Walk With Me: SNEAK PREVIEW EVENT

We are inviting YOU, beloved community, to join us for sizzling performances, scrumptious snacks, and sparkling drinks. We will be having a juicy intergenerational conversation about uncovering the hidden queer histories of the Haight, offering a SNEAK PREVIEW into Eye Zen’s one of a kind, self-guided audio walking tour, Walk With Me.

Hosted at O’Reilly’s Pub - once the historic gay bar Bones - our sneak preview invites the audience into an intimate conversation with Artistic Director, Seth Eisen, and Dramaturg, Jax Blaska about the multi-year process of creating a tour that uplifts and elevates the queer counterculture of the Haight.

Out of Site: Walk With Me is deeply tied to the current socio-political climate, where queer and trans communities face renewed threats of erasure and discrimination.

We are wrestling with the questions:

How do we uplift and advocate for the liberation of queer people, places and culture in the generations ahead?

How do we pass on our legacies that are so often obscured or invisible to the next generation?

Are you interested in being a test audience for the 1st half of the walking tour from 1:30pm - 3pm?

Sign up for test tour here

SNEAK PREVIEW PERFORMERS

PANGAEA

Pangaea is a multifaceted artist based in the Bay Area. As a mixed black trans woman, her work is deeply rooted in her experiences and identity, which she weaves into her singing, writing, costuming and set design, performance art, drags and activism. Her creative pursuits are fueled by her commitment to amplifying the voices of Black and Brown, trans, and queer artists, shaping vibrant and inclusive artistic spaces. She makes up one fourth of the Bay Area artist collective The House of Perception.

Tina D’Elia

Tina D’Elia is a mixed-race Mexican, lesbian/queer-identified feminist artist, performance coach and acting instructor, SAG-AFTRA actor, voice over talent, award-winning solo performer, casting director, executive producer, and co-screenwriter.

She stars in the award-winning SAG webseries on YouTube: Assigned Female at Birth (2020-2021). D’Elia co-wrote an episode in The Sins and Secrets of Tabar Lake a radio play created by AJ Baker and was the voice over opening and closing credits (2021).

D’Elia was nominated by Broadway World San Francisco 2023, for Best Solo Performer and Solo Show The Rita Hayworth of this Generation. She received an Executive Producer Award (2019) Best Actress Award (2017) Diversity Casting Award (2017), and the Trailblazer Award (2015) from the Equality International Film Festival. She was cast as the solo performer in Eye Zen Presents’ Out of Site: Haight-Ashbury. Her solo shows include: The Break-up! A Latina Torch Song, Overlooked Latinas, The Rita Hayworth of this Generation, which garnered Best of Fringe and Best of Sold-Out Shows with the San Francisco Fringe Festival … read more.

SETH EISEN

Seth Eisen is a San Francisco-based artist, writer, director, dramaturg, archivist, and educator who engages LGBTQIA+ history as a living, breathing dialogue by researching lost legacies. His transdisciplinary aesthetic combines physical theater, dance, ritual puppetry, drag, circus, installation, and video art. Blurring the edge between art, research, and activism, the work is a hybrid of visual art and immersive live theater. For 25 years Seth has staged performance pieces, original plays, street spectacles and installations and has curated and appeared in numerous collaborative projects created with other Bay Area artists. As dramaturg he’s worked with theater and dance companies and solo artists in the Bay Area and beyond. His solo performances and installation projects have been featured locally at spaces from Oakland Museum of California, The Contemporary Jewish Museum and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to smaller alternative spaces… read more.

jax blaska

Jax is a queer creative maker with an emphasis in theater direction, dramaturgy, and new-work production management. A born-and-raised San Franciscan, they are proud to have grown out of the unique cultural legacy here and to contribute to its preservation and perseverance. Their creative collaborations span devised theatre, immersive experiences, dance, installation, and performance art. Jax believes in seeking transformation, liberation, and belonging through art.