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DESCRIPTION:October 3 - 11: Shows at 7:30pm and 8:30pm Fridays, Saturdays as well as 
 Thursday Oct. 9\n\n'Down on the Corner' is a work of aerial dance honoring 
 the site of the 1966 Compton's Cafeteria Riot. Directed and choreographed 
 by Jo Kreiter, it features a cast of queer, transgender, and female 
 performers, original songs by Melanie DeMore and a film by Leila 
 Weefur.\n\nA total of ten 35-minute shows are scheduled over the course of 
 the run: October 3, 4, 9, 10, and 11 at 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. each night. 
 Audiences are invited to gather on the Southeast corner of Turk and Taylor. 
 All shows are free with no reservation required.\n\nWhile honoring one of 
 the first documented protests of police violence against queer people 
 anywhere in the United States, 'Down on the Corner' also serves to 
 reimagine what the building could be today. Since 2004, 111 Taylor has been 
 operated as a for-profit reentry service facility by GEO Group, a private 
 prison corporation with a long record of labor abuse, human rights 
 violations and immigrant detention.\n\nDrawing on the scholarship of 
 historian Susan Stryker, Down on the Corner is Kreiter's eighth artistic 
 production exploring prison systems change. In 2017, she launched 'The 
 Decarceration Trilogy: Dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex One Dance 
 at a Time,' which has toured across the country from San Francisco to New 
 York, New Orleans and Portland, Oregon.\n \n"The collective resistance to 
 police oppression that unfolded at the intersection of Turk and Taylor in 
 1966 and the subsequent involvement of 101-121 Taylor Street in the prison 
 system are not unrelated," writes Stryker. "Both are rooted in the 
 Tenderloin's historic function as a containment zone - its contours shaped 
 by racial segregation, its borders enforced by often-corrupt law 
 enforcement - in which abjected populations and criminalized behaviors, 
 specifically those related to sexuality and gender expression, have been 
 confined."\n\nFree with no RSVP.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/23/18880136.php
SUMMARY:Down on the Corner
LOCATION:Southeast corner of Turk and Taylor Streets in the Tenderloin\n111 
 Taylor\nSan Francisco, CA 94102
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/09/23/18880136.php
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