General Admission: $10 To purchase tickets, visit: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/10563519 Program curated by Jenny Man Wu, with Popo Fan and Yang Yang Presented in collaboration with Love Queer Cinema Week (formerly Beijing Queer Film Festival, BJQFF) Film Program: Gu Lou Xi (The Drum Tower), PRC, 2019, 18 min. Written and directed by Popo Fan. Produced by Jin Rui and Jenny Man Wu. In the historical district of the Drum and Bell Towers in the center of Beijing, where longtime local residents are threatened by eviction caused by “urban renewal” and real estate development, an introverted senior student and a transgender vintage shop owner meet: two lonely souls swimming in the ever-changing pool of the city Beijing. They try to break through a wall in front of them, heading to a place they don’t know. Wo men de gu shi (Our Story - 10-year "Guerrilla Warfare" of Beijing Queer Film Festival), PRC, 2011, 42 min. Directed by Yang Yang. Produced by Cui Zi’en. Based on footage recorded by the BJQFF every year, but told in the first person by the filmmaker, Our Story is a heartfelt, deeply moving, engrossing and detailed personal account of the “guerilla warfare” waged by the BJQFF in its first ten years to survive government harassment and censorship: changes of location from the West to the East side of Beijing, from the city to an artists village in the suburbs, flexibility and creativity in outreach strategies, fine points of semantics in coining a name for the event, and, last but not least, political courage.