Arts

Oxy Arts and the Media Arts & Culture Department present an evening of screening and conversation with Fox Maxy (Payómkawichum and Mesa Grande Band of Mission Indians), who is a filmmaker based in San Diego, CA. Her first feature length film, Gush, premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2023. For 2022-2024, she is a Vera List Center Borderlands Fellow. In 2020, COUSIN Collective supported the director with her first grant. Fox's work has screened at MoMA, TIFF, Rotterdam and BlackStar Film Festival.

Come celebrate the opening of The Iridescence of Knowing!

To close out the season, TQR (The Quarterless Review) presents a selection of poetry readings curated by Managing Editor Sarah Yanni. The invited poets will weave stories of queerness, joy, and placemaking, prompted by the various themes of for the sake of dancing in the street.

Featuring readings by Safia Elhillo, Ikram Lakhdhar, Yasmine Nasser Diaz, Ivanna Baranova, and Sarah Yanni. 

An evening of shorts and music videos curated by Womxn in Windows founder Zehra Zehra, exploring resistance through rhythm.

Please join us for an evening of short films and music videos highlighting the works of women and nonbinary artists and directors. The videos use dance and the body to express ideas that are important to each artist. Through these works we are called to explore acts of resistance through movement and sexuality as a response to identity, patriarchy, colonisation and our current political climate.

[CANCELLED] Unfortunately, the Making Space: Movement & Somatics for Body Liberation workshop scheduled for tonight (7/25 at 5:30pm) has been cancelled due to illness. All attendees have been emailed and donation-based tickets have been refunded.

We are deeply sorry for the last-minute notice—we were really looking forward to hosting everyone tonight! We invite you all to join us for our final programming for the summer season this Thursday (7/27) and Saturday (7/29) at OXY ARTS. 

JOYLAND is an Urdu and Punjabi-language Pakistani drama film written and directed by Saim Sadiq in his feature film directorial debut. It was the first Pakistani film to be shortlisted in the Best International Feature Film category at the 95th Academy Awards. It won the Jury Prize and Queer Palm Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. JOYLAND is an achingly honest, luminous drama tackling gender and desire.

This event is free and requires an RSVP. Tickets will be released two weeks prior to the event here.

This event is free and requires an RSVP. Tickets are available here.

Join us at the OXY ARTS gallery from 5:30-7:00 pm on June 29th for a free PRIDE themed workshop facilitated by artists Rory Hayes and Cielo Mansilla. This is an RSVP only event with a recommended age of 16+ due to potential discussion topics.

Rory and Cielo will be leading participants through a zine making and printmaking activity as well as providing ample space for open discussion about queer BIPOC resistance.

Join us for an art workshop facilitated by Mandy Harris Williams of the FCCW exploring the use of social media as a tool of resistance. Participants will consider and create through multiple mediums (visual, text, video, etc), innovate and share best practices, and develop their own social media praxis.

Register on the FCCW website here.

Join us at the OXY ARTS gallery from 5:30-7:00 pm on July 13th for a free workshop/drop-in session facilitated by our staff. We will be creating collage art while under the inspiration of our current exhibition.

for the sake of dancing in the street is a group exhibition celebrating the interconnectedness of feminist and queer resistance. Featured artists include LASTESIS, Morehshin Allahyari, and Yasmine Nasser Diaz.