A Bar Of One's Own
5pm-7pm
Readings at 5:30ish and 7ish pm
FREE!

A happy hour for the famous, infamous, private, public and secretive writers of the Bay along with their scribe-amorous admirers. Come revel in the low low acohol cost and high alcohol content of the The STUD's long ass happy hour and get down with some words, queerly.

Featuring- Xandra Ibarra

Xandra Ibarra, who sometimes works under the alias of La Chica Boom, is an Oakland-based performance artist from the US/Mexico border of El Paso/Juarez. Ibarra works across performance, video, and sculpture to explore abjection and joy and the borders between proper and improper racial, gender, and queer subject.

Ibarra’s work has been featured at El Museo de Arte Contemporañeo (Bogotá, Colombia), Broad Museum (LA, USA), Popa Gallery (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Joe’s Pub (NYC), PPOW Gallery (NYC), Anderson Collection (Stanford) and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF) to name a few. Recent residencies include Open Space SF MOMA (SF) (Columnist in Residence), Marble House Project, Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, National Performance Network, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. She has been awarded the Queer Art Prize for Recent Work, Art Matters Grant, NALAC Fund for the Arts, ReGen Artist Fund, and the Franklin Furnace Performance and Variable Media Award. Her work has been featured in Artforum, Paper Magazine, Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, ArtNews and in various academic journals nationally and internationally. She recently curated a year long performance art series at The Broad Museum (LA) with Nao Bustamante entitled EN CUATRO PATAS (2018).

photo by Marlene Ramirez-Cancio- edit by James Fleming