May 5, 2026 Cecilia Dougherty at the Parkside Lounge

317 E. Houston St., New York City, Tuesday, May 5, 7:30 PM, doors open at 7 PM.

Poster for a screening of works by Cecilia Dougherty at the Parkside Lounge. Curated by Ann Stephenson, with a Q&A after screening with Cecilia Dougherty and Lia Gangitano

Screening of my Writers Series of intimate video portraits. The works include Joe, 2018, with Joe Westmoreland; Kevin and Cedar, 2002, with Kevin Killian and Cedar Sigo; Eileen, 2000, with Eileen Myles; Lesie, 1998, with Leslie Scalapino; and Laurie, 1998, with Laurie Weeks. Total running time is about 45 minutes. I love these writers!

Joe Westmoreland
Kevin Killian and Cedar Sigo
Eileen Myles
Leslie Scalapino
Laurie Weeks

Afterwards, I’m discussing the videos with Lia Gangitano, excellent curator and gallerist at Participant Inc. in NYC, who has been showing my work since 1998, with a several-day screening event at Threadwaxing Space in lower Manhattan.

Lia Gangitano, photo by A. Steiner
Lia Gangitano, photo by A. Steiner

Ann Stephenson, who curates the Readings at Parkside series was generous enough to ask about the Writers Series. This is the first time they will have all been screen together. Thank you, Ann!

The Parkside Lounge is a neighborhood bar with music and events venue in the back room. It has a friendly neighborhood vibe. People of all ages and stripes enjoying a pint, enjoying each other’s company, attending readings by contemporary greats, and now, there’s a video screening! I look forward to seeing you there.

Queerness! Portraits of…

Portraits of Queerness Film Series at the College of Staten Island

Friday, March 28, 2025, 2:30 – 9:00 PM
Center for Performing & Creative Arts, Building 1P

Screening that day of my 2002 video portrait of Kevin Killian and Cedar Sigo, titled
Kevin and Cedar.

video still from my 2002 video titled Kevin and Cedar
video still, Kevin & Cedar, 2002

But my film only ran for half of it! There was an error with the projection. I created a teaching moment, however, and showed Kevin and Cedar to my Cinematography class with a description of how the piece came about. I was in San Francisco and had arranged to shoot a portrait of him, as one of my series of writers’ portraits that I had been doing, so far with Laurie Weeks, Leslie Scalapino, and Eileen Myles. When I got to Kevin and Dodie Bellamy‘s apartment, Cedar was there, having just then arrived in San Francisco from Washington State. We decided to have the portrait be a double-portrait with Kevin and Cedar together. Here’s a link to the other videos in my writers’ series > https://vimeo.com/channels/ceciliadougherty.