2022 Season Forecast

Apr 16

While the gates of Le Petit Versailles community garden are generally open during daylight hours in fair weather, LPV officially opens to the public on May 1st. Hours are 2 p.m.-7 p.m., Thursday-Sunday. The season ends on October 31st.

As always, the garden will feature a slate of events and exhibitions by artists selected by this year’s programming committee. Below is a preview of what is to come!

SCREENINGS

Katrina del Mar

A screening of short experimental films and recent music videos. The program may include a peek at her upcoming lesbian surf opus Beat Death/Trust in Me, a non-narrative, abstract, punk-dyke surf film, and the iconic Gang Girls 2000.

Charles Lum

The first posthumous retrospective of the prolific output of Charles Lum (1958-2021), curated by Jim Hubbard and Todd Verow.

ACT UP, A Sonnet

A video premiere of the project by Devon Narine-Singh and What Would an HIV Doula Do?, a community of people joined in response to the ongoing AIDS Crisis.

Johnny Minotaur

The 1971 film by Surrealist poet and artist Charles Henri Ford is a lyrical explosion of taboos: incest, intergenerational desire, pansexuality and autoeroticism. Presented by the Filmmakers Coop. [Q & A will follow most screenings]

EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA

3 Island Wind Songs

A video-audio projection by Katherine Liberovskaya,

The Unfixing

A video and sound installation by Nicole Betancourt and collaborators.

What does "Climate Change" Mean?

An A/V screening and talk by Lydia Eccles.

BOOK FAIR/PERFORMANCE

Downtown Dirty Book Fair, a space for artists publishing erotic zines, books, or other artist multiples and erotically charged films and performances organized by Matthew Leifheit.

LIVE MUSIC

Darren Solomon

An ambient music performance.

READINGS AND POETRY

To a New Era

A group poetry reading curated by Joanna Fuhrman.

GREEN OASIS PARTNERSHIP

The LPV programming committee has been working with Green Oasis Community Garden liaison Zach Hammer towards a partnership to share stage productions and other cultural events (TBA!).

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