Visual Voices:

Deadline: Feb. 15 2012

Now Calling 4 Submissions for Trans-Genre’s first ever Visual Anthology, a multi-media compilation of Video, Poetry, and Art exclusively from the Transgender Creative Community.

This year we’re going all the way with our first  ever DVD/Zine compilation and we want you to be a part of it!!

What we’re looking for:

We want your best:

• stories
• animated shorts
• music videos
• performance
• poetry
• comics
• and other forms of visual art

Submission Requirements:

• Must be a Registered Artist with Trans-Genre (sign up here!)
• Work must be of original content and not infringe upon any legal or moral copyrights.
• Priority given to previously unreleased exclusive material

Zine Submission Guidelines:

Leah B. of Gender EDGE will be handling all Zine Submissions. Please Contact Leah B. with any questions.

• Size: max. 10″x8″ (but should be legible at as small as 4.5″ x 7.5″)
• Formats excepted: .pdf, .jpg (other formats accepted upon request)
• B&W or full color submissions accepted
• 300 dpi

Email Zine Submission to Trans-GenreSubmission@live.com. or upload through our Yousend it account below:

https://dropbox.yousendit.com/Visual-Voices-Submission

Video Submission Guidelines

Helyx Chase will be handling all DVD Submissions. Please Contact Helyx with any questions.

• Max file size: 1GB
• Duration: minimum 1 ½ to max. 20 minutes
• Formats excepted: .mov .MPEG2 (.mp4 .avi .dv )

Upload your Video submission online thru our YouSendIt page:  https://dropbox.yousendit.com/Visual-Voices-Submission (We thank you for your patience as large files may take awhile)

Please remember to include your name, email, and submission info!

If you prefer to mail a hard copy please Contact A.J. Bryce at Trans-Genre@live.com to request the mailing address and more info.

Submission is open to all self-identified transfolk, so please feel free to pass this message along.  The winning logo will capture the spirit of the show and will be equally suitable for use (in whole or in part) on everything from small buttons to large posters. Entries may be submitted in any medium and can include color. However, the winning design must be able to be printed in black & white.

All entries must be submitted electronically to:

trannyroadshow@yahoo.com

by December 18, 2010.

The artist of the winning entry will receive a $50 honorarium, as well as samples of any merchandise items that feature the logo (t-shirts, stickers, etc) and exposure to audiences throughout North America.

Feel free to write with any questions or to request previous years’ logos if you are unfamiliar with the kinds of designs that we have used. We look forward to seeing all of your ideas!

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We are currently booking for its 2011 performance season, and we welcome requests from venues in all parts of the country. We’re particularly interested in touring the southern half of the country this year. We hope to see all of you soon!

Jamez Terry

Tranny Roadshow organizer

Location: the Trans-Genre Booth @ the Philadelphia Transgender Health Conference

Tickets: $1/ea or 6-$5

Raffle ends @ 4pm on Friday

Winner announced by 5pm.

Attending PTHC this Year? Visit our booth and enter for your chance to win the Complete Trans-Fusions Audio Library! A 2-Album Compilation set featuring over 30 audio tracks and Artwork from some of the Transgender Performance Art and Music Community’s finest!

… while you’re there,  visit our interactive media booth where you can read zines, listen to music, and watch videos from your favorite Trans-Genre Artists! and don’t forget to pick up your copy of the Trans-Fusions 2 Compilation (limited copies available!)

All proceeds go back into the Trans-Genre Project

Click here for more info on the first Trans-Fusions Album

Click here for more info on the Trans-Fusions 2 Album

Congratulations to Our Raffle Winner, Ticket # 46!

Trans-Genre @ PTHC 2k9

We had the honor of the Live performances from Trans Fusions 2 Artists Metahuman, Joshua Klipp, Shawna Virago, Modern Day Pinnochio, and Ryka Aoki De La Cruz followed by a dance Party with DJ ONO SENDAI spinning electro dance till 2 am!

Free Copies of the Trans-Fusions II Album went out to over 100 people in attendance!

Get Yours Before they’re Gone!

Limited Edition Trans-Fusions II CD’s, commemorating the First Ever Trans-Genre CD Release Party!
$12 Get’s this Collectors Edition featuring Artists Shawna Virago, Joshua Klipp, Metahuman, Athens Boys Choir, Ryka Aoki De La Cruz, Dylan Scholinski, and Many (oh so many) more, mailed right to your door! (US & Canada) and helps support Trans/Giving, an L.A. based showcase of art, music, performance, and literature from trans*, genderqueer, and intersex artists.
paypal transgiving@gmail.com w/ your address to have it shipped today!

Check out Pictures and videos of the Party and Performances Below!

Photo’s Courtesy of Happy Land Photography

Photo’s Courtesy of Happy Land Photography

“Happy Land/Liz Acosta’s eagle eye Photography will have you bringing home more than just a few snapshots from the night of your life’ With an almost omnipresent sense of motion, Liz has given me the chance to relive the Trans-Genre CD Release  Party over and over through her creative visual sense of  ‘in the moment’ ” AJ Bryce – Founder – Trans-Genre.net

Let’s Rock Together!

That’s right folks! We are at it again!

Announcing the Call for Submissions for the 2nd Trans-Genre Compilation CD! (set to release Jan. 2010)

What We’re Looking for:

• Musicians
• Bands
• Spoken Word
• Storytelling
• other Audio
• Artists
• Graphic Designers

…to showcase their amazing talent on the next Trans-Genre Compilation CD!

We’re Sending out the call now to give you all plenty of time to get your stuff together. Last Year we featured over 15 Artists, Musicians, Performers, & Speakers on the “Trans-Fusions CD. This Year it could be you…

Requirements:

• Must be a Registered Artist with Trans-Genre (not registered yet? Submit your profile here! )
• Work must be of original content and not infringe upon any legal or moral copyrights.
• Images (for the cover, inside booklet, back, and CD) in .jpg*, 300 dpi (prefered)
• audio in .mp3, .wav*

*other formats accepted with prior approval

You can Submit Directly through the Site with our Simple Submission Form Below, or by emailing A.J. Bryce at Trans-GenreSubmissions@live.com

*It is possible that all submissions may not make the final cut due to space limitations but we’ll try our best to include as many as possible!

Johnny Blazes is known throughout Boston’s drag and burlesque scenes for hir genre-bending, gender-blending, tongue-in-cheek performances. After training in traditional performance arts, theater, opera and ballet, Johnny started to develop hir own style of performance and art. While attending Oberlin College in Ohio, Johnny continued to expand and assert hir own personal style of performance while testing the limits of gender and genre in the performing arts. It was there ze founded OCircus! and directed the 95-student group for three years. Projects with OCircus! included a small ensemble circus that drew upon vaudevillian traditions to create a dark and sexy narrative with a cabaret feel. The show toured in the summer of 2007 and wowed audiences in Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, New York, DC, Richmond, and Boston.

Upon return to hir hometown of Boston, Johnny directed The Madcap Rumpus Society’s production of Mischief in the Machine, a circus-theater performance set to the boisterous music of Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band. The show made use of mask-work and combined non-verbal storytelling with poetry and music to tell a steampunk-inspired narrative. Ze also contributed choreography and staging to Big Moves’ 2008 show Big Top. Johnny continues to be involved with Big Moves as a “movement consultant,” aiding with auditions and character embodiment.

Johnny is a regular performer at Truth Serum’s TraniWreck and a member of the now-touring Femme Show cast. Ze is often seen performing at The Theater Offensive’s Works-in-Progress showings and at Jacque’s Cabaret. Johnny has emerged full force with art that refuses to be labeled. As Heywood Wakefield, MC for TraniWreck, once remarked, “I like having Johnny on board to confuse us all…”

By day, Johnny is a teacher of movement, drama and social activism to kids ages 2 through 16. Ze strives to be a role model that kids can look to as a positive example of gender non-conformity.

Johnny is currently working on an evening length piece, entitled wo(n)man show. This sequence of comical vignettes will incorporate physical theater, prop manipulation, puppetry, dance, lip synch and classical voice as it explores the question: How does one arrive at one’s present gender? Johnny plans to tour this show nationally in 2009, and hopes that hir use of physical comedy and recognizable archetypes will make this a show accessible not only to folks who are already interested in gender fluidity, but also to folks who have never been introduced to the topic.

Links to Johnny Blazes:

• Official Website of Johnny Blazes
• Friend Johnny Blazes Myspace
• Find more Youtube videos of Johnny here
• The Femme Show

Spoken Word

Kit is a transgender boi, who has been slamming since he was 18 and has won numerous slams and toured all over the country. Kit has featured with nationally recognized poets like Jason Carney, Iyeoka Okoawo, Reggie Gibson and Michael Brown.

Before the age of 21, he landed a spot in the Lizard Lounge national slam team, competed in the Individual World Poetry Slam, and won the world’s largest slam. Kit’s words speak as if having a heart-to-heart with you, taking you to his home in Hawaii, to the streets of pride parades, and through his transition as an Asian American female to a male Transgender artist.

Kit’s pieces will bring you to tears as he navigates topics such as racism, sexism, and transphobia even within minority communities. Kit also uses comedy to speak to audiences providing a complete picture filled with positive and comedic stories about being queer, transgender, and Asian.

Currently he is one half of the nationally touring duo, The Good Asian Drivers, a music and spoken word group with award-winning composer and singer-songwriter Melissa Li.

Current Tour Schedule

Links:

Good Asian Drivers Website : the official Website of Good Asian Drivers, with more photo’s, music,  info, and an updated tour schedule.
Good Asian Drivers Myspace page : Friend the Good Asian Drivers on Myspace here!
Good Asian Drivers Youtube : find videos for Good Asian Drivers on Youtube!

(<–photo by Kelly G.)

Musician: Indie Folk, Roots, Americana

Joe Stevens is a singer/songwriter based on the west coast, and a modern day troubadour. Joe and his partner Ingrid Elizabeth travel the country as the group Coyote Grace with their debut studio album “Boxes and Bags.” “The Harvey Tour,” a live album from their year on the road in a 22 foot RV with singer/songwriter Courtney Robbins has also just been released!

Coyote Grace has had the honor of opening for Cris Williamson and the Indigo Girls, two of their great heroes. They were the recipient of the Stonewall Society’s Pride in the Arts Award for “Favorite Transgender Musician” and have been featured on many radio stations across the country. They have played and offered workshops at many colleges such as Brown University, Pitzer College, Carleton College, University of Arizona, and University of Wisconsin in La Crosse and Milwaukee. They have performed at FORGE Forward, the first Trans Conference in the Midwest, as well at Northampton and San Francisco Trans marches. This year they will be featured at the Southern Comfort Conference.

Touring constantly, Coyote Grace has covered the US a few times over, and will soon be back around again. Stay tuned!’

Check out these Coyote Grace Videos!

Connect with Joe Stevens here:

Official Coyote Grace Site

Myspace

Find Music by Coyote Grace here on Reverb Nation

…embracing melancholy with magical…

performing ‘The Neck Hater’ from Hear Them Howling: Surreal Fables and Mental Health Survival

“reflective and imaginative…an intimate moving experience”                                      - New Haven Pride Center

Amid cups of tea, mounds of fabric and thread, piles of cardboard, and altars of found objects, Geppetta fervently builds tiny heads and arms, sculpts mystical creatures, paints imaginary, yet nostalgic landscapes, and collects piles of rusty found objects. What crawls from the wreckage become twisted tales, whimsical puppet theater, and story-punk melodies described as “mournful but ingenious” with delightful twists and turns.

Inspired by classic fables and myths, occult symbolism, street art, and surrealism infused with a pension for social/ environmental activism and transfeminist sensibilities, Geppetta presents art/performance as a cryptic, yet politically aware language that is imaginative and enlightening.

Geppetta has been featured with the Tranny Roadshow, the Femme Show, and Puppet Uprising, and featured visual work with Fresh Meat Productions Defying Gravities and Critical Views through Red Sun Press among others. She is a principle artist and organizer for the upcoming Trans Fusions National Tour.

Additionally, she teaches art and social workshops at schools and universities across the country.

For further inquiries, commisions 0r booking, as well as forlorn love letters, please contact Geppetta at stitchingtentacles@gmail.com

Links:

Geppetta’s website

Stitching Tentacles – Geppetta’s Blog