Piece by piece we dream ourselves into being, hoping someone will see our magic making, terrified someone one will see our power. Using self revelation, personal artifacts and a call to respond, There Is No Other seeks to create an intimate connection with the audience and to create a dream space where even a fat, black queer can ask for love and care. There Is No Other is a performance/ installation and site specific piece looking at what it means to claim multiple troubled identities in a world that seems to fear the other these days more and more despite more media attention.

Crystal Mason is a youngest child. Genderqueer. Social, and works for art and art making. Crystal Mason is a mover of emotions and thought. A happy pervert longing for justice. A black person who can not hide, so I assert my right to be seen. Art maker, arts administrator, videographer and editor.

There Is No Other Fractured And Complete Tell Me Something True will be shown Thursday the 9th and Friday the 10th of June at 8PM. Buy Tickets

The Hermit Project is a three year project culminating at 'THIS IS WHAT I WANT 2016: the line between private and public'. This interactive piece by artistic director Tessa Wills invites you to discover what you would do with some privacy. In our connected world, does spending time alone fertilize your relationship with solitude? Can solitude fertilize your connections to others? How are you faring in a culture that worships the individual yet fears alienation? The Hermit Project offers individuals space for anything from a moment of respite to a deep reflection and private performance by constructing a simple space for audiences to be alone in the gallery,  or watch the ornamental hermit: a solitary person who sets off the landscape. Experience your own aesthetic of genuine constructive aloneness through this unique art theatre experience by internationally acclaimed solo experimental artist Tessa Wills, with sound design by Kadet Khune and choreographic coaching by Sara Shelton Mann.

Tessa Wills creates experiments in live performance which activate individuals and subcultural communities. Leveraging the distance provided by theatre as a behaviour form, she excavates moments of humanity for the audience to reflect and connect to. She often integrates eroticism to charge the bodies of work which happen primarily on stage and video. Wills is also the artistic director and producer of THIS IS WHAT I WANT festival. www.tessawills.com

The Hermit Project is available 10-5PM Tuesday 7th until Friday the 10th of june. From 7-8PM on the 10th of June, there will be a hermit project performance.

Culo Love Portraits will be a an opportunity for willing participants to have their precious bare asses immortalized by posing live for a mixed media portrait. The intimacy of baring one’s ass for documentation, even if for a short period of time can be a playful, confessional and fruitfully vulnerable space I enjoy creating, inviting the public into and creating within for the sake of honoring that all too often contested site. Show me your beautiful, gorgeous, culitos, asses, booties and pompis.

As a daughter of Cuban exiles born and raised in the transience capital that is Miami, the inheritance of exile experience has been and still is at the root of my desire to play with and manipulate notions of displacement through the body. Using performance, video and installation, I create intimate environments where language, parody, fiction, contradiction and nostalgia are all ingredients to addressing the complexities of framing identity. www.cristinavictor.com @who_is_cristina_victor

Culo Love Portraits will be available 10am-5PM on Sunday the 12th of June. Tickets

Stephens & Sprinkle will bring their sparkly blue Pollination Pod-- a multi-purpose camper designed to spread ecosex art, theories, practices and activism. It will be parked outside by the Bay. Audience members will be invited to savor some water, get a watery divination, and learn more about ecosexuality.

Beth Stephens & Annie Sprinkle have been partners and collaborators for 13 years. They are pollen-amourous ecosexuals,-- the Earth is their lover. Currently they are making a documentary movie about the pleasures and politics of water in California, “Water Makes Us Wet.” www.sexecology.org, www.theEcosexuals.org, www.earthlab.ucsc.edu.

The ecosexuals will be in residence at Fort Mason as part of THIS IS WHAT I WANT on the 12th of June from midday.

THIS IS WHAT I WANT and RADAR productions have teamed up to bring you four artists on one night for Queer Intimacy Bedtime Stories, featuring Ben McCoy, Myriam Gurba, Sevan Kelee and Juba Kalamka.

RADAR Productions is a San Francisco-based non-profit that produces literary happenings around the Bay Area and beyond.  RADAR gives voice to innovative queer and outsider writers and artists whose work authentically reflects the queer community’s diverse experiences.

Ben McCoy is a writer, performance artist, and actress (if you've ever had a conversation with her, THIS is evident).A quadruple Scorpio, Miss McCoy is also an experienced Tarot reader. She has an active social media presence, and like everyone else with an internet connection, has written for the Huffington Post and other online publications. You can read some of her work via googling her, or maybe you've already purchased two anthologies that she was in, one being Sister Spit: Writing, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road.  You should also check out her youtube series How a Lady Eats a Burrito, and How a Lady Takes Public Transportation. She's pretty cool.

Myriam Gurba is the author of Painting their Portaits in Winter and Dahlia Season. She is a multimedia artist with a morbid interest in the female body. She is currently trying to learn the language of the male gaze.

SevanKelee Boult (bka Lucky 7) is a well known Bay Area poet.  She has been seen on HBO Real Sex since 2000. She has represented several Bay Area slam teams over the past 10 years. In 2014, she became the only person in the Bay to win the honored title Grand Slam Champion of 4 different Bay teams (SF, Berkeley,Oakland and Palo Alto). She has performed all across the country.  Gracing such places as The De Young Museum in San Francisco as well as Yerba Buena,  and the Marsh Theater. A UC Berkeley graduate with a minor in Theatre Arts, SevanKelee has been crafting her spoken word performance.Sevan Kelee has been writing since childhood. Her most recent artistic venture involves the ukulele and spoken word.  She effortlessly blends music and poetry to engage the audience with her soft, raspy voice and mesmerizing stage presence.

Baruch Porras Hernandez has performed his writing in NYC, Canada, and all over California. He’s been a resident artist in the spoken word program at The Banff Center in Alberta-Canada, is a Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry for 2014, and is a recipient of the REGEN Artist grant from Galería de la Raza. His work can be found in several anthologies, like Assaracus from Sibling Rivalry Press, Write Bloody Publishing. In San Francisco he’s performed at Yerba Buena Center for The Arts, SOMArts, Counter Pulse, featured at Writers with Drinks, LitCrawl, Beast Crawl, Queer Rebels Fest, and The International Flor y Canto Literary Festival. For the past 6 years he’s been  the head organizer for The San Francisco Queer Open Mic and has organized and hosted shows with KQED.  To find out more, go to baruchporrasherandez.wordpress.com. He was born in Toluca, Mexico and likes gummy bears.

Bisexual artist/activist Juba Kalamka is most recognized for his work with performance troupes Sins Invalid and Mangos With Chili and as co-founder/producer of the queer hip hop group Deep Dickollective (D/DC). He directed the annual East Bay Pride sponsored PeaceOUT World Homohop Festival from 2002-2007. His essays and creative writing appear in numerous journals and anthologies including Working Sex:Sex Workers Write About A Changing Industry (2007), The Yale Anthology of Rap (2010) and Recognize: The Voices of Bisexual Men (2014). His first collection of poetry, Son Of Byford, will be published by Imagination Fury Arts in 2017.

Radar's Queer Intimacy Bedtime Stories will be Saturday the 11th of June 8PM. Get Tickets