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[emchy]

I want to give a public thank you to the awesome people who made last nights show possible. It was a little crazy at some points to realize - it was going - it has started and i couldn't pull it back in and stop it. You made the ride smooth and awesome and really when you all came together on that stage and made those hearts on your sleeves bleed - you made some serious magic.

First to the most awesome of performative title card bear/ers - imnotandrei holy crap. you were so good. absolutely just awesome. both with your charm, sass, and dandyness on stage - but also with the pre-show grounding of the host. you made the night in so many ways. thank you. thank you. thank you.

HumilitySwim - you made words into movement. You pulled it all together. You got innovative and evocative and powerful and damn I love dance. Thank you for bringing your skin and souls and muscle and blood and sweat and awesome to the stage. Hot damn.

stramdagger - damn you made me cry. damn you made me feel. damn you just fucking nailed it. family and love and all of the parts in and around and between. i love working with you. i loved watching you. your words and music and how you brought them together gave me chills and goosebumps. wow. Thank you.

mollena - holy shit gurl. i knew what you originally planned to read. and when you started i knew you had picked a new path and your words knocked me over. you made me laugh - you always do - but you made me cry too. and you made me so happy for your journey and for me getting to be a part of it. you brought so much naked to that stage - literally and figuratively :) thank you.

final_girl - is it possible that you impress me more everytime? Your words and the film touched parts of my core that I usually shy from - but you touch them and they burn beautiful. I loved what you gave the audience. I loved how you gave it. Every person there got some magic to take home and grow into beautiful things. Thank you for planting the seeds. Thank you for caring so incredibly much. Thank you.

Sabrina Alonso - the things you do with film. oh my god. thank you for your awesome images and how you brought them together and used language and text and everything to create something with final_girl that is haunting me in the best possible way. Thank you.

bionicfemme - You were a total pro up there. You read so well, you got laughs and sighs of understanding, and the breath intakes of people being touched and you did damn good. Thank you for sharing your stories. You broke hard to get those adventures - but without the talent in your heart and text, they would just be stories. You make them more than that and you make them beautiful. You were great. I am honored to have curated your first feature. Thank you.

justin42 - It was such a joy to me to have you on that stage. Your words are so often on the page for me. To see them realized and aloud and turning ordinary air into these glittering moments of intense and soft and hard and painful and amazing and perfect... it was so warm on my heart. It made me smile in so many ways. I can't wait to see you do this more. I am glad that I got to be your first public reading(a while ago) and your first feature (tonight). You brought so much of your raw self to this. You were so good. Thank you.

justin42 & stramdagger - ok damn - awesome - and thank you for sharing your bro-mance. Words actually kinda fail me for how much that made me feel. just. damn. thank you.

and lastly - a HUGE thank you to the Maestro of Tech - Chris Dunaway - she rocked, she rolled, and the show wouldn't have happened without her. THANK YOU! OMG.

and one more last - of course - thank you to the National Queer Arts Fest for putting this on. To the Queer Cultural Center for giving the show a grant so that we could make it as uber awesome as possible - and to Pam Penniston personally - for being so incredibly supportive.

Comments

[imnotandrei.livejournal.com]

And thank you for inviting me, and for organizing a great event!

(And my pleasure for the grounding. I've had enough people have to do it to me over the years to get familiar with how it's done. ;) )

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

:) i am not quite used to it - the grounding - but i was spinning a little more than usual pre show - so it was way crazy appreciated. you are teh awesome.

[bionicfemme.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Cindy. It was so much fun and such a great experience. I am honored that you chose me to be in it.