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Performance Club 1 Queer/Play edited by Moynan King Performed by Moe Angelos
Dates/Times: December 14, 7–9pm December 15, 7–9pm
Location: The Commons @ 401 Richmond 401 Richmond Street West, suite 440, Toronto
INFO & DETAILS Admission: PWYC (at the door only) This is your book club. You are the audience. You decide how many sessions you attend.
It is not a requirement that you have already read the book being clubbed to attend this Performance: Club. But you are more than welcome to! There will be a limited number of discounted books for sale at the door or you can purchase your copy in advance through the Playwrights Canada Press website.
Facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/129726907716156/
ABOUT Queer Play A collection of never before published scripts and interviews from both emerging and established Canadian queer theatre and performance artists, Queer/Play maps a cross section of current performance works found at the intersection of queer life and art, delving into the resulting subcultures and always-changing concepts of identity and performance. In this book, queer is not just something someone is; it’s also something these artists do.
Queer/Play Performance Club is presented in 2 sessions, and will be performed by Moe Angelos. Angelos interprets and takes inspiration from the material content of Queer/Play to create a new performance work of their own, playing with the idea of book club.
PLUS! Each event in the Queer/Play Performance: Club will feature a verbatim reading of some of the interviews contained in Queer/Play, performed by a roster of Toronto-based artists, writers, and performers including: Shannon Cochrane, Amanda Cordner, Sky Gilbert, Darren Gobert, Johanna Householder, Aisha Sasha John, Louise Liliefeldt, Pamila Matharu, Tanya Mars, Susan Wolf and Michaela Washburn.
WORKS INCLUDED in Queer/Play: Graceful Rebellions by Shaista Latif Lapine-Moi / Rabbit-I & Cerveau Fêlé 101 / Broken Brain 101 by Nathalie Claude Dirty Plötz by Alex Tigchelaar Chronicles of a War Child by Jazz Kamal “Nari” She Mami Wata & The Pussy WitchHunt by d’bi.young anitafrika The Magic Hour by Jess Dobkin Trapped! by Hope Thompson Sister Mary’s a Dyke?! by Flerida Peña Hiding Words (for you) by Gein Wong SPIN by Evalyn Parry "Comedians Talking about (Gay) Comedy," a round-table discussion with Elvira Kurt, Sabrina Jalees, Dawn Whitwell, and Carolyn Taylor with Moynan King
INTERVIEWS BY: Alisha Stranges, Erin Hurley, Laine Zisman Newman, Donna-Michelle St Bernard, Mel Hague, Keith Cole, Laura Levin, Tabia Lau, Kim Crosby, Margo Charlton
ABOUT PERFORMANCE CLUB As a proposition for a performance or the framework for an actual book club, Performance Club redefines the historical and contemporary performance art canon, one book club, and one book / article / essay / anthology at a time. Invited artists perform the role of book club facilitators, leading the audience through a performance of a reading, a reading performance, a performance about a book, or a bookish performance. This series is on-going. Sometimes we pick the book and invite an artist; sometimes we invite an artist and they pick a book. Just like a real book club, we ask the audience to read the suggested material before coming to the performance. But don't worry, just like a real book club, no one ever does.
Performance Club: 2017–2019
Queer/Play edited by Moynan King Performed by Moe Angelos December 14–15, 2017
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann Performed by Keith Cole January 20–February 20, 2018
9Questions, an artist project by Gustaf Broms (2018) (The time we made our own book.)
Book Club: snowflakes in the echo chamber Performed by Moe Angelos September 10, 2019
The Talking Grave Performed by Hope Thompson September 12, 2019
Art Immuno Deficiency Syndrome, subtitle; Does This Giacometti Make Me Look Fat? Performed by David Bateman September 19, 2019
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