Queering the Night - Friday, July 10
Posted by Insight Arts at 7/7/2009 2:14 PM 
Categories: Ongoing, Performance, Queer, Events and Premieres
Categories: Ongoing, Performance, Queer, Events and Premieres
CELEBRATING GAY PRIDE FEATURING
SCOTT FREE & JE NEPOMUCENO!!!
The Center for New Possibilities
Friday, July 10, 2009
1505 W Morse Ave
7 to 9 PM
Insight Arts celebrates gay pride at Queering the Night, the LGBTQ openmic also celebrating its one year anniversary. Following the open micis phenomenal music from Scott Free, queer rock singer/songwriterextraordinaire and founder of Homolatte, and from Filipina rock singerJe Nepomuceno, lead vocalist of the progressive Chicago-basedalternative band Bagwis.
Scott Free is one of America'sleading openly-gay male artists. His sometimes humorous, sometimesangry, always touching songs of queer life have gained him acclaim inboth gay and straight media across the globe. His early forays into rapproduced his first single 'Beat The Rap', who's video was on rotationon Black Entertainment Television. Scott's first full-length releasewas a complete shift in gears - an anthemic, queercore CD called'Getting Off'. His second release 'The Living Dead' received 4Gay/Lesbian American Music Award nominations.
He was afeatured artist in Unzipped magazine in 2005.He was named the WindyCity Times 2001 Artist of the Year. For his third CD, ‘They Call Me Mr.Free’, he received two Outmusic Awards. He was named Outmusician of theYear for that CD, along with his community activism. His song "AnotherDay of the Cruelty" was named Out Song of the Year. He received twoStonewall Society Pride in the Arts Awards in 2005 - Song of the Year(The Muffin Song) and Producer of the Year (Homolatte/Queer Is FolkFestival). He was also inducted into the Stonewall Society's GLBT HallOf Fame in 2005. He is the host and curator of the bimonthly'Homolatte', the longest running queer performance series in thecountry, at Big Chicks/Tweet in Chicago. Scott's latest CD is entitled‘The Pink Album (A Pop Opera)’. The video for the single 'Free' spentseven weeks on LOGO's The Click List.
Je Nepomuceno isChicago-based Bagwis Band's lead vocalist and one of the group'seloquent songwriters. Her songs are mostly about the motherland, thePhilippines, and her people's struggle for true democracy andliberation from local and foreign oppressors. This multi-talentedperformer is also an ensemble member of Pintig Cultural Group, thepremier Filipino-American Theater group in Chicago. Her powerful voiceand moving portrayals onstage have been the subject of many a-ravingreviews including Chicago Reader. Je grew up in Marikina, Philippinesbut has been living in the US for almost half of her life. This fiercequeer femme is also a cultural worker and an activist and can be seenraising fist and voice at human rights rallies everywhere. Bagwis'groundbreaking CD "Imulat Mo" (Open your eyes), featuring Je'sbeautiful voice and evocative Filipino tribal instruments, is out andavailable at the event.
At the open mic, artists may share workthat deal with race, class, gender, immigration, and other seriousissues that contextualize a queer identity, but may also talk aboutfamily, love, relationships, sex, and other experiences that make for afull and exciting existence in a terribly homophobic world. Xan Suttonhosts this event that happens every second Friday of the month.
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