Celebrating 26 years of progressive and experimental theater, WOW Café Theater will feature a three weekend festival, TRANS/ART, showcasing some of the most talented and daring trans and gender queer performers to hit the scene in New York City.
Dancer
written and performed by trans performer, Ignacio Rivera
Thursdays and Fridays, 8pm, March 8th, 9th, 15th, 16th ,22th ,23rd
$15 admission, 20% discount if you order online at
theatermania, promo code is TRANS
In his returning engagement as a performer at WOW Café theater, Rivera is reviving his show Dancer and performing this brilliant extra-sensory one man show for a second time on the WOW stage. Dancer will captivate audiences for six nights, showing two shows each weekend for three weeks in March.
^scene from Dancer
^Liquid Xun
Saturday, March 10th, 2007, 8pm $15 admission
20% discount if you order online at theatermania, promo code is TRANS
Victor Tobar, Katie Tikkun, Liquid Xun and Debanuj
plus a Trans 101 workshop led by Holiday Simmons
Saturday, March 17th, 2007, 8pm $15 admission
20% discount if you order online at theatermania, promo code is TRANS
Switch N' Play, Sukato and special guests
plus a trans workshop led by Kiwi Grady
^Sukato
^Glenn Marla
Saturday, March 24th, 2007, 8pm $15 admission
20% discount if you order online at theatermania, promo code is TRANS
Dulani, Glenn Marla, Mercury Mad and special guests. Hosted by Imani Henry
plus a Trans 101 workshop led by Ignacio Rivera
^Imani Henry
WOW Café Theater is a woman, trans and gender-queer theater collective in NYC's East
Village, which promotes the empowerment of women through the performing arts. For
more information visit www.wowcafe.org
To make a reservation, please call (347) 254-9952 or visit www.ticketmania.net
Ignacio G. Rivera
is a Queer, Trans, Multi-Gendered Black Boricua, community organizer, lecturer and consultant. He is also a poet /performance artist and self proclaimed sex educator. Ignacio's consulting and organizing work specializes in racial, class and economic justice issues, multi-issue framework and cultural competency.
www.ignaciorivera.com"
www.PolyPataoProductions.com
is a Queer Latino Trans-guy from the Bronx. Currently, Victor mentors his brainchild, the Queer, Questioning, & Allies (QQ&A) Workshop at Urban Word NYC, providing free creative writing and spoken word performance workshops to young people. Victor was on the New York City Youth Slam Team in 2000, and has taught creative writing in many cities and in many venues from California High Schools to alternatives-to-incarceration programs in the Midwest, to arts education conferences in New York, and many places in between for the past 7 years. His vision is to combine arts education and political education into a perfect tool for community empowerment and organizing.
Dulani
is a desi gender-kweer artist whose work is centered upon testifying - as
witnesses and survivors. His experience of having grown up in Chandigarh, India and
Pittsburgh, PA, as well as his parents' history of constant migration, informs the focus
of his work on issues of hybrid identity, war and resistance. Dulani holds a bachelor's
degree from Oberlin College in a self-designed major, entitled "Art for Social Change;
An Interdisciplinary Approach," which culminated in an interdisciplinary piece,
"Border Edge Home" that he wrote and directed.
Glenn Marla
is a performance artist, passionate dancer, sex educator, and beauty pageant queen (Miss LEZ 2006). Glenn graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with a BA in performance and directing. Glenn is the creator of the ensemble piece "Where the Women Are" (Women's Center Stage at the Culture Project, Lady Fest East at Theater for the New City and a grant from Liberty Partnership Program In NYC public schools). The Portland Phoenix has called Glenn's work "Performance Art that Pushes the envelope without pushing the audience away" Glenn then went on to collaborate with "Foursome" for the Queer at Here fest. Recently you may have seen Glenn as the Pope in Susana Cook's the Idiot King.
is a New York based drag alliance interested in all forms of drag performance. They love working with other performers, especially other kings, queens, gender-queers, queers, and allies. Switch N' Play celebrated its first birthday this past January and is excited for the upcoming year's drag adventures.
www.switchnplay.com, switch n play's myspace
was named by her father after the complex jazz icon, Billie Holiday. She has since adopted the name LiquidMoon on the poetry stage, and LiquidXun: The Flaming Stud in the drag arena. He is a social worker, educator, activist, athlete, and polyartist. Hir performances are a combination of theater, spoken word, movement, and drag. LiquidXun’s character attempts to conjure legendary men of color like Sam Cook and Lenny Williams, while his poetry often provokes zie to go into trance whilst presenting a parable of her namesake or her grandmother. Zie has a self-titled CD, LiquidMoon and a poetry chapbook, Africentric Ecofeminism. Check her out at www.lunawomyn.com and www.myspace.com/liquidxun
is a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser. She studied at the Juilliard School, and later, at Eastman School of Music, became interested in ethnomusicology and the possibilities of the voice. Last year, she collaborated with composer/poet Kala Pierson on "Axis of Beauty," an evening-length performance in memory of Iraqis killed in the current war, featured at Tribeca Center of the Performing Arts. www.sukatomusic.com and www.myspace.com/sukatomusic
activist, writer, performer, has been a Staff Organizer at the International Action Center (IAC) since 1993, where his work has focused on national organizing of communities of color and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement toward broader social justice and anti-war campaigns. As a staff member of The Audre Lorde Project worked with TransJustice, the 1st political group of NYC created by and for Trans and Gender Non-Conforming people of color.
His writing has appeared in several publications including the lambda award winning Does Your Mama Know (Red Bone Press) and the newly released Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 years of Black LGBT Writing (Other Countries 2007). 2007 will mark 5 years and the farewell of touring B4T (before testosterone) at colleges, conferences and theatres across the US and Canada.
www.geocities.com/imani_henry
is a genderqueer identified, immigrant from India. In 1993 he founded the first HIV/AIDS prevention program for gay men and men-who-have-sex-with-men in Calcutta, India. Since then, Debanuj has been working on issues relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) rights, environmental rights, sexual and domestic violence, and immigrant rights. He is on the founding board of Queer Immigrant Rights Project (QuIR), and has been organizing LGBT immigrants in New York City. He has presented on issues related to LGBT immigrants at several activist and academic conferences.
^Katie Tikkun