Per Sia

Per Sia

PER SIA is a Latinx and non-binary youth educator, Drag Queen and story teller (or as PER SIA’s students like to say “a liar”).

Most well known for the song “Google Google Apps Apps” featuring DADDIES PLASTIK, PER SIA was raised in South Central Los Angeles and has degrees from both UC Santa Cruz and the San Francisco Art Institute.

PER SIA began performing drag at Esta Noche, the only queer Latinx bar in San Francisco for 30+ years, eventually becoming a performer in residence from 2008 until Esta Noche’s closure in 2014. PER SIA has also worked with a variety of Bay Area arts institutions including YBCA, SOMArts and SFMOMA. PER SIA was the first Drag Queen to host the nationally acclaimed “Drag Queen Story Hour” and has been a feature performer in several Bay Area theatrical productions including Star Trek Live, presented by OASIS (2015), The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot produced by The Tenderloin Museum (2018) as well as PER SIA’s most recent production, Translating Selena presented by the Living Word Project in association with Campo Santo (2020). PER SIA has also been a feature performer at several festivals outside the Bay Area including The 2011 end of year celebration at The Palm Cabaret in Puerto Vallarta, MX-JAL (2011), and at the 2013 Fluxx Fest in Tuscon, Arizona, a three-day arts festival celebrating art, music, pride and queer culture.

In addition to being an accomplished Drag Queen, PER SIA is also a dedicated youth worker and cultural curator. PER SIA has spent the past 8 years as an educator in residence at Children’s After School Art Program (CASA), teaching visual arts with a specific focus on drag history and accessible public transportation. In addition to educating and curating spaces for young people, PER SIA has also created spaces centering BIPOC artists in collaboration with the Mission District based Incline Gallery. Exhibitions curated by PER SIA include “Stop Being Poor (The Art Show)” (2014), “#HoldingOnToSF’” (2015), “It’s Gonna Be Queer” (2011) which combined featured over 30 Bay Area artists.

PER SIA has been profiled by KQED and can also be seen in seasons 1 and 2 of HBO’s Looking as well as Looking:The Movie. PER SIA’s upcoming projects include hosting the 19th annual SOMArts Dia de los Muertos digital celebration and collaborating with Drag Out The Vote to support voter registration and voter turn out in San Francisco.

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