registration now open
registration now open
$299 for a full week of ROT practices
$56 2 hour workshop (both days)
$30 drop-in
$84 3 hour workshop (both days)
$45 drop-in
email freshreg753@gmail.com for low income sliding scale
FRESH DEATH RITUAL
FRESH DEATH RITUAL SUNDAY FEB 16
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16
2 pm - 5 pm
@Joe Goode Annex
Donation based event
Hosted by Abby Crain and José Ome Navarrete Mazatl
Protean Progressions with Sherwood Chen
Protean Progressions with Sherwood Chen
Monday, 2/17/25 & Tuesday, 2/18/25
10 am - 12 pm
at Joe Goode Annex
$56 workshop
$30 drop-ins
email freshreg753@gmail.com for low income sliding scale
A relentless torrent of ever-shifting, concrete movements across the floor will develop kinesthetic, rhythmic and motor awareness. These simple, challenging layers intend to defamiliarize our bodies as a strategy to savor them as dynamic, transformative environments. It is a sweaty one-shot inquiry—at once individual and collective—to test limit, drive, scale, fun, rigor, interchange and rhythm.
Sherwood Chen performs and leads workshops internationally. He has worked as a performer with artists including Grisha Coleman, Anna Halprin, Amara Tabor-Smith, Su-Feh Lee, Xavier Le Roy, Larry Arrington, Min Tanaka, Antonija Livingstone, Sara Shelton Mann, Wanjiru Kamuyu, Yuko Kaseki, inkBoat / Ko Murobushi, Jess Curtis, Anne Collod and Jérôme Bel. For over twenty years, he contributed to Body Weather research initiated by Tanaka and his associates, both as a member of Tanaka’s company Mai Juku and Body Weather Farm in Japan, and with members of founding generations in the US and Europe including Oguri and Christine Quoiraud.
wReQrelational ACTtivi(ties) with jose e. abad
wReQrelational ACTtivi(ties) with jose e. abad
Monday, 2/17/25 & Tuesday, 2/18/25
1 pm - 4 pm
at Joe Goode Annex
$84 workshop
$45 drop-ins
email freshreg753@gmail.com for low income sliding scale
wReQrelational ACTtivi(ties) can be a great way to relax and de-stress. When choosing a wReQrelational ACTtivi(tie), it's important to pick something you enjoy and that fits your interests and abilities. You should also be safe and responsible when participating.
In this workshop we will explore somatic practices that explore building connection amidst societal decay with improvisation and play.
Kevin Lo curates
We will host a super HOT pop-up
CURATION
EXPLORATION
SURPRISE
SURPRISE
YUM YUM
EVENT
at THE LAB in San Francisco
Tuesday 7p-10p (ISH)
MORE INFO coming soon
florwerk with gizeh muñiz vengel
florwerk
class with gizeh muñiz vengel
Wednesday, 2/19/25 & Thursday, 2/20/25
10 am - 12 pm
at Joe Goode Annex
$56 both days
$30 per class
email freshreg753@gmail.com for low income sliding scale
florwerk
This is a dynamic and deep movement practice.
I am particularly interested in the somatic process of learning (or remembering) and embodying movement, which allows us to not only train the body for aesthetic and performance purposes but for strengthening our neural pathways that can help us expand our awareness of space, time and connection.
Through breath, warmth, rhythm and stillness, this practice explores a rigorous and buoyant physicality that embraces pleasure, tenderness and community, through phrases, somatic practices and improvisation
level: advanced-intermediate
ABOUT GIZEH:
movement, teaching and performing artist. Mexicana, currently co-existing in Ohlone Territory. They are dedicated to the study of being a breathing body through movement and stillness. Their creative work responds to an arduous commitment to transformation, presence and witnessing.
Interested in exploring new paradigms of temporality, relationality and intimacy. They insist on the importance of “listening and dreaming with the whole body”. She creates spaces to play and divest from concepts of linearity in a creative process with the intention of practicing freedom and opening dialogues of postcolonial possibilities.
Prompts for comps with Sara Shelton Mann
Prompts for comps as improvisational terrain,
What do secrets have to do with it/
class with Sara Shelton Mann
Wednesday 2/19/25 & Thursday 2/20/25
1pm - 4 pm
at Joe Goode Annex
$84 workshop
$45 drop-in
email freshreg753@gmail.com for low income sliding scale
Prompts for comps as improvisational terrain,
What do secrets have to do with it/
Feeling into the senses/prompts for comp
An improvisational approach to creating
States and systems
Time and space/foreground and background
Action and nuance/personal and impersonal
How we made things before we got serious
Solo, collaborative, sound, props, what else?
It’s fun. No judgment/No doubt
This is a teaser and a basic class for beginners and everyone else
ABOUT SARA:
Sara Shelton Mann/artist, writer, healer. Sara has been teaching and creating collaborative performances in the USA and Europe since 1979. She is a dowser, a Master NLP Practitioner and has a Master Certification in Intuition Medicine. Her Moving Alchemy Training is a living school which she has been developing over many years and is a platform for collaboration and research in consciousness. Her books are “erasing time” and the “moving alchemy” training manual.
CRIP ECSTASY X ROT @ The STUD
CRIP ECSTASY X ROT @ The STUD
Thursday, February 20
8 pm - 12 am
The girls are ROTTING, honey! ROT Festival x Crip Ecstasy join forces for an access-focused evening of experimental drag, performance art, and dancing at The Stud SF that is not to be missed!
Performances by:
IMAN / @therealiman84
KOCHINA RUDE / @kochinarude
GLAMPUTEE / @glamputee
JANPISTAR / @janpistar
THEMME HEALS / @themmeheals
with music by Crip Ecstasy resident DJ Fridge / @djfridge_
ACCESS INFO:
The Stud is fully wheelchair accessible, with accessible gender-neutral restrooms with grab bars. Multiple seating options available, including bean bags, wide-legged chairs & more.
ASL Interpretation for all drag performances.
Audio Description provided by @gravity_access_services , with pre-show haptic touch tour at 8:00pm. Please register for tour through the ticket link or by emailing crip.ecstasy@gmail.com
Bar with non-alcoholic options. Narcan on site.
COVID SAFETY:
KN95 or similar masks (without valves) will be required for this indoor event. Drag artists may perform unmasked, but will test for covid on the day of, prior to the event.
When taking a sip of your drink, please put your mask back on. Stay home if you’re not feeling well. Help us make this covid safer space!
Air filtration provided by @clean_air_network
Any questions? Please DM or email us at crip.ecstasy@gmail.com / freshinfo753@gmail.com
We are taking the precautions that we can for this event, which is a Drag show at a bar that also depends on income from bar sales. We appreciate the support and collaboration of The Stud to make this event possible. However, because of the nature of this event we realize it’s not accessible for everyone and we apologize. We hope that we can offer events in the future that can meet your access needs, and are open to feedback as well.
QUEERING ECOLOGIES: ROT edition
QUEERING ECOLOGIES: ROT edition
Friday, Feb 21
1 - 5 pm
@ Joe Goode Annex
$45
email freshreg753@gmail.com for low income sliding scale
This is a collage, a quilt, a portal, a spell. This is not a contact jam or compositional improvisation jam. This is a space where queer energies and potentialities explore, expand, take off!! In this open-ended collaboration we will co-create, synthesize, cry in the corner, decompress, dance like nobody's watching, perform for no one, perform for each other, co-conspire and challenge what is polite.
We will make art.
We will collectively perform world-making, space shaping, composting, and dissolve.
We will leave behind memories and maps for future convergence.
This is fantasy and fiction and something in-between.
Logistics:
1p-5p
bring a lunch and snacks to share
1p-2p: warm-up + circle time
2-3:30p ITS SHOW TIME BABY
3:30p-5pm debrief and clean up<3
1. We will make a mess together and we will clean up our mess together
2. I will provide some costumes, textiles, props to play with, a speaker, a camcorder, and art supplies.
BUT>>> plzzz bring your own costumes, props, materials, instruments, poetry, an idea, your favorite song, etc.
3. We will begin in collective decision making and process, building a manifesto together, creating roles, setting intentions for the space, and naming desires.
4. We will end holding hands and holding each other in discussion and aftercare.
I am sourcing inspiration for space holding from my teachers and my teachers teachers, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Keith Hennessey, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Sara Shelton Mann, Abby Crain, Isabel Lewis, the Architects, Tommy DeFrantz, José Esteban Moñoz (Cruising Utopia).
This jam will be held by ainsley elizabeth tharp and Kevin Lo
ainsley e. tharp’s work is experimental, feminine but not very ladylike, fixated on failure as protest, and informed by improvisation as play, impermanence as study, and mess making as necessity. She is an interdisciplinary artist and witch working in between and with fringe subcultures rooted in the Bay Area. Her work is inspired by antiracism, proto feminism, and anarchist principles and practices. ainsley’s artistic background is in the field of experimental dance, visual art, video art, and projection design. She works towards creating and organizing low-income accessible art access spaces in the Bay Area. She is currently organizing and teaching with the ˈɡaT͟H(ə)riNGs class series with her collaborator gizeh muñiz vengel a community run donation based dance class series. She is also a part of the curatorial & organizational team for ROT 2025 (formally known as FRESH) a festival the centers queerness, QTBIPOC, and also prioritizes donation based access to workshops and performances.
WHAT’S NEXT? COMMUNITY CONVO
WHAT’S NEXT?
Community conversation about what is next for this festival and beyond
((POTLUCK))
6 - 8 pm
@ Joe Goode Annex
PERFORMANCE MARATHON —> PARTY
PERFORMANCE MARATHON
Saturday, February 22
7 pm - 9 pm
—>
becomes PARTY
9:30 pm - 12 pm
@ CounterPulse
ROT 2025 festival will come to a close with this year's FINAL performance marathon <3<3<3
Hosted by ROT, the Performance Marathon is an evening extravaganza of art by local performers, DJ & dancing post performances, and a grand ole community time.
Shatter expectation. Expect minimal tech. Take risks. FAIL HARDER. Fuck cultural pressure, euro-centric capitalistic bull shit, and elitism.
This is our performance of the YEAR for ROT!
Join us after for a big blow out partttttyyyyy!!!!
Let’s dance together, let’s get weird, let’s say goodbye through ecstatic celebration.
COME to both events, just one event,,,
ROT CALENDAR
FEBRUARY 16-22, 2025