The Dirty Looks Roadshow is finally here! Thanks to your help, today we head west in order to give our first of eight appearances across the West Coast. Beginning with a conversation with SF curator Margaret Tedesco and a sampling of works from the FEMALE TROUBLE program on Thursday February 9th at California College of the Arts and rounding out in Portland, OR Feb. 23rd, we hope that you'll come out to, as they say, represent.

Or, if you're more easternly inclined, you can follow our westward expansion at our ROADSHOW TUMBLR! Check out some of the great dates below! (note, the below listed are the public dates. We will also be doing private university dates intermittently...) 

San Francisco//

//Thursday, Feb 9, 7PM Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts @ CCA, 1111 8th Street, Timken Hall. Screening selections from the FEMALE TROUBLE program and a conversation with Margaret Tedesco. Admission is free.

//Friday, Feb 10, 8PM City of Lost Souls, a trans punk musical by Rosa von Praunheim, starring Jayne County @ Artists' Television Access, 922 Valencia Street. $5

//Sunday, February 12, 2PM FEMALE TROUBLE, a Genderfuck Program @ YBCA 701 Mission Street (at 3rd), as part of the series Bros Before Hos: Masculinity and its Discontents, featuring film and video by Steven Arnold, Rick Castro, Vaginal Davis, Zackary Drucker, Matthias Müller, Narcissister, Patti Podesta and Conrad Ventur. $8

Los Angeles//

//Tuesday, Feb 14, 7PM Dirty Looks: Long Distance Love Affairs (co-curated by Darin Klein) @ The Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd. Featuring works by Cecilia Dougherty, Deanna Erdmann, Rhys Ernst, Glen Fogel, Mariah Garnett, Jonesy, Dani Leventhal, Charles Ludlam, Narcissister, Luther Price and Michael Robinson. Free admission, cash bar.

//Thursday, Feb 16, 8PM FEMALE TROUBLE, a Genderfuck Program @ Human Resources 410 Cottage Home Street, with Rick Castro, Zackary Drucker and Narcissister in attendance! $8 suggested donation.

Portland//
Thursday, Feb 23, 8PM FEMALE TROUBLE, a Genderfuck Program @ Grand Detour 215 SE Morrison, Suite 2020 $3-$6 sliding scale admission.

Check out the toursite for more information. If you live in any of these great cities, we hope that you'll come out! If you're around to enjoy us locally, mark your calendars for that leap year date, February 29th, when Dirty Looks returns to New York's historic Judson Memorial Church with the double bill: Kenneth Anger/ Michelle Handelman!

Thank you for all of your help.

xDL

Thanks to your support, Dirty Looks will be touring the West Coast this February, starting with a lecture at California College of the Arts as part of the Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts on the 9th and finishing with a Portland screening of the FEMALE TROUBLE program on Thursday the 23rd at Grand Detour. In between, we have screenings and talks scheduled at Artists' Television Access, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Hammer Museum, Human Resources gallery, Otis and Pacific Northwest College of the Arts. Along the way, we will be joined by artists Rick Castro, Zackary Drucker, Deanna Erdmann, Mariah Garnett, Jonesy, Narcissister and more TBA! Check out our new website to see when the DL Roadshow is coming to you!

Take a tour through the recently relaunched Dirty Looks site where you can find all of our past events archived with respective flyers, podcasts and publications for your future reference and downloading pleasure. You can also find the details of our upcoming exclusive East Coast screening of the Long Distance Love Affairs program (from a program originally devised for Valentine's Day at the Hammer Museum with co-curator Darin Klein) at Yale University, sponsored by the GLBT and Film Studies programs. The Yale screening will take place on Thursday January 19th, at 7pm. There is a caravan, of sorts, for everyone who wishes to attend the event. Please contact us at dirtylooksnyc@gmail.com for more information.

And if you live in NYC, be sure to check out our upcoming event: CHARLES ATLAS! an evening of video work that spans 20 years, featuring performances by Leigh Bowery, porn star Carlos Morales (in Atlas's little known, singular foray into pornography) and a premiere of material from Turning, Atlas's recent feature-length collaboration with Antony and the Johnsons. The screening will be the first held at our new location, Judson Memorial Church, Wednesday January 25th at 8:30 PM.

Thank you for bringing Dirty Looks into 2012 in style. Without you, none of this would have been possible!

xDL

Thank you everyone for your help. I am very pleased to announce that the first two screenings for Dirty Looks' West Coast roadshow will take place at the UCLA Hammer Museum and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

On Sunday, February 12th 2pm, we will screen the FEMALE TROUBLE program (including works by Steven Arnold, Vaginal Davis, Zackary Drucker, Matthias Müller, Patti Podesta, Conrad Ventur) as part of a Masculinity in Film (!) series at the Yerba Buena center 701 Mission Street

And on Tuesday, February 14th, 7pm I have collaborated with Darin Klein for Dirty Looks: Long Distance Love Affairs at the UCLA Hammer Museum! This is a free event combines works by LA and East Coast artists and will include works by Cecilia Dougherty, Deanna Erdmann, Rhys Ernst, Glen Fogel, Mariah Garnett, Jonesy, Dani Leventhal, Charles Ludlam, Narcissister, Luther Price and Michael Robinson.

More events will be announced soon, but I wanted to share the exciting news with you first as a thanks for your generous donations and support.

all my best,

Bradford Nordeen

We have reached our goal of $5,000 thanks to the 89 of you who pitched in and helped Dirty Looks grow to the next level! In the upcoming weeks, we wil be finalizing travel plans for the West Coast tour (which will occur in late September) and host August 31st's rooftop screening of KUCHARS! with a publication (and the first title in our digital subscription bundle) curated by [ 2nd floor projects ] featuring contributions by Nathaniel Dorsky, Johnny Ray Huston, Kevin Killian, Melinda McDowell, Anne McGuire, Margaret Tedesco, John Waters, Steven Wolf and more. And don't forget the benefit tonight!

In the next couple days we'll send out this survey to inquire as to you addresses and shirt sizes, etc. but for now we at Dirty Looks just want to share our unconditional thanks. THANK YOU for supporting us and seeing that our program grows, for supporting the artists that have made Dirty Looks a monthly destination! Thank you for making this fundraising a possibility in the very short amount of time that we had allotted for the campaign. Thank you.

~DL

We are pleased to announce that we have reached 80% of our pledge, but with 2 days remaining we urge you to share our cause with others (direct email, facebook, blog or twitter) and to consider increasing your pledge in order to help us meet our goal. Dirty Looks runs on door donations and cannot continue without the funds this campaign would afford us.

Pledge or Increase now

Dirty Looks DVD

Dirty Looks has collaborated with many of the artists and filmmakers who have participated in recent screenings to compile a DVD of film and video works. These works are exclusive to this DVD and cannot be commercially acquired elsewhere. The disc is a complimentary benefit to the $60 pledge.

Titles include:

Zackary Drucker, Fish, 2008

Glen Fogel, Warrior, 2009

Paul Mpagi Sepuya, A Separate Peace, 2009

Narcissister, Every Woman, 2010

Luther Price, Home, 1999

Luther Price, Mother, 1999

Michael Robinson, All Through The Night, 2008

Michael Robinson, Victory Over the Sun, 2007

If you are participating at a level which does not include this DVD, please consider increasing your pledge in order to own these remarkable works by contemporary queer artists. A limited number of copies will be available at our benefit, A Night of Dirty Looks, which will take place at Splatterpool (138 Bayard Street, BK), August 19th, 8-11pm, and where we will screen selections between the readings and live performances. The Dirty Looks DVD is a very limited edition, so pledge your support now.

Thanks again for your generous support!