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Femme In Public (Minneapolis)
** THIS EVENT IS COMPLETELY SOLD OUT AND NO TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR **
FEMME IN PUBLIC: A Solo Performance by Alok Vaid-Menon
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 is trying to figure it out.
Join for an evening of comedy, poetry, and performance.
Opener: Xochi de la Luna & Andrea Jenkins
9:30PM DOORS SATURDAY NOV 3
Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre
(Avalon Theater)
1500 East Last Street
Minneapolis, MN 55407
*This is a wheelchair accessible space
*Alok's poetry chapbook FEMME IN PUBLIC will be sold after the performance
*There is only limited seating for this event. Please get your tickets before they're gone!
General questions: Info@alokvmenon.com
Venue questions: sackerman@hobt.org
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ALOK is a gender non-conforming writer and performance artist from New York City. Their eclectic style and poetic challenge to the gender binary have been internationally renowned. Alok was recently the youngest recipient of the prestigious Live Works Performance Act Award granted to ten performance artists across the world. In 2017 they released their inaugural poetry chapbook FEMME IN PUBLIC.
Andrea Jenkins is a writer, performance artist, poet, and transgender activist. She is the first African American openly trans woman to be elected to office in the United States. Jenkins has experience working in community development in North Minneapolis, and in delivering social services in South Minneapolis. Jenkins moved to Minnesota to attend the University of Minnesota in 1979 and was hired by the Hennepin County government, where she worked for a decade. Jenkins worked as a staff member on the Minneapolis City Council for 12 years before beginning work as curator of the Transgender Oral History Project at the University of Minnesota's Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies. Andrea holds a Masters Degree in Community Development from Southern New Hampshire University, a MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University and a Bachelors Degrees in Human Services from Metropolitan State University. She is a nationally and internationally recognized writer and artist, a 2011 Bush Fellow to advance the work of transgender inclusion, and the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships.
Xochi de la Luna (La XCurandera) is a first generation Salvadoran/Mexican immigrant multidisciplinary artist and organizer who focuses on the latinx diaspora and celebrating queer, transgender and other marginalized identities. Xochi is known for creating and hosting the Fantastical cabaret, Mother Goose's Bedtime Stories. Learn more at: www.facebook.com/xochidelauna"
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LocationHeart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre (View)
1500 E Lake St.
Minneapolis, MN 55407
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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