Femina Potens was first a theater co. dedicated to producing original works by local women playwrights, actors, and directors. Femina Potens was formed in Cincinnati, OH. Artistic Director, Tina Butcher, made her west coast move out to SF in summer of 2001 to perform with Woman's Will - the bay area's all women Shakespeare theater co.
By December of 2001, Tina had decided to start a women's art space and found Femina Potens first home - a garage in the Upper Haight 625 1/2 Shrader.
By July of 2002 Tina moved Femina Potens to a large warehouse space in Bayview/ Hunters Point where we featured such artists as Angela Regas, Mari Schaal, Michelle Tea, Aphrodites Hymen, Dumbwaiter, The Reputation, Blevin Blechdom, LA, Dominatrix, Seraphim, MS E, Ultraviolet, along with open mic poetry events and anarchist crochet circles.
In 2003 Femina Potens then moved to its 800 sq. ft gallery space in the San Francisco Mission district where the gallery started to flourish. In May of 2003 Femina Potens found a fiscal sponsor (SF Media Archive) and in November of 2004 we changed fiscal sponsorship to Queer Cultural Center and through them have received non-profit status. In the past 4 years Femina Potens has produced nearly 300 art and cultural events for the LGBTQ,women,trans,queer and kink communities in San Francisco. Producing monthly spoken word open mic events, queer film screenings, music and dance events, and month visual art openings. Femina Potens has been recognized for its work in the community by Bitch Magazine, Curve Magazine, MTV's LOGO,Herbivore Magazine, Japan's FOIL Magazine, HERE TV, QTV,San Francisco Guradian,SF Weekly, SF Chronicle,London's Skin Two Magazine and more.
WE ARE NOW IN THE CASTRO!! There is a large store-front window (old Image Leather store--a landmark of the Castro) located at 2199 Market St. at Sanchez San Francisco CA 94114 one block from the Church MUNI Station.
Femina Potens has worked to bring the best women and transgendered artists to the community, coupling world renowned visual and performing artists with talented new emerging artists. These multi-generational performances and exhibitions encourage to artists to thrive while well established artists and heroines stand on the same stage or placed on the same wall acting as mentors for fledgling artists.
Femina Potens has had the honor of presenting such artists as Judith Halberstam,Annie Sprinkle, Michelle Tea, Carol Queen,Diane Diprima,Charlie Anders,Thea Hillman,Lynne Breedlove,Nina Hartley,and collaborating with organizations such as Ladyfest Bayarea,Fresh Meat Productions, United Genders of the Universe, BAVAC, Sex Workers Film and Art Festival, The Center for Sex and Culture.
Femina Potens Exhbition Series is sponsored by the Zellerbach Foundation and our Best of the Bay winning spoken word and open mic series is sponsored by the San Francisco Arts Commission and APOCHE. Femina Potens non profit fiscal sponsor is the Queer Cultural Center. .
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Interested in starting a workshop?
Rental for workshops is only $25 an hour. If you are interested in throwing a queer event at Femina Potens on an available weekend the space is available for $125 for the evening.
Femina Potens is always interested in hosting new workshops for the women,trans,queer, and kink community. In the past we have hosted workshops such as queer yoga,knitting, screen printing,video workshops,martial arts, self defense, writing workshops,craft workshops, and trantric workshops. So if you have been itching to start a discussion group on gender fluidity or support for sex worker's partners or a knit and bitch group contact Tina Butcher at feminapotens@gmail.com to get it started.
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Femina Potens is always looking for new artists and new volunteers and interns. Please send all visual art submissions to
Femina Potens
1305 Franklin #600
Oakland CA 94612
This is only our postal address. Femina Potens Storefront Gallery is located at
2199 Market St
SF,CA 94114
If interested in submitting to our monthly film screening series "Open Eyes," please contact Tina Butcher at feminapotens@gmail.com
If you are interested in featuring at Femina Potens spoken word and open mic series, Sizzle, please email Tina Butcher at feminapotens(at)gmail.com. You will need to come to Sizzle and read at the open mic before you can be booked as a feature unless you are from out of town and will be touring through SF during a 2nd Saturday. If you are from out of town you will need to send Tina Butcher an audio or preferably a video of you reading at another event or if you are a published author a list of books where your writing can be found.
If interested in finding out about our upcoming events visit http://www.feminapotenscalendar/calendar/ for details on upcoming events.
Kahramanları
Who is the woman on the front page with the glasses?
This is our logo and it also happens to be our founder Tina Butcher's Great Grandmother. Butcher comes from a long line of queer women. Women who were pushing boundaries for their time challenging political climates in regards to race, gender dynamics, sexuality, unionization,and independence.
What does Femina Potens mean?
Femina Potens is Latin for "Powerful Women". Femina Potens is not only dedicated to promoting biological "women". We are dedicated to the advancement and visibility of any one who currently,in the future, or has in the past identified as a woman or has lived life in the female body under female constructs. Everyone is welcome at Femina Potens of all genders and sexual identities.
Exhibitions of queer and erotic photography at our gallery.
Femina Potens Some photos from last nights' Art of Restraint are on our Flickr page. http://lnk.ms/36rRt Thanks to those who participated and came out! Pazartesi - Ping.fm devamı
Hakkımda: Femina Potens is a non-profit LGBTQ Arts Organization founded in 2000 by Tina Butcher and Co-founder Madison Young. Femina Potens is dedicated to the advancement of the female and transgendered community in the arts by providing opportunities, awareness, and advocacy.
Our mission is accomplished through monthly thematic visual art exhibitions and a series of film screenings, literacy and performance events which raise public awareness and recognition of women and transgendered cultural contributions.
More fun Femina info at our website www.feminapotens.org
Kimle tanışmak isterim: *****How can I get involved with Femina Potens?*****
We can always use volunteers and interns. More than ever we need the support of our community. We need grant writers, legal advice, venues to be donated for fundraisers, the support of other community spaces and artists in San Francisco. Email us at feminapotens@gmail.com. We will return all of your emails- we promise, scouts honor. Below is a list of volunteer positions and internships available at this time. Thank you.
Volunteer and Internships available:
*Outreach and community involvement intern - help organize street art events, performance art, music, and graffiti art. Bringing it to the streets.
*Youth outreach volunteers - help develop workshops to get young women and girls involved in the arts
*Flyrrrr girls & boys - (flyer design, making monthly calendars, flyering, putting up cool stickers, setting up FP booths at events to hand out free goodies and flyers)
*FUNdRaising Team - (organizing fundraising events and projects, getting donations from businesses and private sponsors)
*security for events
*sound and lighting interns
*legal assistance
*accountants familiar with non profits
*****Who supports Femina Potens financially?*****
Femina Potens is supported by the artist community of San Francisco. That means you and me. Support LGBTQ arts organizations and recieve a Tax Deduction. Send a check with your name and contact information to QCC,Attn: Lavette Virden,934 Brannan St, San Francisco,CA 94103.
Make sure to make checks out to QCC and to mark in the memo - Femina Potens Donation. Femina Potens is creating programming our new Castro location and needs the communities help more than ever to help support the advancement of women and trans artists. Pay pal donations can also be accepted at madison@madisonbound.com. Please note For Femina Potens and your name and info in order to recieve a tax deductable reciept.
*****Are men allowed in Femina Potens?*****
Of course, we love men too. This isn't about a battle of the sexes or about excluding men in anyway. This is about creating an art space that is positive for women and transgendered persons. You can't create equality between the genders by excluding men. This is not a man-hating environment, but one of empowerment for women, transfolk, and genderqueers.
I felt there was a need for Femina Potens after going to show after show and wondering where the fuck all the women were. Then I noticed that they were in the audience swooning over the guys w/ guitars like they were gods.
I want to see more women and transfolk picking up a guitar, picking up drum sticks, a bass, stepping up to a key board... This is our stage too damn it and why should our money be going into supporting an industry that is dominated by men?
I love men. I love guys who play guitar and drums. But I think there is a problem that has to do with women, transfolk, and genderqueers feeling that it’s not valid for them to express themselves and their opinions. Music and art allow a person to be honest and put themselves out there in a raw and vulnerable way that is usually not "socially acceptable".
I'm disheartened when I find young girls and transfolk in an audience looking up at a stage full of white geeky emo boys who are putting their little broken hearts out there and letting us all hear about it, while that person has to go in the corner and confide to her/his/heir journal what she/ze/he feels. Far away from the eyes of the public.
And if all those thoughts were being published and on bookshelves everywhere things might be different. But those voices mainly stayed tucked away in a knapsack and then the bottom of shoe box or cedar chest.
This is why I felt a need for Femina Potens. I want transfolk, women, and genderqueers, especially our youth to see that women and transdudes and ladies rock. There are great, fabulous women, transgendered, and genderqueer artists, writers, directors, performance artists, teachers, musicians, healing artists, and more that are female-identified or female-bodied or identify somewhere outside of the gender binary system. I want men to know that grrrls and transfolk rock too. Time to take stage. Make your Voice Heard!
An evening of queer feathers, fishnets, love lost and found, burlesque, spoken word, puppets, Shakespeare, return of the comic Poor Little Dyke Girl by Katie Kaapcke, also featuring Cynthia Brinkman, Shaunna Vella, Jennifer Jijour, Ms Puzzle, Erin Maxwell, Antonietta DelliCarpini, Rose Miller, trashcanpoet, Chavez Vasquez, Sage, DJ RollioX and a power ballad or two from CAMP OUT!!!!
Valentines never felt so VA VA VOOOOM!
...And now for some Valentines VooDoo: EVERYONE should BRING an item or token of LOVE (lost or found) to deposit into QGTP's LOVE LOST and FOUND box. Upon leaving all those who put a piece in will be able to take another piece with them home, a lucky love item to remember the evening by...
You don't want to miss the MAGIC!
QGTP's PIECE OF MY HEART Thursday, February 12th @ 8pm Femina Potens 2199 Market $5-10
