Brava & Diamond Wave Present
THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Cabaret - August
Thursday, August 15, 2024
7:30pm in Brava’s Cabaret
Need to juice up on your NONBINARY energy but can’t wait until November for the THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Performance Festival? Well enbies, you’re in luck!
Experience a range of queer performance mediums at THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Cabaret, featuring:
👑 Drag artist Hennessy Williams (Butch Queen Pageant Runner Up ‘23, THEYFRIEND ‘22)
✍️ Poet Libby Oren (THEYFRIEND ‘23)
🎵 Musician Maya Songbird
Hosted by Brava artist-in-residence and THEYFRIEND founder Vin Seaman, this will be a thrilling night of live performance uplifting, centering and celebrating nonbinary identity!
Save the dates for the next two THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Cabarets happening on September 19 and October 17!
TICKETS
$15 - Early Bird
$20 - General Admission
Pay-what-you-can tickets also available (limited quantity).
Accessibility
Brava is wheelchair accessible. The space also includes an upstairs mezzanine with additional seating that is only accessible by a flight of stairs.
Bathrooms: Two ADA-accessible all-gender restrooms.
Masks REQUIRED (KN95 masks provided, Diamond Wave staff COVID test before event)
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ABOUT THE artists
Vin Seaman (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and the director of Diamond Wave. They have been featured on Shondaland and Vice.com, were an inaugural APAP Leadership Fellow, and received the 2017 Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader Award, the 2019 Theatre Bay Area Legacy Award, and a 2022 CALI Catalyst Award. Their creative work exploring queer identity and drag culture has been presented at The Stud, Brava, Oasis, CounterPulse, the de Young, Frameline, the Austin International Drag Festival, SATELLITE ART SHOW Miami, the National Queer Arts Festival, Stolt Scenkonst, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Yale School of the Arts.
Hennessy Williams (Butch Queen Pageant Runner Up ‘23, THEYFRIEND ‘22)
Libby Oren
Maya Songbird
About THEYFRIEND
Now in its fourth year, THEYFRIEND is the world’s first performance festival uplifting, centering, and celebrating nonbinary identity! Held annually during Trans Awareness Week, THEYFRIEND works with arts presenters and nightlife venues to create high quality performance showcases centering nonbinary identity and experience. Hold the dates for our 2024 festival happening November 13 - 17, 2024. Performer applications will be announced in June!
ABOUt diamond wave
Diamond Wave is a San Francisco based queer arts organization that produces diverse, queer-centered artistic and cultural events that bring together disparate segments of the LGBTQIA2S+ community. We also offer community-based consulting that authentically supports the growth and stability of our artists, arts workers, and community.