It’s practically an Easter tradition for us now…
Tuesday, April 26
7:30 – 9:30 pm
Club Cafe , 209 Columbus Ave, Boston, MA
18+
Dr. Sketchy’s Boston has added a monthly event: now you can get twice the Sketchy’s each month! Join Madge of Honor and me for this sultry, evening-time version of Boston’s long-running, non-traditional burlesque life drawing class.
More info at: www.truthserum.org
I’m teaching a workshop at Smith College listed as “Physical Theater, Gender and Performance.” We’ll cover the performative techniques of creating a gendered character, play around and have lots of fun!
Thursday, April 21
7-9 pm
Davis Ballroom
Smith College
Northampton MA
Open to students of the 5 Colleges
Free (I believe!)
Sponsored by Transcending Gender
Thursday April 14
doors: 8pm, show: 8:30pm
our usual drag-burlesque-cabaret debauchery
followed by a rare performance by ***COME***
dancing to DJ Chris Ewen until they kick us out!
OBERON
2 Arrow Street Harvard Square Cambridge, MA
advanced tickets as low as $15: http://bit.ly/tw_04_14
TraniWreck is the legendary, award-winning, cabaret variety show featuring genderbending irreverence: Drag, Burlesque, Aerials and Performance Art. Since 2004, TraniWreck has been the home of brilliantly revealing costumes, inconceivably long nails, facial hair of astronomic proportions, gold lamé, debauchery and more attitude than a $13 cocktail.
Indie rock band Come is at least as legendary as TraniWreck. Conceived on the banks of the Charles, between 1991 and 2001, Come spawned 4 full-length LPs and numerous singles and EPs of ferocious rock on the Matador, Sub Pop, Domino, and Beggars Banquet record labels and toured the world extensively. The band’s original lineup reunited at the invitation of Matador this past October for their 21st-anniversary celebration in Las Vegas, which was preceded by a local show in Cambridge. Recently they agreed to reunite once more at the request of their friends (and indie rock icons) Eleventh Dream Day for a show in New York City. Boston got jealous, and Come accepted an invitation to join TraniWreck to create a special event of rock and performance. While ruling nothing out, the band has no plans for further performances. This is a rare opportunity to be captivated by Come’s driving and enthralling emotional onslaught.
TraniWreck features:
Host and MC Heywood Wakefield, Johnny Blazes, Madge of Honor and Katya. Plus dancing with DJ Chris Ewen, hysterical haikus from The Haiku King, the unveiling of Cotton Candy (Mark Robinson and Evelyn Hurley)’s new TraniWreck jingle, aerial artistry by Rachel Stewart, and radical cheers benefiting MA Youth Pride from Boston Sass Attack.
Facebook event here: http://on.fb.me/04_14_tw
more info here: http://www.truthserum.org/
Tuesday April 19
The Midway, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain, MA
$7 at the door, 18+
Doors: 7pm
Show: 8pm *NEW this month!*
Dancing: 10 pm onward
Boston is notorious for jumping straight from Winter to Summer, with barely a nod to Spring. And what better way to celebrate that microsecond of vernal bliss than with Hypothesis’s April theme: Hot vs Cold! A truly divisive topic, there may be no rivalry more hotly contested and frigidly defended. Are you a summer or winter baby? Do you like your coffee steaming or iced? Do you want ice cubes or candle wax dripped on you? Warm or cool colors? Do you have a hot temper or give the cold shoulder? Come see our artists grapple with this conundrum; they promise to run hot and cold on you.
The evening will feature: poetry from local activist-legend Letta Neely, chamber music for the modern era from duo of misfit classical musicians Goli, (perhaps sexy) slam poetry from Boston’s own prodigal son Kit Yan (also known as the more vegan half of Good Asian Drivers, and Mr. Transman 2010), as well as performances from Boston’s most innovative vaudevillians, Johnny Blazes and Madge of Honor. The presentation of findings will be followed by a dance party to the smashing sounds of Boston’s own DJ Golden Touch of Audio Chemists. Feature drinks, appropriately fluorescent and elixir-evocative, will be available at the bar for those scientists over 21.
NEW THIS MONTH! Hypothesis will feature a new, EARLIER start time for you folks with so-called “day jobs” on Wednesday mornings…
Website: www.HypothesisShow.wordpress.com
Questions: contact.hypothesis@gmail.com
Friday April 8
doors 9:30 pm
show 10 pm
dancing until 2 am
Trinity College
Vernon Social Center on Vernon St.
Hosted by Johnny Blazes
featuring performances by Katya, Madge of Honor, Aporia, Marilyn Meow, Boston Sass Attack and Heywood Wakefield!
At the door, sign up to participate in a best-dressed contest, and in a best amateur performance contest!
Free for Trinity students, $5 for students of another college or a guest of a Trinity student.
18+
An alcohol-free event!
Facebook event here.
Friday, April 15
Seattle Central Community College
Details TBA
Please keep checking www.johnnyblazes.com and Facebook for info!
Saturday, April 16
6 – 9pm
Library L4300, Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA
Featuring Jamez Terry, Johnny Blazes, solidad decosta, Red Durkin, Deena Kaye Rose, and Modern Day Pinnochio.
This is a free, all-ages show!
The Tranny Roadshow is a multimedia performance art extravaganza. It is composed of an eclectic group of artists, each one self-identified as transgender, and includes poets, rappers, filmmakers, storytellers, dancers, rock bands, comedians, actors, folk singers, photographers, zinesters, and more.
Learn more at: http://www.trannyroadshow.com/
Facebook event here.
March is said to come “in like a lion and out a lamb.” What better month for the theme PREDATOR/PREY? This ages-old relationship has many names: the circle of life, the food chain, survival of the fittest. There is the hunter and the hunted. But in human relationships, are the lines quite so clearly drawn? Are predators always villains and prey always victims? Our artists promise to chomp, gasp, hiss, whimper, growl, run, roar, scream and otherwise explore the bounds of this duality.
The evening will feature: smut-theater from Cameryn Moore the Phone Whore, radical puppetry from Philadelphia-based “whimsycore” artist Geppetta, sexy poetry from fierce femme Idalia, modern dance from Marsha Parrilla/Danza Orgánica as well as performances from Boston’s most innovative vaudevillians, Johnny Blazes and Madge of Honor. The presentation of findings will be followed by a dance party to the smashing sounds of Boston’s own DJ Golden Touch of Audio Chemists. Feature drinks, appropriately fluorescent and elixir-evocative, will be available at the bar for those scientists over 21.
Tuesday March 22, 2011
The Midway, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain MA
$7 at the door, 18+
doors: 8pm
show: 9pm
dancing: 10:30 pm onward
www.HypothesisShow.wordpress.com
Madge of Honor and I have the great privilege of supporting and performing with our friend Zayde Buti at his CD release party at the end of this month! Zayde has been a guest at Hypothesis and The Buttcracker, and has brought some of the funniest, oddest stuff we’ve had on our stage yet. I once got to see him lead an entire audience at Jacques Cabaret through a guided meditation of eating raisins– this guy is a genius– and he makes me and Madge look positively mainstream!
Zayde’s work revolves around identity and food issues, and promises also to focus on positivity and spirituality in his performances.
Details are still to-be-confirmed for this show, but rumored to be involved are local electro-dance-rock stars Lovewhip and one-man band Sean Revoltah.
Monday March 28, 9 pm – 1 am
performances in two sets exact times TBA
The Enormous Room
569 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
hosted by DJ Flack and Wayne & Wax under the auspices of Beat Research, a weekly electronic music night
more info at www.zaydebuti.com
I’m hitting the road for a long weekend with two other amazing genderqueer performers, Ignacio Rivera and Midwest Genderqueer. We will be guest performing with two shows in Philadelphia, then presenting our own full-length revue, Gender Queeries, in Baltimore.
http://genderqueeries.wordpress.com/
Friday March 4 at 8 pm
Tritone
1508 South Street, Philadelphia, PA
$5-$10 suggested donation at the door.
Featuring performances by:
Ms. Mary Wanna, Ms. Tina, Rome Prodigy, June Martinez, Messapotamia Lefae, Nawaya Shay, Midwest GenderQueer, Johnny Blazes & Ignacio Rivera
Spoken word by Ky, Akinfe Fatou, Kit Yan of Good Asian Drivers &Wordz
Comedy by RaeRay
Puppetry by Geppetta
Hosted by the Notorious OMG of the Liberty City Kings
Followed by a dance party with tunes spun by Philadelphia’s very own DJ Evil V!
Representatives from the Leeway Foundation, The Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference, TMAN Magazine, Gay Philadelphia, Gender Reel & the Philadelphia Trans Information Project will also be at the event with updates about amazing GV/TG events and projects going on in Philadelphia in 2011.
All proceeds benefit Legalize Trans*, an artistic and educational campaign intended to create dialogue and draw attention to the lack of inclusivity within the popular American Apparel “Legalize Gay” campaign. Come sporting an official Legalize Trans* tee for free admission! You can get yours online now at www.legalizetrans.com.
RSVP to the Facebook event here
Saturday March 5
doors 8 pm, show 9 pm
Tabu
200 S 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA
$7 in DRAG or $10 not
Paddles, packers and pasties… Oh My!
Come out, come out wherever you are for a shimmy, shake and sprinkle of glitter from some of Philly’s sexiest queer music, drag & burlesque artists performing classic cabaret with a kinky twist!
Tassle Twirling Competition with great prizes from Sexploratorium!
Hosted by Liberty City Kings Drag & Burlesque AKA LiCK
Philly’s Queer Drag & Burlesque Performance Troupe
MCed by The Notorious OMG
The incredible dj evil v will be spinning after the show so prepare to dance your pants off… come on, we can’t be the only ones getting naked!
RSVP to the Facebook invite here
Come see Gender Queeries take on Baltimore! The Gender Queeries crew will be joined by Baltimore’s sassiest all-gender burlesque troupe, Sticky Buns Burlesque.
Drawing from the artists’ signature styles of drag, burlesque, dance, spoken word, film, poetry and vaudeville, Gender Queeries promises a thought-provoking night of humor, sass and glitter.
Sticky Buns Burlesque creates tableaux of strange and arresting beauty through liberating, joyous performance. Starring Paco Fish, Marla Meringue, Roma Mafia, GiGi Holliday, and Shortstaxx.
Monday March 7
Doors: 7:30 pm Show: 8 pm
The Windup Space
10-12 W. North Ave, Baltimore MD
$7 at the door, 18+
RSVP to the Facebook event here
Thursday March 3rd 8 pm
WOW Cafe Theatre
59-61 E. 4th St, NYC
$10 at the door, or $7 if you come in themed costume
RSVP to the Facebook event here.
