Event

Femme In Public

What feminine part of yourself did you have to destroy in order to survive in this world? At what point does femininity become synonymous with apology? Who hurt the people who hurt you? Alok Vaid-Menon is trying to figure it out.

This is a performance to celebrate the release of Alok's new chapbook of poetry: FEMME IN PUBLIC!

Opener: ELSZ

Monday, September 25
Doors: 7:45PM
Performance: 8PM
296 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY

**There are limited spaces for this performance**
**Alok's new poetry chapbook FEMME IN PUBLIC will be sold at the event**
**This is a wheelchair accessible venue, for additional questions about the venue please contact irys@madebyvoz.com**

Alok Vaid-Menon (they/them) is a performance artist, writer, educator, and entertainer. For the past decade Alok has worked with feminist, queer, and trans* movements across the world. Their eclectic sense of style, political humor, and poetic challenge to the gender binary have been internationally renowned. Aloks work has been featured by HBO, MTV, The Guardian, The New Yorker, and more.

ELSZ is a producer, harpist, dancer, vocalist and activist based between Australia & Sri Lanka. She was born on Eora/Darug country (Sydney) but spent most of her early childhood in Sri Lanka. ELSZ experience of racism, gender violence, war and class, coupled with her own abstract expressions of her emotional / spiritual landscape, imbues her most recent work. In 2016 ELSZ recorded the first two singles for her forthcoming debut album 'Blue Scar' at New York Citys oldest recording studio, Sear Sound with Grammy Award winning engineer Jeremy Loucas. She independently released her debut single /video 'Poison', on the 8th of March 2016 (International Women's day). 'Poison' is dedicated to victims and survivors of gender based violence.