With support from the California Arts Council, Eye Zen Presents will premiere OUT of Site: Haight Ashbury, a new site-responsive, theatrically immersive walking tour through San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury neighborhood, focused on contested sexualities, queer social movements, the development of gay and lesbian subcultures that lead to gay liberation, and the formation of contemporary queer culture. The tours will place audiences in actual physical sites of LGBTQ+ ancestry in San Francisco.
Since its founding in 2007, Eye Zen Presents has created multidisciplinary community-building events in San Francisco in traditional and alternative theater spaces, private homes, gardens and community centers. Our productions focus on LGBTQ+ history and experimentally blend performative and visual disciplines: physical theater, puppetry, contemporary dance, drag, circus, live music, and video. We work with community partners to devise and produce new performance, curate exhibitions and offer educational opportunities. Our walking tours create an immersive spectacle in real time and in public space, using sidewalks, plazas, parks, and privately owned public open spaces (POPOS).