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DESCRIPTION:Queer Rebel Productions (QRP) is proud to present Queer Rebels Fest 11 a 
 two-day festival that celebrates the art and lives of QTPOC. Spanning 
 several genres including video, music, dance performance and spoken word. 
 Representing artist from every part of our community. Our mission has 
 always been and continues to be providing a showcase for QTPOC artist. For 
 over 10 years QRP has been connecting generations, while honoring our queer 
 legacies with visionary art for the future. This year’s theme will be 
 Future Switching: May Our Rebel Hearts Stay Tender.\n\nQueer Rebel Fest 11 
 celebrates the brilliance, magic and sheer survival of QTPOC in a world 
 that would like to erase us. WE ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE. We have always been 
 and always will be. We truly are everywhere.\n\nFeatured 
 Artist:LaFemmebear, (AKA LeahAnn Mitchell) was an up-and-coming music 
 producer and engineer in Los Angeles working alongside artists including 
 Boyz II Men, Grammy-winners the Jackie Boyz, Eric Dawkins (The Underdogs), 
 Polo Molina (Will.I.Am/Black Eyed Peas), and Interscope Records producers 
 from the Nelly songwriting team. She came out as a transgender woman in 
 2013 and was effectively blacklisted from the industry, in spite of her 
 skill and experience working with major label talents from companies 
 including Sony.\nLafemmebear is making a comeback on her own terms. After 
 dusting off her music-making chops with a self-titled EP in early 2018, she 
 is dropping a lush new rnb hiphop driven, eclectic collection entitled 
 “Blaq * a note to the world”— a genre-blending experience speaking on 
 the trials of woman femmes trans femmes and black queer femmes 
 specifically.\nLafemmebear is also currently preparing for headlining the 
 state if Utah's pride 2019 in Salt lake city Utah! Performing to a crowd of 
 over 30k people! She also was featured in a full write up in billboard  
 magazine  for billboard pride, as an upcoming LGBT artist and creator to 
 watch, with the release of the music video ,"Shutup! with Bell King" She 
 was previously the lead in The Red Shades, a transgender superhero rock 
 opera that has played sold-out showcases at several venues in San Francisco 
 and Oakland and been featured in media outlets including the San Francisco 
 Chronicle, East Bay Express, and KPFA.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/03/18823158.php
SUMMARY:Queer Rebels Fest 11 Future Switching: May Our Rebel Hearts Stay Tender
LOCATION:African American Arts and Culture Complex
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2019/05/03/18823158.php
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