COMING OUT STORIES: PATOIS FILM FESTIVAL

Last Call: New Orleans Dyke Bar History Project launched our innovative podcast series with a multimedia dance performance at the Patois International Human Rights Film Festival on March 22, 2015. The piece “Coming Out Stories” interweaves five distinct takes on the most familiar of queer narratives with live projection and moving, intimate choreography. The stories belong to Donna Bechet-Kilbourne, Leslie Martinez, Diana Panara, Juanita Pierre, Maxx Sizeler, and Mardi Youngblood.

LAST CALL Prologue: Coming Out Stories, March 22, 2015 at the Patois International Human Rights Film Fest. Directed by Bonnie Gabel. Featuring dancers in order of appearance Indee Mitchell, Gabrielle Edgerson, Jeremy Guyton, and Ellery Burton with the voices of Donna Bechet-Kilbourne, Juanita Pierre, Mazz Sizeler, and Diana Panera. Production managed by Erin Roussel. Podcast by Rachel Lee, Free Feral, and Peter Bowling with music by Free Feral. Video by Tricia Towey. More info at lastcallnola.org.

COLLABORATORS

Bear Hebert...costumes, photography, core-organizer
Lyam Gabel...director, core-organizer
Ellery Burton...choreographer, dancer
Erin Roussel...production manager, core-organizer
Free Feral...podcast producer, composer
Gabrielle Edgerson...dancer
indee mitchell...dancer
Jeremy Guyton...choreographer, dancer
Lauren Hind...dancer
Laurita Marie...dancer
Rachel Lee...podcast producer, core-organizer
Peter Bowling....podcast producer, composer
Sophie Lucido Johnson...visual artist
Wendy Gaudin...facilitator