[IMC-Boston-Dispatch] 04/09: Mangos with Chili QPOC Tour

[Sofia JarrinT]

christian at igc.org wrote: To:  leftistlounge at lists.riseup.net
From: christian at igc.org
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:27:19 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [LeftistLounge.com] Mangos with Chili QPOC Tour 

 PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY

Mangos With Chili queer people of color roadshow touring the Northeast March 31-April 9!

BOSTON:
Wednesday, April 4, Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth St, Boston, MA
7-9 PM, $8-$12, noone turned away due to lack of funds (and we really mean
it!) All ages: wheelchair accessible entry, semi-accessible bathroom.

FEATURING:

Thomas Andre Bardwell
Kay Barrett (Mango Tribe)
Ching-In Chen
Dulani
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Maria Cristina Rangel aka Miss Cherry Galette Suhayl Ramirez Ignacio Rivera Victor Tobar

The blurb: Mangos With Chili: the floating cabaret of queer and trans people of color bliss, dreams sweat, sweets and nightmares, is two weeks of history-making, ass-shaking performance by 9 queer and trans of color artists working  in spoken word, theater, drag, dance and burlesque. Our work celebrates our  lives, stories and survival, the histories we are making and the legacies we are creating for future generations of queer and trans people of color.

The backstory: Inspired by similar traveling roadshows like the Tranny Roadshow and Sister Spit, in 2006 sister femme vixen writers and performance artists Maria Cristina Rangel and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha decidedto start a similar tour featuring the most brilliant queer and trans artists of color they knew, using their experience creating events in Toronto, Boston, New York and the West Coast.

Telling stories of survival, sex, dreams, magic, color, and trans, femme and genderqueer identities reaching from Sri Lanka to Aztlan to Morocco to the Philippines to the Caribbean to Brooklyn to migrant small town Washington state, Mangos With Chili is a groundbreaking performance cabaret, taking This Bridge Called My Back into the 21st century.

For more information, downloadable press pics and flyers:
www.myspace.com/mangoswithchili

To arrange a media interview, please contact Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, co-Artistic Director at (416) 533-2697 (until March 30), (347) 721-7250 (after March 30), Maria Cristina Rangel at 413-218-0464, or mangos.with.chilli at gmail.com

Full Tour Dates:

PHILADELPHIA:
Saturday, March 31, 2007: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA Lang Concert Hall at Swarthmore College (500 College Ave, Swarthmore PA) 7:30 PM- 9:30 PM Free admission!!!

NEW YORK:
Sunday, April 1: Cattyshack, 249 4th Avenue (President & Carroll Sts), Brooklyn, NY, 8:00- 11:00 PM, $10-12, no one turned away due to lack of funds

NORTHAMPTON:
Monday, April 2: Smith College, Wright Hall Auditorium, Northampton, MA

PROVIDENCE:
Tuesday, April 3, Providence Black Repertory Theater, Providence RI
7-9 PM, $8-$12, noone turned away due to lack of funds

BOSTON:
Wednesday, April 4, Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth St, Boston, MA
7-9 PM, $8-$12, noone turned away due to lack of funds

MONTREAL:
Thursday, April 5, sponsored by McGill University, Le Studio, 2109 St Laurent.
Montreal, QC, $5, $3 students/ unemployed, noone turned away due to lack of funds. All ages, wheelchair accessible space! Afterparty Djd by DJs Leila and Diasporaface!

TORONTO:
Saturday, April 7, Buddies in Bad Times Theater, 12 Alexander St., Toronto, ON 8-10 PM, $8-12 sliding scale, no one turned away. Fully accessible venue!

OBERLIN, OH
Monday, April 9, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH The ‘Sco
7-9 PM 


 
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