October 12-14, 2018
Happy Birthday, Marsha! screens with Shakedown (Dir. Leilah Weinraub)
BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
https://www.bam.org/film/2018/shakedown-happy-birthday-marsha
October 12-14, 2018
Happy Birthday, Marsha! screens with Shakedown (Dir. Leilah Weinraub)
BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
https://www.bam.org/film/2018/shakedown-happy-birthday-marsha
September 21-22, 2018
Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel: Happy Birthday, Marsha!
Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel present a live immersive screening of their film Happy Birthday, Marsha! which imagines iconic activist and performer, Marsha "Pay It No Mind" Johnson in the hours before the 1969 Stonewall Riots. The evening will include performances by intergenerational collaborators on the project including Mya Taylor, Jimmy Camicia, Egyptt Labaija, and Geo Wyeth, who will score the film live. Organized by Lumi Tan.
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street New York, NY 10011
https://thekitchen.org/event/tourmaline-and-sasha-wortzel-happy-birthday-marsha
August 16, 2018
An Evening with Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel
On the occasion of the New York premiere of their new collaboration Happy Birthday, Marsha!—about legendary transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson—this program brings together a selection of quietly radical short films by Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel, which offer moving considerations of queer and trans identities both past and present.
BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
https://www.bam.org/film/2018/an-evening-with-tourmaline-and-sasha-wortzel
Frameline42, San Francisco, CA on June 15, 18, and 20
Contrast Film Festival, Austin, Texas on July 20
Cherry Grove Archives Film Festival, Fire Island, New York on July 20
June 21-August 12, 2018
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Independence Ave and 7th St
Washington, DC 20560
https://hirshhorn.si.edu/exhibitions/does-the-body-rule-the-mind-or-does-the-mind-rule-the-body/
March 22-24, 2018
BFI Flare London
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-flare-programme-2018-02-21.pdf
March 10 & 11, 2018
Outfest Fusion, LA
The New Museum publishes Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility, the Latest Installment in the Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture Series. Edited by Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton.
Contributors
Lexi Adsit, Sara Ahmed, Nicole Archer, Kai Lumumba Barrow, Johanna Burton, micha cárdenas, Mel Y. Chen, Grace Dunham, Treva Ellison, Sydney Freeland, Che Gossett, Reina Gossett, Stamatina Gregory, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Robert Hamblin, Eva Hayward, Juliana Huxtable, Yve Laris Cohen, Abram J. Lewis, Heather Love, Park McArthur, CeCe McDonald, Toshio Meronek, Fred Moten, Tavia Nyong’o, Morgan M. Page, Roy Pérez, Dean Spade, Eric A. Stanley, Jeannine Tang, Wu Tsang, Jeanne Vaccaro, Chris E. Vargas, Geo Wyeth, Kalaniopua Young, Constantina Zavitsanos
Available for purchase from MIT Press here.
December 1, 2017
ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS
Curated by Erin Christovale and Vivian Crockett for Visual AIDS, the video program prioritizes Black narratives within the ongoing AIDS epidemic, commissioning seven new and innovative short videos from artists Mykki Blanco, Cheryl Dunye & Ellen Spiro, Reina Gossett, Thomas Allen Harris, Kia LaBeija, Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Brontez Purnell
Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014
https://whitney.org/Events/AlternateEndingsRadicalBeginnings
September 27, 2017 – January 22, 2018
Morgan Bassichis, Sadie Benning, Nayland Blake, Justin Vivian Bond, Gregg Bordowitz, Pauline Boudry and Renate Loren, Nancy Brooks Brody, A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner, Leidy Churchman, Liz Collins, Vaginal Davis, Harry Dodge, The Dyke Division of the Two-Headed Calf, Josh Faught, ektor garcia, Mariah Garnett, Reina Gossett and Sasha Wortzel, Sharon Hayes, House of Ladosha, Stanya Kahn, Carolyn Lazard, Simone Leigh, Ellen Lesperance, Candice Lin, Troy Michie, Ulrike Müller, Willa Nasatir, Sondra Perry, Christina Quarles, Connie Samaras, Curtis Talwst Santiago, Tschabalala Self, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Tuesday Smillie, Sable Elyse Smith, Patrick Staff, Diamond Stingily, Mickalene Thomas, Wu Tsang, Chris E. Vargas, Geo Wyeth, Anicka Yi
Curated by Johanna Burton with Natalie Bell and Sara O’Keeffe
New Museum
235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/trigger-gender-as-a-tool-and-as-a-weapon
In just a few weeks the persistent demand that the story of Marsha "Pay It No Mind" Johnson deserves be told in all its beauty means that we have not only met but exceeded our post-production goal $30,000 by 117%! This is truly a historic moment and made possible by all of our 638 backers, who have ensured that this film is gonna be legendary. THANK YOU!
You can view the campaign here.
November 14; 7 PM | The Cooper Union
Bring Your Own Body, an exhibition focusing on transgender artists and archives, presents a free, public event.
Happy Birthday, Marsha! is an experimental film about the legendary transgender artist and activist Marsha “Pay it No Mind” Johnson and her life in the hours before the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City. Reina Gossett and Sasha Wortzel, who co-wrote, co-directed and co-produced the film, stage a performative lecture and screen selections from their highly anticipated film.
More info here
October 14, 2015 - 7:00pm. Friend Center Room 004
Princeton’s Department of African American Studies, LGBT Center, and Women*s Center hosts writers and directors, Reina Gossett and Sasha Wortzel for a discussion and selections of Happy Birthday, Marsha. More info here!
My feature documentary, "We Came to Sweat: The Legend of Starlite" (directed with Kate Kunath) will screen next month at the BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival. Info and tickets here.
My short film, a collaboration with Reina Gossett, just got a website. Check it out here. The film is currently in production. We'll be shooting this June.