Queer Art Impact Celebrates Gay Wars: The Queer Ecology
May 12, 2011 by Nursha
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Join Queer Art Impact in celebrating its one year anniversary with Gay Wars: The Queer Ecology. Gay 
Wars is back with a vengeance and full of pre-Pride hotness. The week-long festival of performances, panels, and meet-ups to unravel the queerness of human interaction is sure to please! For more information, visit queerai.com
May 15TH-21ST, 2011 in NEW YORK CITY
SUNDAY, MAY 15TH; 3PM IN PRIVATE, BROOKLYN-LOCATION
This QAI Brunch Series’ think-tank a la celebration is invite-only ; Guests will net-wrrkq for this monthly series. It is an intimate gathering to celebrate/lubricate the work of queer strategists, innovators, and creators to build a strong QAI movement.
TUESDAY, MAY 17TH; 7PM AT ABRONS ART CENTER
Abrons Art Center in the Underground Theater
466 Grand Street
New York, NY 10002
RSVP HERE – FREE
A QAI promoted event, “Starving Artist” vs. Entrepreneur is part of ERPA: The Next Gen Debate Series with The Field (www.thefield.org). Debaters include Morgan von Prelle Pecelli, Jean Ann Douglass, Catherine Peila and Queer Art Impact co-founder, Shalonda Ingram. Moderated by Andy Horwitz.
Is the language we use around the arts helping or hurting? Do you pay yourself a living wage to make your work? Do you value your work as something that needs to happen? Does “non-profit” equal art-as-charity, a luxury commodity, a non-necessity? Does it support entrepreneurship? How does this language help art-makers to be seen, fundraise and be recognized as important and critical?
THURSDAY, MAY 19TH; 7PM AT GIBNEY DANCE CENTER
890 Broadway, Fifth Floor
New York, NY 10003
A FREE evening of conversation across creative disciplines and queer expertise; Moderated by activist, writer, and educator Brian McCormick; Panelists include organizers for QUEEROCRACY: a non-normative grassroots organization working to promote social justice and fight the global AIDS crisis through direct action, advocacy, and education.
FRIDAY, MAY 20TH; 7PM AT THE TANK
354 West 45th Street
New York, NY 10036
Music series featuring Brooklyn’s own Melissa Li, NJ/FLorida’s finest Bard & Mustache, and the notorious QAI superstar Charlie Demos! Hosted by last-months QAI electrodrama pop thang, the IDIOT a.k.a. Theodor Wilson.
SATURDAY, MAY 21ST; 7PM AT THE TANK
354 West 45th Street
New York, NY 10036
Main-stage featuring Shelly Mars’ Homo Bonobo Project.
The Homo Bonobo Project is a multimedia presentation by the globe-trotting Belgian primatologist Dr. Ghislaine Pussait, as played by her creator Shelly Mars, AKA the “after-hours Lily Tomlin.”
Oh, and isn’t Sarah Palin gonna be there ;-?
SATURDAY, MAY 21ST; 9:30PM AT DIXON PLACE
161A Chrystie Street
New York, NY 10002
Late-night series at Bulldyke Chronicles with Shelly Mars including QAI/Nursha artist Micia Mosely.
Join NPA Micia Mosely at Marga’s Funny Mondays
April 19, 2011 by Nursha
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Come celebrate the start of the week with Marga Gomez at Marga’s Funny Mondays!
EVENT DETAILS 
Monday May 9th, 2011 @8pm
Special Guest: Micia Mosely
2120 Allston Way Berkeley, CA
Tickets: $10
For more information, click here . Stay tuned for more details!
For Third Year, Nursha Co-Curates Event to Empower Young Women
April 8, 2011 by Nursha
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For the third year, Nursha Project co-curates annual Young Women’s Health Leadership Summit at the University of California, San Francisco. Nursha Collaborators, Infin8 Sync and Mona Webb, were featured in the day’s events. To view images or learn more about this YWHLS, click here . 
Queer Art Impact Co-founders Debate at The Field!
April 3, 2011 by Nursha
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Join Queer Art Impact co-founders, Mathew Heggem and Shalonda Ingram as they share their offerings on The Field and the Abrons Art Center’s panel discussions on the performing arts community! The first of some fiery and critical discussions, the Next Gen Debate Series will be held in a structured debate format facilitated by a moderator.
EVENT DETAILS 
Hypermedia Marketing: Alienating or Inviting?
Monday, April 11th, 2011; 7pm
Abrons Art Center in the Underground Theater
466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street)
New York City
Twitter, Facebook, blogs, websites, apps etc.: What do these do to an already tense and widening generational gap? How can one stay afloat and keep tabs on every stream? How do you decide what level of engagement is right for you? Is this an opportunity or an obstacle for the performing arts community? This debate will investigate the myriad ways this “flood of material” is (mis)used, consumed and disseminated.
Debaters include Brian McCormick, Eva Yaa Asantewaa, Mathew Heggem, Sarah A.O. Rosner, and Wendy Perron!
“Starving Artist” vs. Entrepreneur: Is the language we use around the arts helping or hurting?
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011; 7pm
Abrons Art Center in the Underground Theater
466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street)
New York City
Do you pay yourself a living wage to make your work? Do you value your work as something that needs to happen? Does “non-profit” equal art-as-charity, a luxury commodity, a non-necessity? Does it support entrepreneurship? How does this language help art-makers to be seen, fund raise and be recognized as important and critical?
Debaters include Morgan von Prelle Pecelli, Jean Ann Douglass, Catherine Peila and Shalonda Ingram!
Queer Art Impact Collaborator Charlie Demos ‘Sharpens the DAGGER for Public Access’
April 3, 2011 by Nursha
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Queer Art Impact Collaborator, Charlie Demos was recently interviewed by NEXT Magazine to discuss his 
new initiative, “The Dagger.” The singer/songwriter/multimedia artist and now producer, embarked on this creative journey in hopes of creating a queer public access show that would provide the community with an edgier alternative to the mainstream. To read the interview in its entirety, click here . The 28-minute episodes of “The Dagger” airs Fridays at 1am on MNN 2 Channel 56 Manhattan Public Access Television . The show will also stream live on the MNN website in case you miss it!
Charlie also sat down with Queer Art Impact co-founders, Mathew Heggem and Shalonda Ingram for 365 4 5 on the topic, ” Queer Ecology and Promoting Selflessness. ” To watch the interview, click below!
Queer Ecology: Promoting Selflessness from Mathew Heggem on Vimeo .
NPA Thandiwe De Shazor Featured at International Home Theater Festival in Berkeley
March 27, 2011 by Nursha
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Join Thandiwe De Shazor at “Home Cooking,” a one-night stand of queer performances, music, movement, puppetry, and food at the International Home Theater Festival in Berkeley, presented by Eye Zen Art. Thandiwe is workshopping some rewrites of his show, ” Children of the Last Days ,” and some new work, “Chicken Soup for the Chronic Masturbators Soul” or “The Wounded Boy Project”.
LIBATION = SALVATION
March 27, 2011 by Nursha
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Ian Friday, Manchild Black, and Afro Mosaic Soul invite you to dance and be free at the only NYC dance party that brings you the best in Global Soul Culture…LIBATION!
Thursday, April 7, 2011
11:00pm-4:00am
(LE) POISSON ROUGE
158 Bleecker Street
(Bet.Thompson & Sullivan)
West Village, New York City
(212) 505-FISH (3474)
A, C, E or B, D, F, V to West 4th Street Station
Door: $10 before 11:30pm/$15 after
On Thursday, April 7th, LIBATION will take over the main room of West Village hot spot, (LE) POISSON ROUGE, and turn it into a musical paradise! Acclaimed DJ/producer IAN FRIDAY (Tea Party Music) will rock the decks, and spin the beats to keep you sweating all …night long!
For a taste of LIBATION,visit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxwLlfMcXfo
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/teapartymusic
http://www.facebook.com/manchildblack
http://www.myspace.com/afromosaicsoul
http://www.lepoissonrouge.com/
((LIBATION=SALVATION))
14th Annual BGL Cruise Presents Highly Acclaimed Play About Gay Schoolteacher Accused of Child Molestation
March 27, 2011 by Nursha
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Sailing November 2-10, 2011
For the first time, The Songmaster BGL Cruise will present its guests with an evening of enchanting live theatre! “Armstrong’s Kid”, featuring NPA 
Thandiwe De Shazor, is a riveting piece written by three time NAACP Theatre Award and NAACP Image Award-winning novelist, playwright, filmmaker, journalist and actor Stanley Bennett Clay. The play stars a gay schoolteacher (Clay) who is falsely accused of child molestation by his best friend’s fourteen-year-old son and spends nearly a year in prison before the truth is revealed.
Eleven years later, the now-grown accuser (co-star Thandiwe Thomas De Shazor) goes to the cabin retreat of the falsely accused to seek forgiveness. What follows is a blistering showdown, ripe with bitter confrontations, shocking revelations, vicious humor, hidden desires, and bitter truths exposed.
The Songmaster BGL Cruise may be smooth sailing but Stanley Bennett Clay’s “Armstrong’s Kid” promises to rock you like you’ve never been rocked before!
Sailing: Nov. 2 through 10, 2011
Book now to get the lowest prices! To join the Mailing List, visit www.bglcruising.com or contact Mark Harris @ 415-922-2916 for details
For more information, click here .
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NPA Thandiwe De Shazor Featured at the International Home Theater Festival in Berkeley!
Join Thandiwe De Shazor at “Home Cooking,” a one-night stand of queer performances, music, movement, puppetry, and food at the International Home Theater Festival in Berkeley, presented by Eye Zen Art. Thandiwe is workshopping some rewrites of his show, ” Children of the Last Days ,” and some new work, “Chicken Soup for the Chronic Masturbators Soul” or “The Wounded Boy Projec t”.
DRED Performs in 18th Annual SF Drag King Contest!
March 13, 2011 by Nursha
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Thursday, September 29, 2011; 7pm Screening of Paris is Burning . milDRED will facilitate a discussion about the film immediately after a brief performance.
Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC)
4807 Caroline
Houston, Texas
This HMAAC program is a continuation of its mission “to invite and engage visitors of every race and background, and to inspire children of all ages through discover-driven learning.” HMAAC is partnering with Our Image Film and Arts ( http://www.ourimagefest.com ) for this film screening series.
FREE!!!
For more information about milDRED’s activities, visit www.DredLove.com
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JUST MISSED….
Friday, August 5, 2011
milDRED performs in and judges 18th Annual SF Drag King Contest at DNA Lounge in San Francisco!
DNA Lounge
375 Eleventh Street
San Francisco, California
Doors @ 8pm; 21+ to Enter!
Band @ 9pm
Show @ 10pm
Tickets: $20 Advance; $25 @ Door
Phone: 415. 626.1409
For more information, click here .
“The San Francisco Drag King Contest is a mash-up of the Miss America Pageant, American Idol, Halloween and a Monster Truck Show,” states impresario Fudgie Frottage . “We have every kind of drag from suits to fruits; studs to puds — Everything from Elvis impersonators to Leather Daddies, Wrestlers, Contortionists, Hillbillies, Clowns, Jocks, and their female counterparts. It’s a mind-boggling, dress-to-impress occasion, where part of the fun is just trying tell the performers and audience members apart.”
Sunday, June 5, 2011; 6-8pm
D.R.E.D., Mister Overdone and other special guest perform at:
Voices Breaking Boundaries
Houston Institute for Culture
708-C Telephone Road
Houston,Texas 77023
FREE–food and drinks available with donations!
For more info go to: www.vbbarts.org
Just missed milDRED at the Houston Transgender Unity Banquet! 
DRED delivered the keynote address at the annual banquet at the Sheraton Brookhollow in Houston, Texas.
This enchanted evening was a celebration of the Trans community in Houston. The Unity Banquet is organized by the Houston Transgender Unity Committee, the consortium of area transgender organizations. Proceeds from ticket sales support the Peggy Rudd Transgender Scholarship Fund . This was the fifth year that the Unity Committee presented scholarships that were established to help trans-identified students pursuing higher education and named in honor of advocate and educator Dr. Peggy Rudd.
For more information, click here .
Nursha Project Artist in Remount of Acclaimed Piece
February 17, 2011 by Nursha
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NPA Thandiwe De Shazor is featured in Pomo Afro Homos , the remount of the highly acclaimed piece, Fierce Love .
Pomo Afro Homos Fierce Love (Remix)
EVENT DETAILS
Saturday, March 5th, 2011 at 8pm
Sunday, March 6th, 2011 at 7pm
3225 8th Street NE Washington, DC 20017
202-269-1600
Straight out of San Francisco’s Castro District, Pomo Afro Homos (Postmodern, African American, you know the rest), the badass brothas of queer performance rocked Dance Place in the 90s. Two decades later, Pomo co-founder, writer and director Brian Freeman remixes the company’s classic work Fierce Love with a fresh crew of San Francisco/Bay Area badass brothas.
Shining a light on Black gay life, the heart of Fierce Love is rooted in the early 1990s when it was created. While some of the pop culture references have been updated and a few new pieces have been added, including a hip hop number, many of the issues the show takes on have not changed in 20 years. As one of the few theatrical works exploring Black gay life, Fierce Love is still relevant in the US and beyond as the dialogue on race and sexuality continues to evolve.
To learn how to preview the piece before it appears at Dance Place, click here .
PREVIEW DETAILS
Friday, March 4th, 2011 @ 11pm
Bus Boys and Poets (@ 14th and V)
2021 14t Street
NW DC 20009
202-387-7638
