A local community archive is dedicated to preserving and sharing local LGBTQ+ history. Plus, a celebration of queer and trans performers in an upcoming dance festival. And your weekend preview.
NEW PODCAST: Join KPBS under the neon glow of the historic Les Girls Theater for Stripper Energy: Fighting Back from the Fringes.S1: It's time for Midday Edition on KPBS. Our arts and culture show walks us through San Diego's queer history and then takes us to the Queer Movement Festival. Plus , we'll talk about the Expo Design market happening this weekend. Here's to conversations that keep you informed , inspired , and make you think.
S1: Yeah. Well , I heard you also mention oral history projects , and the archive contains many oral histories. You actually provided us with some tape of local activist Julia Legaspi. Let's take a listen. S5: This festival is really life saving. Saving for me , for myself , and for a lot of folks in the community who felt , you know , that they didn't fit in anywhere else.
S1: So this year's theme is connection Past and Present to uplift queer lineage in and community. Can you unpack that for me ? Yeah. S1: And a huge priority of the festival is uplifting Bipoc artists. And that includes partnering with Tijuana based artists. S6: I kind of always craved a very community centric event that had that specific design focus. So tapping into different aspects of design , like fashion or even music and design goods , and also tapping into publishing , because I found myself having to go to LA for like LA or book fair or other book focused events and kind of wanted to see that come to San Diego and tap into the local community here.
S6: Absolutely. Design is really such a pillar for so many things. We experience it on a daily basis , and I mean similarly with art as well. But San Diego has such a rich design history and art in architecture history , and I feel like now we've been seeing kind of the design aspect of that history being tapped into a little bit more.
S7: I mean , I see a lot of this , mostly with performance art. Um , like the Mingus International Museum will bring in community groups into their space for performances like a , like a dance or a musical performance. Or the San Diego Museum of Art will host concerts. But what I love about this expo is that it's still visual design , is visual art , and it's it's kind of elevating it to a different platform and audience.
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