LOUD & QUEER: 2018 PYTA CONFERENCE CELEBRATION

Join us for a night of celebration! We’ll be honoring Pride Youth Theater Alliance members and experience the musical performances of queer artists Billy Dean Thomas and Quisol, and Complex Movements, and top it off with a dance party!

Billy Dean Thomas also known as “The Queer B.I.G “ is a musician who challenges the hip hop game with lyrics that align with #blacklivesmatter, intersectional feminism and highlights the difficulties of growing up in NYC. Their musical career began at the age of 8 playing congas and being a part of an advanced Poetry/Performance program where they were mentored by Pharaohe Monch, Rosie Perez and DMC. They were booked twice as a spoken word artist for The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, performed as a part of the “We Wanted A Revolution” Exhibit at The Brooklyn Museum and were recently selected as the 2017 Resident Artist for The Theatre Offensive in Boston, Massachusetts. Billy Dean has also just completed their first Debut Album Titled “Rocky Barboa” after recording in Berlin Germany, Paris and NYC. More at: http://www.billydeanthomas.com/

Quisol is an artist and organizer from Charlotte, NC with an indie rock sound known as #LatinxFuture. Quisol draws from their diverse roots to put a futuristic spin on Afro Caribbean beats, Salsa, Bossa Nova, and Soul. Quisol is also behind Queen’s Collective, a DIY art movement cultivating the Charlotte house show scene. Since December 2016, Quisol and friends of Queen’s Collective have been hosting a monthly popup show that features local artists and supports community initiatives. More at: https://www.quisol.band/

Detroit-based Complex Movements' Beware of the Dandelions, the recipient of the New England Foundation for the Arts’ 2017 National Theater Project presentation grant, is a touring arts-based organizing project and multimedia performance. Through science-fiction narrative, music, interactive performance, video projection, and technology, Beware of the Dandelions invites communities to explore the relationship between art, science, and social justice movements and develop new strategies to move their work forward. From our combined experience as social movement activists and artists over the past two decades, we have seen a critical need for art that can do more than inspire– that can combine inspiration with reflection and action. More at: https://emergencemedia.org/pages/complex-movements

WHEN
Jul 27, 2018 clock 7:30pm-11:30pm
WHERE
Oberon, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA
PRICE
Open to the public//Pay What Makes You Happy. Join us!

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