Create and celebrate Queer space at “Double D – Dialogue + Dance Party,” a 2-part soirée at Hi Tops Los Feliz that begins with a salon-style conversation with a panel of visionary Queer women, non-binary, and trans social entrepreneurs.
The panelists’ stories activate us with a range of experiences that bring our community together through nightlife, meeting spaces, music, art spaces, and more. These spaces invite authenticity, love, play, resistance, and revolution. The event will look at how these essential spaces are created, how they resist conservative agendas, and how they transform a homogenized vision of “gay” social space in our history and in our now.
Following the salon, “Double D” transforms into a party where attendees can celebrate our community by gettin’ down with dancing, drinks, and food. This event will be documented for ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.
This panel conversation and party will take place at Hi Tops Los Feliz on Thursday, October 10, 2024, from 7-11 p.m.
Attendees must be 21+ to enter.
Panelists
Xtina Webb is a Queer Intersectional Feminist who operates a design practice focused on cultural, non-profit clients in Los Angeles, California. This aligns with her teaching practice at Otis College of Art and Design and other SoCal universities. Xtina’s design research investigates complicated socio-political conditions in virtual and public spaces, looking at the language and visual devices that form them. This includes “Queering” space and place-making along with exploring participation and collaboration. Xtina’s local community building includes the co-creation of the Queer/ QBIPOC Foreground Collective and The 5th Pocket dinner/entertainment soireé focused on connecting creative entrepreneurs in playful engaging ways, Director of the AIGA-LA DEI Committee and related events, creating the Criticality of Queer Craft panel for the LA Design Festival, event organizing for RISD Alumni Club of Los Angeles and currently serving on the Board of Feminist Center for Creative Work. Visit christinawebb.org.
Yara is a designer working at the intersection of architecture pedagogy, transmedia, and immersive technologies. She is the creative director of Folly Feast Lab co-founded with Viviane El Kmati based in Los Angeles, California. Through worldbuilding and storytelling they design immersive and interactive experiences, applications, software, design tools and games around queer identity, sustainability, and technology. Yara and Viviane are committed with Folly Feast Lab to designing fantastic experiences that are as aesthetically engaging as they are technologically performing. Their XR work has been exhibited internationally. Yara is also a design faculty at UCLA in the school of Arts and Architecture and since she moved to LA she has been invested in fostering and creating community. Visit yarafeghali.com.
This program is organized by Xtina Webb and Yara Feghali as part of Circa: Queer Histories Festival 2024, presented by One Institute.
Hi Tops is a gay owned and operated sports bar with exceptional craft cocktails and a mouth-watering food menu! Our aim is to provide an inclusive space for the LGBT+ community to gather, dance, eat and drink while experiencing a flawless guest experience and top-notch customer service!