Sunday April 6, 2008 early!
Heywood Wakefield teaches "Strap it Down, Pack it In" at The Boston Skillshare
MIT’s Stata Center
32 Vassar Street Cambridge
Sunday 12:45 PM to 2:15 PM. $3-10 sliding scale donation.
http://www.truthserum.org Drag King Heywood Wakefield teaches you how to apply facial hair, strap down breasts, pack a realist buldge in your pants, and strut like a king. This workshop is for women and trans adults only. Check here for more information about the workshop. Workshop participants who are 21+ will be invited to join us at TraniWreck later in the evening for a "walk off" where they can show their look on the stage at the Milky Way.
Here’s the workshop description:
Want to be a King for a night? Want to add some swagger to your personal gender expression? Or create a character for your fantasy role-playing repertoire? Whether you want to hit the stage, hang out with the guys at the local pub, or fulfill a fantasy in the bedroom, it’s all gender performance! Maybe you’re a butch just looking for some fun, or an FTM looking for realistic facial hair tips. Maybe you’re a femme wanting a walk on the other side of the gender spectrum, or a MTF looking for a gender bending experience. This workshop can help you harness masculine power and the privilege of Royalty. Boston’s Heywood Wakefield, will teach you the art of binding, packing and passing. The workshop will cover identity creation, make-up and costuming, physical manifestations of masculinity, and a discussion of masculinity and drag performance history. We’ll provide the necessary make up and facial hair materials, you provide your characters’ attire if you really want to do it up.
Sunday April 6, 2008
TraniWreck: all gender, all genre cabaret/variety mess
The Milky Way Lounge and Lanes 405 Centre Street in Hyde Square Jamaica Plain
doors: 8.30pm, show: 9:30pm $8 21+
http://www.truthserum.org This month TraniWreck features ukuleles, hula hoops, drag, burlesque and probably some spilled drinks. Join Heywood Wakefield, Becca D’Bus, Frieda Fries, Bitches with Barettes, Erin Bray and her Uke, Big Moves, Miss Darcey and The Femme Show’s Maggie Crowley (plus others) for our rawkus rabble rousing show of genderbending irreverence.
Truth Serum Productions and Heywood Wakefield have been producing this brilliant and successful show since August 2004. TraniWreck is an all gender, all genre, performance art cabaret/variety show. TraniWreck brings the best tranny, trashy, drag, burlesque, and high femme talent to the stage.
Saturday April 12, 2008 3:30-6:30 (early show)
Body Heat: Femme Porn Tour 2008
Lily Pad
1353 Cambridge Street Inman Square Cambridge
$8 3:30-6:30 (early show)
http://www.truthserum.org "Body Heat is a collective of fierce, sassy, irreverent Femme artists setting ablaze performance art communities and smashing Femme stereotypes. Porn, Kink, Smut, Erotica - Body Heat is not reclaiming our sex so much as OWNING it. We will turn you on. We will challenge all of your Gender, Sex, Feminist, Social, & Political boundaries & assumptions. We will entertain the hell out of you. Mostly we will leave you panting, begging, dripping for more. Featuring kathleen delaney, Jen Cross, Veronica Combs / Vixen Noir, Celestina Pearl, and possibly Meliza Banales and Amber Dawn."
Body Heat
http://www.myspace.com/femmeporntour kathleen delaney
http://www.myspace.com/stilettospokenword Jen Cross
http://www.myspace.com/writingourselveswhole Celestina Pearl
http://www.myspace.com/celestinameowmeow Veronica Combs / Vixen Noir
http://www.myspace.com/vixen_noir Join us after for dinner and drinks near by. And then later for dancing at The Neighborhood. We’ve got your whole night planned!
Sunday April 13, 2008 2:30pm
Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School Cabaret Life Drawing Session
Great Scott
1222 Commonwealth Ave (corner of Harvard and Commonwealth) Allston
$7 2:30pm 18+ (bring your ID, this is a bar)
http://www.truthserum.org Featuring this month’s model and poster designer/artist: Miss Jess
Dr. Sketchy’s is what happens when cabaret meets art school.
Aside from the standard structure of short poses to warm you up and then longer ones to give you more time to concentrate, this is definitely not your typical life drawing class. The model wears awesome outfits and slowly strips out of them! The model talks! You’ll clap for them and hoot and holler! You’ll tip them! You’ll chat with your neighbor! There is no teacher to embarrass you when you don’t produce enough! You get to drink and draw without getting in trouble! There are snacks! Now is the time to heal those art school wounds. Dr. Sketchy’s will guide you.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
CineMental presents: TBA
Brattle Theater
40 Brattle Street Harvard Sq. Cambridge
9.30pm, $10, advanced tickets available here
http://www.truthserum.org CineMental is a series that explores the fringes of queer film, video and groundbreaking performative work with a decidedly alternative perspective. CineMental showcases the best of independent queer media in a way never before seen in Boston. CineMental is the convergence of film, video, performance and music. It will change the way you think about what is queer, what is art and what is queer art! In a world where "The Gay" is becoming mainstream, we celebrate the radical.
CineMental is sponsored by The Video Underground in JP
Wenesday April 23, 2008
Northern State, Dri, Watcher
Great Scott
1222 Commonwealth Ave (corner of Harvard and Commonwealth) Allston
$10 9pm 18+
http://www.truthserum.org Northern State: NYC white girl hip hop pop fun.
DRI: loungy mellow electronica
Watcher: Western MA faves of mine. Glammy driving pop.
good thing i’m not a rock writer. i hate describing stuff.
Sunday April 27, 2008
Scream Club (Oly, Wa) Dance Party!
The Milky Way Lounge and Lanes
405 Centre Street in Hyde Square Jamaica Plain
doors: 9pm
$8 21+
presented in collaboration with Chubrub Productions
http://www.truthserum.org I’ve been trying to get Scream Club to come to Boston since I saw them at Homo A GoGo in 2002. Maybe since even before that...my love for them causes delerium. They’re fun, smart, and know how to get you to shake your ass. They’re also super nice folks, and them’s the only kind of folks I do business with. D’hana and I cooked up this special blend that’s going make you smile. and dance. and be happy to be alive.
Scream Club + Taiphoon Fantastic + DJ D’hana + DJ David Dancer = Dance Party Central
and there for Systyr Act praying for your sins!
http://www.myspace.com/screamclub http://www.myspace.com/taiphoonfantasticbeats http://www.myspace.com/nickyclick http://www.myspace.com/chubrubproductions http://www.myspace.com/daviddancer http://www.myspace.com/systyract Scream Club:
"SCREAM CLUB, the Queer Electro Sex Hop Hip Pop Punk Rock Glam Rap Duo from Olympia, WA, are two freaky white rapper chicks stopping hearts everywhere. Cindy Wonderful and Sarah Adorable, two gaysymmetrical superheroes, have come to spread the message of fun to queerions, hip hoppers, and rockers all over the world.
These queer icons write songs about heartbreak, frustration, love, politics, drunk dialing, girl gangs, and international adventures all with tight lyrics and killer hooks. Scream Club plays shows across the world from Berlin to Amsterdam to Austin TX, from triple-story dance clubs, to punk venues, squats, rooftops, arenas, and basements.
Scream Club are 2 blinged-out, positive, sexy, feminist, intelligent, gender queer rockers. Their energy is contagious and their beats are unstoppable. We are also aware that we are white rappers and feel that rap as a means of artistic and creative expression need not be limited to one ethnic group. We fully acknowledge the origins of hip hop and rap and are in no way trying to disrespect that.
We are avant garde glam rock for the 21st century coupled with d.i.y. queer politics. We want to inspire you AND make you dance!"
Taiphoon Fantastic:
"Taiphoon Fantastic is the electrifying, all girl, freestyle urban/dance group that is about to take Boston on it’s knee and spank it a little. Taiphoon Fantastic brings the candy coated beats that make your booty go bang bang. Dirty disco, horny hip hop, and sexy soul made to violate your ear drums."
Nicky Click:
Not doing a full set but joining Scream Club on collaborative songs.
DJ D’hana:
DJ for The Neighborhood and other random goodies
DJ David Dancer:
1/2 of Hot Lunch (R.I.P.) and currently Movement
Systyr Act:
I’ve just gotten word from the abbey that Systyr Mary Louise Parker, Systyr Sarah Jessica Parker, and Systyr Parker Posey of The Church of the Children are returning to Boston from their 6 month Mohegan Sun Mission. That’s right! The Systyrs have heard the children of Boston’s cries for help and are returning to save your sorry souls.
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Regularly Scheduled Events and The Future:
Second Sundays at 2:30 pm Dr. Sketchy’s at Great Scott
Third Wednesdays CineMental at the Brattle
these are in the works, check back for details as they may change:
May 3, Saturday: Truth Serum and UtiliTies at RISD Spring Sale in Providence
May 4, Sunday: Truth Serum and UtiliTies at Mass.Market 2.0 at Massachusetts College of Art
May 7-18 The Gay and Lesbian Film/Video Festival at the MFA
May 11, Sunday: Dr. Sketchy with our model Naomi Bennett aka Nomi Sparks
May 14, Wednesday AFTER PARTY: The Gay and Lesbian Film/Video Festival at the MFA
May 21, Wednesday: CineMental: Double Feature
May 22-26: Mondo Homo Dirty South
June 8, Sunday EARLY: Dr. Sketchy
June 8, Sunday LATE: Unity Tour: queer hip hop at Milky Way
June 15, Sunday: After-Glow after party for the Women’s Block Party at Milky Way
June 18, Wednesday: CineMental
July 13, Sunday EARLY: Dr. Sketchy
July 13, Sunday LATE: TraniWreck at Milky Way
June 16, Wednesday: CineMental
July 19, Saturday: Truth Serum and UtiliTies at Davis Square ArtBeat...at least I hope.
September 20, Saturday: Union Square Urban Country Fair