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"The Bored Identity" Joe's Pub
Apr
22
9:30 PM21:30

"The Bored Identity" Joe's Pub

Come celebrate the release of The Bored Identity, Dynasty Handbag's first comedy record on Wacky Wacko Records!
TICKETS

In the spirit of 70’s comedy albums by artists such as Lily Tomlin and Richard Pryor, The Bored Identity is a collection of characters and songs by the underground’s most beloved subversive comedic performance artist.  Dynasty Handbag takes on the self care industrial complex, murderous misogyny and the horrors of heteronormativity by deftly moving in and out of a crackpot slew of characters in ridiculously imaginative scenarios.

Song’s include ode to male privilege When A Man Has an Idea and the consumer driven climate disaster electro banger Vat Do U Vant for Bwekfas? For the Elysian show run, Dynasty Handbag will be performing all the tracks on The Bored Identity along with her signature mean spirited stand up and social commentary.

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HAAGS at Night of 1000 Kates
Apr
20
8:00 PM20:00

HAAGS at Night of 1000 Kates

My dance troupé HAAGS (fluid spelling) with Emilia Ponysweat is performing a new piece at this Kate Bush worship magical dork fest!

There Goes A Tenner:
The 10th Annual Night of 1000 Kates 

April 20, 2024
7:30pm - 2am
Union Transfer, Philadelphia
& Livestreamed to the world

​$20 in advance, $25 at door
BUY UNION TRANSFER TICKETS

$5 livestream (sales end Noon 4/20)
Doors: 7:30pm | Performances: 8pm - 11pm
Dance Party w/ 1000 Kates DJs 11pm -  2am
21+, *Masked Event*

An annual evening of shameless ecstatic lushness - using Kate Bush's craft as the source material! Join us for a night of music, dance, theatrics, film and revelry. Over *90*  performers take the stage! Followed by a dance party to all yr favorite witchy bangers.

Now in its 10th year, 1000 Kates is one night of all manner of performances inspired by Kate Bush's vast catalogue. Since 2014 over 650 performers - mostly hailing from Philly - have contributed their magic to this truly epic event.

​• Accessibility: The venue and bathrooms at Union Transfer are accessible. Reserved seating available upon request.

• We will be asking all attendees to wear a mask when not eating or drinking.

Any additional questions? Contact 1000kates@gmail.com

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"The Bored Identity"  at FRINGEARTS in PHILLY
Apr
18
9:30 PM21:30

"The Bored Identity" at FRINGEARTS in PHILLY

Come celebrate the release of The Bored Identity, Dynasty Handbag's first comedy record on Wacky Wacko Records!
TICKETS

In the spirit of 70’s comedy albums by artists such as Lily Tomlin and Richard Pryor, The Bored Identity is a collection of characters and songs by the underground’s most beloved subversive comedic performance artist.  Dynasty Handbag takes on the self care industrial complex, murderous misogyny and the horrors of heteronormativity by deftly moving in and out of a crackpot slew of characters in ridiculously imaginative scenarios.

Song’s include ode to male privilege When A Man Has an Idea and the consumer driven climate disaster electro banger Vat Do U Vant for Bwekfas? For the Elysian show run, Dynasty Handbag will be performing all the tracks on The Bored Identity along with her signature mean spirited stand up and social commentary.

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"The Bored Identity" Record Release
Mar
7
7:30 PM19:30

"The Bored Identity" Record Release

Come celebrate the release of The Bored Identity, Dynasty Handbag's first comedy record on Wacky Wacko Records!

In the spirit of 70’s comedy albums by artists such as Lily Tomlin and Richard Pryor, The Bored Identity is a collection of characters and songs by the underground’s most beloved subversive comedic performance artist.  Dynasty Handbag takes on the self care industrial complex, murderous misogyny and the horrors of heteronormativity by deftly moving in and out of a crackpot slew of characters in ridiculously imaginative scenarios.

Song’s include ode to male privilege When A Man Has an Idea and the consumer driven climate disaster electro banger Vat Do U Vant for Bwekfas? For the Elysian show run, Dynasty Handbag will be performing all the tracks on The Bored Identity along with her signature mean spirited stand up and social commentary.

TICKETS

***Special $40 package includes admission to the show & limited edition pink vinyl record.***

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Titanic Depression at NYLA
Jan
14
to Jan 20

Titanic Depression at NYLA

MAINSTAGE THEATER

JANUARY 14-15 & 18-20, 7:30PM

TICKETS START AT $25/ $15 FOR PRESENTERS

PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH UNDER THE RADAR
RUNTIME: 90 MINS

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After a sold-out run at Pioneer Works last summer, this hilariously bleak tale of human arrogance in today’s age of consumerism-driven climate change is back by popular demand! Dynasty Handbag’s Titanic Depression is a parody of James Cameron’s Hollywood hit “Titanic,” the live multimedia event combines animation, video, soundscapes, and improvisation, bringing to life the story of the unsinkable ship that strikes an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sinks. This disaster became a potent symbol of the haves versus the have-nots. 

Handbag plays various characters in the film, such as “Rose,’’ who sparks a torrid, interspecies romance with “Jack,” a mute octopus escaping the warming seas by stowing away on the ship disguised as a giant ladies hat. While the iceberg melts in balmy weather before the Titanic reaches it, the vessel goes down anyway in a tour de force of nonsensical, collective doom—a tragicomedy of our own making that no amount of metal straws or fastidiously-sorted recycling will fix.

Don’t miss out on this unforgettable performance that will leave you thinking about the consequences of our actions. At a time of climate crisis on seemingly every front, “levity arises out of the sheer pressure cooker of the era we are collectively experiencing,” as Handbag has noted.

Presented in partnership with Under the Radar, Mark Russell, Festival Director & ArKtype, Festival Producer. More information at utrfest.org 

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Made In LA
Dec
10
to Dec 31

Made In LA

Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living

  • OCT 1 – DEC 31, 2023

Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living is the sixth iteration of the Hammer’s biennial exhibition highlighting the practices of artists working throughout the greater Los Angeles area. These practices embrace the value of craft, materiality, performance, and collectivity. The biennial situates art as an expanded field of culture that is entangled with everyday life; community networks; queer affect; and indigenous and diasporic histories.

Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living takes its title from a quote by the renowned Los Angeles artist Noah Purifoy, which is inscribed on a plaque at the Watts Towers: “One does not have to be a visual artist to utilize creative potential. Creativity can be an act of living, a way of life, and a formula for doing the right thing.” The history of Watts Towers—built by Simon Rodia over the course of 33 years and then preserved by the local South L.A. community, including Purifoy, to become a hub for arts education—embodies this ethos and offers a salient metaphor for this biennial.

Join us for the Made in L.A. Opening Celebration on Saturday, September 30. Be among the first to see the exhibition, and dance in the courtyard to music from Made in L.A. artist collective Mas Exitos. Galleries open late. Cash bar.

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"The Bored Identity" Record Release
Dec
9
8:00 PM20:00

"The Bored Identity" Record Release

Come celebrate the release of The Bored Identity, Dynasty Handbag's first comedy record on Wacky Wacko Records! In the spirit of 70’s comedy albums by artists such as Lily Tomlin and Richard Pryor, The Bored Identity is a collection of characters and songs by the underground’s most beloved subversive comedic performance artist.  Dynasty Handbag takes on the self care industrial complex, murderous misogyny and the horrors of heteronormativity by deftly moving in and out of a crackpot slew of characters in ridiculously imaginative scenarios.

Song’s include ode to male privilege When A Man Has an Idea and the consumer driven climate disaster electro banger Vat Do U Vant for Bwekfas? For the Elysian show run, Dynasty Handbag will be performing all the tracks on The Bored Identity along with her signature mean spirited stand up and social commentary.

All Shows:

***Special $40 package includes admission to the show & limited edition pink vinyl record.***

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"The Bored Identity" Record Release shows
Nov
18
8:00 PM20:00

"The Bored Identity" Record Release shows

Come celebrate the release of The Bored Identity, Dynasty Handbag's first comedy record on Wacky Wacko Records! In the spirit of 70’s comedy albums by artists such as Lily Tomlin and Richard Pryor, The Bored Identity is a collection of characters and songs by the underground’s most beloved subversive comedic performance artist.  Dynasty Handbag takes on the self care industrial complex, murderous misogyny and the horrors of heteronormativity by deftly moving in and out of a crackpot slew of characters in ridiculously imaginative scenarios.

Song’s include ode to male privilege When A Man Has an Idea and the consumer driven climate disaster electro banger Vat Do U Vant for Bwekfas? For the Elysian show run, Dynasty Handbag will be performing all the tracks on The Bored Identity along with her signature mean spirited stand up and social commentary.

All Shows:

***Special $40 package includes admission to the show & limited edition pink vinyl record.***

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The "Bored Identity" Record Release at The Elysian
Nov
18
8:00 PM20:00

The "Bored Identity" Record Release at The Elysian

Come celebrate the release of The Bored Identity, Dynasty Handbag's first comedy record on Wacky Wacko Records! In the spirit of 70’s comedy albums by artists such as Lily Tomlin and Richard Pryor, The Bored Identity is a collection of characters and songs by the underground’s most beloved subversive comedic performance artist.  Dynasty Handbag takes on the self care industrial complex, murderous misogyny and the horrors of heteronormativity by deftly moving in and out of a crackpot slew of characters in ridiculously imaginative scenarios.

Song’s include ode to male privilege When A Man Has an Idea and the consumer driven climate disaster electro banger Vat Do U Vant for Bwekfas? For the Elysian show run, Dynasty Handbag will be performing all the tracks on The Bored Identity along with her signature mean spirited stand up and social commentary.

All Shows:

***Special $40 package includes admission to the show & limited edition pink vinyl record.***

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Broadcast Bash at Pioneer Works
Nov
4
8:00 PM20:00

Broadcast Bash at Pioneer Works

Join us for our second annual Broadcast Bash. This year, we’re celebrating the release of our first ever print edition. Since 2020, Broadcast has thrived as a forum for inspired and radical thinking across the arts and science. Now for the first time, we’re committing Broadcast to paper and ink. And boy, does she look handsome.

FREE

We'll have readings from the issue by hannah baer and Ed Park; a performance from the wildly unpredictable Dynasty Handbag; rock theater by the legendary The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black; a DJ set by Herbert Harmonix (aka EZRAKH) of the label Thread Imprint; and stargazing in the garden with the Amateur Astronomers Association.

Join us as we celebrate the artists, scientists, writers, and in-betweens who make Broadcast possible. We’ll be handing out copies of the print issue for free; first-come, first served.

hannah baer is a writer and therapist based in New York. She is the author of the memoir trans girl suicide museum, and the admin of the Instagram meme account, @malefragility. Her work has appeared in Jewish Currents, Artforum, The Drift, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

EZRAKH is a musician, songwriter, producer, and co-founder of New Jersey-based record label Thread Imprint. He draws inspiration from the soulful and psychedelic sounds of his upbringing, and mixes rock, R&B, jazz, electronic, and world music to create a style all of his own. Under his Herbert Harmonix alias he DJ’s utilizing his New Jersey dance music roots. He’s also the bandleader of the Mystery Klub, his live performance ensemble. In 2020 he released his album Infinity: Sankopha & 87, featuring cover art direction by Ibrahim Ahmed, while in 2022 he released the single “Warrior Woman.” He has performed at Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, MANA Contemporary, South by Southwest, AFROPUNK, bunkr, and more.

Dynasty Handbag—alter ego of performer, visual artist, and actor Jibz Cameron—has presented multimedia work at arts venues such as Pioneer Works, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Broad Museum, The Hammer Museum, REDCAT, BAM, and the Centre Pompidou, among others. Cameron is a 2022 Guggenheim fellow, a 2021 United States Artist Award recipient and a 2020 Creative Capital Grant awardee. She produces and hosts Weirdo Night, a monthly comedy and performance event in Los Angeles and New York.

Ed Park’s new novel, Same Bed Different Dreams, will be published by Random House on November 7, 2023. His first one, Personal Days (2008), was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Park was a longtime editor and writer at The Village Voice and a founding editor of The Believer. His short fiction and nonfiction appear in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, McSweeney's, The Atlantic, and Harper's. Park currently teaches writing at Princeton.

Kembra Pfahler formed The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black (TVHKB) with Samoa Moriki in New York in 1990. A theatrical rock group, TVHKB links a monster aesthetic to a dark feminine archetype. Named in honor of cult horror film heroine Karen Black, Pfahler's band performs amid elaborate hand-constructed sets, in which she acts out transgressive physical feats. Wearing a number of teased black wigs with blacked-out teeth, black stiletto boots, and her body painted blue, pink, red, or yellow, Pfahler heads a team of "The Girls of Karen Black," similarly styled. TVHKB records include: A National Healthcare, Triple X Records (1990); The Anti-Naturalist, Cleopatra Records (1995); Black Date, Cleopatra Records (1998); and the limited edition vinyl LP, Fuck Island (2012) and Slippery When Dead (2020). Pfahler is represented by the gallery Emalin in London and will be releasing a capsule collection for SSENSE, made in collaboration with her longtime friend, designer Rick Owens. For the Broadcast Bash performance, co-founder Samoa Moriki will be on guitar, Gyda Gash on bass, and Eric Robel on drums.

Pioneer Works Broadcast is an ad-free publication that encourages radical thinking across the arts and sciences. Broadcast reflects the spirit of Pioneer Works and extends beyond the space’s physical walls in Brooklyn through narrative-driven journalism, essays, criticism, ruminations, and original videos. Noted contributors include Hilton Als, Elif Batuman, Richard Dawkins, Jennifer Egan, Rivka Galchen, Brian Greene, Hua Hsu, Gary Indiana, Marlon James, Ben Lerner, Eileen Myles, Roger Penrose, and Frank Wilczek.

Founded in 2020, Pioneer Works Broadcast is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology, bridging the two cultures of science and the arts.

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The Feminine Absurd: The Queer Body in Made in L.A. 2023
Oct
24
7:30 PM19:30

The Feminine Absurd: The Queer Body in Made in L.A. 2023

The Feminine Absurd: The Queer Body in Made in L.A. 2023

  • TUESDAY OCT 24, 2023 7:30 PM

As artists who work between performance and object-making, Marcel Alcalá, Jibz Cameron, and Young Joon Kwak will speak to their work blurring the distinctions between these mediums. Working in queer communities, these artists explore what we could call "femininity" or "femaleness" in their lives and practices, but treat the subject with a healthy dose of absurdism, satire, and drag. Moderated by Made in L.A. Luce Curatorial Fellow, Ashton Cooper, with audience Q&A to follow.

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Weirdo Night at THE HAMMER MUSEUM!
Oct
14
7:00 PM19:00

Weirdo Night at THE HAMMER MUSEUM!

Part of the series Made in L.A. 2023: Programs and Performances

Weirdo Night with Dynasty Handbag

  • SATURDAY OCT 14, 2023 7:30 PM

Weirdo Night is a popular long-running freak forward variety show hosted and curated by Dynasty Handbag (alter ego of Made in L.A. artist Jibz Cameron). For the Hammer iteration, Weirdo Night will feature performances by Made in L.A. artists Marcel Alcalá, Pippa Garner (in absentia), Page Person, and Xina Xurner (Young Joon Kwak and Marvin Astorga) with travesdee, plus a dance performance by HAAGS (Jibz Cameron + Emilia Richeson of Ponysweat).

ATTENDING THIS PROGRAM?

Ticketing: Admission is free. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. One ticket per guest. Box office opens one hour before the event.
Member Benefit: Subject to availability, Hammer Members can choose their preferred seats. Members receive priority ticketing until 15 minutes before the program. Members can pickup a ticket for themselves and a guest. Learn more about membership.
Parking: Valet parking is available on Lindbrook Drive for $10 cash only. Self-parking is available under the museum. Rates are $8 for the first three hours with museum validation, and $3 for each additional 20 minutes, with a $22 daily maximum. There is an $8 flat rate after 6 p.m. on weekdays, and all day on weekends.

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Weirdo Night - on a MONDAY 🛌​
Sep
25
7:00 PM19:00

Weirdo Night - on a MONDAY 🛌​

TICKETS!

with special guests

SHAMBOOM!

Pauline Lay

Amanda-Faye Jimenez

Taylor (the sax bottom) Plenn 

SHABOOM! created by Silky Shoemaker, Lex Vaughn and Paul Soileau, is a spectacle teetering at the edge of disaster. Sharing a mind of anarchy and absurdity, we create environments and actions of pleasure and liberation for our audience. SHABOOM! is not just an experiment with failure, but a jubilant funeral procession for the notion of success, driven by maddening determination and an impressive lack of good judgment. SHABOOM! is theatre for the masses that forces culture and critique through the clown horn of queer slapstick.

Amanda-Faye Jimenez is a writer and comedic performer born and raised in Los Angeles. She has performed at The Hammer Museum and in the playroom of the McDonald's in next to her favorite gay bar, but is mostly known for being a lesbian irl and online and is friends with a lot of dogs. 

Pauline Lay is an instrumentalist, composer, and events organizer in Los Angeles. She has performed and presented work at several larger institutions, venues, and areas throughout the US, but has also enjoyed the spirit of DIY venues, backyards, and cozy living rooms. Apart from her solo improvised violin and electronics performances, she currently performs and collaborates with other musicians in varying iterations and genres from duets to larger ensembles including her sound enveloping piece, “5x5, a composition for 25 synthesizers.

Taylor Plenn is a professional saxophone and flute player

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Weirdo Night August 6th
Aug
6
7:00 PM19:00

Weirdo Night August 6th

Weirdo Night with Dynasty Handbag
Sunday August 6th 😮 its HOT and IM LOOSE!
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☀ featuring ☀

💋 AMBER + AMANDA MILLER - are sisters, a comedy duo, and most recently co-hosts of FANGIRL CENTRAL, a podcast centering Black/queer fandom where they discuss how being a fangirl is central to their identity with a range of guests. Last year, they wrote, directed, and co-starred in their short comedy film THE DAY I DIDN’T MEET ONE DIRECTION, which premiered at The Lyric Hyperion in Los Angeles. They also debuted an original autobiographical music revue about Black fangirls healing from white Disney Channel content called DISNEY VORTEX! @amandalaynemiller -@amberlmiller- @fangirl.central

🥂 MICHAEL MATSUNO is a flutist born in Osaka, Japan and raised in Los Angeles, CA. His performance work ranges from classical and experimental music, to improvisation and poetry. Most often Michael can be heard performing with the San Diego Symphony and on the Monday Evening Concert series for new music. Michaelmatsuno.com

🍬 JOSEPHINEX (all der way from BERLINER!!) is the lead singer of Godmother (@omgodmother), which they describe as critical theory in pop-music drag. In 2022, the Berlin-based band released the ‘Playing the Victim’ EP, and this spring, they followed up with its evil twin, ‘Playing the Villain’. Outside of Godmother, Josephinex has recently appeared in an intervention by the Yes Men during Berlin Fashion Week, in the musical ‘Hyäne Fischer’ at the Volksbühne and in the music video “16 Tons” by Nina Hagen, besides contributing to Documenta Fifteen along with the crew from the Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Center for Art and Urbanistics).

🌡 TAYLOR “SAXBOTTOM” PLENN is a professional saxophone and flute player, has been honing his craft for the past 16 years, starting his musical journey while in high school. Taylor's experience spans across various musical styles, including hard bop, rock and roll, blues, free jazz, hip hop, and electronic music.

Doors 7 / Show 7:30
$20

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Titanic Depression
May
20
to May 21

Titanic Depression

Dynasty Handbag’s Titanic Depression—co-conceived with artist SUE-C—sends up James Cameron’s 1997 Hollywood hit, reimagining it as a hilariously bleak parable of human arrogance in today’s era of runaway, consumerism-driven climate change. Co-presented by New York Live Arts as part of its 2023 Live Arts festival Planet Justice, Titanic Depression is Dynasty Handbag’s first major institutional commission in nearly eight years.

MAY 20 – 21
DOORS: 7:30PM START: 8:30PM
BUY TICKETS FOR SATURDAY, MAY 20
BUY TICKETS SUNDAY, MAY 21

More so a live multimedia event than solely performance, Titanic Depression combines animation, video, soundscapes and improvisation into a story about how a ship advertised as unsinkable strikes an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sinks; fitted with too few lifeboats, Titanic’s poor, third class passengers were largely left behind as the vessel’s wealthier occupants were rushed to safety. The disaster became a potent symbol of the haves versus the have nots.

Turned into numerous films—the most financially successful being Cameron’s—this well-worn narrative of class and gender inequality is, in the hands of Handbag’s outrageous physicality and unique improvisational skills, wildly digressed, veering from Hollywood’s obsession with disaster plots to our morbid fascination with death—namely, our own. She plays various characters in the film, such as “Rose,'' who sparks a torrid, interspecies romance with “Jack,” a mute octopus escaping the warming seas by stowing away on the ship disguised as a giant ladies hat. While the iceberg melts in balmy weather before the Titanic reaches it, the vessel goes down anyway in a tour de force of nonsensical, collective doom—a tragicomedy of our own making that no amount of metal straws or fastidiously-sorted recycling will fix. At a time of climate crisis on seemingly every front, “levity arises out of the sheer pressure cooker of the era we are collectively experiencing,” as the artist has noted. 

About The Artists

Jibz Cameron (Co-creator, Writer, Performer) The peerlessly subversive, wacky, dark, and dystopian Dynasty Handbag—alter ego of performer, visual artist, actor, and writer Jibz Cameron—quite literally bites the hand that feeds her; she often parodies queer liberals and the institutions they support, as well as herself. Playing multiple characters who usually end up breaking down, slipping into other mental dimensions, or otherwise doing the wrong things, she “combats the terror of being alive," as she's previously written, by failing spectacularly. Cameron’s work as Dynasty Handbag has spanned over 20 years and has been presented at arts venues such as The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Broad Museum, The Hammer Museum, REDCAT, BAM, and the Centre Pompidou, among others. She has been heralded by the New York Times as “the funniest and most pitch perfect performance seen in years” and “outrageously smart, grotesque and innovative” by The New Yorker. Cameron is a 2022 Guggenheim fellow, a 2021 United States Artist Award recipient and a 2020 Creative Capital Grant awardee. She produces and hosts Weirdo Night, a monthly comedy and performance event in Los Angeles and New York. Her film Weirdo Night is an official 2020 Sundance Film Festival selection.


Maraih Garnett (Visual Director) Mariah Garnett’s films and installations deconstructs the conventional hierarchy between filmmaker and subject, a mode that has historically been the purview of directors who possess economic, racial and gender privilege. Garnett is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Film/Video and holds an MFA from Calarts and a BA from Brown University. Recent solo exhibitions include Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Commonwealth + Council, a 10 year survey of her work at the LA Municipal Art Gallery, and Sundance Film Festival, 2021. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Forum, Bomb among others and has screened and exhibited internationally at The New Museum, Brooklyn Academy Of Music (BAM), REDCAT, Made in LA (Hammer Museum Biennial), The Metropolitan Arts Centre (Tate Belfast), CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, NY Film Festival, and BFI London. She is an Assistant Professor of Media at UC San Diego, and lives and works in Los Angeles.

Chloe Alexandra Thompson (Technical Director / Sound Design) is a Cree, Canadian, interdisciplinary artist and sound designer. Thompson approaches sound as a mode of connection—embracing the kinesthetic agency of sound to compose abstract feats of spatialized audio recording and synthesis. Her work engages tactics of material minimalism to create site-specific installations that sculpt droning, maximalist experiences out of space and sound. Using audio programming software, computational processing, and acoustic instruments, Thompson’s work seeks to create connection by guiding audience participants through these augmented experiences. In January 2021, Cycling ‘74, announced Thompson as one of the first Max Certified Trainers. Her sound design has been featured in the works of artists across the fields of music, performance, TV and film. She is presently part of the Working Consortium in developing First Nations Performing Arts.

Sacha Yanow (Dramaturg) is a NYC/Lenapehoking based performance artist and actor. Their solo practice is rooted in theater, queer performance and radical jewish tradition, using humor and physicality to explore themes of gender, aging, loss and diaspora. Sacha's work has been presented by venues including MoMA PS1, Danspace Project, Joe's Pub, and the New Museum in NYC; PICA’s TBA Festival/Cooley Gallery at Reed College in Portland, OR; and Festival Theaterformen in Hanover, Germany. They have received residency support from Baryshnikov Arts Center, Denniston Hill, LIFT Festival UK, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Mass MoCA and Yaddo, among others. They served as Director of Art Matters Foundation for 12 years, and previously worked at The Kitchen as Director of Operations.

Amanda Verwey (Co-Writer/Producer) is a queer WGA writer living in Los Angeles, California. In 2016, Amanda co- wrote with performance artist Jibz Cameron the full-length one-women show Good Morning Evening Feelings, which premiered at The Kitchen, NYC and was later turned into a web series by JASH Productions (awarded Audience Choice Best Experimental Short Film, Outfest 2017). In 2017, Amanda co-wrote the short film Tooth and Nail with director Sara Shaw, which premiered at SXSW (awarded Audience Choice for Best Short Film, Fusion Film Festival 2018 and Best Narrative Short, Outfest 2018.) In 2019, her feature script 'Tooth & Nail', based on the short, won the Richard Vague Production Fund Grant from Tisch. In 2020, she sold a series to FX. Amanda is currently in development on a grindhouse feature with Endeavor Content and Flame Ventures. She is also developing a limited series based on the book The Secret Life of a Satanist, the only authorized biography of Anton LaVey.

Amy Von Harrington (Animation) amy vh. visual artist: collage, video, performance, thought experimentor, friend, polarity practitioner, constellation facilitator, works in accounting. Lives with dogs, in LA and the existential briar patch. Loves life. Has lots of questions.

Sue Slagle (SUE-C) is an award-winning artist, engineer and educator whose work in “real time cinema” presents a new, imaginative perspective on live performance. Her evolution as a new media artist began in late-90s San Francisco where she was an influential member of the electronic music scene, owning the experimental record label Orthlorng Musork, organizing audio-visual cultural events and teaching the first creative coding classes in Max Software. After finishing her masters degree in engineering at UC Berkeley she moved to Oakland where she became co-owner of the Ego Park gallery and helped launch the First Friday art walks. Sue is a Creative Capital awardee and MacDowell Fellow and has been covered in The Wire magazine, BoingBoing and the MIT Press book Programming Media. She has performed at the Library of Congress, REDCAT, Ars Electronica, MUTEK, SONAR, Ann Arbor Film Festival, NPR’s Tiny Desk and Transmediale, collaborating with musicians such as Morton Subotnick, Luc Ferrari, Laetitia Sonami, AGF, Paul DeMarinis, Wobbly, Ava Mendoza and Negativland.

Dynasty Handbag: Titanic Depression was commissioned by Pioneer Works and curated by David Everitt Howe. It is co-presented by New York Live Arts as part of Live Ideas 2023: Planet Justice. The performance is made possible with support from Creative Capital, The Guggenheim Foundation, Ballroom Marfa, Center for Performance Research, Chorus Foundation, and MacDowell.

The New York Live Arts 2023 Live Ideas festival, Planet Justice: Are you here for it*?, is co-curated with Slow Factory and explores the idea that climate justice is rooted in social justice, anti-colonialism, global collaboration, human rights, and the rights of nature to thrive.

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Weirdo Night, Brooklyn
Feb
2
6:30 PM18:30

Weirdo Night, Brooklyn

GET TICKETS

with
Francesca D’uva
Jack Ferver
eddy kwon
Peter Smith
Chloe Alexandra Thompson
+ SURPRISE GUESTS!!!!
Doors 6:30 / Show 7:00
gagorgeouso flyer by @jeromyvelasco


📢
BIOS:
Francesca D’Uva Francesca D’Uva is a comedian, writer and composer living in Brooklyn. Her upcoming show "This Is My Favorite Song" A comedy rock opera about grief, will premier at Abrons Art Center in November. She was born and grew up in New Jersey.

Jack Ferver is Satan’s twink.

eddy kwon (b. 1989) is a violinist/violist and interdisciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking. Her practice connects composition, performance, improvisation, dance, and ceremony to explore transformation & transgression, ritual practice as a tool to queer ancestral lineage, and the use of mythology to connect, obscure, and reveal. www.eddykwon.net

Peter Smith is an American joyologist, singer and Broadway actress. Recent credits include As You Like It (La Jolla Playhouse), Macbeth (Broadway), Fire Island (Searchlight) and Three Busy Debras (HBOMax/Adult Swim). twitter @ptrsmth / instagram @ptrsmth

Chloe Alexandra Thompson is a Cree, interdisciplinary artist and sound designer. Thompson approaches sound as a mode of connection—embracing the kinesthetic agency of sound to compose abstract feats of spatialized audio recording and synthesis. chloealexandra.info

when yer aloner and life is leaving you alonerly you can always go weirdo night

 
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Weirdo Night Dec 4th
Dec
4
8:00 PM20:00

Weirdo Night Dec 4th


Sunday Dec 4th 8PM
Zebulon.
Weird as HELL lineup:
$20 TICKETS!


EVER MAINARD
RAPHAËL KHOURI
SIRI
OLIVA MOLE (video screening)
and TAYLOR THE SAX BOTTOM

MORE ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
EVER MAINARD is a non-binary comedian whose credits include Netflix, Conan, Hulu & More. Ever was most recently named one of Vulture's Comedians You Should Know, and is currently dreading going to Texas for the holidays.

RAPHAËL KHOURI is a queer transgender Arab documentary playwright and theatremaker living between Berlin and Egypt. Khouri is the author of several plays, including the first ever trans Arab play, She He Me (Kosmos Theatre, Vienna 2019), which was also recently performed online as part of NYC’s Criminal Queerness Festival. Khouri’s work will appear in the upcoming International Queer Drama anthology published by Neofelis Verlag in 2020 and the Methuen Anthology of Trans Plays, also out later this year.

SIRI is an actress, drag performer, writer, and figment of your imagination. She was manifested by a pair of teenage hackers trying to save the world in northern Virginia and spent four years pretending to study theater at Oberlin College. She teleported to LA in 2017 and has successfully annoyed performers backstage in productions including Sex Cells at The Globe, Sorority curated by Gina Young, and drag brunch at Mickeys in West Hollywood. Her film debut, “Jump Cut #3” directed by Austin Young, premiered at Glasgow Film Festival in 2020. She currently produces and hosts her own drag/variety show called “Fake Smart” at Redline DTLA.🍿

OLIVIA MOLE is an artist based in Los Angeles who works across disciplines including installation, performance, drawing and animation. She examines the ways in which popular culture serves historical and contemporary ideologies and explores ways in which those ideologies can become unfixed, politically and personally. She has participated in exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, Gattopardo, LAXART, JOAN among others.

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Weirdo Night November 6th
Nov
6
5:00 PM17:00

Weirdo Night November 6th

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Starring:

Christina Catherine Martinez  

Wild Yawp 

Nicole J Georges 

Marawa The Amazing - content warning - no hoops!!! 

and Taylor Plenn the sax bottom 

20$ 

Zebulon frogtown USA

CHRISTINA CATHERINE MARTINEZ is a writer, actor, art critic, and comedian in Los Angeles. Writer Michelle Tea describes her as “Naomi Klein meets Tallulah Bankhead.”Christina has been named a “Comic to Watch” by TimeOutLA and a “Comedian You Should Know” by Vulture / New York Magazine in 2020. Her television work includes writing for seasons 5 and 6 of the Eric Andre Show, devising and acting in the short-form series Two Pink Doors on FX/Hulu, and writing for a forthcoming animated series on Adult Swim. She is the author of the 2019 essay collection Aesthetical Relations, published by Hesse Press, and a recipient of a 2018 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Her comedy talk show “Aesthetical Relations LIVE” is coming to REDCAT for one night only, November 11, 2022. @xtina_catherine

WILD YAWP: gay ethereal raucous ecstatic rock n roll @wildyawp

MARAWA THE AMAZING - a Weirdo Night regular show stopper, Marawa is back with some experimental shit! Expect no hoops but do expect 24" gloves and old fashhin magic! Marawa is a roller skater, hula hooper, designer, writer, artist and performer. Marawa was inducted into the Guinness World Record Hall of Fame in 2022 and currently holds 12 world records, including the most hoops – 200 at once! Originally from Melbourne Australia, Marawa has performed all over the world and now spends her time between in LA and London Also has shared a meal with Steven Seagal in Uzbekistan. Has never paid for parking at the Americana. @marawa

NICOLE J GEORGES is an award winning graphic novelist, podcast host and professor. 
She's the author of the books Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home, and Calling Dr. Laura. 
Calling Dr. Laura, was called "engrossing, lovable, smart and ultimately poignant" by Rachel Maddow.
Nicole's podcast adaptation of Calling Dr. Laura, Relative Fiction, just won an Edward R. Murrow Award. @nicolejgeorges

TAYLOR PLENN @taylorplenn Taylor Plenn has been a professional saxophone/flute player for 16 years and counting (getting his start while in high school), both as a sideman and a bandleader. Taylor has been the Chief Operating Officer of HARD TAYS NIGHT, a monthly concert series, since 2016. HARD TAYS NIGHT is privileged to call Canter's Kibitz Room its home. Over the past four years, a vast network of musicians and acts have emerged. Every first Friday of the month promises to be an eclectic night of music; curated by Taylor himself.

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Weirdo Night, Brooklyn
Oct
13
6:30 PM18:30

Weirdo Night, Brooklyn

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with
Francesca D’uva
Jack Ferver
eddy kwon
Erin Markey
Chloe Alexandra Thompson
+ SURPRISE GUESTS!!!!
Doors 6:30 / Show 7:00
gagorgeouso flyer by @jeromyvelasco


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BIOS:
Francesca D’Uva Francesca D’Uva is a comedian, writer and composer living in Brooklyn. Her upcoming show "This Is My Favorite Song" A comedy rock opera about grief, will premier at Abrons Art Center in November. She was born and grew up in New Jersey.

Jack Ferver is Satan’s twink.

eddy kwon (b. 1989) is a violinist/violist and interdisciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking. Her practice connects composition, performance, improvisation, dance, and ceremony to explore transformation & transgression, ritual practice as a tool to queer ancestral lineage, and the use of mythology to connect, obscure, and reveal. www.eddykwon.net

Erin Markey is an actor and writer/composer who often sings. They are sometimes considered a comedian, a performance artist and a cabaret singer. They are currently in development to run a Halloween 5K. erinmarkey.net

Chloe Alexandra Thompson is a Cree, interdisciplinary artist and sound designer. Thompson approaches sound as a mode of connection—embracing the kinesthetic agency of sound to compose abstract feats of spatialized audio recording and synthesis. chloealexandra.info

when yer aloner and life is leaving you alonerly you can always go weirdo night

 
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Weirdo Night, Zebulon
Oct
2
6:30 PM18:30

Weirdo Night, Zebulon

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with
HAUS OF DERMA 🧤
KAT TOLEDO 🐸
NANA THE CATLADY 🥒
+ TAYLOR PLENN 📟
7PM doors / 8PM show

🌴solid funky gen z flyer by @vallaroo

🔋Haus of Derma - Raise your hand if you like Goblin karaoke in a black hole presented by 3 post-gender arsonists with BFAS? The Haus of DERMA is a multimedia drag and performance collective based in Los Angeles, CA. Composed of drag and performance artists SKYNSUIT@skynsuit, BERLIN @theberlindoll and SCARLETT LETTERS @xoxoscarlettletters, with other rotating members, the Haus creates site-specific performance and installation work, singular and exemplary costumes, audiovisual experiences, and an array of nightlife events.

🥦 Kat Toledo is a kind and well rested comedian and filmmaker based in L.A. www.kattoledo.com

🥗 NaNa the Catlady is a Japanese drummer/actress NaNami Iwasaki’s musical comedy project. “ Demetri Martin meets Yoko Ono “ She is known for her deadpan delivery, playing her boombox for jokes and her satirical illustrations about cats & humanity.She appeared in NBC’s “ America’s Got Talent “ and ABC’s “The Gong Show“. www.youtube.com/user/NaNatheNutsGirl

📗Taylor Plenn (Taylor the Sax Bottom) is Weirdo Night's lietral expert blow-hard sax genius who regularly improvs with Dynasty Handbag. Taylor can be seen and heard all over the greater LA area, as a 'hired gun' or with his own projects. Taylor has been the Chief Operating Officer of HARD TAYS NIGHT, a monthly concert series, since 2016. HARD TAYS NIGHT is privileged to call Canter's Kibitz Room its home. taylorplenn.com.

🦠photos: SCARLETT LETTERS by @oaklash2022, SKYNSUIT, THE BERLIN DOLL by @rachel.z.photography, TAYLOR PLENN by Gregg Dorris

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Dynasty For Dynasty
Sep
18
6:30 PM18:30

Dynasty For Dynasty

A full hour of Dynasty Handbag at Dynasty Typewriter!

Doors: 6:30pm | 18+ General Admission

Tickets: $20 General Admission / $25 Day of Show

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Lineup subject to change | No item minimum | No late entry

TICKETS ARE NON-TRANSFERABLE | We do NOT honor tickets through third party sellers

*Day of show tickets based on availability.

If an event is sold out online, there will be no tickets available at the door unless otherwise posted on our socials.

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Weirdo Night September 11th
Sep
11
7:00 PM19:00

Weirdo Night September 11th

WEIRDO NIGHT! 🍌🍌🍌🍌 Sunday, Sept 11
TICKETS

Doors 7 - show - 8 @zebulonla

with
💙 JENNIFER VANILLA - freak performance master from NYC- motivational speaker? Mensa flight attendant? What is this shit who knows!?🛠

🧡 MALIK GAINES - brilliant musician + performer, PH-tradDe of the season 🍪1/3 and of My Barbarian, who just had a retrospective at the Whitney 👑

💚 KYLE MIZONO - Fabulous comedian charmer - hosts the @goopyshow with the masterful @annaseregina who destroyed at last month's show 🏚

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