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Kolmel WithLove

Kolmel WithLove is part event producer and part artist, with their work deeply rooted in history, storytelling, and radical forms of collaboration. Their films have screened at Frameline Film Festival, MIX Mexico, Seattle Center of Contemporary Art, and in the book and DVD project “Strange Attractors.” WithLove has performed in venues including SOMArts Cultural Center, CounterPULSE, Highways Performance Space, various galleries, a few living rooms, two leather bars, and a piano lounge. Their most recent vision and radical collaboration, “Womenhouse,” is a feminist drag queen collective, pulling together twelve other local drag queens to reimagine groundbreaking feminist performance works. They are the creator and curator of the monthly queer performance evening The News at SOMArts Cultural Center.

The News
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The News

Gathering Curators to Produce a New Resource for Everyone

21 December 2014

Responding to a lack of queer performance nights, Kolmel WithLove started The News, which led to a gathering of curators of queer performance to discuss the best practices.

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Making Way for Queer Experiments
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Making Way for Queer Experiments

An Interview with Kolmel WithLove

24 April 2012

The News creates a space for queer performances to be put on a stage. Each ten minute time slot allows artists a place to experiment, explore new work, and start their conversation.