Event

Werk, HARD!

The PREMIER of 8 new drag acts starring:
Glamamore and Mona G Hawd
Fauxnique and Elijah Minnelli
Mercedez Munro and Martha T. Lipton (the failed Actress)
Phatima and Lil Miss Hot Mess
curated by VivvyAnne ForeverMORE!
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You've seen these queens perform in the clubs, even some of them in theaters. As part of the National Queer Arts Festival VivvyAnne ForeverMORE! has challenged them to collaborate. With cross-pollination of technique, style and personal histories as the goal each pair has created two new numbers, and documented their processes. What happens when the long standing legend GLAMAMORE comes together with baby dragster MONA G HAWD? What will fauxqueen and Best of the Bay winning performance artist FAUXNIQUE and fierce sensation baby ELIJAH MINNELLI possibly come up with?
It's a one time showing!
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Post performance reception and discussion to be expected.

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Curatorial Statement:

As queers our history is often not tracable through bloodlines, or even through the written word. A vast marjority of queer histories and traditions must be claimed, and created. An obvious and persevering queer tradition is drag performance. Drag carries within it traditions, techniques, perspectives, and stories that are passed down from drag mother to drag daughter, or from drag sister to drag sister. Through the formation of chosen drag families (from tight knit, to looser associations) the techniques and concepts of drag making are shared, as are stories and oral histories. Drag Queens, being public and social performance makers, have access to many gay community members socially and personally, essentially making them the story tellers and keepers of queer communities.
San Francisco is rich in drag communities. While these different "families" overlap and perform together it is rare that their traditions and knowledge are explicitly shared. A cross pollination of drag making, storytelling, and technique can only make our families stronger, and fortify our shared stories and histories.