The Black Healing Portal BDAY Celebration w Odaymar Cuesta
Sat, Oct 17
|Queer Arts Center Gallery
Sat, Oct 17, 6–8 PM: Enter The Black Healing Portal for Odaymar Cuesta’s birthday healing circle, exhibit preview, artist performance, food, music, and collective altar—bring an object to offer. Art opening: Sun, Oct 18, noon–2 PM. Exhibition: Oct 18–22 at QAC Gallery. Tickets: QueerArtsCenter.com.
Time & Location
Oct 17, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT
Queer Arts Center Gallery, 3411 Lakeshore Ave, Oakland, CA 94610, USA
About the Event
“Hosting this offering on my actual bday is an act of love and deep activation of the portal for black trans liberation. It is a time for making healing change. It’s the baptism of freedom.”
— Artist Odaymar Cuesta
The Black Healing Portal (BHP) is resiliencia transformativa—a weaving of space and time, and a continuing project of Odaymar Cuesta’s life. It is a collaboration centering the life and artistic work of an Afro-Caribbean, self-created transfeminist warrior: queer afrodiasporique en movimiento. Its authenticity emerges from radical self-representation.
With Goddess and Spirits, BHP invites participants on an extraordinary, transcendental journey exploring race, religion, gender, temporality, class, and sexuality through art. La música como espíritu de la práctica y el cuerpo como alma del ritual—music as the spirit of the practice and the body as the soul of the ritual—to invert the margins, subvert hierarchies, and reactivate ciclos sagrados: Individualidad / Energía colectiva.
Tickets
Black + Indigenous Folkz
This is a pay-what-you-can $10 minimum ticket for Black and Indigenous Folkz to acknowledge that we are still the most targeted beings for state, group, and individual anti-Black violence.
$+Ticket service fee
Birthday Gift Ticket
For anyone who would like to contribute more to the event (decorations, food, etc.) as a gift to Odaymar.
$+Ticket service fee
Total
$0.00