After two remarkably successful years, FRUITFLYLIFE.com announces a newly transformed blog in conjunction with Fruit Fly Nursery, a Treehouse Gallery event.
Proceeds from the Event are being donated to LYRIC: Building Community & Inspiring Social Change for LGBTQQ Youth (
www.lyric.org).
A gift-wrapping competition will be hosted by Societyof23 (
http://societyof23.com/wrapitup). Winner of finest wrapped gift will win 2 tickets to the SF Symphony.
The event will be photographed by Lowbrow Society for The Arts (
http://lowbrowsociety.org/).
NOW FEATURING NAIL ART BY NAILED BY ALLY!
WHO:
Music from -
DJ CARNITA OF HARD FRENCH
realnittygritty.wordpress.com / hardfrench.com
DJ PHOENICES OF THE BBC/ BEEFY BABE CREW
AKA - Alix P. Shedd of the bGw
Performances and Art -
William Brennan - Production assistant / Visual artist
Patrick Foley – Graphic artist
Linda Lay – Visual artist
Daniel Samaniego – Visual artist
Najva Sol – Visual artist / Writer
Jeffrey Augustine Songco - Installation artist
Eduardo Boleyn Velázquez – Visual artist
Sponsors and Vendors -
HotterOtter.net – Otter dating website
Ed Luce – Editor & founder of bear zine, “Wuvable Oaf”
HP Mendoza – Director of “Fruit Fly”
Mission Pie – Local baker
Kelly Shortandqueer – Editor of queer zine, “Short and Queer”
A CORSAGE-MAKING TABLE WILL BE FEATURED
WHAT:
The intention of the Treehouse Gallery Event is to blur the line between the temporary notion of reality and the timeless nature of the online. Simply put: the Event will take what one sees on the Internet and make it tactile and functional in real-time. Online, FRUITFLYLIFE.com uses the theme of fruit as an aesthetic decision, as well as a re-appropriation of the term FRUIT away from negative queer connotations towards positive symbols of identification. The Event will live stream online in order to showcase the fervency of the FRUITFLYLIFE.com community for online readers in addition to Event participants.
The title of the show, FRUIT FLY NURSERY, plays with the term NURSERY as both a childlike location of discovery as well as the environment suitable for the sustainability and growth of fruits and vegetables. The Gallery will showcase a series of activity stations that range from a costume corner, a filmed confessional, and an actualized FRUIT STAND that mimics the icon shown online. The FRUIT STAND will sell food and beverages, along with handcrafted items such as queer zines, photographs, etc. The white walls of the Gallery will display work from a variety of visual artists. Each artist maintains a unique perspective in regard to his or her gender placement as determined by pre-existing cultural identifications.
The FRUIT FLY LIFE nursery will be a collaborative and interactive experience that disrupts presupposed notions of sexuality and gender through an accessible and vibrant atmosphere. FRUITFLYLIFE.com thrives to attract a wider community of like-minded individuals who refuse to accept normalcy and majority as the only route toward approval. It is the intention of FRUITFLYLIFE.com to ”change culture” daily.
Founded in 2008 by Courtney Nichols, FRUITFLYLIFE.com has gone through many transformations. Originally a personal blog, the website has developed into an homage for those who feel ostracized in a culture that is often threatened by individuality. The website consists of ten contributing writers. These writers vary in race, locals, ages and sexual orientation and are questioning and exploring the notion of gender and normalcy through the lens of Pop Culture. It is the belief of FRUITFLYLIFE.com that we should expand the notion of coming out of “the closet” to encompass not only the gay community, but instead all who experience extreme difference – to widen the doors of acceptance.
FRUITFLYLIFE.com was recently asked to participate in South by Southwest’s curatorial panel of 15 media outlets that are revolutionizing the notion of diversity.
