1/15/12 – Beyond Visibility: Illuminating and Aligning Femmes
Design by Ivette Gonzalez-Ale
Heels on Wheels is so excited to co-sponsor and co-organize this event:
Beyond Visibility: Illuminating and Aligning Femmes in NYC is a day-long event for LGBTQQI2 folks on self-identified femme/inine spectrums to come together in conversation, coalition, and celebration of *all* the parts of ourselves and our many communities. Events are taking place in NYC, Toronto, Philadelphia, San Francisco, London, Los Angeles, and beyond.
The NYC extravaganza celebrating femme/inine queer accomplishment includes:
- a Brunch Skillshare Salon
- a Community Discussion with Breakout groups, and
- a Literary event
all at Judson Memorial Church — all-ages, Assembly Hall at 239 Thompson Street, NY, NY.
In the evening there is a Cabaret and Dance party at Public Assembly [21+, 70 N 6th St Brooklyn, NY].
A toolkit of ideas for femmes in other towns to hostess their own femme gatherings are here: Continue Reading →
www.heelsonwheelsroadshow.com/toolkit/
We curated the MIXploratorium Closing Party!
Friday December 2nd 2011, please join us at La Mama Galleria [6 E 1st St, between Bowery and 2nd Ave] for an evening of installation, visual, and performance art to close the MIXploratorium!
The gallery will be open all afternoon, tea & coo
photo by Ricardo Nelson
kies served at 5p, and live work starts at 8p, including video of annual riotous protests, DJed soundscapes, hirsuite interventions in effeminate space, body liberation, contemporary queens and historical queer lives remembered.
TIME: 5:00 — 7:30: Tea & Cookies // 8:00 – 11:00 Installation & performance art [**ps go to Ruckus at 7p!]
LOCATION: La Mama Galleria, 6 E 1st Ave, Between Ave 2 and Bowery.
ACCESSIBILTY: La Mama Galleria is wheelchair accessible; this event is all-ages.
$$: 5-10 / no one turned away
FB: http://www.facebook.com/events/185314591560556/
All about the art & artists: http://www.departmentoftransformation.org/home/2011/mixploratorium-closing-party/
This event is a collaboration between MIX NYC QUEER EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL [www.mixnyc.org] and THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSFORMATION Queer Arts Collective [www.departmentoftransformation.org], with thanks to Allied Productions and the many other artists and arts organizations who have participated in this two-week extravaganza of art and community-building! Heather Acs and Damien Luxe of Heels on Wheels Roadshow curated the performance and installation for this evening.
5pm–tea and cookies
Drop by early for refreshments, hang out with the artists, a visit to the zine library and the last viewing of the visual art by Peter Cramer, Cristy C. Road, Gabriel DeFazio, Avory Agony, Quito Ziegler, Larry Shea, Serichai Traipoom in a relaxed atmosphere before things get busy.
7:30–doors
8pm–video installation, cocktails, and video screening followed by music
Serichai Traipoom and DJ set by Adam Crail
8:30–performance installation: The Bearded Lady, the Bald, and the Blonde
by Heather Acs, Damien Luxe & Najva Sol
9:00–performances by:
Daniel Lang-Levitsky, Fashionable Places out of Season (Libertas Sine Labore / Amica Non Serva)
Alejandro Rodrigez, selection from The Brown Queen
Hana Malia and Glenn Marla, selection from My Wife’s Ass
**ps Ruckus, a queer and trans POC reading is happening at 7pm at Bluestockings this night. We encourage you to go there too (and to buy books)! We scheduled the installation and performances so you can do it all, friends!
Videos and more!
Dang! We’re so lucky that:
#1 We now have a video channel because it is The Future.
#1.5 All the videos are on this site, if you’re lazy.
#2 Silas Howard edited videos for us. Thank you!
Heels on Wheels 2011: Shomi Noise in NYC from Heels on Wheels on Vimeo.
Photos from tour …
[updated 5/12]
You can see all our photos on the gallery page of this site but here are a few from our exploits, thanks to the fabulous Geppetta!
Heels on Wheels Glitter Roadshow 2011 April 15-25, NYC-Minneapolis!
Liberation magic, anti-capitalist robots, Medusa-themed puppet theatre, riot grrl dance parties, and the story of stardust accompany the journey of six queer artists and activists touring from Brooklyn through the Midwestern U.S. this April. You’re invited to enjoy the spectacle as these dazzling troublemakers create a world of radical extravagance and thought-provoking glamour. Heels on Wheels Roadshow is a queer performance art cabaret hitting the road April 15-25, 2011, in search of new friends, fantastic adventures and siblings in the struggle.
We are New York City-based multi-disciplinary performing queer artists & activists who work professionally in a variety of media including theatre and performance, film/video, literature, music, print and web media, healing arts and community organizing. Our fearless performers rampage across the femme-inine spectrum serving up poetic theatre, silly buggery, dark whimsical puppetry, and rocknroll you can sink your heels into! Stillettos fly, vaginas sing, and fairytales fracture as we travel through space, time, and stardust. The 2011 Tour features dazzling troublemakers Heather Acs, Damien Luxe, Shomi Noise, Geppetta, and Amanda Cheong.
Lez be friends
2011 VIDEO & Kickstarter!!
We’ve got a kickstarter!! Help us get on the road, and watch our awesome QVC-like video including: the petroleum-industrial complex, inventive uses of an atlas and our awesome lineup!!
How To Build A Fire Queer Sans Fin Convergence in Montreal
In Montreal — with support from Concordia’s Fine Art Student Union, Sexuality Studies Department, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, and Queer Student Union — we brough L.A.’s Silas Howard, and teamed up with local event-producer/performance artists Jordan Arsenault and Laura Boo MacDonald to create HTBAF Queer Sans Fin Convergence, which was hosted at Mise a Jeu on January 8, 2011.
About 30 students and local artists came out during the day for our workshops, which included Fear Drag, Open Source for Performers, and Creative Strategies for Resistance. Our evening performance travelled a queered landscape to create legacies while telling our tales of desire and survival through a Damien Luxe’s freak church service for magical creatures, Heather Acs’ fragmented memory, movement and costuming, Laura Boo’s endurance-centred fit channeling, and Silas Howard unravelling narratives.
As working artists who identify variously as working-class, anti-racist white people, sex workers, genderqueer, cisgendered, trans, femme, survivors…we’re proud to include our necessarily politicized stories and viewpoints in both our art and our approaches to teaching. One thing we love about the workshop/performance coupling is that we get to present our work in a live format and then get to interact directly with folks who attend, answer technical and philosophical questions, learn from one other, and directly hand off critical tools for creative production.
At the Q&A after the performance, we began a disussion about the relationship of art and activism. We see our work as drawing from strategies of creative production such as used by Bread & Puppet Theatre, ACT-UP, Theatre of the Oppressed, and Critical Interventions, and we’re really excited to be continuing such a legacy and to empower other voices to create space as well.
About the performances: 2010
How To Build A Fire travels queer landscapes to create legacies while telling tales of desire and survival. Through freak church services for magical creatures, fragmented memory, movement and costuming, and unravelling narratives, the escape artists trespass loopholes in the American dream. The mysterious figure of Mr. Hollywood looms and a Manifestation of Trisha calls, while feminine hero/ines, renegade chickens, and tranny jazzmen traverse the multiple dimensions of this non-linear world.
How to Build a Fire pairs multi-media performances and workshops to spark questions like how do we get what we deserve, what is the price of letting go, and how do we rewrite the script?
Introducing How To Build a Fire
Hi all, and welcome to the Boxcutter’s Teaching Artist Tour site, with information about our upcoming US/Canada tour dates and presentation.
Boxcutter is a Brooklyn-based creative production alliance between Hadassah Damien and Heather Ács in order to produce community performance events. We go beyond “thinking outside the box” and instead actively build new narratives through art and education.
As teaching artists, performers and activists, we’re so excited to present our work in a format that can be brought live to colleges, community centers, student groups and more. And as people who identify as working-class, anti-racist white people, people of color, hustling-class, genderqueer, cisgendered, trans, femme, survivors…we’re proud to include our stories and viewpoints in our art and our approaches to teaching.
Click above for info about us, our performances, workshops and how to bring us to your city.
Thanks,
Hadassah + Heather