Original Plumbing #2 Release Party (Feb. 5, 7-10pm)

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Darin Klein & Friends present:
Original Plumbing #2 Release Party

Darin Klein & Friends touch down at workspace in Los Angeles to celebrate the release of the 2nd issue of San Francisco’s trans male quarterly, Original Plumbing. The event will feature an exhibition of Amos Mac’s photographs showing the diversity of the FTM community in size, age, body, surgery, and hormone use and non-use. Plus, stop by Jenn Kolmel’s Mustache Station to make your own mustache using nontraditional materials and adhesives. Throughout the evening we will screen short films by local artists including Zackary Drucker, Deanna Erdmann & Darin Klein, Rhys Ernst, Mariah Garnett and Austin Young exploring gender and queer issues, identities, aesthetics and possibilities. Copies of Original Plumbing will be available for purchase, hottt off the press!

Editor in Chief Amos Mac is a San Francisco based photographer and writer. He documents diverse members of the queer community through a vibrant lens. His work has been shown in galleries in Atlanta, New York, San Francisco and Melbourne. www.amosmac.com

Assistant Editor Rocco Kayiatos is a San Francisco based rapper and producer under the name Katastrophe. He’s a seasoned vet on the mic and got his start competing in poetry slams in 1997. Combining his love of music and language, he started rapping and making beats in 2002. He uses his poetic grasp of language to weave dense tales of lives lived outside the mainstreams of education, gender, and culture. www.katastropherap.com