Brava & Diamond Wave Present
THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Cabaret - September
Thursday, September 19, 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:
🎵 Musician Criibaby (THEYFRIEND ‘23)
💻 Electronic musician Beast Nest (THEYFRIEND ‘22)
👑 Dancer & Drag queen JanpiStar (THEYFRIEND ‘23)
Hosted by multidisciplinary artist Vin Seaman, aka drag queen LOL McFiercen, this will be a thrilling night of live performance uplifting, centering and celebrating nonbinary identity!
THE FUTURE IS NONBINARY! And so are we - save the dates for the next THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Cabaret happening on October 17th.
This event is made possible with support from the California Arts Council and the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, and is presented in partnership with Brava! for Women in the Arts. Diamond Wave is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts that is supported by Grants for the Arts, the Horizons Foundation, the Walter & Elise Haas Fund and the San Francisco Arts Commission.
TICKETS
$15 - Early Bird
$20 - General Admission
Pay-what-you-can tickets also available (limited quantity).
Accessibility
ACCESSIBILITY: Brava is wheelchair accessible with ADA-accessible all-gender restrooms. The space also includes an upstairs mezzanine with additional seating that is only accessible by stairs. All videos will have open captions. If you need ADA seating for this show, please indicate so during the ticketing process. For any questions about accessibility, please email vin@diamond-wave.org.
COVID: Masking REQUIRED, KN95 masks available at door. Participating artists and staff are COVID tested before the event.
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ABOUT THE artists
Vin Seaman (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist, drag queen (LOL McFiercen) and the director of Diamond Wave. Their work exploring queer identity and drag culture has been presented at The Stud, Brava, Oasis, El Rio, CounterPulse, the de Young, the Salesforce Tower, Frameline, the Tank NYC, the Austin International Drag Festival, SATELLITE ART SHOW Miami, the National Queer Arts Festival, Stockholm’s Stolt Scenkonst, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Yale School of the Arts.
Musician Criibaby (THEYFRIEND ‘23)
Beast Nest (THEYFRIEND ‘22)
JanpiStar (THEYFRIEND ‘23)
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.