6:00 pm – Welcome + Refreshments
6:30 pm – Performances
7:00 pm – Films
7:45 pm – Q&A
8:30 – After Party at Hearthspace
The Performers
Josie Loner
performing songs from her album TRANS GALACTIC (available on Spotify)
IG: @josieloner, VENMO: @josie-loner
Excerpt from Lift Up: LGBTQ+ Visibility on KZMU
Interviews with LGBTQ+ locals, dedicated to their stories, with a hope to help deepen understanding and empathy within our community and reinforce a sense of belonging
interviews and editing by Ginger Allen
Summoning Belonging: A Lyric Essay
by Shari Zollinger
IG: @sharizollinger, VENMO: @shari-zollinger
I See You There & NFT
by Jade Swayne
IG: @jade._.sss, VENMO: @Jade-Swayne
Autonomy Spells
by Lo Pararo
IG: @androangel92, VENMO: @Lo-Pararo
The Community Organizations
Evening sponsored by
Moab to Monument Valley Film Commission
The Moab to Monument Valley Film Commission holds the title of the longest running film commission in the world. Established 1949. We are here to facilitate whatever your production needs may be!
IG: @filmmoab
Website: www.filmmoab.com
Event in conjunction with
Hearthspace
Helping people embody their deepest, most authentic Self, & realize the interconnectedness of all that is — Oneness. We do this by offering free “by donation” wellness & educational opportunities.
IG: @hearthspacemoab
Website: www.hearthspacemoab.org
Moab Pride
A grassroots organization working toward queer and trans visibility & liberation for all on Dineh and Ute land.
IG: @moab.pride, VENMO: @moabpride
Back of Beyond Books
Website: www.backofbeyondbooks.com
iowahouseSLC
A queer home experiment, potluck dinners and events for queer/trans folks to come together for nourishment, connection, and reflection in Salt Lake City
IG: @iowahouseSLC
The Films
Go West!
a film by Ginger Allen
IG: @zeldaboden
A Spell For Queer Home
a film by Amanda Madden
Braiding together embodied exploration, stories and wisdom from queer and trans folks across the country, and original spell songs, A Spell For Queer Home is a meditation and reflection on the question - what does it mean to be at home as a queer person? How do we know when we have arrived? How do we build and create queer home? How do we know in our bones that it is already happening?
Director Statement: The wild landscape of Utah was the first place to hold me. Then I had to leave to find myself. After a decade in New York, where I named and settled into my queerness and transness, I returned to Utah in the summer of 2020. I was a fragile and unrooted thing. I craved queer community and a sense of belonging. In July of 2021, I was a resident artist at the Home of the Brave residency in Cisco, a ghost town in Southern Utah. I spent 3 weeks in the heat and solitude, meditating and reflecting on the questions that had been building in me about queer home. I used movement, intuition, and magic to explore these questions in my body and let the wild and sacred shapes of the ghost town guide me. I called 18 queer and trans friends across the country and asked them about queer home. This time in the desert was a cathartic deepening and release. I edited the film over the next year, weaving together my embodied exploration and the interviews, and worked with 3 queer musicians to create original spell songs to guide the journey. The process of making this film has in itself been a queer home for me. I am so moved by the collective stories and wisdom we hold. I believe, deep in my bones, that queer home is possible, radical, and happening. This film is a spell to conjure a sense of queer home for myself, my community and the collective – to know that we are enough, that we were never meant to do this alone, that queer home is possible, radical, and happening. - Amanda
After Party
Please come to Hearthspace at 239 West Center Street to continue the evening! BYOB
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