submitting your work, ideas, and enthusiasm to a Homo A Go Go 2007. Unfortunately we write to inform you that after a tremendous amount of collective thought, and a major loss of funding support for HAGG 2007, we have postponed Homo A Go Go's Los Angeles debut to 2008. It is our #1 goal to make sure that the integrity and fun of HAGG stays put and with all of you at the forefront of our minds we know this is the right decision.
Biannually we have produced each installment of Homo A Go Go by the seat of our big gay pants with very few financial resources, now we have found it necessary to be a bit more prudent. Please bear with us, we are a very young non-profit queer arts organization and we are working really hard to make Queer Arts in Action and Homo A Go Go sustainable for many years to come. We want to keep giving you artists and participants the best possible festival and year round programs. Without the up front financial resources we need to step back this year. We want to be able to present a really strong program in a new city in 2008 and we don't want to burn ourselves out just trying to throw something together for 2007.
We are sorry for the inconveniences we may have caused you and for dashing your hopes for a big gaycation this year. We will however be throwing a kick ass one day fundraiser event in Los Angeles this coming July. This event will help kick off our efforts to fund Homo A Go Go 2008. Thank you for your understanding in all of this. We love you all so much and can't wait to entertain the pants off you in the future!
xo
Ed Varga
Head Homo
December 16, 2006
Homo A Go Go T-shirts make great gifts. Order by December 19th to receive by December 23 via Priortiy Mail (shipping is free!) Email Ed for express shipping costs if needed.
October 30, 2006
Homo A Go Go and Queer Arts in Action are proud supporters of AFI FEST 2006 presented by Audi. If you're in Los Angeles, please support independent and Queer films by attending this year's festival at Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood. Homo A Go Go is proud to be a community supporter of the film My Name Jackie Beat.
MY NAME IS JACKIE BEAT. USA. By Randolph Mark Viverito. CAST FEATURING Jackie Beat, Mario DÌaz, Misstress Formika, Lady Bunny, Margaret Cho, Roseanne Barr, Joan Rivers. Meet Jackie Beat--an outrageously funny bad girl with a tongue like a razor and an operatic voice. Kent Fuher, the man behind Jackie Beat, travels from New York, Toronto, Los Angeles and Berlin, constantly questioning his life and profession, while slowly revealing his personal life in this concert style documentary. Wed. Nov. 8, 9:45 p.m. Thu. Nov. 9, 4:30 p.m.
There are tons and tons of amazing films playing at AFI this year at the Archlight Cinemas in Hollywood. including My Name is Jackie Beat and these other Queer films:
Click here for more info about and to buy tickets for LGBT films at AFI FEST 2006 presented by Audi
General info: http://www.AFI.com
All Screenings are at the ArcLight Hollywood
6360 Sunset Boulevard at Ivar
Regular Screenings $12, Weekday matinees $8
Passes On Sale Now! Tickets on Sale October 13
For passes, tickets and full festival details, please call
1.866.AFIFEST or visit www.AFI.com < http://www.AFI.com >
September 19, 2006
Ok people, after a whole day of struggling with the paypal cart system the t-shirts are finally up and ready to sell! To get one of your very own click the merch link on the left side right after you click here. Order now and get freebies like stickers, buttons and posters while supplies last!
August 30, 2006
Hello Homos! Well we've rested a little, tallied, wrapped up some loose ends and started thinking about the future. Thank you so much to everyone who attended Homo A Go Go, purchased passes/tickets and to our generous sponsors. We all had so much fun with all of you. Unfortunately this year's festival fell short of our projected attendance goals and at this time we will be unable to make a donation to the Gender Variant Healthcare Project. This saddens us deeply as we would have liked to donate $3000+ this year to our friends at the GVHP to assist them in their efforts to make healthcare more accessible and trans-friendly in the South Puget Sound area.
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Coming Soon: Homo A Go Go 2006 t-shirts, stickers and posters!
Homo A Go Go 2007: August 1-5, Location TBA
We wanna know... What were your personal festival highlights? Jon Cameron Mitchell? Vaginal Davis? Assacre? Tender Forever? Getting busted for going to third base in the balcony of the Capitol Theater at 4am after the Crash Pad screening? Hot Tub parties at the Clarion? Jerry Lee in a gold lameee g-string? Something else? Send us a myspace comment telling us about your favorite festival moment(s).
July 28, 2006
This just in from our friends at Wovie:
CASTING CALL
FRIDAY, AUGUST 4TH, 1:OO-4:00PM
Come to JAKE'S on 4th Avenue between Franklin & Adams
THE MAKERS OF GROUP ARE NOW CASTING AGES 18-30, ALL GENDERS, ALL RACES FOR IN THE WAY OF INTIMACY, SLATED FOR PRODUCTION IN 2007.
Auditions will be held between 1:00 and 4:00pm on Friday, August 4th at Jake's on 4th Avenue. The filmmakers welcome all performers who can play someone between the ages of 18 and 30. Acting experience a plus, but not a must. Come prepared for a conversation with the filmmakers and to do a cold reading of a scene from the film script. Bring a headshot and resume if you have either.
Download this pdf for more info.
July 24, 2006
We are soooo close now. Only a week to go! We've tweaked the schedule a little and made some updates so check it out. You can also download your own copy of the festival guide to check out before the festival. I hope you're a size queen cuz it's huge, 72 pages, 8 MB, huge. Of course, they will be available at the festival but you can take a sneak peek now if you'd like. Download by clicking here. M-I-C, see you real soon, K-E-Y, why? because we love you. Sorry to reference, as they say in Hollywood, "the mouse," that evil corporate entertainment giant but see what too much stress and not enough sleep does to me?
July 19, 2006
Didn't make it to Cannes? Come to Olympia!
Holy crap preople! Homo A Go Go is soooooo excited to announce that John Cameron Mitchell will be joining us this year! I'm sure you remember Mr. Mitchell as the co-creator/director/star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. On Friday, August 4 at 6:30pm sharp, Mr. Mitchell will join us for a very special look at the making of his new film, "Short Bus," which premiered at Cannes and generated quite a stir.
Here's an excerpt from the Advocate, "...(Mitchell) says he's unwilling to hold back on any of his vision—to depict (real) sex in as realistic a fashion as possible. "I wanted to make a film about sex that had humor, emotional weight, and metaphor all at the same time," Mitchell says at his production office. "That's how I've experienced it in my life."
"I have seen so few films in which the sex felt really respected by the filmmaker," he says. "Hollywood too often shies away from it or makes adolescent jokes about it.... Sex is only connected to the negative because people are scared of it." To keep the sex real, Mitchell says he avoided casting professional actors—"stars don't have sex"—and instead placed ads in alternative weeklies inviting people to send in audition tapes. After selecting a cast, he began holding "structured improv" workshops about two years ago to work out a rough sketch of the plot.
The film revolves around a salon of the Gertrude Stein model from the early 1900s, where artists, writers, musicians, and intellectuals converged to share their works and discuss new ideas in art and politics. Mitchell's version attracts an updated assortment of regulars culled from New York's burlesque and gay performing arts communities—or, as he says, the kinds of people who belonged on the "short bus" for gifted and challenged children in elementary school."
That's right friends, real sex on screen plus John Cameron Mitchell answering your questions and discussing the making of, "Short Bus." Oh... and an extra special treat... John will stick around and DJ between bands all night long! Get your tickets now at Buy Olympia, or better yet get a pass and come for the whole week.
July 11, 2006
For all those of you who have been waiting... single tickets are now on sale for each evening music/spoken word showcase. NEW this year! You can also BE A HOMO FOR A DAY and buy a day pass for Friday and/or Saturday. This is the perfect option if you're only coming for the weekend or one day and it saves you $5-8 on the single tickets each day! Buy tickets and day passes at Buy Olympia. Passes for Big Homos and Homos alike are still on sale, get yours now .
July 8, 2006
well, friends, it's time. after all the hemming, hawing, wheeling, dealing, and a couple incidents of acts that might be deemd illegal in a some places with no imagination, we have risen to our august occasion!!! the entire festival schedule is up, there's nice long informative bios, and all kinds of sweet surprises waiting for you when you click on the "Confirmed Artists," and, "Schedule," links to your left. go check it out. you can even dowload your very own pdf of the schedule so you can print it out for quick reference. we can't wait to see you!!!.
June 8, 2006
I'm sure you all were worried, but we've made it past 666 day without the world ending. Woo hoo! Okay, now on to some real news. If you're in Atlanta on June 29, check out the next installment of Bound to Be Heard. Thanks Bound to Be Read Books for hosting and sponsoring these events!
"Bound To Be Heard"
Featuring Fiona Zedde (http://fionazedde.com/), Kathleen Delaney of the
Femme Mafia (http://www.femmemafia.com/femmes.htm) and Corey Houlihan
http://www.myspace.com/coreyehoulihan) of Savannah followed by an open
mic. Zedde will be reading from, _A Taste of Sin_, her second novel to be
published this summer. This series of readings will last throughout the
summer and feature different artists. Donations collected will help to
send writers to Homo A Go Go 2006.
Date: Thursday, June 29, 2006
Time: 8 p.m.
Location:
Bound To Be Read Books
Georgia‚s newest independent bookstore
http://boundtobereadbooks.com/
481-B Flat Shoals Avenue, S.E.
Atlanta - Georgia 30316
Phone: 404-522-0877
May 31, 2006
Big news people, people big news!
We just confirmed our Saturday night headliner. I'm fucking elated to be telling you that Bob Mould and Rich Moran will be hosting their popular DC club night, "Blowoff," on Saturday, Aug. 5.
I just pulled this off of the DCist website: "A legendary figure in the alternative music scene, Bob Mould came to prominence in the 1980s with his group Husker Du, who influenced independent music for years to come. Mould later formed the band Sugar, and now moonlights as a DJ (alongside local producer Richard Morel) at Blowoff, a popular dance night at the 9:30 Club where he spins everything from Depeche Mode to Gwen Stefani to his own material."
DCist: What was the motivation to start Blowoff, and how has it progressed since it began?
Bob: We saw a need for a gig which served the needs of the homo music fans. There are other great parties in town, and we share some overlap. The typical Blowoff regular is a bit older, and therefore less concerned with fashion, than the average club goer in DC.
There you have it homo music fans, less fashion, more party. Well ok, maybe a little bit of fashion. Rest up cuz we will be treated to a set by Mr. Mould, some material by Bob and Rich and a huge freaking dance party to end our week of debauchery.
May 17, 2006
HELP! We're still looking for a few designers for our fashion show!
Designers, Costumers, Seamsters!!
The HomoAGogo Fashion Show is seeking people to participate in the 2006 show tentatively titled 2006: A Space Gaydessey: To Uranus and Beyond!! It is going to be a spectacle like no other ever before seen by human eyes. Designers will select a Planet or other heavenly body and create work around that theme.
Ten to twelve designers will be selected. Designers will be responsible for developing a concept, making the clothing, selecting a background image or film, and a song for a five minute segment. There will be pools of local models/dancers/performers to use and a choreographer to assist with movement/dance, if needed. Please send images of previous work, questions, and your ideas to missusadams@gmail.com Designers can sell their work at the Craft Fair the following day and will receive a one-day pass to the festival for their efforts.
Homoagogo (HAGG) is a queer music and art festival taking place on August 1-6, 2006 in Olympia, Washington. This year marks the third HAGG festival as it continues to grow and multiply in its amazing surreality. A very Queer week in Olympia. Yes. The fashion show is on Friday the 4th at 4pm, and with your help, will be Epic.
May 10, 2006
Newsbits/Announcements:
Thanks to all you early homo pass buyers! It's so exciting to see where everyone is will be travelling from. We can't wait to meet you all!
Feel like there's something missing at Homo A Go Go? Plan it yourself! There's still time to book your own event email diyevent@homoagogo.com for more info.
Please help us make the festival better by taking this informational survey if you haven't already:
Sponsors and Ads!!!!
We still have space and are extending our deadline for advertising in our festival guide. Contact Ed at ed@homoagogo.com if you're interested.
April 13, 2006
Open Call for Visual Artwork Submissions
We've been thinking about: pictures you take, who's the best dressed, fandom, domestic secrets, gay realism, being homesick, open books, fantastic creatures, tear-free detangler, queer people making art about non-queer issues, rock shows, smart alecs, and the strange truth. Show us what you've done.
The festival's curatorial committee is looking for sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, fiber arts, installation, etc, to be shown in a variety of spaces in downtown Olympia. Submissions should be sent digitally as high-resolution .jpgs to art@homoagogo.com . Send 3 representative images of the work you would like to be included. Please title each image with the artist's last name and serial image number (example: Lestopher1) and include a separate text-only (Word or .PDF) image index with image numbers, titles, dimensions, production dates, and materials for each piece. Include link to artist's website, if available. If you wish to sell your work include a price or "NFS" (not for sale) on this document. If you have any questions or problems with the submission format, just contact us at the above email. The submissions deadline is May 26 th , and we will notify our selections by June 20 th . The festival takes place August 1-6. Packing and shipping artwork will be the responsibility of the individual artists. Artwork must arrive framed and/or ready for hanging.
April 8, 2006
Can't make it to Homo A Go Go and/or you've got a big heart and want to donate? Donations are tax deductible and are now really easy through PayPal. Donate by vising our "get involved," page.
We're looking for people in Minneapolis, Chicago, San Francisco, Portland and Boston to organize Homo A Go Go promotional parties. We'll send you flyers, festival guides and a tiny budget to help us get the word out about Homo A Go Go. You set up a party at the venue, organize it, promote it, book some bands, films and other performers. We'll find a way to make it worth your while, such as.. a Big Homo Pass package! Email ed@homoagogo.com for more info.
April 7, 2006
Spoken word programmer, Cheyrl Coward, is organizing a series of airfare fundraisers with featured readers and an open mic at Bound to be Read books here in East Atlanta Village on either Friday or Saturday evenings starting in May 2006. If you knowof anyone heading to the ATL in the coming months who want to lend their talents, please email spokenword@homoagogo.com
April 4, 2006
what does it take to get the HAGG fags to finally throw down with some
news? is it the buzz about barbra streisand's "final tour" again? is
it the fact that every male mannequin in the banana republic windows
is dressed like ellen? or is it the new spring shades of nail polish
to match reconstructed mules? no, friends, we're just thrilled to have
some exciting things to report.
all hail THE GOSSIP. returning to HAGG to light our way to a punk
dance seizure of rapture. have you heard that new record? can you even
stop with it? ok, turn it up, close the door to your room, and just
dance like a total idiot. it'll cure anything. oh? you've been doing
that? great. we also have country belle JESSICA ROSE coming in from
NYC, XIU XIU with an electronica sculpture of a set, and JenRO
throwing down lyrical bolts of poetic mayhem among other ridiculously
talented homos from across the land.
Over in other lands of artistic output, we're very excited to have SEAN DORSEY performing a
dance piece involving school shrinks and a brick wall, in a
trans-themed piece the world of modern dance has called "stunning".
Spoken word curator CHERYL COWARD has amassed an amazing list of
wonderful minds including, but not limited to, poet/rapper TIM'M WEST,
the lamda nominated ALI LIEBEGOTT, and performance playwright LENELLE
MOISE.
plus there's the craft fair (write to craftfair@homoagogo.com to
reserve your table) and keep your eyes peeled for the visiual arts
committee to unleashed their diabolical plan to take your mind to
hedonistic heaps of sensory overload. (art@homoagogo.com)
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March 15, 2006:
Welcome to our 2006 website!