THAT WAS AWESOME! PITTSBURGH: Heels on Wheels Glitter Roadshow

When:
April 17, 2014 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
2014-04-17T20:00:00-04:00
2014-04-17T22:00:00-04:00
Where:
The Irma Freeman Center for Imagination
5006 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA, 15224
United States

Thursday April 17th, 2014 // The Irma Freeman Center for Imagination, Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA // Show 8.00p // all-ages // $7 – 15 sliding scale

The 2014 Glitter Roadshow features Damien Luxe, Heather Ács, Shomi Noise, Sabina Ibarrola, Angel Nafis, Alvis Parsley, and wrangler/visual artist Lizxnn Disaster. The Heels on Wheels Glitter Roadshow tours the US annually with a dazzling, diverse cabaret of performance art works and acts of resistance by queer folks of femme-inine spectrum genders.

The show itself consists of six touring performers and local acts in every city – including Pittsburgh locals Bekezela Mguni, Joy Kmt, and Nichole Faina!

The fearless artists rampage from hi-femme to femmedrogyny in a wild revue of visceral poetic performance, emotional escape plans, high femme drag, multimedia mermaids, and rocknroll you can sink your heels into!

Shomi Noise plays guitar and reads from her zine series “Building Up Emotional Muscles,” the story of her journey as a Bolivian immigrant navigating U.S. culture and finding herself through alternative music scenes. Damien Luxe “Femme Footprints In The Sand” uses mermaids and powdered milk to explore thriving past poverty. Heather Ács’ “Welcome to the Waldorf Hysteria” uses multi-media high-femme drag histrionics to reach beyond language and ask, what do we gain when we lose control? Alvis Parsley’s heartfelt confession draws on their experiences as a genderqueer Asian while questioning the roles of institutions, authority, and the ecosystem of the arts with both humor and tenderness. Sabina Ibarrola melts down and melts hearts in a pop culture performative exploration of breaking up and breaking through with the help of karaoke and Carrie Bradshaw. This year also includes a selection of video art by Louis Chavez, Kristin Li, Ellie Beth, Jacqueline Mary, and Celeste Chan.

Come see the glitter and grit for yourself: don’t miss the fifth Heels on Wheels Glitter Roadshow, April 11-20, 2014, heelsonwheelsroadshow.com

XO,
Heels on Wheels

Heels on Wheels is a Brooklyn-based group of interdisciplinary artists who create performance-based cultural works and community events that have a feminist and radical agenda, are produced from sites of femme/inine-positive queer embodiment, and reveal the power in under-represented communities. More about the event, the artists, and the Heels on Wheels here: http://www.heelsonwheelsroadshow.com/roadshow-2014/

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