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Grant information
$800, first place, November 2009

Project members
Eric Jones
Anne Erickson
Jack Randal
the Committee for Democratic Drinking

Project summary
My queerness is not one contained within the ubiquitous remodeling of Minneapolis gay bars into boutique plasma-screen TV arcades, (which leads me to believe that a new plague is upon us) so I ask for the means to a party bus. With four years of community organizing, the Revolting Queers and I create many sex positive opportunities for the gender variant. Party Bus is a separatist spectacle before the gravesite of the formerly working class Brass Rail.

How will your project manifest at the next FEAST, to be held in approximately 12 weeks?
Manifestations will include testimonials from participants, a runway of the fashions (possibly in the shape of a separatist protest) and a collaboratively printed document. Consider this a conscious-raising seminar rife with irony and yet completely appropriate in creating a richer strategy for queer liberation. Party Bus is an experiment in articulating a manifesto, queer ownership of a safe space and the documentation of a resistance specific to the boutique-fication of gay spaces.

How will you use funding towards the realization of your project?
Party buses are $700 ($150 fee if someone vomits), I imagine there are taxes involved, and any remaining funds will purchase cosmetics in winter shades, glitter, paper, and screen-printing ink for the document. The organization of participants is a grass roots process/Facebook campaign (both without cost). The looks are already stocked with all body types in mind.

Why is this project critical to the FEAST community?
My concern is specific to Minneapolis and the economic crisis of queer dollars. Party Bus is a participatory project, an unveiling a largely invisible community to both the downtown sphere and Minneapolis art scene. This is an act of separatism whose aim is the cultivation of signature complexity, and a layered conversation from which we build our own space. The document of this action is an invitation to consider the un-marriable status (read class mobility) in the conversation of equality.

Grant information
$800, first place, November 2009

Project members
Eric Jones
Anne Erickson
Jack Randal
the Committee for Democratic Drinking

Project summary
My queerness is not one contained within the ubiquitous remodeling of Minneapolis gay bars into boutique plasma-screen TV arcades, (which leads me to believe that a new plague is upon us) so I ask for the means to a party bus. With four years of community organizing, the Revolting Queers and I create many sex positive opportunities for the gender variant. Party Bus is a separatist spectacle before the gravesite of the formerly working class Brass Rail.

How will your project manifest at the next FEAST, to be held in approximately 12 weeks?
Manifestations will include testimonials from participants, a runway of the fashions (possibly in the shape of a separatist protest) and a collaboratively printed document. Consider this a conscious-raising seminar rife with irony and yet completely appropriate in creating a richer strategy for queer liberation. Party Bus is an experiment in articulating a manifesto, queer ownership of a safe space and the documentation of a resistance specific to the boutique-fication of gay spaces.

How will you use funding towards the realization of your project?
Party buses are $700 ($150 fee if someone vomits), I imagine there are taxes involved, and any remaining funds will purchase cosmetics in winter shades, glitter, paper, and screen-printing ink for the document. The organization of participants is a grass roots process/Facebook campaign (both without cost). The looks are already stocked with all body types in mind.

Why is this project critical to the FEAST community?
My concern is specific to Minneapolis and the economic crisis of queer dollars. Party Bus is a participatory project, an unveiling a largely invisible community to both the downtown sphere and Minneapolis art scene. This is an act of separatism whose aim is the cultivation of signature complexity, and a layered conversation from which we build our own space. The document of this action is an invitation to consider the un-marriable status (read class mobility) in the conversation of equality.