This doesn't quite qualify as a film event but it is a multimedia performance put on by a friend who has volunteered numerous hours for the San Diego Latino Film Festival and my own Film School Confidential Showcase of San Diego and Tijuana Filmmakers. So I think it's perfectly apt for me to promote her event here.
The event is called Mental Wealth and it is a Big Girl Productions presentation of Tanya Linda's Last UCSD Show. Tanya subtitles the multi-part, multi-media event as "A Performance Memoir of a Familial Legacy in the Bi-Polar Experience." The ambitious event breaks down as follows: The Haunted Nursery was presented this past Sunday; The Doctor is In will be presented on today, March 18 from 2-7pm; Petite Mortes will be Thursday, March 20 at 7:45pm; and then on Friday, March 21 from 2-7pm will be Remains , which is described as "Not a Performance." All componnents of the event will be at UCSD's Mandeville Annex Gallery. Admission is free but space is limited.
Here's how Tanya describes her event: "I am hosting, producing, and performing in a three-part performance experience at UCSD's Annex Gallery. As a student that works to manage my bipolar disorder, I have noticed in my three years of study here at UCSD that I have yet to see Memoir Performances about the Bi-Polar Experience. There are wonderful memoir books that can be read, but Visual Memoir on this topic is a much harder thing to find and come in contact with. Living here in San Diego in a Media driven celebrity culture where personalities are often villainized publicly while others struggle with being professional self-supporting artists with chemical brain imbalances, I felt it was important to expose myself and my family's legacy of the Bipolar Experience through the use of Performance Art/Multi-Media/ and Music. To make others who struggle with their voice aware of using the tools of Visual Memoir to communicate their experience. I am making myself available to you and your audience part of my life story contextualized in these artistic practices."
Tanya has always been a highly creative and vivacious person so I'm looking forward to what she has put together. Each piece does stand on its own and can be enjoyed as a separate work. I hope you'll join me.
