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Harvey Milk Festival’s art exhibit this year, “HOPE WILL NEVER BE SILENT,” will feature both established and young emerging artists that promote LGBTQIA human experiences through their work.
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HMF ART will open the festivities in collaboration with Seattle-based artist Jono Vaughan's 'Project 42', which harnesses movement as a vehicle of memorialization and activism in memory of 42 transgender individuals who were hate crime victims. The number 42 symbolizes the life expectancy of transgender individuals in the United States. Collaborating Sarasota-based dance and aerial artists Jessica Pope, Mackenzie Pierson and Melissa Marshall will interpret stories behind Project 42 through movement, adorned in Jono's vibrant Project 42 garments, back by video documentation of previous collaborations.
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This year with support from The Sarasota Fund, The McCauley-Brown Fund, and The Community Foundation, HMF granted three scholarships in the areas of visual art, music, and theatre to students age 13-25. Artwork and performances by young artists and 2017 scholars inspired by Harvey Milk's quote, 'Hope will never be silent,' will be featured during the first hour of HMF ART. The young artists will be present to discuss their work. In addition, Lucky Bruno and his ensemble of stilt walkers will dazzle HMF ART gallery goers with interactive roaming routines in the courtyard. |
'Inflamed'A collaboration by artists and activists Chaplin Christopher Jones, Ted Kerr, Niknaz, and LJ Roberts will feature an experimental video intervention titled 'Inflamed' which threads together the imperial foundation of latex and the ongoing AIDS crisis with marginalized communities.
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HMF THEATER
On May 12, HMF THEATRE will host 'Pioneer Winter: Alone Vignettes', a series of vignettes from multiple works woven together into an intimate and provocative evening of dance performed by Miami-based choreographer Pioneer Winter.
Director of the Pioneer Winter Collective, Winter will include the vignette 'PIE SOLO,' a reinterpretation of the 'one-man show,' where faith in religion and culture from the vantage points of sexuality, age, and queerness is examined. Please note: Mature themes and nudity are part of performance. Winter will also present a workshop, open to all, on Saturday afternoon. |
$10 Students with ID
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Magic Sword is a multimedia experience created by an anonymous music producer and comic illustrator Shay Plummer. The project uses the combined power of music and comics to tell the fantastic story of the Magic Sword – a weapon of infinite power left to be guarded by an enigmatic character named The Keeper. Magic Sword made its live debut to a packed venue at the 2013 Treefort Music Fest. Over the next year and a half, Magic Sword brought capacity crowds to downtown Boise’s biggest clubs and shared bills with the likes of Odesza and Slow Magic.
Following a series of street-level guerrilla concerts in Portland as well as four tracks getting placed in GoPro’s “Streets of Japan” documentary, Magic Sword entered 2015 to a flurry of international interest surrounding the act’s involvement with the hotly anticipated video game Hotline Miami 2 and the re-release of Volume One via Tender Loving Empire. |
MUSIC SCHEDULE:2:20 PM Opening Ceremony with HMF Founder and President Shannon Fortner
2:30 to 3:00 PM Lesa Silvermore Band 3:15 to 3:45 PM TGTG 4:00 to 4:30 PM Tiger Fawn 4:45 to 5:15 PM Wordsmith 5:30 to 6:05 PM Sarah and the Safe Word 6:05 to 6:20 PM Keynote Speaker Steven Romero 6:20 to 7:00 PM Fayroy 7:15 to 7:55 PM Ess See 8:10 to 8:50 PM Astralis 8:50 to 9:05 PM Remembering Harvey 'I Am Harvey' Video 9:05 to 9:50 PM Vita and The Woolf 10:05 to 10:50 PM Ki:Theory 11:05 to 12:00 PM Magic Sword Five Points Park Sarasota, Florida 34236 |
Ki:Theory (pronounced “Key Theory”) is the alias for American recording artist and producer, Joel Burleson, who specializes in alternative rock and electronic. He and his band have toured nationwide US, Canada, Japan and Korea. He has done commissioned remixes for Daft Punk/Tron: Legacy, Kings of Leon, Queens of the Stone Age, Cypress Hill, Rob Zombie, UNKLE, Rodrigo y Gabriela with Hans Zimmer, Brazilian Girls, Kasabian and MuteMath amongst others. Ki:Theory’s remix for Daft Punk’s “The Son Of Flynn” for Tron: Legacy was featured on the official remix album, Tron Legacy R3C0NF1GUR3D. His cover of Depeche Mode’s ‘Enjoy The Silence’ is featured in the new film ‘Ghost in The Shell.’ Vertical Divider
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Vita and the Woolf is the sound of operatic vocals meeting neo-soul synth pop. Driven by the anthemic voice of front woman, Jennifer Pague and supported by the dynamic drumming of Adam Shumski, Vita and the Woolf has been melding cross-genre influences in their powerhouse electronic style since their first EP Fang Song came out in 2014. Originally inspired by the love relationship between novelists Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, the name “Vita and the Woolf” was chosen while Pague was studying abroad in Europe in 2012. Upon returning to the states and going through a variety of line-up changes, the band has since solidified as a collaboration between Pague and Shumski. In the past year this configuration of Vita and the Woolf has been featured on the Urban Outfitters Music Blog, NYLON Magazine, and other regional and national media outlets as the band gears up for their upcoming album release in 2017. Stay tuned for more info about “TUNNELS”, the band’s new full length record |
ESS SEE (Sarah Cobb) was raised in Arkansas, and now calls Brooklyn home. For years, she spent her daylight hours at a desk, and her nights crafting addictive melodies from the privacy of her bedroom. All those nights added up to something: a sultry, vibey brand of pop that’s “kind of like BANKS raised on Nirvana or Sonic Youth.” (Crack in the Road) With an impressive range of vocals, and bold lyrics that explore themes of identity, intimacy, and individuality, ESS SEE is a breath of fresh air—both onstage and off. Her debut EP, “Ordinary Woman,” was released on January 13, 2017 Vertical Divider
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There is a really cool revival of the classic rock sound that a lot of us remember our parent’s blasting when we were kids going on in South Florida right now and FayRoy are right at the heart of it. Heaven At Twenty Seven is an ethereal musical trip down memory lane with smooth guitar leads and synth lines that are as bright as the moon on a clear Florida night. Lead singer Zack Hoag’s vocals flit and flutter over top in a way that is still assertive; masterfully blending into the soundscape rather than fighting it. FayRoy is comprised of Indian Rocks Beach Florida locals Zachary Hoag and Kyle Fournier as well as close friends Greyson Charnock (Someday River) and Dallas Eubanks (The Jackettes). The band’s psychedelic garage rock influences are fused together with the atmosphere of the New England occult and 1960’s surf culture. |
“Baby, I’m the best kind of wrong,” croons vocalist Sarah Rose on Sarah and the Safe Word’s new album, Strange Doings in the Night. She means it. Since releasing their first EP Afterlife, the four-piece has played the main stage at GMX in Nashville, successfully completed a $1,000+ crowdfunding campaign, been invited to open for and play with several national touring acts, and been produced by Ace Enders (The Early November) and Bradley Walden (Emarosa). With a sound that speaks nostalgically of days gone by and a future that never came, Sarah and the Safe Word promise an experience like no other. Exploring sounds reminiscent of cabaret, vaudeville, southern gothicism, swing, and – of course – rock and roll, the band urges enthusiastic victi- er, listeners – to step inside, get strapped in, and prepare for one very, very, peculiar evening. Vertical Divider
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Wordsmith is the always-professional, ever-expanding, world-wide movement based out of Baltimore, MD. His mission is to entertain and educate through a Message of Purpose, and always by example relate that message through clean, quality, and marketable Music for the Masses. For four years running, Wordsmith has been the performing artist for students at local inner-city schools for the annual Red Day Festival. Wordsmith started entering middle schools to deliver Anti-Bully lectures/performances along with joining Baltimore based Homeless Shelter Project to feed and provide gifts to their clients. Recently, Wordsmith debuted his Studio to the Stage: A Hip Hop Fundamentals Workshop during his American Music Abroad Tour to Africa and Israel. |
Loop guru Tiger Fawn has become a force to be reckoned with in the nebulous realms between pop and experimental music. Hers is a sound that shares sonic space with shoegaze, electronic and the weirder end of the FM radio dial. Though the project was once a band, Tiger Fawn and Lacerda are now one and the same – art melding with artist, emphasis on Art.” — Matthew Moyer (Music Editor, ‘Orlando Weekly’) Vertical Divider
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