YOUR BLISS TEAM
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Christine De La Rosa aka Miz Chris - Co-Producer Christine De La Rosa is a Southern, Latina techno-geek, queer, dyke, lesbian, Femme living in The Bay Area. She is an entrepeneur with a twist of sass. Co-founder for one of the largest LGBT sites on the internet, she has been organizing for her community for over 14 years. She is one of the founding members of the Femme Collective and co-chair for the Femmes of Color Symposium 2010. She works for a major telephony company by day and by night she manages a local lesbian bar in Oakland. This year she had the very distinct honor of producing, along with a collective of amazing and powerful women, the Women's Dance and Performance Pavilion at San Francisco Pride. She devotes much of her "free" time to promoting awareness of the LGBT community. She enjoys reading, listening to her iPod and karaoke under the right circumstances. |
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Olga Texidor aka DJ Olga T- Co-Producer DJ Olga T has been active in the LGBTQ community since her early work at the Lavender Youth Recreation & Information Center (LYRIC). Her peer leadership experience there led her to develop her then undiscovered talent for DJing. A Puerto Rican born in New York and raised in San Francisco, Olga Texidor (aka DJ OLGA T) started her DJ career in 1996. A long time resident DJ for countless premiere clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, DJ Olga T brings an unparalleled excitement to any party in which she performs. Spinning at all the premiere lesbian clubs and events in the Bay Area has allowed her to express her musical passion to the masses. Her signature style of seamlessly mixing vocal, Gospel, Latin, and Deep House music while infusing Hip Hop, R&B, Old School Classics, and Dancehall/Reggae into her sets with unparalled creativity and intensity, brought a new element to the women's club scene. Her tremendous passion for music and DJing is transferred through the turntables and connects her with the audience in a very unique and intimate way. One of the few DJs in the Bay Area to play multiple music formats with such intense precision and crowd satisfaction sets her apart from the rest. No matter what type of music she plays, when Olga T is spinning you're gonna wanna dance! Currently, Olga T is the music director for Butterfly Production events (which produces the legendary BUTTA and MO' BUTTA parties), creator of THE ALLSTAR JAM, resident DJ at MANGO, THE KENTUCKY FRIED WOMAN SHOW and S.F's newest party, TEASE. Also, staying true to her original love, Olga is the creator of OUR HOUSE, a club specifically for the Househeads of the Bay Area. In 2005, Olga launched Her Grooves, which offers DJ classes and one on one personal DJ instruction for women. In addition, Olga's producing her own Hip Hop and House re-mixes and continues to put out limited copies of her numerous CD compilations. These CDs are guaranteed to rock your party and they go fast. So, don't sleep...
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Amy Adams - Event Co-Coordinator Mz. Amy Adams is a community activist and lover of women, trying to enhance the lives of women and family with love & positivity. With the mission of creating harmonious communities for women by women, she also finds love rockin the mic. She spits poems with ferocious diva attitude. Performing around the Bay Area and beyond for the past 7 years. SheSpeaks, Eclectic, Love Jones, Coochielicious, LIP, Butta, 2007 APIWTC 20th annual Lunar Banquet, Dorsey’s Locker, FRESH, Winner of 2008 Talent Show , 2009 SF Pride Women’s Stage, and has acted in the Fourth Annual DykeDrama Festival, Dangerous Curves: "The Femme Show" , and several other plays with the Lunasea Theater. Mz. Amy was also the organizer for the 2004 Oakland Poetry Slam, Organizer for the 2006 Shespeaks fundraiser for Sistahs Steppin In Pride. 2008 organizer for the MO’ Butta Weekend, 2008 Volunteer Coordinator for the Soul of Pride Stage @SF Pride, 2008 Coordinator for the Butch-Femme Bash, 2009 Volunteer Coordinator for the SF Pride Women’s Stage. She has also been serving drinks at the hottest clubs in the bay!! Bench & Bar, Sweet’s Ballroom, Oasis, Club Six.
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Kiki Poe - Event Co-Coordinator Black, Japanese, Hawaiian, White, , intelligent, bossy, courageous, outgoing, moody and determined. Kiki Poe is all of these things and so much more. Born in the San Francisco Bay Area, raised in the Central Valley, and being of mixed heritage has helped me become a very well rounded individual, to say the least. Over the past decade she worked as an Organizer for many different organizations with trainings, conferences, festivals and rallies. Most recently she helped create the Serafemme Magazine launch issue and looks forward to organizing the BLISS weekend with like minded women of her community.
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Kee Hughes - Marketing Coordinator Kee is a Puerto Rican/Creole Queer poetess, journalist, advertiser, marketer, and former soccer player (16 years of experience). She is versatile and enjoys being able to take on various tasks within but not limited to the field of Communications. Native of Los Angeles, CA Kee was raised single-handedly by her mother, and is the oldest out of six children (3 boys and 3 girls). She credits her younger siblings as the forceful drive behind her positive focus, and her mother for giving her the gift of gab. She has worked for companies such as blackcollegewire.com, Digest News, ESPN College Sports, Times-Picayune, New York Times Journalism Institute, Vibe, BET, On Wax Magazine, Etc, MF Comics, The Los Angles Recording School, Human Rights Campaign, etc. . Kee moved to San Francisco during the summer of 2008, to pursue her Masters of Arts in Communications. She is currently involved in several projects. She does Marketing with Curve Magazine, the nation’s best-selling lesbian magazine, and Movement Productions. She does freelance writing for various local, and national publications. And is a counselor and soccer coach for disadvantaged children, in Oakland, CA. She is also working on a project for lesbians of color which will remain undisclosed until late September.
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Charleen Caabay aka Chikun - Public Relations Coordinator Born in the east coast of Central Jersey and raised in Vallejo, California. Currently assists in promoting for Dream Production's - Tease and has volunteered in other events in the community. Being a woman of color - Filipina decent, Chikun has geared her support and energy into building relationships and networking, in hopes for a greater queer community. "Community is like playing Red Rover. Red Rover! Red Rover! We want to see YOU over! I believe if we all work together we can achieve where we all want to be, and have a strong execution!...boom-boom-POW!" Outside of the lime light, you will find her working as an IT professional in the biotechnology industry. On the side she's found love with satisfying many appetites with her culinary skills. Chikun is out and about and wants to meet you on how we can make things happen!
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Chaney Turner - Social Life Productions Born and raised in Oakland, California, Chaney is one of the Bay Area's rising promoters. She has worked with Bay Area
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Miki Vargas – Founder of BoiBlue Events and Babyblue Designs Born and raised in Costa Rica. Miki is one of the Bay Area's up and coming promoters, currently part of Dream Productions hosting Tease a Mega Party for women and host of Girl Fridays held in San Francisco. After becoming a graphic designer, she became involved in the lesbian club scene working as a designer for some of the best bay area promoters. Recently ventured out to promote her events for women, inspired by the need to evoke and re-invent the way the lesbian community experiences the club scene today, but most importantly by the need to provide different choices for women in a gay male saturated club environment. “I do it for the love of women, for the love of music and for |
