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Que Sera, Sera: A Life’s Journey of Sexual Orientation & Gender Expression

Talk About Queerness

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Support Zelda, aka Judith Z. Miller's, Que Será, Será!

Let's Talk About Queerness!

 Kingston, NY, US
  • $1,400 raised of $8,560 goal
  • 31 donations
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New Collaboration & A Fantastic Donation!

I'm excited to announce some GREAT NEWS: multi-media artist Robert Dorschel is now collaborating with me on Que Será, Será AND he has connected me with a fabulous ANGEL who is loaning me most of the sound & lighting equipment I will need for the show! 

YOU can help too by sharing my campaign. Only 9 more days left!

UPDATE ON MY SHOW/My Creative Process.

Thank you so much for contributing!

Right now I’m in the process of writing a closing portion of my solo show. Not to imply that I've completed the rest!

This process is exciting!  I can feel  my ideas beginning to have a LIFE. My ideas are beginning to take SHAPE in my mind, like pieces of a puzzle. I have most of those pieces formed conceptually.  Now what I need to do is continue to carve out TIME TO CREATE and refine the specifics inside those puzzle-pieces — and the MONEY to hire and consult with others who can help me fit these puzzle pieces together, get the equipment I need, and bring my ideas into fruition via a fully realized production. 

I've been writing about and visioning the structure of the show. This means conceptualizing each live performance section and each multi-media section and working on the content. Some sections are more fully realized, while others only exist as a concept at this point. It's a huge job, more complicated than I had imagined. I have a big vision!

Part of my show involves audio interviews with other local Queers. I’ve found some wonderful subjects and started to record intimate conversations. We’ve discussed how they came to realize they were queer, how others reacted, and how their lives have changed over time, including within the context of our current political climate. 

My goal with these interviews is to create an audio soundscape of their voices that will fill the darkened theatre and punctuate the show in between my stories and other media segments. The interviews have inspired me, especially as I’ve also been going through hundreds of photo images of my life. I’ve been recording my thoughts, writing, looking over the material that I wrote a year ago for the initial slide-talk version of Que Será, Será, and meeting with my wonderful new multi-media technical collaborator Robert Dorschel. My vision of the entire piece is starting to come together. 

I've also been networking like crazy, attending events and personally speaking with reps from local organizations to interest them in supporting the show, along with promoting this campaign on social media on a daily basis. 

Thank you again for your contribution. Will you help me further by posting about the show on social media and sharing with friends? Even if you’ve posted before, another reminder would help as I have only 13 more days to raise over $7,500!

Here’s the link: https://tinyurl.com/y6sqytsj

Thank you!
What is Que Será, Será?

QSS is my humorous, sobering, hopeful multimedia one-person revelatory performance that chronicles my story of the joys and challenges of navigating non-binary Queerness from childhood during the 1950’s to adulthood. 

The live performance includes:
  •  music, including live percussion
  •  interaction with video
  •  influential film clips 
  •  interviews with the  gender fluid community members
  •  photo montage of my identities
  • sobering statistics about gender discrimination and suicide
  • current events
  • policies and laws of the current administration and their effect o the LGBTQ community

Performances and post-show discussions will take place in October (to coincide with National Coming Out Day) at the LBGTQ Center and Green Kill in Kingston New York.

WHY Que Será, Será, and why now?

We are in a time of deep discord and danger for many marginalized people. The sands are shifting for the LGBTQ community and there seems to be no stable ground. While I’ve often felt both angry and terrified about the actions of the current administration, my heart and my experience tell me that along with the necessity of direct political action, there is nothing like personal story to affirm common experience and build bridges, and that sharing my personal story will help move us in that healing direction. 

History

I started on Que Será, Será over a year ago and presented it in a nascent form 12 times in April 2018 at the Lace Mill artists’ residence in Kingston.  It was just a 30-minute slide/talk about growing up Queer with some pretty scary statistics about how things have been changing under the current administration.  Although still in a formative state, the feedback I received was profound. Many audience members communicated how strongly they were moved by QSS and encouraged me to grow the piece.  

Why I need you and your support and where your donations will be used

Developing Que Será, Será, will give me the opportunity to spread my wings artistically in very challenging and exciting ways. I truly believe this next stage of the piece, that includes performances and interaction with audiences during the Q & A sessions, will make a difference to the Queer community, Queer Theatre, and to greater populations.

I’m so pleased that Arts Mid-Hudson has recognized the projects’ potential and recently awarded me an Individual Artist Commission to develop it. 

HOWEVER, as you probably know, although very important, these awards are small, and the costs of developing a work of theatre are not.  

I need immediate financial support to expand QSS to an even more powerful and inspiring experience. I want to dedicate my time to producing, marketing promotion and performance. Whew!

In order to do that effectively, I need to raise funds for: 

Staff: Videographer/Editor, Sound & Lighting Technicians, Script Editor, Director & equipment rental

I am also seeking in-kind donations for:
  • Graphic Design for posters, flyers, programs
  • Printing of material
  • Wine & refreshments to offer for sale at performances
  • Local help with miscellaneous office work and distribution of promotional materials

What I personally need to do to move the project along (I’ll be busy):
  • Further introspection and the review of childhood family photos
  • Record and interview and edit LGBTQ community members with sound engineer
  • Research on LGBTQ suicide and hate crimes, government policies, including film clips
  • Shoot and edit new video for use in the show and documentation for promotional purposes
  • Continue to conceptualize and plan the overall trajectory of  QSS;
  • Script development and re-writes with a consultant 
  • Rehearsals and staging with a director

The future of  Que Será, Será,

Once this phase of the project is completed, I plan to develop it into a show appropriate for regional and eventually national touring, most notably via the extensive network of LGBTQ Centers across the country, along with houses of worship, universities, and area theaters. Since I have over 20 years' experience as an agent/manager for performing artists in my own agency, ZAMO! (Zelda Arts Management Organization), I feel confident in my abilities to promote, book and gain media attention for Que Será, Será, so that the value of your investment will be realized many times over. 

What people are saying!

“I was particularly moved by a question this presentation forced me to ask myself: what if I were to have a transgender or gender fluid child? As accepting as I am of other people, could I be just as accepting of a little person who I brought into this world and care so much about their safety? This presentation broke down barriers within myself and made me rethink what it means to be accepting.”
~Angela Mastandrea, Dance Fitness Instructor, 22

By revealing her own experience, Zelda has successfully provided me with a channel to the memory of my feelings that I wanted to hide for such a long time. Now I know that I don’t need to keep these feelings secret - I can be either gender as I choose.  Physical definition does not matter. What matters is the joy of life. I appreciate Zelda’s courage and creativity to present “Que Será, Será” which, for me, was such a powerful experience.
~Chef, Restaurateur
 
I thoroughly enjoyed Zelda‘s show Que Será, Será. It touched a lot of feelings and emotions in me. Zelda’s presentation and message was candid, fearlessly honest, thought-provoking, emotional, and humorous. Her show is an important and beautiful message to the human race.
~Bobby Sabella, Percussionist, 56
  
Zelda’s show is engaging, humorous, informative, edgy and intelligent.
~Anonymous Artist, 71
 
In Zelda’s satirical sketch of becoming a Lesbian, she travels from hilarious childhood experience to adventures at an orthodox Jewish woman’s dance event. She will have you in stitches and bring a blush to your face. Her timing is impeccable in this one-woman show with projected images. 
~Patt Blue, Photographer

This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson. 

 
Que Será, Será: A Life’s Journey of Sexual Orientation & Gender Expression is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Que Sera, Sera must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” only. Any contribution above the value of the goods and services received by the donor is tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



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