Up next: a Queer Climate Cabaret: OCT 17
Join us for A Queer Climate Cabaret on Thursday, October 17th at the Creative Alliance. Performers will reimagine drag as an interspecies affair, and invite you to a KiKi with Kin you didn’t even know you had! Our cabaret crew of artists includes Jacob Marrero, Unique Robinson, Chris Jay and Pretty Rik E. of Pretty Boi Drag, Nigel Semaj, Jacab Budenz, Susan McCully, Bao Nguyen, and others from our regional queerscapes.
*ASL Interpretation will be provided
See below for more info on the Queer Climate Workshop Series.
Show Times:
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for an artist market wtih queer vendors and tabling from local climate and environmental justice organizations - come early for hand-made gifts and learn how you can get involved!
Performances being at 7:00pm
Up next: a Queer Climate workshop SEries
The Queer Climate Workshop Series brings together the themes of climate, queerness and performance, and invites participants to exercise their creativity as they explore, create and perform with experienced artists from the disciplines of dance, theatre, printmaking, drag, writing, puppetry and more.
Sign up for as many of these workshops as you like. Build community and conversation around the fruitful and fascinating intersections of climate, queerness, and performance.
#1: DRAG KING 101 with PRETY BOI DRAG: SAT. SEPT 7, 3M - 6PM
#2: WRITING WITH THE ELEMENTS with JACOB BUDENZ: SAT. SEPT 28, 3pm - 6pm
#3: CLIMATE, QUEERNESS, AND PERFORMANCE 101: SAT. OCT 19, 3M - 6PM
WORKSHOP INFO:
PRICING:
Sliding scale of $15-$75 for each workshop. Please pay what you are able, to support our workshop facilitators.
GET TICKETS:
Space is limited. Follow the button "Get Workshop Tickets" to select your workshop(s) and buy a sliding scale ticket on Creative Alliance's ticketing page!
OCt 2: virtual Book Talk with Eli Nixon
Join Vital Matters and the Ecological Design Collective for a Virtual Book Talk:
BLOODTIDE: A New Holiday in Homage to Horseshoe Crabs.
Nixon’s new book is an illustrated proposal and manual for activation (and complication!) of a new holiday in homage to horseshoe carbs, with accompanying field notes to help navigate the quagmires and vistas of primordial futurizing through reparative returns, habitat restoration, cardboard transformation, time encapsulation, feasting, impossible dancing, parading and much more.
This book talk is part of Vital Matters' Books for the Future Series, and aligns with our Queer Climate Cabaret on Oct 17th! The book talk is free for all to attend. Whether or not you finish the book, read the first 45 pages and then skip around as desired. Bring a friend or meet one there! Depending on the will of the crowd, our bookclub could include low-stakes drawing prompts and/or singing crabaoke power ballads!
*ASL interpretation will be provided
HOW TO BUY THE BOOK:
Signed copies are available through Vital Matters for a special discounted price of $20.00. Please email vitalmattersbaltimore@gmail.com to request your copy! Books can be delivered for no shipping fee, or picked up in Baltimore City.
You can also purchase books through Eli Nixon's website at: www.elinixon.com/theblootidebook
ABOUT US
Founded in 2021, in Baltimore, Maryland, Vital Matters is a hub and laboratory for cross-disciplinary events, artistic projects, and educational programs for all ages. We work with artists, activists and others to stage conversations, create rituals, and transform spaces and relationships among and between human and more-than-human communities. The climate crisis, environmental injustice, and systemic racism are part of the human inheritance that motivates us. Our focus and our reach are both local and global. Our primary tools for transformation are partnership, collaboration, joy, and creativity. Our methods draw from many sources, including experimental theatre, somatic movement education, and abolitionist approaches to social life and organziational leadership. We invite you to join us in shaping change, and imagining a just and vital future for all.