SIGNIFIED presents an evening of Burlesque & Performance in conjunction with the After Our Bodies Meet exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art!
Come join us for a fierce and titilating evening to celebrate the summertime and fundraise for Jay's House, a project for homeless LGBTQ adults living in the NYC shelter system.
******The event is FREE to attend!*******
(We will have donation boxes in the space for folks that would like to support the work at Jay's House)
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SIGNIFIED presents an evening of Burlesque & Performance in conjunction with the After Our Bodies Meet exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art!
Come join us for a fierce and titilating evening to celebrate the summertime and fundraise for Jay's House, a project for homeless LGBTQ adults living in the NYC shelter system.
******The event is FREE to attend!*******
(We will have donation boxes in the space for folks that would like to support the work at Jay's House)
PERFORMERS INCLUDE:
ExHOTic Other and Sister Selva from Brown Girls Burlesque and Adaku Utah.
Our evening will be graciously hosted by TOPHER GROSS and LAUREN WHITEHEAD.
Jay's House was funded by Jay Toole, long time organizer of the shelter project at Queers for Economic Justice, who is continuing to create spaces for homeless LGBTQ adults living in the shelter system despite QEJ's closing. In addition to running LGBTQ support groups in a dozen shelters city wide, Jay's House is raising funds to open a store front community space for homeless LGBTQ adults and eventually to open the first LGBTQ specific homeless shelter in New York City.
Get loose, lifted, liberated and drenched in the powerful magic that is BGB and Adaku Utah and come support the urgent and necessary work of Jay's House.
This event is part of the "After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality" exhibition which explores queer feminist artist's responses to dominant notions about the body from the 1970's to the present. Reflecting the ever-growing diversity of feminist art, After Our Bodies Meet provides a cross-cultural examination of how artists represent the body to challenge past and present forms of oppression and to envision a queer future.
FEATURED ARTISTS INCLUDE:
Zanele Muholi, Catherine Opie, Chitra Ganesh, Heather Cassils, Sophia Wallace, Allyson Mitchell, Laura Aguilar, Tee A. Corinne, Cathy Cade, and Chris E. Vargas. Along with materials from the Lesbian Herstory Archives
