Brava & Diamond Wave Present
THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Cabaret - March
Thursday, March 21, 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! Brava and Diamond Wave are teaming up to offer six THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Cabaret events in 2024!
For the first show, we’re thrilled to be working with powerhouse performers, including:
👑 Drag king Papi Churro (King Supreme of the 2023 Emerald City King's Ball, THEYFRIEND ‘22)
🤣 Storyteller Rawiyah Tariq (THEYFRIEND ‘22 & ‘23)
✍️ Poet Zara Jamshed (THEYFRIEND ‘23)
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!
But that’s not all! There will also be a few OPEN MIC slots at the beginning of the show for emerging nonbinary performers looking to flex their skills.
Be sure to arrive at 7 PM and sign up with Vin if you’re interested in performing!
Open mic performers will have 5 minutes for their performances with minimal tech needs (microphone and audio playback available).
Save the dates for the next two THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Cabarets happening on April 18th and May 16th!
TICKETS
$15 - Early Bird (Ends 3/7)
$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.
Papi Churro (he/they) is a Two-Spirit Indiqueer from the Coahuiltecan and Nahua-Otomi Nations. When he's not fighting colonialism and for landback rights for all Indigenous Nations, he's slaying your hearts with the spin of his hips. He's the current reigning King Supreme of the 2023 Seattle Emerald City King's Ball.
Rawiyah Tariq (they/them) is a writer, singer, dancer and storyteller. Their artistry is expression, expansion and exploration of the world around them. Through their various disciplines they uplift their self and marginalized peoples living and loving in the intersections of fat, queer, Black, disabled, neurodivergent, and non-binary.
Zara Jamshed (they/them) is a queer, trans, disabled Pakistani-American poet from NYC living in Oakland, CA. Their debut full-length poetry collection Neither Created Nor Destroyed was a semifinalist for the Pamet River Prize and a finalist for the Stories Award for Poetry, and is available now with Game Over Books.
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.