Queer Salon

May 15-18, 2025

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Get ready for three days of drag, queer and trans art, performance, skills-share, racial justice talk, youth and local resources and so much more.

The Queer Salon is a safe space for QTBIPOC and LGBTQIAA+ fabulousness & uplift, to find community, and for the co-creation of queer and trans joy. It’s a place to get resourced, dial into what you need (inside and out), expand social networks, and to deepen internal & educational strengths. Join us for a Fashion Runway Show “Imagine the Future!”on Saturday!

QUEER SALON

*lineup & schedule subject to change

Queer Salon hosts: “Imagine the Future”
Fashion Runway Show

Saturday 4:40pm-5pm, MUSIC BOWL Rainbow

Imagine the future! What does it look like? How do we step forward into a world faced with a climate crisis and threats to diversity, equity, living wages and community? Tell us through a runway outfit! All festival attendees are welcome to prepare a runway outfit in advance, or create one in our workshops to the theme: “Imagine the Future!”

We ask each fashion runway participant to write a 3-sentence “statement” about your runway look as it relates to the theme on a 3×5” card for the MC to announce you! Stop by the Queer Salon anytime Friday & Saturday (4pm latest) to sign up! We want to see you werk!

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T. Hammidi: Fashioning Our Future “Meet n’ Greet”

Fashion writer and Queer Salon host T. Hammidi kicks off this playshop with fashion history and some designer highlights who have “imagined the future” by design, material, and production system choices! Come learn, discuss and participate in some fashion-related ice breaker games! Welcome fashionistas! Textile artists! Costumers! All who intentionally use clothing and the sartorial to communicate & play!
Friday 5pm-6:30pm

T. Hammidi: RAINBOW SUPPORT CIRCLE for Parents & Youth

Being a parent, caregiver, or family member of LGBTQIA youth and of non-binary and trans folks overall right now requires resilience. The key to LGBTQIA mental wellness is community, dialogue, and having a safe space to share your journey. Join our support circle to meet other family members, allies, LGBTQIA youth and adults. Bring your openness, experience, and questions as we foster a space of care and Rainbow Support! Drop by the Queer Salon anytime over the weekend as well!
Sunday 10am-11:30am

Brittany Delany: Strike a pose!

What happens when you pair the fashion runway with LGBTQIA expression and dance? We will discuss vogue, ballroom and drag histories, then activate our bodies to rehearse the moves ourselves.
Saturday 9am-10:30am

Corinna Rosella: Plant Medicine for the Future

This class will go over the basics of developing a relationship with plant medicine to care for ourselves and our communities in current times, the uses of local desert plants, common remedies for self care, ethical relationships with the land, and a plant spirit meditation.
Sunday 11:30am-1pm

Ella Richie deMaria: Poetry in Motion

Style is written and it is worn. In this workshop we will play with poetry to empower ourselves in style. As a wise woman once said, “People aren’t fixed images, they are beautiful in how they move.”
Friday 1pm-2:30pm

Jamie O’Neil: Imagine a World

This workshop will focus on co-creation of a world where love reigns and peace is the status quo. We will mix movement, art and visualization in a powerful way and work together to radiate the connection out to the greater community and the world. Join us and discover YOUR key as we come together to flex our power and create a New Earth.
Sunday 1pm-2:30pm

La La West: Upcycled Fashion Designer: Imagine the Future Fashion Show

La La is honored to be a part of the “Imagine the Future” fashion runway show and the important space it provides for queer artists.
Saturday 4:35pm-5pm

Lauren Bright: Queer Time Travelers: Fashioning Alternate Futures

This workshop invites participants to embody queer time travelers—visionaries who shape the future through fashion, storytelling, and world-building. Participants will create future artifacts (masks, accessories, wearable sculptures, or symbols of a new queer world) and develop short narratives about the society these artifacts come from.
Friday 11am-12:30pm

Lorena Wilens: The Magic of Accessories

In this workshop, we will collectively explore our personal and historical ties to jewelry, artisanal craftwork and indigenous fashion! Join us for a group activity and gently guided discussion around the creation and parading of accessories from all cultures of the world.
Sunday 10am-11:30am

Mary Evans: Stitch & Salvage: A Mending and Upcycling Playshop

Breathe new life into your wardrobe with artist Mary Evans in this hands-on mending and upcycling playshop! Learn simple, practical techniques to patch, reinforce, and transform worn-out clothing into something fresh and unique.
Saturday 11am-1:30pm

Mayan Wish: Fairy Make-Up Workshop

Back for the fourth year to make you feel fabulous! Wish will be doing the fairy face painting makeup workshop at the Queer Salon again with even more exciting colors and details to bring out your inner Fairies. Biodegradable glitter, gold leaf, sparkles, and wild hues will leave you feeling your best.
Saturday 2pm-4pm

Panda Landa: Giving New Life to Your Clothes

This workshop will inspire participants to explore creative approaches to appliqué using sustainable materials and foster a conversation on how upcycling and creative textile work can support LGBTQIA+ dignity and address environmental challenges. Participants will then use hands-on tools and techniques for combining textile art with personal storytelling.
Friday 3pm-4:30pm

Ranger Tie-Dye: 100 Tie-Dyed Bandanas

Come by the Queer Salon to meet Ranger Tie Dye who has created 100 unique tie dye bandanas for JTMFestival attendees ! An artist and queer elder, Ranger Tie Dye builds community through gift-giving and carving out space & time to be together for chit chat and community. Join in conversation over an awesome bandana that you can take home and use on the fashion runway!
Saturday 12pm-1:30pm