Reminder: Berkeley: BELOVED: A Requiem for Our Dead by Mangos with ... @ Sun Nov 15 8pm – 9pm (Queer Things)

more details » Berkeley: BELOVED: A Requiem for Our Dead by Mangos with Chili at La Pena Mangos With Chili: the floating cabaret of QTPOC bliss, dreams, sweat, sweets & nightmares proudly presents the premiere of: BELOVED: A Requiem for Our Dead because we refuse to forget you Featuring: Nalo Hopkinson, Charleston Chu, E. Rose Sims, SoliRose, Nico Dacumos, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Ms. Cherry Galette, and more. With video by Storm Florez, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Kortney Ryan Ziegler, and more. November 15th, 8PM, Hechos en Califas Festival, La Pena, 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA. $12-16, no one turned away for lack of funds In this highly anticipated premiere of the newest Mangos With Chili production, we invite you to join us at the crossroads for a night of conjuring, memory, mourning and celebration. Through elegies of story, song, dance, drag and more, the Bay Area's noted and notorious queer and trans people of color performance crew will honor our erased, fallen and slain queer and trans people of color family lost to hate crimes, war, colonization, and genocide. We will celebrate our queer legacies and the ways we've found to survive through the beautiful resistance of memory, and whisper stories about grief, loss, healing, sweet darkness, and walking between worlds towards rebirth. Beloved: A Requiem for Our Dead will feature the brilliance and blaze of renowned Caribbean speculative fiction storycrafter Nalo Hopkinson; multimedia invocation performance art heart wrench by playwright and poet Nico Dacumos; In Memoriam, a new collaborative dance theater work by Charlston Chu and Cherry Galette; ancestral prayer/spoken love letter by writer and theater artist Rose E. Sims; a mixed media jazz dance cabaret extravaganza by Charleston Chu, an autobiographical musical journey traversing the Middle East and African Diaspora by virtuoso trio SoliRose; the powerful truth renderings of queer Sri Lankan writer and performer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha; and the premiere of Moorish Salt a burlesque-dance theater/ritual performance art piece by fusion dance artist and theater-maker Cherry Galette. Mangos With Chili is a Bay Area based arts organization committed to showcasing high quality performance of life saving importance by queer and trans artists of color to audiences in the Bay Area and beyond. Founded in 2006 by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Ms Cherry Galette, Mangos With Chili has performed to sold out houses across North America, wowing audiences in world class theaters, underground performance spaces, bars, and campus halls, with their high intensity, breathtaking performance, politics, and storytelling craft, reflecting the lives and stories of queer and trans people of color, while making art that speaks out in resistance to the daily struggles around silence, isolation, homophobia, and violence that QTPOC face. Mangos With Chili is a fiscally sponsored project of the San Francisco based arts organization CounterPULSE, which provides space and resources for emerging artists and cultural innovators: www.counterpulse.org. Mangos With Chili is supported by the Horizons Foundation, the Astraea Foundation, and the generous support of our community of donors. Both venues are wheelchair accessible. The show contains material of adult nature. Parental discretion advised. Please refrain from wearing scented products to ensure that audience members and performers with multiple chemical sensitivity can attend. For more information: mangos.with.chili@gmail.com * http://mangoswithchili.wordpress.com When Sun Nov 15 8pm – 9pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • larrybob@gmail.com - creator

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