Outsider Fest
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Outsider Fest, stylized as OUTsider Fest, is an nonprofit organization based in Austin, Texas, focused on promoting fine and performing arts in diverse and underrepresented communities, most notably the LGBT community. Outsider Fest has been ongoing since its first festival in 2015.[1]
History[edit]
In 2013, founder Curran Nault and his team started planning their first fest, which was held in February, 2015. Nault believed that out-of-the-box creators could contribute to a space in which people who felt like outsiders, particularly those in the LGBT community, could be comfortable and could come together in a more intimate setting.[2] Outsider Fest allows many marginalized voices to take center stage, ensuring queer communities are heard.[3] The Outsider Fest usually happens every year in February, lasting around 4-6 days. It is typically hosted at The Vortex, a theatre venue in Austin.
Past Performers[edit]
Since Outsider Fest’s debut, it has featured many prominent artists and performers (listed below), several of whom are from the Austin area.
2015: Tribe 8, Diana Ross’ 12-Inch Cock, Welcome…to the Waldorf HYSteria, All Kinds of Hell, Angmo and Amoi, Shane Shane, Gretchen’s Disco Plague, and Total Unicorn
2016: Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, Screen Queens: The Queer Filmmakers of Texas, La Chica Boom
2017: Sandy Stone, Rudy Ramirez, Amber Bemak, Nadia Granados, -Gabriel Sanabria, José Luis Sanabria, Sebastian Turner, and Olivia Warner for their short film Kuniklo- , and drag trash queen Christeene[4]
2018: Lizzie Borden (Born in Flames), Jesse Factor (actor), Brontez Purnell[5]
2019: Heather Acs, Brontez Purnell, Xandra Ibarra, and Silas Howard for satire “Our future ends”, actor Jesus I. Valles ((un)documents)[1]
2020: Christeene, alongside Bed Tundee, T Gravel and Dawg Elf[6], Dorian Wood
2021: singers Dorian Wood, Phranc, Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, Xandra Ibarra (La Chica Boom), and Nia & Ness[7]
2022: Kiki and Herb, Carmina Escobar, Lechedevirgen Trimegisto, Maria Perkances, and Manu Huesca[8]
Winners of Outsider Legacy Awards[edit]
The Outsider Legacy Award is given to queer artists who are out as members of the LGBTQ+ community.[9] Candidates for the award have been described as eccentric or having other unique qualities that set them apart from their peers.[9] The award also serves to bring these artists’ work into a wider historical context.[10]
2015: Tribe 8, a queer punk band, was the first recipient of the OUTsider Legacy Award
2016: Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, a self-proclaimed “post-porn modernist” and an ecological sex artist respectively
2017: Sandy Stone, an academic, author, and performance artist who founded a New Media program known as ACTLab (Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory) at the University of Texas at Austin[4]
2018: Lizzie Borden, a filmmaker lauded for her 1983 sci-fi film Born In Flames, a representation of queer and feminist ideas[10]
2019: Phranc, a musician and visual artist, known as “The All-American Jewish Lesbian Folk Singer”, or alternately, “The Cardboard Cobbler”[9]
2020: Chavela Vargas, a queer Mexican singer who was the first posthumous recipient of the award. Costa Rican-American singer Dorian Wood performed a tribute in Chavela’s honor at the festival.[11]
2021: In a breaking of tradition, past Legacy recipients Phranc, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, and Dorian Wood each chose artists whom they honored with a hypothetical award.[12]
2022: Kiki (Justin Vivian Bond) and Herb (Kenny Mellman), a cabaret duo
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Marloff, Sarah. "Austin's OUTsider Queer Transmedia Fest Turns Five." Austin Chronicle [Austin], 15 Feb. 2019. Austin Chronicle, www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2019-02-15/austins-outsider-queer-transmedia-fest-turns-five/. Accessed 18 Oct. 2022.
- ↑ Macias, Rebeccah. "Annual OUTsider festival celebrates LGBTQ community for sixth year." Austin American-Statesman [Austin], 21 Feb. 2020. Austin American-Statesman, www.statesman.com/story/entertainment/dance/2020/02/21/annual-outsider-festival-celebrates-lgbtq-community-for-sixth-year/1661155007/. Accessed 18 Oct. 2022.
- ↑ Watkins, Josh. "OUTsider Fest to 'Unlock the Cabinet of QUEERIOSITIES' in Austin."Spectrum South, 15 Feb. 2019, www.spectrumsouth.com/outsider-fest-2019/. Accessed 25 Oct. 2022.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Van Middlesworth, Rachel. "OUTsider Fest's Wild Roots." The Austin Chronicle [Austin], 14 Feb. 2017. The Austin Chronicle, www.austinchronicle.com/daily/arts/2017-02-14/outsider-fests-wild-roots/. Accessed 18 Oct. 2022.
- ↑ Watkins, Josh. "OUT of Time: OUTsider Queer Transmedia Fest Returns to Austin." Spectrum South, 8 Feb. 2018, www.spectrumsouth.com/outsider-fest-austin/. Accessed 25 Oct. 2022.
- ↑ "OUTsider 2022: Unplugged." The Austin Chronicle [Austin], 2022. The Austin Chronicle, www.austinchronicle.com/events/qmmunity/arts-and-culture/outsider-2022-unplugged-2878249/. Accessed 26 Oct. 2022.
- ↑ Scott, James. "OUTsider Festival Beams Us Up and Away to a Gayass Galaxy Far, Far Away." Austin Chronicle [Austin], 2 Feb. 2021. Austin Chronicle, www.austinchronicle.com/daily/qmmunity/2021-02-05/outsider-festival-beams-us-up-and-away-to-a-gayass-galaxy-far-far-away/. Accessed 18 Oct. 2022.
- ↑ Ivan Alvarez-Ibarra, César. "I Howled: OUTsider Fest 2022." QT Voices, 7 July 2022, https://sites.utexas.edu/queerandtransvoices/2022/07/i-howled-outsider-fest-2022/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-howled-outsider-fest-2022. Accessed 26 Oct. 2022.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Sullivan, Beth. “Queer Music Forerunner Phranc Receives OUTsider Legacy Award." The Austin Chronicle [Austin], 19 Feb. 2019. The Austin Chronicle, www.austinchronicle.com/daily/qmmunity/2019-02-19/queer-music-forerunner-phranc-recieves-outsider-legacy-award/. Accessed 18 Oct. 2022.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Sullivan, Beth. "OUTsider Fest 2018 Legacy Award." The Austin Chronicle [Austin], 13 Feb. 2018. The Austin Chronicle, www.austinchronicle.com/daily/qmmunity/2018-02-13/outsider-fest-2018-legacy-award/. Accessed 18 Oct. 2022.
- ↑ Zaragoza, Diane. "Singer Dorian Wood Channels This Year's OUTsider Festival Legacy Award Winner Chavela Vargas." The Austin Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2020. The Austin Chronicle, www.austinchronicle.com/daily/qmmunity/2020-02-19/singer-dorian-wood-channels-this-years-outsider-festival-legacy-award-winner-chavela-vargas/. Accessed 25 Oct. 2022.
- ↑ Sullivan, Beth. “Qmmunity: OUTsider Arts Fest Gets Weird N' Queer This Weekend. "The Austin Chronicle [Austin], 19 Feb. 2019. The Austin Chronicle [Austin], www.austinchronicle.com/columns/2021-03-05/qmmunity-outsider-arts-fest-gets-weird-n-queer-this-weekend/. Accessed 25 Oct. 2022.
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