About
Mission:
reshape community through the creative leadership of highly-impacted queer people and their joy-inspiring magical connection with nature.
XilaMonstrr Productions creates highly immersive art that invites attendees into other worlds. We craft events that break down the spectator wall between audience and performers, and create films that engage the audience through emotional connection and storytelling.
When community is built by leadership from the margins of society, it creates a nourishing spiral that eliminates all possibility of margins--everyone is at the center, everyone is important, everyone is a leader. XilaMonstrr seeks to do exactly that.
XilaMonstrr Productions is the multidisciplinary creative brainchild of Síle P. Heaney ("sheila"), a culmination of 17 years of collaborative artistic trouble-making and immersion into the magic of the universe.
She seeks is to provide opportunities for people to let go of the world that holds them back, to step boldly forward into alternative realities together. In doing so, people find their creative power and feel more capable of transforming the world around them.
From 2010-2012, Ms. Heaney was the founder and lead organizer of The Big GAY Warehouse, a queer arts event space in San Francisco. Referred to as “The Underground Party Queen of SF”, she was featured in the Bay Guardian’s Hot Pink List. XilaMonstrr Productions marks her epic return to creative projects and community organizing.
XilaMonstrr Productions creates highly immersive art that invites attendees into other worlds. We craft events that break down the spectator wall between audience and performers, and create films that engage the audience through emotional connection and storytelling.
Legacy Projects:
The Big GAY Warehouse
San Francisco, 2009-2011
Underground Queer Arts & Event Space
Muffintop Mountain
Wolf Creek, OR 2014-2018
Land Project for Highly-Impaced Trans People